With $150,000 on the line, organizers of the Mavericks Surf Contest extended the waiting period by a week, then promptly called it of all together. The reason for the sudden flip?

A huge photo gallery featuring Jordy Smith, the Gudauskas bros, Dusty Payne, Josh Mulcoy, Johnny Craft, Matt Rockhold, Homer Henard, Nic Lamb, and amazingly enough; chicks on the beach taking in all the action! It doesn't get any better than this...

Apparently that big old purple blob on the swell charts doesn't cut the Mavericks mustard...

Maverick's Surf Contest organizers announced Tuesday that the payout for the big-wave surf contest has been doubled from $75,000 to $150,000, making it the largest known prize purse in big-wave surfing history.

The Maverick's surfing contest has been revived by Jim Beam Bourbon...

Check out some goodies from Baja to San Francisco during the month of October. "This year Halloween fell on the weekend, so me and Geto Boys went trick or treatin'."