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Lucky dude. I am unaware of any company that does retiree medical and pension anymore. I used to work for AIG and they did away with that back in 2012 I think.

Nope. Utah Valley

And he’s not entitled to that opinion?

How about we all do What did you do when you and dems ignored, lied and hid 3.5 years of Biden?

This is fair. You and Truzz make a good point that the win over Sujeet should be seen as a legit upset. I went back and looked at his recent results and realized I'd forgotten about a couple of Sujeet's wins. Respect.

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The below-listed actions seem to be the ones that get U.S. wrestlers in trouble with the officials. I also think all of these actions stem from how folk style is officiated, rewarding these types of actions instead of how UWW rules reward control of center and maintaining contact with your opponent: Attacking without any direct contact with the opponent Regaining initial position right after beginning an attack Fake attacks (Simulation)

David Carr, another guy who is new to the Senior team and he only a couple of seconds away from beating our nemesis at 74 kg., in Sidakov. I think he also over performed. Levi Haines, gets in the finals by beating a World Champ, and nearly won the Gold. Again Levi is good but was he a World beater? Especially this early in his Senior level career. I think he also qualifies as an over performer. Trent Hidlay, who picked him to be the World Champ? And although he’s had some good success on the Senior level I didn’t think that he would win the whole thing on his first go round. Pretty amazing if you ask me. Another over performer in my book.

As of now, the RAF 02 card looks like this: Bantamweight (135 lbs) - Nathan Tomasello (champ) vs. Roman Bravo-Young (as mentioned above ) Heavyweight (Unlimited) - Mason Parris vs. Kyle Snyder

Per the United World Wrestling International Wrestling Rules: If after 2:00 minutes into the first period neither wrestler has scored any point (score 0-0), the referees must mandatory designate one of the wrestlers as inactive (the same procedure described above is administered). c. When there is less than 30 seconds remaining in either period, if all three of the refereeing body agree a wrestler is evading and/or blocking his opponent, then his/her opponent is awarded one point and caution (i.e fleeing the hold). This situation can be challenged. d. e. If a wrestler initiates his action some seconds before minute 2:00 with a 0:0 score, the referee will not interrupt the bout and will allow the wrestler to finish the action. If the action ends with points, the bout will continue without any interruption. If the action doesn’t end with points, the referee will stop the bout and will apply the activity time. For U15, U17 and Veterans age categories, no verbal warning will be given. The passivity procedure starts directly with activity time.

Where do you see that. Everything I see is that the investigation is shut down, not completed. If it was completed then the news media is spreading false information. mspart

I was fortunate my company does a match on 401k and I have a pension cause I'm so old. They got rid of the pension for the newer guys but grandfathered us old dudes in so there is a little bit there. I'm not sure on retiree medical benefits but am getting close and will be checking that out for sure. My mom was on some sort of the company medical plan before she passed away, so I know it can be done. I just don't know the particulars. mspart

IF you Break the law do the time the law says you need to. Pretty simple and something you would never say. . This is no different than how slip n tweets @Tripnsweep unlawful family members should be deported.

McCarthy essentially says that Homan will be fine because he did not hold any position in the government. It was a bet that he would, but bets are not always confirmed. Be that as it may, if Homan solicited money on the basis of what he projected his position would be, then that is not right and Homan should be released. Homan is doing an incredible job leading ICE folks in rounding up criminal illegals. So it would be too bad, but you are right, if Trump is serious about rooting out corruption, Homan should go if he did what the allegations say. mspart

Well I think that you could say that we had many people over performed. Let’s start with Jax Forrest, true he beat a lot of great guys to make the team, but that doesn’t always mean anything when you step foot on the mat at the Worlds or Olympics. Jax came within a malfunctioning challenge button from a Bronze. But my point is prior to the Worlds I think his only Senior level international experience was at the Pan Ams. So although we knew Jax was good but did we know that he would be this good? To me he qualifies as an over performer. Real Woods did over perform because of the fact that 65 is one tough weight class and the we the USA hasn’t had the best of luck in this weight class, but the difference between Jax and Real is that Jax is still in High School.

If these threads indicate anything, watching Bassett's first career loss in college will be interesting to see how far some people crucify him.

We also see USAWrestling's refs enforce it quite differently than UWW Refs.

Sujeet pretty much destroyed Johnny D, did he not?

There is. Being down 10-2 then rattling off 11 straight points to finish the match is more impressive than running off 13 of the next 15 points.

McCarthy essentially says that Homan will be fine because he didn't end up having the important cabinet position he claimed he was going to when he was soliciting these bribes. Still, Trump should immediately cut him out and condemn him. That's a pretty big litmus test. If Trump actually cares about rooting out corruption, a guy who was openly attempting to commit corruption should not be tolerated. Very easy opportunity for him to show the liberals he's serious. What will you do if he doesn't address it?

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Roster limits just didn't pop up in the last couple weeks...

I'm not familiar with the practice quote, but I think it's kind of the opposite. Spencer has admitted in interviews that he gets really nervous before every match, whether it's for a gold mdeal or just an exhibition. He's probably wrestled in hundreds of tournaments in his life by now so I don't know if competing more alone will fix his nerves. I feel like a good approach would be to first learn to get a handle on his anxiety, then wrestle more tournaments and use those techniques to develop his confidence. Interestingly, Ramos faced similar demons but worked with a sports psychologist to overcome it. He frequently mentioned incorporating self-talk and visualization into his pre-match routine. I guess the weird center mat staredown stuff that some people used to ridicule was also part of it, and it seemed to work out pretty well for him.

agree on both sentiments, very fortunate draw but going in I probably would have picked Sujeet 10 out of 10 times. Sujeet was coming off of smoking Tevanyan and dudaev at the ranking series. I have been extremely pessimistic about Real since he won the spot, but he proved me wrong big time.

I agree for the most part about his draw except I consider his win over Sujeet a pretty big upset. It all depends how you look at it. Like you said no expected a bronze out of him, so to me, that’s what makes it the most surprising… even if the draw was part of it. Honestly, I wouldn’t have called Real to take bronze even after seeing his draw, so I think he over performed