After Lebron James had won his Gold medal in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, he held an online contest called “LeBron’s Trick Shot Challenge sponsored by Cub Cadet.” A guy named David Kalb of La Habra, California, won it by throwing a ball against a wall and have it bounce back and through a hoop on a forklift that is spinning in a circle (see link below). And by winning that contest, he had the chance to play against Lebron James for a game of H-O-R-S-E.
The judges of the contest picked nine of the best entries while fans narrowed the field to just three. James then picked the winner and faced David Kalb for a game of H-O-R-S-E in Venice Beach, California, on a Wednesday evening. Kalb eventually beat Lebron with a bunch of different trick shots that included bouncing the ball high in the lane, and then racing around the goal post, catching the ball as it came down and alley-ooping it into the basket (again, see the link below). James missed his try, and after losing the first game, declared best two-of-three. Each made quite a few trick shots, but Kalb still went on to win the second game. After Lebron missed his final shot, he tossed the ball away in humorous anger, and then congratulated Kalb. Nice gimmick by Lebron, it would have been nice if he had won though 
Kalb beats Lebron James in H-O-R-S-E: Los Angeles Times Video
In its most aggressive attack on Microsoft to date, inside sources with knowledge of the Chrome project said that Google is preparing to unveil its brand new browser for download as early as TODAY to try and loosen Microsoft’s stranglehold on the most vital piece of navigating software for the internet.
grew out of the ashes of the once-powerful, now-irrelevant Netscape browser. It has now grown to an astonishing 18% of the market! Google pays Mozilla royalties for Google ad clicks that come from Firefox searches. But clearly, Mozilla’s efforts were not enough for Google, and seemed like a “delaying” tactic they had to employ to bide time for the release of its own browser. This is very significant as their core business is internet-based and what it lies on is not its own browser! Thus with the current beta release of Chrome, Google is declaring the browser critical and vital to its future, and in that regard, it is entirely right.
I would expect it to be somewhat similar to what Mozilla Firefox did for version 3.0 when they launched Mid-June with a record-setting 8.3 million downloads in 24 hours, but it was pretty quiet and certainly not to the extent of that Firefox launch. But I was hoping it would be something less mediocre than blog announcements and hush hush word of mouth rumors. One thing is for sure though, Chrome has been unleashed!
