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The 2012 AMA Motocross season will kick off in a familiar spot, but end someplace new.

A top Australian BMX rider has died from massive injuries he sustained while apparently trying to leap from a balcony into a swimming pool.

Living boxing legend Manny Pacquiao escapes Vegas with a controversial win, extreme surfer Garrett McNamara rides a 90-foot wave, and adrenaline pursuing Frenchmen fling themselves from tightropes in videos charting November 16, 2011.

AMA Motocross has a new TV deal with NBC Sports for 24 hours of race coverage during the 2012 season.

Heather Swan admits skydiving used to terrify her -- it took her about 50 jumps before she stopped feeling sick to the stomach.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell …

Motocross rider James and#8216;Bubba' Stewart fined for incident with police

Activists marching from Occupy Wall Street's Zuccotti Park encampment to Washington, D.C. will camp in state parks and other occupation sites on their two-week journey, but they're also going to take advantage of the kindness of strangers they found through the website Couchsurfing.org. ...

A new photography book captures a youth subculture that changed surfing forever.

HAINAN ISLAND, China (Reuters) - A ballerina "danced across the sea" to introduce professional surfing to China on Wednesday.

Contact: Lauren Hoffmann, +1-703-858-2151, lhoffmann@nrpa.org

First came the crash. Then came the blood. And then, finally, there was the gold.

Normally stoic, even in victory, Ryan Villopoto had a hard time getting the words out.

Federal Aviation Administration officials are investigating  a videotaped sex stunt performed by two skydivers in California. The FAA is concerned that the pre-jump sex may have created an unsafe situation by bumping or otherwise distracting the pilot.  Skydiving instructor Alex Torres, who moonlights in pornographic films, …

Travis Pastrana to compete in Race of Champions

Video: Rally driver Ken Block takes motocross star Ricky Carmichael for a ride

It was supposed to be a special birthday gift to a grandmother — a family skydiving adventure with a veteran instructor who was one of the Elvis Presley impersonators who jumped from an airplane in the movie "Honeymoon in Vegas."

HONOLULU (Reuters) - Students in Hawaii could soon be competing against other schools in another competitive sport -- surfing.

HONOLULU (Reuters) - Hawaii, widely considered the birthplace of modern surfing, has adopted a plan to become the first state in the union to offer the sport of island kings as an official form of athletic competition in its high schools.

Football wears the crown in Hawaii, but the real sport of kings is surfing.

Contact: Beth Chee, +1-858-756-4117 ext: 335, bethc@animalcenter.org

SATURDAY, Sept. 17 (HealthDay News) -- Paralyzed veterans who learned to scuba dive experienced both physical and mental improvements, a new study suggests.