Normally the average 18 year old American girl
who is looking to make an impact in life is busy writing somewhere around 7 college admissions essays, not Samantha Larson. Instead of 7 admissions essays, Samantha decided she was going to reach the peak of 7 different mountain tops by her young age of 18. Her amazing journey reached its "peak" when she recently became the youngest person ever to reach the top of Mount Everest. She was accompanied by her dad for this trip, and immediately phoned home once the two reached this amazing accomplishment. At 29,000 feet in the air the first thing Samantha told her Mom was, "I'm tired."
Samantha has now climbed all of the elusive 'Seven Summits,' the highest mountains on each continent, including Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and Mount Elbrus in Russia.
"It's amazing at any age," says Phil Ershler, and he should know. Ershler was the first American to scale the North face of Everest in 1984, and he's written several books – the latest with his wife Susan, his climbing partner.
Samantha's next feat is making it back to the East coast in time for her brother's college graduation.
Softass of the Week: Mark Cuban (Dallas Mavericks owner)
I absolutely love Mark Cuban, this is why it pains me to put him on my softass of the week board. Cuban has left me no choice after pulling his soft antics during the MVP press conference of Cuban's best player, Dirk Nowitski. Cuban was introducing Dirk to accept his MVP award for the 2006-07 NBA season. As many of the media reported, Dirk did not deserve the MVP this year and only won it based upon the letter of the law stating it is a regular season award. Wow, where have I heard the term "letter of the law before?" Anyway, while doing his introduction Cuban broke down into tears and had to stop several times. I wasnt sure whether Cuban was crying out of joy that one of his players won the MVP, or out of sadness that his 67-win team got bounced in the 1st round by the Cinderella Warriors. Either way, putting on a gay little show and crying when you are the owner of a team is one of the softest things anyone can do. I still love ya Mark, but you need some psychological help, not too mention a superstar who doesnt disappear during the clutch moments.NBA Playoffs:
The year 1992.
The year Mike Tyson was given a 6 year jail sentence for rape.
The year Robert Schumann, 10, became the youngest person to visit the North Pole.
The year Jay Leno took over for Johnny Carson.
The year Bill Clinton became President.
The year Bill Clinton became President.
The year Mike Hallock officially came out of the closet.
And yes, the year the Cleveland Cavaliers last made the Eastern Conference Finals.
The year 2007. The Cavs have returned to the East Finals.
Cavs vs Pistons begins on Monday May 21st with Game 1 8:00 TNT
Promo- LOST Season 3 Finale:
Normally i dont do any promos for TV shows on this blog, but this week I can make an exception. The season finale of LOST happens this Wednesday night from 9-11. The 2 hour finale is going to be centered around the "others" attacking the camp of flight 815 which will be the first time many of the others have ever been on that side of the island. Hopefully it will also tell us what the hell is going on with Charlie in his little underwater hatch station, but i doubt it. Finally we better find out whether Mr. Locke is alive or not, i personally dont think he is dead and plan on him making a massive killing of someone at the end of the finale to save the day. No matter what happens this will easily be the best episode out of any of the first 3 seasons.Time to hit fun fact city:
1. Time to give this years NHL playoffs a little love. 63% of the games this year have ended with
one goal differences. 17 games total went to overtime with 8 of them being multi-overtime games. No matter how long or boring people may say the NHL season is, the NHL playoffs still remain very high on the list of most exciting sports games.
2. On Sunday, Andruw Jones became the first Atlanta Brave since David Justice in 1993 to strikeout 5 times in one game. Considering Jones is on my fantasy team, and considering I lost this week by HALF a point, I was not happy to see this fun fact.
3. Rafael Nadal's 81 match win streak on clay came to an end on Saturday when he was defeated by world no. 1, Roger Federer. This streak was the longest by anyone on any surface, lasted 769 straight days, and 52 different men fell to just another notch on the belt of the streak.
4. We all know about Joe Dimaggio's unbreakable record of hitting in 56 straight games. Well it turns out that Joe hit in 76 of 79 games during that same season. I was stunned to hear from Peter Gammons that heading into this week, Derek Jeter had hit in 71 of his last 74 games. This proves my theory that the media pressure is the number one thing that destroys most athletes who are going for greatness. However, it is the truly dominant athletes that ignore this pressure and can still rise to the top. Something Lebron James may be on the verge of accomplishing this season.
5. Two different amazing feats were accomplished this weekend. Randy Johnson got a Win in his 41st different ballpark, and Sammy Sosa hit a HR in his 45th different ballpark. Not only are these stats impressive, but it also validates the old age of both of these men.
6. If I hear the phrase basic knowledge used one more time on Around the Horn, I am suing for copyright infringement.
BASIC KNOWLEDGE..........
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