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I think the problem was that he overly relied on one thing, and probably not the best thing.

Also didn't mention fantasy match records.

It is interesting to hear Tom Ryan say (for the millionth time) that Gable had no clue who he was when he went from Syracuse to Iowa. That was not my understanding. My high school teammate wrestled at Syracuse with Ryan and he called the transfer probably two years before it happened. At the time, I did not believe him... but it ended up being true.

I enjoy Askren's impression, too. We were about to lose that when Ben leaves FRL in a week or two, but the announcement gives him an opportunity to do it. Otherwise, we may have never heard it again.

Last Worlds, it looked like he thought the name of the sport was "chest-wrapping" and forgot about the whole "wrestling" thing.

I, for one, will miss Coach Smith's interactions with the media. He wasn't one to pull punches!

Great tactic!

They must have thought he still represented Cuba.

You know Palacio's whole thing with challenging people to wrestle? Pretending he's homeless etc., and then clowning them? I believe it was at a BTC conference, Askren challenged him to a match and Palacio refused. There may have been BTC on the line.

Say what you want about Askren, but he made Palacio and his act look pretty bad recently.

But, I will give him credit... it is interesting!

What a weird, pretty unlikable persona he has created.

Unfortunately, they are few and far between. Less even than usual in recent years.

It is almost like if they (Hamas) agreed to peace, their funding might dry up... Can't have that happening! Too many huge bank accounts for their leaders living in places such as Qatar.

Walked out of a athletes weight cutting session a day or two before Big 10 and did not return. Seems like it could have really let the team down, but they reacted by scoring a ton of points and they all seem to still have a pretty high opinion of Egeland. After "The Dual" was released this year, a lot of people started attacking Egeland online and Royce Alger really came to his defense.

No fun

Not exactly the same, but Dave Hirsch (Cornell national champ) went from a Cornell undergrad (Econ?) to dental school, and then medical school!

And the national finalist 118 quit the day before Big 10!

Any relation to Salma?

He's pretty good, but the age cheating drove/drives me crazy. Saduleev is quite a bit older than we thought, but obviously still great. The age seemed to hit him hard this year. We will see if he recovers. Yianni tells a story about how he was in cadet world finals and talked to vito after the semi. Vito was training with the club that Yianni's final opponent was from (Russia/Belarus/whomever). Vito told Yianni that the club guys had been laughing all week bc Yianni's finals opponent was from their club and was like 20 and there was no way he would lose. Yianni won, but that is an example of how things work. (the details are close if not 100% accurate) Frank Popolizio said that one year at his Journeyman International tournament that every Russian "kid" had the exact same birthday on their papers! Day and year!

Maybe shut it down?

Says who?

Harvard started as a school of theology.