THE LONG GOODBYE: REMEMBERING MIKI DORA

Miki Dora died 12 years ago today, of pancreatic cancer, after spending the last few months of his life at his father's elegant house in Montecito, California. He was 67. Dora rightly goes down in surf history as one of the sport's defining characters, maybe even the defining character, the handsome black-haired rebel whose lifelong devotion to scams and hustles, all sprung from a monomaniacal de...