In the News...

The Alliance is constantly working to enhance action sports and increase opportunities for women. One of the best ways to find out what we are up to is to check out what the media has to say...

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11/12/06 Lat34.com Who Says Girls Can't Skate? By Anna Dimond

11/01/06 Girls Learn to Ride, "Questions for the Pros": Cara Beth Burnside - An afternoon with a Living Legend By Jenny Kim

8/20/06 Women align for the chance to do the Dew Action sports athletes are pushing for more money and exposure By Boaz Herzog

8/20/06 The Alliance - Girls Skateboard League From KidzWorld.com

8/07/06 X Games Take a Turn for the Better An X Games wrap-up By Peter Yoon, LA Times

8/04/06 Stakes Are Raised for Burnside's Win After meeting with ESPN executive, her victory in skateboard vert is worth $15,000 By Peter Yoon, Times Staff Writer

8/04/06 Women’s Group Scores Victory Toward Gender Equity At X Games By Sports Business Daily, Vol. XII --- No. 215

8/04/06 Women get more prize money after meeting with ESPN vice president By John Marshall, AP Sports Writer

8/03/06 Women's group makes headway into purses, Action Sports Alliance: Seeking better X Games pay, it finally gets an audience -- and results. By Mirjam Swanson, The Press-Enterprise

8/03/06 Women nearing X Games parity By: Scott Bair

8/03/06 For Women, It's Nearly Ex Games: They now have only two events, but it's open for discussion By Peter Yoon, LA Times

8/03/06 X Games in need of extra X chromosome By Tracy Clark-Flory for salon.com

8/03/06 Female athletes question X Games disparity By ESPN.com news services

8/03/06 A Skating Coup d’X? Action Sport Alliance & Their Impact on the X-games, lat34.com

8/01/06 Female skateboarder pushes for more money, exposure By Jill Lieber Steeg, USA TODAY

7/26/06 The New York Times, On a Mission, and Rolling By Matt Higgins

7/11/06 NC Times, Female Skateboarders Find Voice in Alliance By Scott Bair

6/29/06 Lady Shred League By Mary Fenton for EXPN.com

6/10/06 Alliance Interview with Mimi Knoop By Holly Lyons and Cool Girl Skateboards

6/07/06 In the Know: Skater Girls Unite By Rebecca Heller

4/06/06 At 45, Isabelle Caudle is proving it's 'way past kool' to roll By Don Norcross

3/22/06 Skateboard Pioneer Lands at Sac State By Frank Miller

12/07/05 The Alliance in Brazil

11/15/05 The Alliance: Are women skaters being undercut in pro contests?
By Rob Brink, forst published in TransWorld Business October 2005

8/25/05 Top Female Vert Stars Burnside, Knoop and O’Brien
enter $104,400 USD Solo Mobile Slam City Jam

8/23/05 Prize Money at Record Levels for SlamCityJam

8/07/05 Burnside feels burned by pay By Don Norcross, The Union-Tribune

8/07/05 Skateboarding Women - "The Alliance"

8/06/05 Cara Beth makes news on EXPN with article, CB Burns 'Em By Mary Fenton

8/05/05 The X Games Women's Skateboard Street contest

2/27/05 First contest at Kelly Bellmar's in 14 years: My Bloody Valentine