FanHouse Tony Hawk

Ryan Sheckler is just 19, but he's been a professional skateboarder for six years. And later this month, he'll defend his first-place finish in the street competition at the X Games.

On Thursday, he talked to FanHouse about the evolution of the sport, how Tony Hawk influenced his career, what it means to juggle being a pro athlete and a business man, and what exactly goes into the Double Pit to Chesty, which was developed specifically for Sheckler by AXE Deodorant Bodyspray.

Moving pictures proof and podcast interview after the jump.

Well known for its interesting series of "most wealthy" lists for sports, Forbes recently stepped outside of the traditional sports world and released its rankings of the top 10 highest-paid action sports athletes for 2008.

The names at the top of the list -- Tony Hawk, Shaun White (right) -- aren't all that surprising, but the earnings (Hawk alone apparently made $12 million in 2008) are nothing to sneeze at, even compared to wages earned by well-known professional athletes.

Forbes' full list, including each athlete's 2008 earnings, can be found after the jump:

Lost in all this World Series hullabaloo and the discussions about who did what right or wrong is the very serious issue of a Guitar Hero commercial where some people we know get in their underwear and dance around like the freewheelin' Tom Cruise circa 1983. If you haven't seen it yet, here it is:



Tonight's Dugout may be stopped in the middle and continued two days from now, but read what you can after the jump.

I have no idea why Terrence Newman would invite the Dallas Morning News along to document his virgin roller coaster voyage, but I would like to thank him for doing so. (Click the photo below for the moving pictures hilarity.)


I now have a new favorite prayer: "Dear Baby Jesus -- dear 6-pound, 8-ounce Baby Jesus, don't let anything happen to me while I'm on Tony Hawk's ride. Please let me make it, dear Lord, please don't let me fall off this ride, dear Lord ... and we're going, dear Lord ... inJesusnameIprayamen."

And it looks like we also have an answer to the question: is Chris Henry the only player to wear his game jersey outside work? The biggest difference, I think, is that Newman didn't brandish a firearm while off-duty.