Snowboarding visionary Jake Burton Carpenter dies at 65
(WorldNews Business)

Whether you had a gold medal hanging from your neck, were just learning how to stand on a snowboard, or were one of those flustered skiers wondering where all the kids in the baggy pants were coming from, you knew the name `Burton.` Jake Burton Carpenter, the man who changed the game on the mountain by fulfilling a grand vision of what a snowboard could be, died Wednesday night of complications stemming from a relapse of testicular cancer. He was 65. In an email sent to the staff at Burton, CEO John Lacy called Burton `our founder, the soul of snowboarding, the one who gave us the sport we love so much.` Carpenter was not the inventor of the snowboard, but 12 years after Sherman Poppen tied...