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Paul Daugherty
Paul Daugherty has been an Enquirer sports columnist since 1994 and has been chronicling Cincinnati sports since 1988. He has covered almost every major sporting event in America, as well as five Summer Olympics. Along the way, he has been named one of the country's top-5 sports columnists four times, and Ohio columnist of the year on seven different occasions. Last year, he was voted 2nd-best sports columnist in the country, by the Associated Press Sports Editors.

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Sunday, February 12, 2006

if you only have a day

Short Attention Span's guide to one day on Oahu... walk waikiki in the morning, before all the tourists from minnesota fill the beach... hike diamond head... drive east 30 minutes, to another world... honolulu is big, loud, crowded, ordinary... Sandy Beach is straight out of South Pacific...perfect hunk of crescent sand, maybe 300 yards across... try to ride 6- 8-foot waves... wipeout... drive to haleiwa, a funky, surfer town on the north shore... buy some leather sandals...drive to Banzai Beach, 10 minutes up route 83... watch surfers do amazing things you've seen only on wide world of sports... 12-foot waves, wetsuited people disappearing under the curl, reappearing unscathed, sliding as if the water is ice, hypnotic, physical poetry like you've never seen... stay for sunset, watch as puffy clouds change colors as the sun slides down the horizon like an over-easy egg from a skillet... take pictures.. impress your friends... be thankful that there are waves and surfers and sunsets (and cameras) in this world, and you are a part of it...aloha


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