If you check my blog regularly, you may have noticed that those SportsCenter commercials have nothing on what really goes on in our mag offices during a given week. (Sorry, Wieden+Kennedy. It's true.)

On Wednesday, surf god Laird Hamilton dropped by the office to pimp his new clothing line for Steve & Barry's (Hawaiian shirts for under $10!) and spent some time with espnthemag.com editor Max Klinger. For those of you who don't know who Laird is, he's something of a cross between Paul Bunyon, Fabio, James Bond and Eddie Aikau. Never one to let a body of water go to waste, the next day, he took a boat out to Ellis Island and paddle surfed around the Statue of Liberty. Like I said: James Bond.

In even buzzier news around the office: This morning, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) overturned a ban on double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius of South Africa, allowing him to compete against able-bodied athletes at all International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) sanctioned events. In plain terms, that means if he runs a qualifying time (he hasn't yet), then he can compete at the Olympics this August. This is groundbreaking. This is a moment. And it comes on the heels of our cover story on bionic athletes, written by my friend Eric Adelson. As Eric said in the piece ... "Let them play."

Well, now they can.