Is your team a little bit quirky?

Park City kickball/dodgeball/unicycle teams, heads-up!

CamelBak Searches for Unconventional Sports Teams to Join "Official Water Bottle Of" Campaign

Santa Cruz Derby Girls, San Francisco Sea Lions Underwater Hockey Sign On As Charter Members

PETALUMA, Calif. (March 5, 2010) -- Are you taking shots to the head on the dodge ball court? Body checking babes in a roller derby scrum? Diving full-flipper ahead for an underwater hockey slap shot?

If so, your team might be the perfect candidate for the CamelBak "Official Water Bottle Of" campaign -- a program designed to celebrate the less serious side of sport while underscoring the importance of proper hydration.

CamelBak begins a nationwide search today for teams and clubs that have an abundance of athletic ability -- applied in a quirky, eccentric way -- and a need to hydrate. Teams and clubs that would like to be considered are encouraged to visit www.camelbak.com/owbo and submit an application.

If chosen, CamelBak will provide BPA-free Better Bottles and t-shirts with the team logo, as well as promotion on the CamelBak Web site and its Facebook Fan Page. As "Official Water Bottle Of," CamelBak will have water-carrying rights at the teams’ sanctioned events, so members can enjoy the refreshing health benefits of H2O at every practice and every game.

CamelBak, which boasts two decades of hydration innovation and leadership, wants this program to highlight the importance of hydration in all fitness activities. It's looking to partner with passionate, athletic teams and clubs that break free from conventional fitness activities.

End the Tyranny of Network News!

In this time of tea party revolution, I think it's also time that Utahn's rose up and said, we want something different from our news.

For years, Salt Lake City Weekly has had a "Best Newscaster" category as part of their "Best of Utah" competition, and it always goes to the same old, blow-dried, suit-and-tie-wearing news anchor from the network stations.

I say that now is the time for all good men and women (and children and dogs and brussel sprouts and...) to say "we want a change."

How can you make that change?

By voting for me: Ori Hoffer, Park City Television host.

Why vote for me? Who else in this area can conduct a competent, well-thought out interview with either a local politician, Olympic athlete, Oscar-nominated actor, grafitti artist, snake wrangler or non-profit chair (who else would even try?).

Who else does it without a teleprompter, or any script at all for that matter.

So go to the website, login and vote for me. You'll be glad you did.

http://www.cityweekly.net/utah/article-10559-best-of-utah-2010-vote-now.html

Park City Point-to-Point Race Approaching Fast

You know you loved the inaugural Park City Point-to-Point Mountain Bike race last summer. If you want to get in on it, registration opens up on Monday, Feb. 15, and there's a good chance it'll sell out quickly, so get on it!

- The Park City Point 2 Point (Endurance Mountain Bike Race)
- Registration Launching Monday Morning - February 15th
- Space is extremely limited and will go fast, The event will sell out this year most certainly (possibly on Monday).
- register online only at athlete360.com > search Park City Point to Point
- This years event date is September 4th, 2010 (Labor Day Weekend).
- event website www.thepcpp.com

Olympic Rings & Things

Thankfully, the last couple of weeks saw dozens of U.S. Olympians here in Park City, doing some final training before heading up to Vancouver. We were able to talk to a number of them, and you can find all of their interviews here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/pctv1#grid/user/8738C4B97DF8142F

Enjoy!

Interested in Organized Labor?

Last night on the program author/journalist/labor organizer Steve Early sat down for a chat about his new book "Embedded With Organized Labor: Journalistic Reflections on the Class War at Home." (http://www.monthlyreview.org)

It was a fascinating discussion and one I wish I had more time for, but if you want to meet Steve in person, he's doing a reading/signing at The King's English (1511 South 1500 East) tonight at 7pm.

He's also speaking as part of a conference on labor being put on by the Healthy Planet Mobilization Committee - http://utahjwj.org/hpmc/.