Taking Sport to Its Limits

Around the nineteen eighties a new term, extreme sports, evolved to embrace the growing development of sporting activities that involved an increased element of individualism coupled with an element of danger not associated with traditional sports. Eagerly taken up by the youth of the day as well as adults, activities such as bungee jumping, hang gliding, sky diving, rock climbing, mountaineering and scuba diving...

James Stewart Breaks Barriers In Extreme Sport, Super Motocross

Born in 1985, James “Bubba” Stewart has been called the “Tiger Woods of super motocross” because of his domination of a sport as an African American with mostly Caucasian competitors. A better term for Stewart might be the “Jackie Robinson of super motocross.” Like Robinson, and unlike Woods, Stewart is the first African American in the big leagues of his sport, and like...