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Travis Rice wins inaugural Red Bull Supernatural

Every activity has rare moments when people who do it best turn it into something so beautiful that it becomes poetry. If you are lucky enough to be there when it happens, it is not something you will ever forget. The Red Bull Supernatural is not an event that will translate well into words. You have to see it for yourself. Even if you just have a passing interest in snowboarding -- perhaps you wandered over here from the football section of ESPN or clicked on this link randomly from a friend's Facebook page, it doesn't matter -- take out your phone and set an alert for this:

At 1 p.m. ET March 31, the Red Bull Supernatural will air on NBC. The event was filmed and produced by Curt Morgan and the Brain Farm crew -- the same people who brought you "The Art of Flight" and "That's It, That's All." It is not hot smoke I'm blowing when I say that, not only have you never seen a contest like this, you've never seen one shot like this before, either. Do not miss it.

Back to the poetry … Travis Rice won, and he did it solidly, and without controversy. But we'll get back to him after we talk about the other highlights, like second and third place winners Gigi Rüf and Nicolas Müller.

This is what a second-place run at the Supernatural looks like. The play-by-play here provided by..... [read more]

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