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By Stefen Lovelace and Stefen Lovelace,SUN REPORTER | June 20, 2008
It's a typical afternoon at Charm City Skate Park. It's damp, dark and humid inside, and young skateboarders, drenched in sweat, filter in and out. The front door swings open and a lanky 22-year-old saunters in. He wears a beige shirt with "IT'S MY PARTY" printed in charcoal black. His black jeans are snug, and the faded black hat he's wearing backward holds down matted, wet, brown hair. Some younger skaters look starstruck when he enters. It's not surprising: These days, the skater known as "Gumbie" has star status at Charm City and beyond.
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By Stefen Lovelace and Stefen Lovelace,Sun Reporter | June 19, 2008
Six days. That's all it takes to turn the parking lot at Camden Yards Sports Complex into an action sports fan's dream. That's all it takes to build towering ramps, steep rails and huge mounds of dirt for athletes to perform gravity-defying tricks on. The Dew Tour's Panasonic Open starts today in Baltimore and will feature some of the best athletes on skateboards, bikes and motorcycles from around the world, battling for points and prize money....
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By Childs Walker and Childs Walker,Sun Reporter | February 19, 2008
For a second straight summer, trucks will roll into downtown Baltimore and dump tons of dirt between Oriole Park and M &T Bank Stadium. Youths marked by droopy haircuts and droopier pants will congregate from miles around. Motorcycles will soar into the view of drivers passing on Interstate 395. The Action Sports Tour Dew Tour will be back in town on the third weekend in June with a raft of celebrity skateboarders and BMX bike riders in tow. The Panasonic Open (June 19-22) will kick off the five-stop action sports tour.
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By Dan Igo and Dan Igo,Sun Reporter | June 25, 2007
After his run in yesterday's BMX park finals, defending champion Daniel Dhers thought his score wouldn't trump Michael Spinner's 92.67. Fortunately for Dhers, the judges disagreed and he took home the event's championship at the AST Dew Tour's Panasonic Open at the Camden Yards sports complex. Dhers' score of 93.17 overtook Spinner, and Dennis Enarson's 90.17 was good for third place. Despite being the defending Dew Cup champion and coming into the finals ranked first overall, Dhers said he didn't feel any additional pressure.
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By Sirage Yassin and Sirage Yassin,Sun Reporter | June 24, 2007
Here was Bucky Lasek, the hometown draw and Baltimore's biggest action sports star, trying to decide which bum knee was more deserving of the blame: the left knee, the one suffering from cartilage issues that will cause him to have surgery tomorrow, or the right knee, which had to compensate its counterpart. "I paid the price today. It was bruised; it was tight. I had no power," said Lasek, 34, about the knee that bothered him in the skateboard vert finals of the Panasonic Open yesterday.
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By Dan Igo and Dan Igo,Sun Reporter | June 23, 2007
Yesterday is a day that Mathieu Therres will not soon forget. The Dundalk native had barely advanced to last night's AST Dew Tour Panasonic Open skateboard park final , finishing last among 12 qualifiers Thursday night. To say he stepped up his game in the finals would be an understatement. Therres, 21, finished fifth after an impressive performance in front of a rowdy crowd at the Camden Yards sports complex. Therres, who goes by the nickname "Gumbie," was as surprised as anyone that he did so well.