It’s Quite a Leap for Surfer After 281/2 Years

Dale Webster will go surfing one more time in Bodega Bay in Northern California today. He will not go surfing Monday, ending a 28 1/2-year streak.

Webster, 55, began surfing on Sept. 3, 1975. After surfing every day for a year, he figured he’d see how long he could go. He set a goal of 28 1/2 years -- targeting Feb. 29, 2004 -- because he believed that was a lunar year. He maintained that goal even after learning three years ago that a lunar year is 18 1/2 years.

The surfing documentary “Step Into Liquid,” which came out last year and will be available on DVD in April, features Webster’s incredible feat.

So why did he do it?

“By the time it ends, I hope to find out,” he told The Times’ Bill Plaschke last summer.

Trivia time: Did Henry Armstrong, who was born 12-12-12, fight Sugar Ray Robinson?

Incompatible: An ESPN promo, supposedly showing what life might be like without sports, features a young man wearing an Ohio State sweatshirt kissing a young woman wearing a Michigan sweatshirt.

Says comedian Richard Lewis: “As a proud graduate of Ohio State, just the notion of a Buckeye considering a Wolverine as a significant other, lover, casual acquaintance or, God forbid, a confidant, without some sort of gun to his or her head, not just baffles me, but leaves me with a bottomless pit of despair and a near death wish.”

Counting cavities: “Carmelo Anthony has his own namesake candy bar, and now LeBron [James] has a deal to promote Bubblicious gum,” says Greg Cote of the Miami Herald, “which makes the Heat’s Dwyane Wade the NBA rookie-of-the-year choice of four out of five dentists.”

Three are too many: Miami Heat President Pat Riley believes Wade is being overshadowed by James and Anthony.

“For some reason, it’s hard for people to get more than two names of phenoms out of their mouth,” Riley said on TNT. “It was Robertson and West, Chamberlain and Russell, Bird and Magic, and now James and Anthony. I think Dwyane belongs in their company.”

Slim chance: So what are the odds the New York Yankees’ Jason Giambi has lost only four pounds, as he claims?

“Four sizes maybe, four 6-year-olds maybe, but not four pounds,” says Jim Armstrong of the Denver Post and aol.com.

But does it pay? Barry LeBrock, on Fox Sports Net’s “Southern California Sports Report,” said: “This endorsement thing is so out of control that, word is, LeBron is currently in negotiations to be the official spokesperson for [teammate] Zydrunas Ilgauskas.”

Trivia answer: Armstrong and Robinson fought Aug. 27, 1943, at Madison Square Garden. Robinson, born May 3, 1921, won a 10-round decision.

And finally: Reader Norman Stevens pointed out that the Brooklyn Dodgers had a double-A farm team in Nashua, N.H., in the mid-1940s that played at Holman Stadium, which since 1953 has been the name of the stadium at Dodgertown.

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Larry Stewart can be reached at larry.stewart@latimes.com.