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Six Minnesotans Honored...
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Thursday, 01 March 2012 02:00
(Photos L - R - Ben, Brian & Kevin.)
ED. MTN congratulates Minnesotans Dan Hedgecock, Matthew Payne, Brian Bich, Kevin O'Connor, Ben Ewers and Greg Taylor (honorary Minnesotan), who garnered USA Triathlon Honorable Mentions. Only Colorado--10 athletes--had more honorees. The official announcement appeared on usatriathlon.org yesterday.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.
Sara Sampsell-Jones is Pretty Darn Cool...
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Wednesday, 29 February 2012 02:00
Sara Sampsell-Jones is a lawyer and a former scrappy little point guard at Edina HS and later, albeit briefly, at Dartmouth. She still has several college sweatshirts and she wears them often, albeit one at a time. Her husband Ted, who went to Yale and thus refuses to wear his wife's sweatshirts, is really, really fixated, albeit not in a sick way, on women's basketball, especially on the collegiate level, though he's really into the WNBA, too, and was totally stoked when Maya Moore signed with the Lynx. Since 2002, Ted and Sara have co-authored "Women's Hoops Blog" (LINK) which features a totally cool cutline: "Inane commentary on a game that deserves far better." It is arguably the most read women's basketball blog in the U.S. (Ted and Sara have since turned over the Blog's editorial reins to people who have more time to devote to the site.)
How cool is all that!
Because she's not real tall, Sara can't dunk. But don't underestimate her. She's quick and her crossover dribble is deft and blurry-fast. She can take you to the hole in a blink. She prefers Caribou (Breakfast Blend) to Dunn Bros., pancakes over French toast and Ricky Rubio over Steve Nash. She doesn't play hoops as much as she used to. That lawyering thing gets in the way, as does the fact that she is raising one or two excrutiatingly cute children....
London or Kona?
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Tuesday, 28 February 2012 02:50
Which is the BIGGER triathlon event in 2012: Kona or Olympics?
By Darin Wieneke
The triathlon headlines in early 2012 have featured lots of exciting news about both the 2012 Olympics and Ironman World Championships (Kona). Examples include Olympic favorite Alistair Brownlee suffering an Achilles tear, Lance Armstrong's plan to qualify for Kona and Chrissie Wellington
Weekend Event Coverage...& Stuff...
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Tuesday, 28 February 2012 02:00
* THE ICEMAN COMETH - The 2012 Iceman Triathlon, which is really a quadrathlon--xc skiing, mountain biking, running and sledding--was staged at Lincoln Park in Grand Forks last weekend. Nearly 90 athletes participated. Unsurprisingly, ND's numero uno multisportsman and total horndog, Sean Cooley, cameth across the finish line firsteth for the dudes. Comething in firsteth for the girls was Alison Kelly who has blond hair, lives in Bismarck but grew up in West Fargo and has 366 Facebook friends. RESULTS
* Life Time - Maple Grove - The best-attended of the first three 2012 Life Time Indoor Tris was held last Sunday at LTF's Maple Grove club. Eighty one swim-bike-runners participated. Leading the way was Nick Shultz, who grew up in Cokato and likes "30 Rock" and "Bananagrams."...
Pencil Tappers & Mice in the Silverware Drawer...
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Monday, 27 February 2012 02:00
Going Off Course - Northfield swim coach / triathlete, Brooke Larsen, is a really, really nice person. She is also very smart and pretty and speaks pretty good Spanish, which serves her well at Mexican restaurants like Taco Bell and El Tequila. Most of the time she appears calm and unflappable, but there are a few things that really make her crazy.
Like what?
Pencil tappers, that's what! Don't even think about tapping your pencil if Brooke is within earshot. It sends her into a tizzy!
Another thing that drives Ms. Larsen nuts is mice in the house. We're totally with her on this one. Few things are more enervating than finding mouse turds in your silverware drawer, right?
Brooke is still kinda bummed about "24" being cancelled but she's hanging in there. A typical evening at her house these days consists of reading the...
