Does anyone remember the commenter Raysism? I wonder if he’s gonna try and find out how far a football can be punted in a hurricane. I hope he’s ok.

Credit to Sloane Stephens who played a very smart contained match but made the tougher shots when she needed to (which wasn’t very often).

It should also be mentioned Barbados was not in the path of the storm. Slightly choppier waters for a pro-level surfer isn’t normally a death sentence.

That is one of the greatest, most important sports moments I have ever witnessed. They are two of the only honorable sportspersons on Earth right now because they understand that love is far, far more important than money or a championship.

Darwin card doesn’t come in to play here. He had the skill to handle these types of heavy waves and knew the risk. Hurricane season brings some great surfing to the east coast and surfers take advantage.

For all the non-surfing keyboard warriors throwing Darwin awards around it should be mentioned that this kid was an up-and-coming, world class talent. He was out surfing with other pros, had been getting plenty of good waves and riding them successfully. He had the skill and ability to handle the conditions. He died…

People need to keep in mind that one of the parts of the brain that matures last is the frontal lobe, which controls risk-taking and action/consequence type decisions. Teenagers often don’t have a fully developed sense of risk. I wish more adults were capable of remembering the truly stupid things they did as…

I know there will be those that will play the “Darwin” card and while this was foolish a 16-year-old kid is dead. That’s a bummer no matter the circumstance.

The Countess is truly a gift that keeps on giving.

Exactly. I want to buy a dress that is constructed to be washed in a sink in Sri Lanka, hung from a ceiling fan and worn to an embassy party accessorized by diamond studs, a Leica and Antonio Bandaras, circa 1992. Is that so much to ask?

I remember the Beverly Hills Banana Republic store had a military jeep in the window!

I stole the clothes hook in the changing room at one of the old Jeep and crates styled stores.... It was a fake rhinoceros horn.

I remember the Beverly Hills Banana Republic store had a military jeep in the window! Has there ever been such a dramatic change in branding?

I stole the clothes hook in the changing room at one of the old Jeep and crates styled stores.... It was a fake rhinoceros horn. I just unscrewed it and took it home with me. I still have it.

they could sell you parachutes, and they could sell you pants, yet they would not sell you parachute pants.

Ahh, so it goes! End of an era. All things must pass, &c. &c. I suppose my innocence was gone when I traded in my Banana Republic fedora (real fur felt, hard-earned by months of babysitting and working McDonald’s breakfast shift) for a Siouxsie Sioux haircut....

Yes! Old work adventure, vintage glampings is my aesthetic! Amelia Earhart is my style icon. For a while BR had a signature line (on average 50% more in price) that was just that and I loooooved it.

i can trace the end of my innocence to the very day i declined the banana republic catalog, with its hand-drawn depiction of far away lands, climes and adventures, for the victoria’s secret catalog, which drew the aforementioned hand quite differently.

Ohh, I used to LOVE getting the Banana Republic catalog back in the 80s when it was still a rugged-worldly-travelly-adventurey company that sold Indiana Jones clothing. The lifelike clothing sketches with no bodies... the vivid descriptions of the faraway places where they got the design/material/whatever... the…

i stopped truly caring when they stopped putting out the catalog - it made that monthly trip to the mailbox an adventure!