Larry Brown Sports

Shaun White became famous after winning gold medals at the Olympics in snowboarding, but his striking long red hair is what truly made him recognizable. When he won his first gold medal at the Torino Olympics in 2006, White became known as “The Flying Tomato,” which was a play on his aerial abilities and his red hair. Six years later, White cut ties with his most identifiable feature when he decided to cut his hair for charity.

In a video posted on YouTube Tuesday, White was seen getting his long red hair cut for “Locks of Love.” White said he had been thinking about cutting his hair for a while, and he decided to do it for a good cause.

According to its website, “Locks of Love is a public non-profit organization that provides hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children in the United States and Canada under age 21 suffering from long-term medical hair loss from any diagnosis. We meet a unique need for children by using donated hair to create the highest quality hair prosthetics. Most of the children helped by Locks of Love have lost their hair due to a medical condition called alopecia areata, which has no known cause or cure. The prostheses we provide help to restore their self-esteem and their confidence, enabling them to face the world and their peers.”

White joins many other athletes and celebrities who have donated their hair to the charity.

What was his reason?

“Somebody needs it more than I do.”

Few can argue with that. This is a good way for White to rehab his image after the whole drunken hotel incident in Nashville.

That’s it, pack it up. Everyone go home. Just shut it all down. Shaun White ended Halloween with the costume to defeat all costumes.

The gold medalist snowboarder and world famous skateboarder dressed as Ariel from “The Little Mermaid” on Halloween, tweeting out the picture you see above on Wednesday. He capped off the costume by tweeting a line from the movie: “It’s a dinglehopper. Humans use these little babies… to straighten their hair out,” he said of the fork he was holding.

Crossdressing is apparently a regular thing for White during Halloween. It’s a wonder how he pulled supermodel Bar Refaeli while displaying such questionable behavior. Maybe the chicks just dig it.

Photo via Shaun White/Twitter

Shaun White was arrested after allegedly causing a stir at a hotel in Nashville, Tenn., on Sunday morning, and then trying to leave the scene.

White is alleged to have pulled a fire alarm causing all the hotel guests to evacuate, and according to WKRN-TV in Nashville, a hotel employee saw him destroy a hotel phone.

White apparently tried grabbing a cab to leave the scene outside the Loews Vanderbilt Hotel, but another person was able to stop him from fleeing. Only one problem — White is said to have kicked the person. The person tried chasing White, who eventually crashed into a fence. That could be how he got the black eye.

He was charged with public intoxication and vandalism.

Just another typical night out on the town for the snowboarder/skateboarder extraordinaire! Maybe he just needs the calming influence of his model girlfriend around in order to set him straight.

UPDATE: White apologized for his behavior on Tuesday.

“I want to apologize for the unwise choices I made over the weekend and for any inconvenience it caused my family, friends, business partners, the hotel and their guests,” he wrote on his Facebook page. “I was celebrating a happy occasion with a ton of family and friends and got carried away. I’m truly sorry for my poor behavior.”

Bar Refaeli and Shaun White are doing nothing to dispel the rumors that they are dating. The two spent part of their day on Tuesday watching Michael Phelps race during the Olympics in London.

“@shaun_white and me celebrating @MichaelPhelps with the family:) great job buddy!!! Amazing!” Refaeli tweeted.

“Congrats @MichaelPhelps! Just watched him win his 19th medal. Hanging with his family,” said White.

Phelps spent a good part of his morning on Wednesday responding to tweets from fellow athletes, White included.

Let’s see: Refaeli and White were spotted dancing it up at a club at the end of May, and now they’re in London and hanging out together? Yeah, something is definitely going on.

Gingers may not have souls, but apparently they have game. Olympic gold medalist Shaun White was getting down with Bar Refaeli at a club in New York over Memorial Day weekend, according to the New York Post.

The Post says the two met up at SoHo lounge Sway around 1:30 a.m. According to their report, the two “hit the dance floor, where they were going for the gold in the canoodle-a-thon.”

“They were all over each other,” the Post reports. “They were dancing, hugging, kissing — you name it.”

Dancing, hugging, kissing? Shaun White and Bar Refaeli? Bar Refaeli and Shaun White? What alternate universe is this?

Let’s keep in mind here that Refaeli was just named No. 1 on Maxim’s Hot 100 list. I can totally understand her dating Leonardo DiCaprio. But Shaun White? Seriously? Single men, take note: Apparently all you need is to carry a skateboard around with you and you’re set. This is easily the weirdest couple since these two.