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March 24th, 2008
RACHEL LEIGH DESIGNS NECKLACE TO BENEFIT WORLD CUP SKIER BODE MILLER’S TURTLE RIDGE FOUNDATION AND GRIDIRON HEROES, A CHARITY SUPPORTED BY JESSICA BIEL Los Angeles, CA (March 19, 2008) – Rachel Leigh has created a necklace to benefit double Olympic medalist and current World Cup record holder Bode Miller’s charity - the Turtle Ridge Foundation (TRF) and GridIron Heroes - a charity supported by Jessica Biel through Make the Difference Network (MTDN). MTDN is an online network designed to connect nonprofit organizations with potential donors. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of each necklace will go directly to these nonprofit organizations.
“I created the Turtle Ridge Foundation as a way to help people in need and give back to the community” said Miller. “I am very excited about this endeavor as a way to raise additional funds for charity."
"I am thrilled to support an initiative that directly benefits these two amazing organizations," said Ms. Biel.
The necklace has a gold turtle charm and features a colored ribbon with a ‘wish’ embroidered on it attached to the clasp. When the consumer receives the necklace they will find out what wish they have received. “We are very excited to design this Lucky Turtle necklace in support of Jessica and Bode’s two great causes” said Leigh.
The necklace will be sold exclusively for two months on premiere online shopping site shopbop.com beginning on March 20, 2008. The necklace will retail for $60.00.
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About the Turtle Ridge Foundation
The Turtle Ridge Foundation (www.turtleridgefoundation.org) is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and creating programs that solve difficult environmental, health and economic issues, including adaptive sports programs, cancer research and survivor programs and The Boys and Girls Club of America and programs that help underserved children throughout our local communities.
About Gridiron Heroes
Gridiron Heroes (www.mtdn.com/gridironheroes) provides immediate and long-term resources and support to individuals sustaining a catastrophic spinal cord injury through activities associated with high school football.
About Rachel Leigh
Designed for the girl with confidence, who is always in command, does not take herself too seriously and is the life of the party. She's versatile with an ever changing look to fit her mood; one night she is uptown chic sophistication with a bit of an edge, the next night she is downtown trendy glamour and by day she is refined casual. She mixes it up with the perfect balance - always feeling confident and making a statement. The Rachel Leigh girl knows who she is and uses her wardrobe and jewelry to play off of her personality. Our mission is to create the highest quality designer costume jewelry that is unique, accessible, and that we are excited to wear. www.rachelleigh.com
About Shopbop.com
Based in Madison, WI, Shopbop.com is a premier online shopping boutique for the fashion-savvy female. Carrying everything a woman needs for her wardrobe from dresses to denim; swimwear to shoes- Shopbop.com has over 100 different designer labels. An excellent one-stop fashion resource, the sites features include How to Buy Jeans Guide, Look Book and Season Trend Previews. www.shopbop.com
About MTDN
Make The Difference Network, co-founded by actress Jessica Biel, her father, Jon Biel, Kent McBride and a team of social entrepreneurs, is a cause-oriented, online social network designed to help nonprofit organizations increase donations, increase awareness and extend their reach to a vast community of caring individuals. MTDN empowers individuals to search, select and fund causes that touch their hearts. For more information, please visit www.mtdn.com
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For more information please contact:
Gina Hoffman Adriana Cohen Alle Fister
PMK/HBH Turtle Ridge Foundation Bollare/Shopbop.com
310.289.6200 978.314.1686 310.246.0983
 
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March 20th, 2008
LOS ANGELES, March 19 Bode Miller, 2008 Alpine Skiing World Cup Champion and one of the best-known names in skiing, announced the traffic and growth results of SkiSpace.com's first three months. The web 2.0 social network officially launched in December 2007 and is on pace to double growth consistently on a month to month basis, reached the three million page view mark, and boasts a member's viewing average of 15 pages per visit. The popular online social network is rapidly becoming the premier destination for ski and snow sports enthusiasts.
"I am extremely proud of the success we are having with SkiSpace and what we are building," declares CEO and Founder Bode Miller. "My vision for SkiSpace from the start has been to create a site that embraces the excitement of this dynamic sport and lifestyle, and brings together ski and snow sports fans from all over the world in compelling and innovative ways -- both online and on the slopes. Judging by the interactions, growth and feedback I've got from members, I think we're on the right track."
SkiSpace.com also announced a series of significant upgrades designed to greatly enhance the user experience with tools and features that make the site more entertaining, useful, and offer a greater degree of interactivity: -- The "Ask Bode" Forum: Bode Miller personally answers users' questions and is very active in other forums as well, investing time to really communicate with members. -- Upgraded Blogging Features: Mobile blogging capabilities are now possible (i.e. video and photos from mobile devices) and content already uploaded features highlights from Miller, Team America, and other SkiSpace members. -- "Up to the Minute" Race Footage: Provided by partner WCSN; as well as enhanced member-generated video, the "real time" footage includes a rating and commenting system and the ability to post Flash widgets within a personal profile. -- Expanded Resort, Travel and Gear Sections: To enhance every aspect of the user experience, SkiSpace has also expanded the resort, travel and gear sections, adding even more resorts and the unique ability for members to interact with each other around a specific resort or "base camp."
"We are excited about delivering the next set of enhancements which will allow us to build on our initial success and continue our momentum," said Ryan Blair, chairman of PathConnect, LLC and COO of SkiSpace. "Our page views per member and average time on site are approaching metrics known to such popular social networks as Match.com, Facebook, and MySpace. Our worldwide membership has been extremely enthusiastic, loyal and supportive regarding our site and the accomplishments of our CEO, Bode Miller. When Bode wins, our entire membership feels a true sense of pride and accomplishment with him."
About Bode Miller
Bode Miller is the winningest racer in US Alpine skiing history with 31 wins, a mark he eclipsed in 2008 that had stood since 1984. His 31 wins are 6th most in the history of the sport. Miller captured his second overall World Cup title in the 2007-08 season, along with his fourth Discipline Title, the Super Combined. Miller also boasts four World Championship Golds and two Olympic Silver medals. He has won races in each of the five alpine skiing disciplines, one of only five men to have done so. One of the most respected and popular racers on the World Cup circuit, Miller left the US Ski Team in 2007 after eleven years, and formed his independent Team America, which captured the overall title in its rookie campaign.
About SkiSpace
Launched in December, 2007, world renowned ski champion Bode Miller in conjunction with PathConnect, LLC created SkiSpace.com to become the premier destination for ski and snow sports enthusiasts all over the world.
SkiSpace offers users weather updates, vacation planning, equipment sales, and ski reports. Additionally, it takes the party to a different level by providing members the ability to interact with each other, share user-generated content such as mobile blogs, photo uploads and ski action/lifestyle videos -- and participate in discussion forums, which include professional skiers, on a variety of topics.
SkiSpace.com is the first website to bring all these features together for skiers and snow sports enthusiasts in one exciting, all-inclusive social network.
About PathConnect, LLC
PathConnect, LLC is a next generation interactive media company leveraging Web 2.0 technology, online social networking capabilities, and member-generated content; partnering with established brand names.
PathConnect collaborates with recognized brand names to produce up-and-coming social networks that offer unique features specific to their needs. PathConnect provides the technology platform and business domain expertise to enable partner companies to build and become online leaders; assisting them in building social networking sites as well as business models leveraging the unique potential of social networks.
PathConnect partners include the Make The Difference Network (http://www.mtdn.com), co-founded by Jessica Biel, which is an online community that links non-profit organizations with potential donors; PathConnect.net (http://www.pathconnect.net), a community oriented around personal growth; SkiSpace.com (http://www.skispace.com), a social network for ski and snow sports enthusiasts in partnership with Ski Champion Bode Miller; and FragMob (http://www.fragmob.com); a white label mobile site/system built around picture and video blogging.
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March 17th, 2008
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March 14th, 2008
 Two years after an Olympic crash and burn at Turin, America is suddenly mountain tops in Alpine ski racing.
Bode Miller, the go-it-alone typhoon, who split from the U.S. Ski Team last spring with both sides citing irreconcilable differences, scored a victory for independence Thursday when a 12th-place finish in super giant slalom clinched his second overall title at the World Cup Finals in Bormio, Italy.
Miller, 30, will soon be joined in American ski-slope history by 23-year-old Lindsey Vonn, who all but locked up the women's overall title with her second-place finish in the women's super G.
"It's not even like real to me," Vonn said of her inevitable accomplishment.
Miller and Vonn are poised to become the first American male and female to win overall crowns in the same year since Phil Mahre and Tamara McKinney in 1983.
Miller won his first overall title in 2005.
It is now a matter of fact for Miller and a matter of time for Vonn, who basically needs to step into her bindings for today's slalom to complete a unique American sweep.
Vonn has a 197-point lead over Germany's Maria Riesch with a maximum of 200 points available to Riesch in the final two races. To prevail, the German would have to win twice while Vonn would have to score less than three points.
Riesch has all but conceded the overall outcome.
"She's already congratulated me," Vonn said of Riesch. "She has to win both events to beat me. . . . It's not completely over but I'm not likely to lose it I'll say."
While many American fans measure success by counting Olympic medals, those in ski-racing circles consider the World Cup overall the most prestigious title because it measures excellence over the course of a season.
These are different headlines coming out of Italy for Miller and Vonn, who failed to capture lightning in the bottle at the 2006 Turin Games. Miller came up short in five events, making more news for his late-night exploits, while a horrific training run crash cost Vonn realistic medal chances in downhill and combined.
Two years later, Miller and Vonn are king and queen of another Italian hill.
Bode did it his way, as usual, and Lindsey did it hers.
Miller declined to comment after his unspectacular finish in super G secured his spectacular place in history.
Some days you can't get Miller to shut up; some days mum is his word.
Miller's post-Olympic refusal to conform made inevitable his split from the U.S. team, yet his talent remains undeniable.
His overall title was sealed when the skier in closest pursuit, Switzerland's Didier Cuche, announced he was skipping Saturday's final slalom.
With only two races left, that gave Miller an insurmountable 191-point lead in the standings. Cuche, a speed specialist who finished 16th in Thursday's super G, does not race slalom and would have only tried if he was within striking distance.
Vonn made it easier for herself by piling up 80 points in Thursday's super G.
"It was really important," Vonn said. "I didn't want to go into the tech races having a lot of pressure."
Slalom is Vonn's weakest discipline -- she ranks No. 41 in the World Cup standings.
Vonn was denied a chance to close out the competition when Wednesday's downhill was canceled because of soft snow. Vonn had already clinched this year's World Cup title in that event. The only other American to win a downhill title was Picabo Street, who did it twice.
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March 3rd, 2008
Bode Miller ends good weekend in second
March 2, 2008
KVITFJELL, Norway: Georg Streitberger of Austria held off overall leader Bode Miller to win the men's super-G for his first World Cup victory Sunday, edging the American by 0.20 seconds.
Streitberger went down the 2,574-meter Olympic course in 1 minute, 26.68 seconds.
"It was a good run for me," said Streitberger, who was only 21st in the super-G standings going into the race. "My skis were very good. The speed was OK from the top to the finish."
Miller's result matched his previous best in the super-G this season.
"The super-G has been tough for me this year," he said. "I've made big mistakes, I've been changing skis a lot."
The 30-year-old Miller did not ski aggressively on a hill where four Americans have won Olympic gold and World Cup races since the 1994 Lillehammer Olympics.
"I wanted to make sure that I didn't take too much risk today," Miller said. "I didn't take a lot of risk at all. I still made a mistake on the bottom that cost me some time, but I don't think I would have won anyway.
"It's a little bit tough to ski that way for me. But it's also good to be second. You can't be too worried about it."
Miller increased his lead in the overall standings ahead of Didier Cuche of Switzerland, who finished in third place 0.32 seconds behind Streitberger.
Miller now has 1,363 points. Cuche is 185 points behind.
Cuche did close in on the super-G title, though. With one race left, he has 340 points while second-place teammate Christoph Gruber has 251.
"I was pushing," Cuche said. "I made a mistake every day. It seems he (Miller) is not making mistakes and that's the key. I make mistakes because I'm pushing and I know I have to push if I want to beat him and stay in contact with the overall."
Only six races remain on the schedule, including four at the World Cup finals in Bormio, Italy, later this month.
Miller, who in 2005 became the first American since Phil Mahre in 1983 to win the men's overall title, had a great weekend in Norway — finishing on the podium in three straight races.
On Friday, Miller was runner-up in the first of two downhills. On Saturday, he won the second downhill.
"The results show a little bit better than maybe where I'm skiing right now," Miller said. "A lot of guys either don't take risks or they take risks and they make mistakes. Both yesterday and today Didier had significant mistakes and was right behind me. He could have won both yesterday and today with just a little bit of luck.
"The results could have been worse, but I've been consistent. The skis are really working well right now and that makes a big difference."
The race was delayed more than 30 minutes after Matthias Lanzinger crashed near the finish. The Austrian, who started 30th in a field of 62, injured his legs and was taken to a hospital in Lillehammer.
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