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Eugene Buchanan: Time for a trade show trek

Live in Ski Town USA and there’s a good chance either you or someone you know heads down to the annual SnowSports Industries America (SIA) trade show every January in Denver.

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Jimmy Westlake: A river of stars

The very familiar star pattern of Orion the Hunter is found overhead at 8 p.m. in early February. The bright stars Betelgeuse and Rigel at his shoulder and foot, respectively, join the three stars in a row marking Orion’s Belt to form one of the most widely recognized star patterns in the entire sky.

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Luke Graham: Steamboat hockey starting to play well

It very well could come down to mid-February to decide the Steamboat Springs High School hockey team’s playoff fate. The team sits just one spot out of the last playoff position.

John F. Russell: Waiting for Olympic magic to unfold

Believe it or not, in just 732 days, the spotlight will fall on the 2014 Winter Olympic Games. It may seem like a long time, but for the young athletes hoping to earn a spot in Sochi, Russia, the clock already has started to tick.

Joel Reichenberger: Wrestling duals a relic

The Hayden High School wrestling team emerged the winner in duals against Steamboat Springs and Soroco. But those scores don’t mean much of anything.

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Tom Ross: Teddy dispatched mountain lion with knife

Theodore Roosevelt may be the namesake of the teddy bear, but he was anything but cuddly when it came to his mountain lion encounters on Colorado’s Western Slope.

Mary Walker: Driving, snowboarding collide

There are some interesting parallels between drivers in Kenya and snowboarders in Colorado.

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Joanne Palmer: Talking part of the trouble with teens

We are on the set of Steamboat’s newest reality TV show, “Who Wants to Live with a Teenager?” We are going to zoom in for a close look at actual dialogue between a mother and her teenage son.

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Jimmy Westlake: The roots of Groundhog Day

Groundhog Day is coming up this week. The origin of this unusual holiday can be traced back hundreds of years, although not in the same form that we celebrate it today.

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Tom Ross: I want my ski TV

I’m an old wannabe mogul monster with one missing knee, but there’s no doubt in my mind that what Shaun White did in the Winter X Games superpipe finals Sunday night was among the most athletic feats I’ve ever seen on snow.

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Luke Graham: It’s good to have you back in my life, NBA

Before this year, I much preferred the college game to the pros. But something interesting has happened with the NBA and me this year.

Brent Boyer: What's in a name?

Few newspaper-related issues elicit as much passion from community members as our online comments, and it’s one we find ourselves revisiting often. And we’re doing it again.

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Tom Ross: Get off your presidential fannies

If you watched Thursday night’s debate from Florida on CNN, you still might be scratching your head and wondering which reality show is more distasteful, “Wife Swap” or “Presidential Fannie Bickering.”

John F. Russell: Doing it his way

Getting to the Olympics is a tough road, but it’s even harder for athletes like Justin Reiter who are competing at the World Cup level without the help of the U.S. Ski Team.

Joel Reichenberger: Steamboat wrestling making progress

The Steamboat Springs High School wrestling team was a joke when I first started covering prep sports in the area. This winter, though, the program quickly is growing more powerful.

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