HYPE OF THE HALFPIPE

Chicken Salad Air- The rear hand reaches between the legs and grabs the heel edge between the bindings while the front leg is boned. Also, the wrist is rotated inward to complete the grab.

Okay. That's a definition for a snowboard move featured in the 2006 Torino games. Snowboarding is HUGE. . . and I'm sure there's a better term for that.

Recently, two very young athletes have stunned the wide world of sports with their california-speak and earthy-but-endearing personalities, not to mention near perfection in their sport.

Both Hannah Teter and Shaun White are "stoked" about recent gold.

Meanwhile, I can't help but love the refreshing personalities these children of Deadheads bring to live television.

Consider, for example, Shaun's recent interview tale of a hiking expedition with his father, Roger, on Oregon's Mount Hood:

"We got up there and had all this food, so I started feeding the squirrels, then birds came, and before I knew it, it was sketchy. I had, like, four squirrels in my lap and this bird that kept trying to land on me because I had all this food with me. I was freaking out. I didn't want to move because I thought they'd bite me. Then I'd have to get rabies shots. They're dangerous. My dad was all, 'Dude, you're on your own. You're screwed.' I was like, 'Thanks, dude.'"

And on why he wants to compete in the Olympics: "I'm gonna get so many babes."