1. Snowboarding

At the Burton U.S. Open this week (opensnowboarding.com), everyone knows Shaun White’s the dude to beat. But lately there’s been a crop of up-and-comers threatening his perennial place on the superpipe podium’s top spot. The ones to watch? We say it’s Shaun White and Kevin Pearce, another Burton shredder who beat White out at the 2008 X-Games superpipe. Check out this clip of White’s U.S. Open performance last year: