As springtime weather approaches, let’s turn back the clock 60 years to a recreational sports explosion that hit our region. The Sports Time Machine couldn’t help but notice a full-page photo spread ...

SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Calif. — It’s a sport that gained popularity in the 1950s when kids took the wheels off roller skates and nailed them to a 2x4 and hoped for the best. Hit a pebble and off you go! So ...

Encinitas resident Colleen Boyd Turner will be inducted into the Skateboarding Hall of Fame on Nov. 12 at the Vans Headquarters in Costa Mesa. A pioneer of skateboarding in the 1960s, Turner is ...

Chad Rivera gingerly makes his way to the edge of what looks like an emptied out swimming pool, a lime-green skateboard in one hand, a white cane in the other. At 58, he's legally blind, but he's been ...

Iain Borden does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Are surfing and skateboarding separate sports and separate cultures? Or did wave-riding begat “sidewalk surfing” of the 60s while skate tricks and aerials of the 70s brought innovation to surfing? A ...