In the great and varied canon of American racial stereotypes, there is a highly detailed list of segregated sports. Basketball, for instance, is a "black" sport. Hockey, on the other hand, is for whites. Surfing falls firmly into the category of "white sport," somewhere between mountaineering and golf. It could...

My father is from a small town in Japan named Onagawa that the last few decades have not been kind to it. A gradual and persistent drain of youth to Tokyo and nearby cities had sapped Onagawa of much of it's work force and left its two major employers --...

On Friday, June 10 the Tarrant County Medical Examiner's office released the toxicology report for Philip Andrew "Andy" Irons. It states that his primary cause of death was a sudden cardiac arrest associated with coronary artery disease with a 70-80 percent stenosis (abnormal narrowing) of one of his arteries. It...

To understand the London riots and the equally vicious way British lawmakers have responded to them, you have to understand the British class system. Far from being a simple distinction of money or breeding, class goes to the very heart of how each and every man, woman, and child in...

Professional surfing is big business. Since the "sport of kings" (an allusion to its Hawai'ian roots pushed by American tourism boards in order to encourage visitors to visit the newly annexed territory in the mid 20th century) exploded onto America's pop cultural radar with the Gidget movies, and later biopics...