LOPEZ IN SPORTS ILLUSTRATED: "THE FASTER I GO, THE SLOWER THINGS SEEM TO HAPPEN" (1982)
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"Thunder from the Sea," by longtime motorsports writer Sam Moses, was Sports Illustrated's cover story for the week of March 8, 1982. It's a long article, probably close to 7,000 words, on the history and mythos of what SI editors anachronistically call The Banzai Pipeline. Moses gives us the full dose of hyperbole. A surfer wiping out at Pipeline will be "churned and whipped, like a rag doll with...
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