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...SPORT FORMULA ONE: Michael Schumacher can't stop winning...
...SPORT...
...reef, south of San Francisco. But not everyone escapes the dragon: three big-wave surfers have lost their lives in the past decade. Nevertheless, chasing the big wave has been embraced by the $4.5 billion surfing industry, which uses dramatic photographs to promote the extreme image of the sport to younger consumers...
...competitions is pushing some big-wave surfers dangerously beyond their abilities. Hamilton, who surfed Jaws reef the same day Cabrinha set the record, thinks he might have ridden some even higher waves. But he declines to enter the big-wave competitions because he thinks they are bad for the sport. "I resent the whole concept of a bounty to try to ride an 80-ft. or a 100-ft. wave. You are provoking people that maybe shouldn't be out there...
Safe from what? From whatever-happened-to-itis, a danger personified by his half brother Drama, once a rising star, now a washed-up actor chafing in Vince's shadow. (He's played by Kevin Dillon, the brother of Matt Dillon and evidently the best sport in Hollywood.) Dillon gives depth and poignancy to a one-joke character. Admittedly, it's often a great joke, as when Drama brags about having been on "Blue"--it turns out he means not NYPD but Pacific Blue, the mid-'90s show about buff bicycle cops. Grenier, likewise, gives Vince a sweet, dim Vinnie...