Riders: Start Your Engines

Coming to you live April 7 from Pleasure Point in beautiful Santa Cruz, California, the first stop on the 2008 Red Bull Riders Cup. Look out grumpy old hippies, from April 7-10 the kids are taking over. The deal is this, it's bracketology at its best. Broken up into various regional conferences, the nation's best high school surf teams battle it out it The Game format. The winner from each respective region squares off in a no-holds-barred, steel-cage grudge match at a yet to be determined Southern California beach. Santa Cruz is on deck first. Then comes a visit to Florida and the Eastern Seaboard. The Hermosa Beach stop has been postponed. Stay tuned for updates, photos, video, an whatever else we can serve up. Click here for the whole scoop.