Kevin Pearce competes at the men's halfpipe snowboarding FIS World Cup final event in November 2009. Credit - Fabrice Coffrini—AFP/Getty Images Then at a halfpipe event in Copper Mountain, Colo., in ...

(AP) — Snowboarder Kevin Pearce has been transferred to a Denver hospital specializing in brain injuries. Pearce banged his head on the halfpipe during practice Dec. 31 and was taken to University of ...

Then at a halfpipe event in Copper Mountain, Colo., in December 2009, Pearce fell during a preliminary run. “I was super f–cking out of it,” Pearce says. “I was feeling super dizzy and loopy.” A coach ...

Going into the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, American snowboarder Kevin Pearce was emerging as a true threat to the supremacy of Shaun White, the superstar dubbed “The Flying Tomato” for his flowing red ...