What a time to be alive.
The World Surf League, as you know, has been on an unprecedented tear of late. Stratospheric engagement, viewing numbers through the roof, partners rapping on Santa Monica’s door, begging to be involved. Boom, boom and boom. Surf fans, typically grouchy, couldn’t help but rub their eyes in disbelief at all the growth, first squinting hard to see if it could all really be true then breaking into a slow round of applause.
What will the reaction be, then, when those same surf fans learn that tennis icon Billie-Jean King KNOWS about surfing thanks to the World Surf League?
Per the WSL’s Senior Vice-President Jessi Miley-Dyer, “I met @billiejeanking last night and it genuinely made me realize the impact of all of our hard work because SHE KNEW about surfing, and what we have done for women in the sport. She even knew details! People who say ‘you shouldn’t meet your heroes’ are just picking the wrong people to look up to.
Plus, she has three names too which we also talked about.”
King, who very famously beat Bobby Riggs in 1973’s Battle of the Sexes, must have been quite amazed to see men and women sliding on ocean water, sometimes even inside that ocean water, for the first time. Wearing colorful singlets, often sitting there, straddling what must have appeared to be little miniature boats. Magical words like “hand jam” and “priority interference” would have surely delighted.
And all thanks to the World Surf League.
What a time to be alive.
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The kid is not my son…
Either you do not know your left from your right, what BJK looks like – or both.
quiver…
https://eos.surf/roar/wp-co…
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
amazing
Such integrity to be talking about 3 people yet not telling the fans who.
What percentage of tennis players are female?
Tennis Player Statistics By Gender
46.2% of tennis players are women and 53.8% of tennis players are men
Wow Looks good
omg
Long ways to go if this patronising nonsense by the old queen of tennis is to be believed. BJK may be persuaded to show us what she’s got as she glides her new balls across the next big swell.
WSL issues apologies on behalf of MSNBC, CNN and itself with this quote from Professor Jonathan Turley regarding a certain President’s son who is housed near Jonah Hill and who may or may not have ever surfed the ‘bu…allegedly while high on blow…
With that in mind, will BG commenters issue apologies to OTTO NOW?
From Turley: “Denial is not just a river in Africa.”
Those sage words from SNL character Stuart Smalley seemed prophetic this
week as ex-MSNBC boss Phil Griffin and ex-CNN boss Jeff Zucker were
confronted about their burying of the Hunter Biden story. Their tortured
and transparent rationalizations caused an immediate response from some
of us who have written about the scandal since its inception. That
included Griffin’s almost laughable claim that their approach before the
election was justified because “he was never arrested.”
Zucker and Griffin were in full spin mode in explaining why they did
not believe that it was simply not worthy pursuing an alleged
multimillion dollar influence peddling scheme with foreign interests by
the Biden family. …
So the millions in influence peddling or criminal acts featured on
the laptop was not particularly newsworthy. It was the absence of a perp
walk?
That may come as a bit surprise to Donald Trump Jr. who was the
subject of 24/7 coverage on the Trump Tower meeting, including
unsupported claims from CNN and MSNBC legal experts that there was
strong evidence of criminal conduct. Some of us pushed back on these
claims but CNN and MSNBC did wall-to-wall coverage with the same legal
experts for weeks on the criminal enterprise revealed at Trump Tower.
??????????
And Fox does not bury stories? Both sides are worthless. Like Bill Burr says, CNN and Fox execs should be charged with treason.
Considering that BJK was born in Long Beach, and lived on the Malibu beachfront (with both her husband and girlfriend at the same time) from the late 1960’s till the early 1980’s, when her home was washed away in the massive storm of 1983, it’d be pretty hard for her NOT to ‘know about’ surfing…
In a (not really) interesting aside, the recent Bill ‘The Murricane’ Murray story attracted a number of commentators who obviously don’t ordinarily spend time on BG, and didn’t realise that him being G-Land ‘mushroom mates’ with Da Dawg allows him to dunk TV brats in trashcans with impunity, and also that BG ain’t ya common garden variety of surf ‘discussion’ place anyway.
Will they also be here to see JMD gushing over BJK ?
yeah, we live in beach front homes…
with a happy hour of precisely 6’00…O’Reilly Time
Irish, Danish, viking…
funeral at 10…
contest heat at 6…(how was the pre-surf>)
don’t be late.
Don’t let the facts get in the way of JMD & the wall of positive noise.
How quaint, a couple of carpet-munchers gettin skeevy.
Anyone on Oahu know what’s going on with Eli Olsen? His vlog has been silent for months and he mentioned he was training for his first MMA fight.
???????