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Philantrophy, Ketchup & Dancing Children...
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Monday, 05 March 2012 02:00
(Photo - L - R - The Penticoffs - Olivia, Renee, Scotty and Jenna.)
Interview - Scott Penticoff is not just a great athlete, he's one of the coolest and most honorable guys we know. He also owns a lot of great shirts. He's returning to the multi scene after taking 2011 off to concentrate on other things. Recently we had the chance to discuss important stuff with him, like philanthropy and ketchup and parenthood.
MTN - You concentrated on ultra-running and philanthropy in 2011. What did you set out to accomplish in those areas? And did you satisfy your goals?
SP - MTN Guys,
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....
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...
Pool Jams....
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Thursday, 23 February 2012 02:00
By Erika Sperl-Imhoff (from http://www.thetriathlonrx.com)
For Christmas in 2009 I was given the NuDolphin mp3 player to help encourage more frequent swimming. Two years later it finally bit the bullet. Now at first thought, two years might not seem like a long time for the life of an mp3 player. But lets face it: electronics + submersion in water = just not meant to be. I was happy with the two years I got out of the NuDolphin. One thing I wasn
