NBC & USA Present WINTER DEW TOUR, 12/18

NBC Sports presents live coverage of the Winter Dew Tour from Breckenridge, Colo., the first of three stops of the Winter Dew Tour's junior season. The three-stop tour features over 150 of the best winter action sports athletes competing for their sport's only regular season crown - the Winter Dew Cup - and a $1.5 million prize purse. NBC Sports' live coverage of Snowboard Halfpipe airs Saturday at 2:30 p.m. ET, and taped coverage of Skiing Slopestyle airs at 4 p.m. ET on Sunday. USA Network will air late-night coverage of Freeski Halfpipe Saturday at midnight ET and Snowboard Slopestyle Sunday, at 2 a.m. ET.

Each event features competitions in snowboard superpipe and slopestyle, as well as freeski slopestyle and superpipe. The Tour crowns champions in each of the six disciplines and is the first ever winter action sports tour.

NBC's Todd Harris hosts the action with Luke Van Valin (play-by-play), Todd Richards (analyst) and Tiffany Simons (reporter) from Breckenridge.

More than 150 of the top winter action sports athletes in the world will return for the third season of the Winter Dew Tour to compete for the highly coveted Dew Cup. Last year's 2009-10 Dew Cup champions include JJ Thomas (men's snowboard superpipe), Kaitlyn Farrington (women's snowboard superpipe), Sage Kotsenburg (men's snowboard slopestyle), Jamie Anderson (women's snowboard slopestyle), Jossi Wells (freeski superpipe) and Andreas Hatveit (freeski slopestyle).

Upcoming Winter Dew Tour Events on NBC Sports:
Winter Dew Tour, Killington, Vt, Jan. 20-23, 2011

Toyota Championship, Snowbasin, Ogden, Utah, Feb. 10-13, 2011

IRONMAN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, SATURDAY, 4 PM ET

NBC Sports presents taped coverage of the 2010 Ironman World Championship this Saturday at 4 p.m. ET from Kona, Hawaii.

This year's coverage of the Ford Ironman World Championship will not only have one of the most exciting professional races in history as a backdrop, but coverage will also include features on several of the athletes including Kyle Garlett, the cancer-survivor and heart-transplant recipient, who missed the swim cut off by eight seconds at last year's race, and Kathleen Allen, the 39-year-old who is one of the top age group triathletes in the United States. Allen had to re-learn how to walk after a horrific accident two years ago.

 Al Trautwig provides commentary.

WORLD OF ADVENTURE SPORTS, SUNDAY, 3 PM ET

NBC Sports presents the Emmy award winning World of Adventure Sports this Sunday at 3 p.m. ET. This episode features The Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 which is the biggest of all desert races and the season-finale of the five-race 2010 SCORE Desert Series, held annually on Mexico's magnificently mysterious Baja California peninsula. With over 300 entries for cars, trucks, motorcycles and ATVs competing in 33 Pro and 7 Sportsman entries come from 37 U.S. states and 19 countries.

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