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The $30,000 Question

By George Crosland
EXPN.com

Monday, September 13, 2004

A couple hours before the second-annual LG Action Sports Championships, held in conjunction with the Los Angeles County Fair, I set out to track down the skate pros and find out what they would do if they won the $30,000 first-place prize money. (Each event had a $100,000 total purse.) Tape recorder and pre-conceived ideas of answers about blingin' cars, big-screen TVs and big-money parties, I was surprised to learn the Dog Town days of drugs, booze and women are long-gone. These guys are big ...

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