The Jeep World of Adventure Sports will sponsor the 2008 IGSA World Championships - Maryhill Festival of Speed on NBC TV Saturday, October 11th! The event will be on the air from 2:30pm until 4:00pm Eastern Time or from 11:30am until 1:00pm Pacific Standard Time in the United States. You will need to check your local TV listings guide for the exact broadcast times in your region of the country.

The Maryhill Festival of Speed and IGSA World Championships was held in Goldendale, Washington, USA on August 27th through the 31st. Visit the IGSA site for event results.

For more excitement, visit their Myspace.com home page to see a video of the recent GoFast! Speed Days IGSA World Cup race.

If you enjoy roller sports and are willing to travel, USA Roller Sports needs you for their volunteer athletic trainer program. Certified athletic trainers are needed for training camps at the U.S. Olympic Training Center, at the National Figure and Speed Skating Championships and for the USA Roller Sports World Teams that compete all over the world. What a great way to have your transportation, lodging and food expenses covered and go to USA Roller Sports training and event destinations, too.

Find out if you qualify by visiting the USA Roller Sports athletic trainer recruitment page. Or you can contact Lori Brandon, a member of the USARS Sports Medicine Committee for details.

The NBC News/Philadelphia coverage of the Amateur Inline League (AIL) Aggressive Inline Skating World Championship at Camp Woodward West in Tehachapi, California is now online. The news feature includes stunt footage and interview clips with Shawn Martin, a 12-year-old bronze medalist at the event. Online viewer response comments from the inline skating community have been mixed. Many feel that it is too bad that a pro level adult skater wasn't shown to represent the highest end of aggressive inline skating. But others saw the value in showing a kid doing stunts and getting recognition for his performance.

Some points made in the comments include:

• 2,000 emails came in to the station asking for information about the sport as a youth activity.
  
  
• Kids will relate to kids, and this could draw more youth into the sport at a time when new blood is needed.
  
  
• This TV segment could jump-start inline skate requests on Christmas lists.
  
  
• More media coverage like this can stimulate other skating activities and related purchases.

If you check out the event results, you will see that there are several levels and age categories included in this competition. The official AIL 2008 World Championships Video Edit includes more of the senior level skating that was not shown by NBC. Just remember that any and every bit of media coverage for roller sports is good news. No skater or sports discipline will be famous if the armchair athletes don't know they exist or can't relate to them.

Roller sports are gliding through the media this week. The French Inline Cup, held last weekend in Lyon, is the subject of a 15-minute video segment produced by Sport+ TV in France. The segment was televised on Friday October 3rd at 16:45 and shown again on Saturday October 4th at 7:30 and 11:45. There is still one showing scheduled for Tuesday October 7th at 0:45. Let's watch for clips of this media segment to be posted.