Bristol, CT - Lone Star Park at Grand Prairie, Texas, a suburb of Dallas/Forth Worth, will host the X Trials, May 18-20, 2001. Kicking off the X Trials weekend is the GPX Action Sports Charity Jam, the inaugural benefit that offers something for everyone.

The GPX Action Sports Charity Jam will be hosted by ESPN and Lone Star Park on Thursday, May 17 from 6-9 p.m. Tickets are available for $20, with all proceeds going to the V Foundation for Cancer Research and the GPX Skatepark Youth Program, by calling 972-263- PONY (7669) and include:

One time only world-class performances by marquee action sports athletes such as BMX riders Dave Mirra and Ryan Nyquist, skateboarder Colin McKay, in-line skater Fabiola da Silva and local Dallas in-line skating star Shawn Robertson. Athlete autographs Live music by alternative rock sensation Dust For Life A commemorative skatepark jam poster for all supporters, with the first 500 attendees receiving complimentary special gifts including the commemorative posters, AT&T items, X Games water bottles and Road Champs Trick Stick toy bikes. A live and silent auction featuring opportunities to win action sports prizes including a trip for four to the ESPN X Games this summer in Philadelphia, a week a Woodward Camp's x-sports camp, bmx bikes, a Tony Hawk autograph skateboard, in-line skates and more!

AT&T Broadband along with ESPN will be hosting twenty children from the Creative Visions Social Services (CVSS) on Thursday, May 17. This is the children's first time to an action sports event like the X Trials. Creative Visions Social Services (CVSS) is a nonprofit, charitable and educational organization. AT&T Broadband serves more than 565,000 customers in the metropolitan Dallas area and provides free cable to more than 600 metroplex schools and free AT&T@Home Internet service to schools and libraries where the service has been deployed.

GPX, Lone Star Park's new outdoor skate park, with funding from the City of Grand Prairie, includes an intermediate/advanced course, beginner's course, world-class vert ramp and in-line hockey rink. More information can be found at www.gpxsk8.com The free-to-the-public X Trials -- a two-stop competition featuring more than 250 athletes from around the world competing for medals, prize money and an open invitation to the seventh-annual X Games, the world's premier action sports competition, August 17-23 in Philadelphia, Pa. -- feature competitions in men's and women's park and vert aggressive in-line skating; flatland, park and vert bicycle stunt and park and vert skateboarding. Original programming totaling 11 hours will air on ESPN and ESPN2.

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