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Bad break for Team USA. That would suck so bad to spend your life building to this moment only to have it snatched away by a virus or bacteria. https://swimswam.com/acute-gastroenteritis-cited-as-illness-impacting-team-usa-at-2025-world-championships/

The lack of backlash to this thread is a testament to our collective appreciation for the dear chap WKN

Au contraire, my friend. https://www.worldaquatics.com/competitions/4795/world-aquatics-open-water-swimming-world-cup-2025 Thank you for pointing out that we now control 71.0001% of the earth

I had never watched AGON and am not familiar with the pro international leagues. I will have to check them out. Maybe some old matches on YouTube

Something something DS

I saw clips of Summer McIntosh on social media. Man, she's got a motor.

I thought AGON was a pretty good hybridized style at the time. It's too bad it never took off. Are the international pro wrestling leagues still around? I assume they are, but am not familiar. I just remember JB, Helen, and others getting recruited to compete overseas some time ago.

Good point about withholding federal money, though I don't think there are many programs that directly support college sports or the NCAA itself, and the big athletic departments are supposed to be self-sufficient. Maybe they'd withhold scholarships and grants, but that would be pointless while minimally affecting revenue sport athletes. The NLRB portion might be a big deal, as it could open the doors for athlete unionization and collective bargaining, minimum wage or possibly OT pay, benefits, and (at public schools) transparency laws regarding their compensation. Some other stuff like taxes, job security, roster caps would probably be affected as well. Historically, the NLRB has leaned towards the idea that college athletes should be employees. I can't remember the name of the case but a group of athletes sued the NCAA not long ago, citing the NLRB's actions around player unionization and non-amateur classification. This all directly contradicts one of the biggest components of the SCORE Act (the other being the antitrust waiver for the NCAA and conferences), so it's a little weird to see its sponsors applaud the EO and say it's complementary to their bill.

Speaking of the ones which are not scripted of course. Right now, it seems like we have three primary ones which are: Real American Freestyle: Modified version of freestyle, broadcast on Fox Nation CLAW: rules are hybrid of freestyle and folkstyle with a few other tweaks like the pilons; broadcast on YouTube and FloWrestling Championship Wrestling Association: 9 minute matches of folks style - three minute periods. Broadcast on Rokfin I'm happy the those that are taking these business risks on behalf of wrestling are adhering to game theory and attempting different approaches. Maybe we can learn something about how to grow wrestling into a professional sport by watching the evolution of these leagues as well as remembering those that came before them. I have a personal bias toward folkstyle, but I'm not too insistent that the product be one style vs another. I think production value and quality of wrestlers will make the biggest different to me personally. I'm looking forward to following all three

But the swimmers only swim in man-made pools which only constitutes .0001 of 1 percent of the earth's surface.

I think this story made a some waves on socials last week because a lot of ppl misinterpreted the headline. The $147M budget gap is what Iowa State is projecting in additional costs through 2031 with the $20.5M NIL/revenue sharing cap increasing by 4% each year (and because its own conference revenues have been diluted due to the Big 12's expansion to 16 teams), assuming they max out their cap sheet. I mean, ISU is 100% right to raise red flags about its financial horizon, given that the department has historically been self-funding up until last year, Covid season excepted, but that's pretty much the case for for most of the opt-in schools outside the P2. By comparison, Iowa was $235M in the red at the start of FY24. Most of that remaining debt is from revenue bonds issued for capital projects (CHA, Kinnick, etc.). The athletic department also took out a $50M loan from the university during the Covid season to keep things running and has pretty much only been able to repay the interest so far. They've only knocked about $2M off the principal so far, and have 15 years to pay back the University, who like most public schools is also not in fantastic financial shape these days and wants the money ASAP. The Hawkeyes' revenue should increase by around 10% this year from the B1G's tv deal, but will level off over the next 5 years (I think) as Oregon and Washington are phased into revenue sharing. The other big question is whether WBB and Wrestling can sustain their sport's revenues, which got a pretty nice bump during the Caitlin & Spencer years. Anyway, the big takeaway from that news for us I guess is that the construction of ISU's new wrestling facility and the (Hilton Coliseum renovation) has been put on hold indefinitely. Kind of a bummer for Dresser's guys.

... well, that went swimmingly. D3

Oh man, WKN.....if anybody else posted this on here instead of FloSwimming, they would be put in forum prison....only you could get away with this I guess......lol Fadz

Being lazy. Problem is news peeps like to cut it up and add their opinions

Good job. I have full confidence you can find the full clip. It's one for the ages.

Ha ha, you green eyed monsters. Your jealousy is understandable. Swimming is the greatest sport known to man...or beast, for that matter. Making swimmers, by extension, the greast athletes in the known world. 71% of the earth is covered by water where we reign supreme. Leaving a measly 29% for wrestlers. Swimmers clearly deserve more medals. And more medals we shall have. We shall stroke our breasts and backs, and butter our flies with a total freedom of style. I educate you on this from a position of complete objectivity.

There is a full clip on YouTube somewhere. Maybe I’ll find it …. the bidens are totally not bitter about the coup the Ds played on them

Dake/Taylor?

Maybe Hunter should team up with Mamdani for his Vp pick. The democrats are loaded for bear for 2028. Can they be stopped?

Meanwhile in Iran

It's also the sport that, for whatever reason, gets their athletes turned into national heroes. Even if swimming is almost as niche as wrestling. The French went gaga over that swimmer at the last Olympics. Phelps became a household name. Maybe it is because they offer 500 potential medals for every swimmer to win at the games. 50 meter fly, 100 fly, 120 fly, backstroke, front stroke, relay, team, individual, mixed.

They are selling 1g carts for $30 in PA. I've actually seen .5 gram at $12. lol

Here kitty kitty. See ya soon.

Says the guy continuously replying to my posts. It’s so easy. I’m not surprised that you don’t get it. And showing up from a third world nowhere place is your gig.