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Alli Sports, a division of the NBC Sports Group, today announced a four-year renewal of their partnership with Mountain Dew, along with the 2012 schedule for the new Dew Tour. Alli Sports, together with Mountain Dew, who has been the tour title partner since its inception, is reshaping the Dew Tour to showcase action sports in three large-scale, premium and ‘grand-slam’ style events. Leveraging the resources of the NBC Sports Group, which acquired 100% of Alli Sports last year, the new Beach, City, Mountain tour model will better serve the needs of the athletes and action sports community.

The three premium events will boast expanded television programming and digital strategy across NBC, NBC Sports Network, nbcsports.com and allisports.com, as well as hyper-local promotional and programming opportunities through the NBC Sports Group’s owned stations and regional sports networks. At the event level, each stop will include expanded and new sports and disciplines, and an enhanced

RL sent in an update about The Ricardo Laguna Project! The show is already in its sixth week on MTV Tr3s and it's their top rated program in its time slot! I know a few months ago, people were talking about me being in Chippendales, and now the moment of truth is here! In this week's show, airing on Wed. April 18 at 9 p.m. ET on MTV Tr3s, you'll get to go behind the scenes as I prepare for my appearance in Chippendales and get to show my moves on stage.

To find what channel MTV Tr3s is in your area, go HERE.
You can also check out behind the scenes clips, deleted scenes

Bikes, Beers, Bands, BSD and Bitches! Hell yeah! It's time for the annual Mini-FATJAM. This year we'll start off at the Sugar Hills trails with a mellow dirt session followed by a greasy snackbar stop and a night at OJA with 4 bands. Also, we're having the Dutch BSD Any Wich Way premiere at OJA so plenty of action all day long.

The lines have been shaped at the Sugar Hills so we can officially kick off the outdoor season with a session in Aarle-Rixtel. Nothing more, nothing less. Riding with friends, learning new tricks on the killer, or trying to make it through the lines riding switch. Got what it takes? you show us!

Follow everything on www.twitter.com/fatjam if you can't make it in person. Pay a visit to Paul's Boutique while you're in town. Drink a free Monster Energy drink when the truck shows up. Find a photo of yourself on FATBMX.com afterwards. You might even go home with a Vans goodie. Enough reasons to make the trip to Ale Blie. Dirt!!!

To celebrate the Red Bull Empire Of Dirt returning for 2012, we have teamed up with Kye Forte and Red Bull to produce an extremely limited edition of United x Red Bull KL40 complete bikes. and for the first time ever you can get your hands on a bike with officially endorsed Red Bull Empire Of Dirt graphics. We used the brand new 2013 KL40 model and then tied in Red Bull Empire Of Dirt branding, by using grey sidewall United tyres, colour matched grips, anodized red rims and seat clamp which all finish this bike off with a look way beyond it’s price tag.

Round 1 - Scotland – Transgression Park The first regional qualifier for the Relentless Energy Drink NASS Park Event will take place this Saturday 14th April at Transgression Park in Edinburgh. The top 5 will qualify for the Park event at NASS and there is also a £1000 purse for the event. Pre qualified riders may also compete for the purse. You may turn up on the day to ride but if you would like to pre register go to: nassfestival.com/sports/road_to_nass

Qualifying Details: Each qualifying event will offer 5 places into the NASS park BMX event. Events are open to anyone including those pre qualified. Should a pre qualified athlete finish in the top 5 the next non qualified athlete will move into that position.

Formats: Athletes will be put into groups of 4 and compete in a jam format. The top scores will then enter in to two final heats where the top 5 will qualify for NASS. Should there be too many riders and not time to run the semi finals the top 5 qualifying scores will qualify for NASS.

Tickets for the world’s most progressive BMX contest, Red Bull Empire of Dirt, will today go on sale at redbull.co.uk/empireofdirt. Priced at just £5 per day, this is a fantastic opportunity to see the world’s best BMX riders taking on the huge course that will be built at London’s Alexandra Palace for the competition. 36 riders will compete on Saturday 19th May to win one of 16 places in the final rounds which will take place on Sunday 20th May.

Unique connection of bmx dirt jump event and rock’n'roll music festival will be held in Jicin, Czech Republic. You can expect amazing course of 7 jumps designed by Tomas Kudrnac, Dusan Antalik and Martin Capek, more in trails style than dirt jump, check the pics. The music part will include about 8 concerts going from hardcore to alternative, guitars on all the time for sure. That all for free, count also cheap and excellent Czech beer, beautiful and hot chicks, good time and party all the time. I mean anything a guy can want.

The fine folks at DC Europe hosted an online competition on FATBMX. They had five pairs of DC Shoes to give away. The correct answer to the question was: Kye Forte and Patrick Guimez. Those two riders are a member of the European BMX DC team.

The competition is now closed. The five winners are:

-Stijn Leijzer (NED)
-Sebastian Banaszczuk (POL)
-Wesley Ilegems (BEL)
-Clemens Kartmann (AUS)

Shannon Gillette April 10
Sig Cools April 10 27 years old
Penny Westman April 10
Sean Sexton April 11 26 years old
Max Cleuren April 11 19 years old
Marvin G Church Jr April 12 52 years old
Ricardo Laguna April 13 30 years old
Desmond Tessemaker April 13
Tom Justice April 14 23 years old
Sabine Bont April 14 24 years old
Eric Rothenbusch April 15 38 years old
Boy Janssen April 15 25 years old
Joey Garcia April 16 34 years old
Bas de Bever April 16
Tory Nyhaug April 17 20 years old 

Our friends at DC Europe have agreed to give out 5 pairs of shoes in the following FATBMX X DC Shoe Co. online competition. The shoes that are up for grabs are the Anvil for the boys, and the Bristol kicks for the girls. Product descriptions can be viewed below, but first let's cut to the chase. Here's the deal. You answer the following question:

Name two riders that are on the European DC BMX pro team?

Send your answer to: win @ fatbmx.com together with your shoe size, address and phone number. We will pick 5 winners on April 1st. This is not an April fools joke by the way.