Evan Quarnstrom

Freelance writer specializing in surf, travel, the outdoors, and NBA. Writer for @the_inertia. #DubNation.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

[🇿🇦Denver🇵🇸 @doubledworth]

Wemby when defended by Draymond Green, last 2 games:

14:21 mins
8/21 FG (38.1%)
2/5 3PT (40%)
6 Turnovers

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Against the odds, he made it.

Read my story here: https://t.co/jswpUZMNCw

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Kids in Mazatlán, Mexico don’t grow up dreaming of calling the world’s biggest surf contests. The idea is almost unthinkable. Yet Mitchell Salazar has become one of the voices of the World Surf League (WSL), giving children across Latin America an example to follow.

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competing on the WSL Qualifying Series, picking up small (and sometimes unpaid) broadcast gigs, and building a résumé that eventually earned him one of the few coveted seats in the Championship Tour booth alongside Joe Turpel, Kaipo Guerrero, and Strider Wasilewski.

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My thoughts on New York City after a 2-week visit.https://t.co/D47T4vJXBY

[Marreese Speights @Mospeights16]

It’s wild that a lot of these bigs can’t shoot a 15 footer this is 2025.

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I was thinking this when I noticed I oddly felt bad for the Rockets when the game ended 😆

[Andrew Pasquini @pasquiniandrew]

Imagine the Warriors beating you so bad 10 years ago, it forces a rebuild. You build and build and build to get back to where you were just to have Buddy Hield beat you in a Game 7.

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@gswhoops Good job by looney to keep Adams occupied enough

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Looking back on my time in #Senegal. https://t.co/rG9XypCDx1

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https://t.co/UuWtkJHzZa

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I spent the whole month of Ramadan in Morocco and Senegal. My thoughts:

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https://t.co/tiMdreI3Ir

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I've been in #Senegal for 10 days now. Here are my first impressions:

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This is actually insane.

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https://t.co/2kOGEjfBBY

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As the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) opens an application process to select the organization to govern surfing in the country, a winter sports federation – U.S. Ski and Snowboard (USSS) – has entered the fray to vie for control of the sport.

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https://t.co/sXSW8bu44f

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The non-profit organization Save the Waves Coalition has selected Puerto Escondido as the latest surf zone to gain “world surfing reserve” status. The proposed reserve would cover 10 kilometers of coast and eight surf breaks.