http://broadbandsports.com/taxonomy/term/38150/0 en http://broadbandsports.com/node/22365 <div class="event-nodeapi"><div class="events-start"><label>Start: </label>02/26/2009 - 7:00am</div></div> <div class="event-nodeapi"><div class="events-end"><label>End: </label>02/28/2009 - 7:00pm</div></div> <div class="event-nodeapi"><div class="events-tz"><label>Timezone: </label>Etc/GMT-7</div></div> The 2008-09 FIS Snowboarding World Cup is a multi race tournament over a season for snowboarding. The season began on September 6, 2008, and finishes on March 22, 2009. The World Cup is organized by the FIS who also runs world cups and championships in cross-country skiing, ski jumping, nordic combined, alpine skiing and freestyle skiing.<br /> In his 15th season as U.S. Snowboarding head coach, Peter Foley leads the snowboardcross athletes along with Jeff Archibald. Mike Jankowski is back for his third season as the halfpipe head coach along with U.S. Snowboarding alum Ricky Bower, a halfpipe world champion.<br><br /> <img src="http://ll.broadbandsports.com/images/snowboard_7472_0_0.thumbnail.jpg" alt="Snowboarding World Cup Sunday River" title="Snowboarding World Cup Sunday River" width="150" height="90" alt="Snowboarding World Cup Sunday River"/><Br><br> Snowboard Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:21:16 -0800