Travis Rice had by far and away the best practice run at the Winter X Games. In general, I’d like to see more foreign objects interfering with skiers and snowboarders doing jumps at terrain parks. Telephone poles, hidden punjee pits, American Gladiators with the tennis ball cannon from the Assault event, Rover from “The Prisoner,” swarms of bees, thrown babies — hey, don’t blame me. They’re the ones who wanted to get more EXXTREME.

[Don Chavez]