Getting your player ready...
There’s big money seemingly everywhere in pro skateboarding these days. Street League Skateboarding, the idea of pro skater and MTV star Rob Dyrdek, left, is increasing its purse to $1.6 million for its second season and adding a $200,000 winner-take-all championship in Newark, N.J., on Aug. 28. The first three contests will pay $150,000 to the winner. They are May 7-8 in Seattle, June 11-12 in Kansas City and July 16-17 in Glendale, Ariz. Street League features 24 of the world’s top skateboarders. Nyjah Huston, 16, won the overall points title last year and earned more than $250,000.
