Can you name the best baseball player on earth? If not, don't feel bad. Mike Trout is a historically great baseballing man for the moribund Angels down there in Anaheim, an amusement park strip mall masquerading as a city. He's a ragin[...]
I write you today hopelessly buried beneath a stack of surf mags and DVDs from the '80s, '90s and early '00s. My oxygen is running perilously low and I fear, without a brazen plan concocted by a crack team of rescuers to free me from t[...]
Today, it’s very windy. I’m watching whitecaps toss and churn beneath the Golden Gate Bridge from my desk. It’s not a surf day, but I’ll probably head down to a little cove near my house for a paddle, just the s[...]
It’s awfully hard to fault the Ziffs--owners of the WSL and, presumably, still [...]
Can you imagine making the call to start running heats again at the Margaret River Pr[...]
Can you imagine making the call to start running heats again at the Margaret River Pr[...]
Halfway through a film festival at the Santa Cruz Patagonia store, a man handed me a [...]
Ever since the first footage was released of Kelly's Wave, the most important technological innovation in surfing since the development of the surfboard, something didn't quite sit well. At first, I thought perhaps it was merely that a[...]
This is a very good day to go surfing. Most days are, to be sure, but it’s especially necessary on a day like today, after waking to the horrific news in Las Vegas. I don't know what else to do, but I've got to do something. I've[...]
Imagine this, for a moment: flawless, eight-foot Honolua Bay, turquoise barrels spinn[...]
The 2017 WCT kicks off this week with SO MANY QUESTIONS: Will Facebook save pro surfi[...]
Of all the quirks that make up the inexplicable delights of our strange little surf w[...]
Because we won’t be satisfied until the entire surface of the earth has been re[...]
“Oh no, not Kai Lenny, too!” was my immediate reaction upon seeing on my [...]
God help me. I’m about to argue that sometimes beach access fees might not be a bad thing. Since the 1940s, there has been a locked gate fronting Opal Cliffs Beach, often called “Privates,” a small Santa Cruz beach ju[...]
Aside from Medina's freak double-grab backflip during Round Two (and his 10-earning combo in Round 4), the Oi Rio Pro was a total snooze fest. So like any good (see: insufferable) armchair pro-surfing critic, during the most boring ro[...]