Aug. 24, 2001 — -- Hey Dude! If you think you can throw around a couple of "totally tubulars" and pass yourself off as a surfer, you're a real hodad with the IQ of a Malibu Barbie. The misguided ...

Surfing columnist Corky Carroll talks about the lifers who still are at the heart of surfing in Orange County.

It wasn’t when I noticed the gray hair leaching into the corners of my beard or when I discovered my mid-length was getting dinged up while my shortboards gathered dust. This totally un-radical ...

Canoe surfing, particularly in an outrigger, is an ancient Polynesian tradition. The plastic, cookie-cutter kayaks you find at Costco and lining the beach at Sandals Resorts, those are not in ...

Many moons ago, a young actor named Sean Penn made a household name for himself playing the quintessential surf dude Jeff Spicoli in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High." It was, in a word, awesome. Every ...

Jeff Spicoli is alive and well, playing quarterback for Agoura High. Wearing his baseball cap backward atop his long hair and possessing a vocabulary that includes saying “dude” multiple times, ...

I have lived a relatively long life, zeroing in on my 76th birthday on Sept. 29. In terms of being a surfer, I am an old dude, almost always the oldest person in the lineup when I paddle out. I feel ...

FARGO — You know the stereotype of the surfer dude — tan, blonde and lean. Of course, the “tan” and “blonde” parts are the result of days spent under the sun’s rays, but the “lean” part has a lot more ...

Of all the abductions, this one is different.