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Listen here @Ban Basketball aka NJDan. I don’t need or want you throwing me likes. You’re only here because you make me the second dumbest member of this forum. While I appreciate that you are the Boone’s Farm to my Franzia for self-preservation purposes, that doesn’t mean we are going to do business together.

Byers is a home-town announcer on radio. He's not a neutral television broadcaster. Penn State puts his feed into their video and that's the easiest thing for them to do. Trying to classify him as something he's not isn't a fair view of what he is. He calls a good event and if you're listening, you know everything that's going on. If you're listening as a Penn State fan, you're really going to know what's going on. Don't go into a match he's calling expecting him to do anything other than what he's paid to do. "That guy sucks at the guitar" "Well, that's because he's playing the cello"

Friday, December 2nd 12:00 PM: R1 - Pig Tail Championship R2 - Championship Round of 32 R3 - Consolation Round of 32 R4 - Championship Round of 16, Consolation 1st Round of 16 R5 - Consolation 2nd Round of 16 9:00 PM: R6 - Championship Quarter-Finals, Consolation 1st Round of 8 Saturday, December 3rd 12:00 PM: R7 - Consolation 2nd Round of 8 1:00 pm: R8 - Championship Semi-Finals R9 - Consolation Semi-Finals, Finals 5th/6th, 7th/8th Placement Matches 6:00 PM: R10 - Finals, 1st/2nd, 3rd/4th Placement Matches All times in US-Eastern

Yeah. They have the rest of the weekend to mess that up too

I’ll take the free Lock Haven stream with the funny announcers over the continual horse manure from Flo. This is unwatchable.

Hopefully his own.

ftfy.

Laird is better. No surprise. At NCAAs last year, Dean lost to both Aiello and DePrez before winning the title.

Agree. Concerned for when he eventually meets up with Elam. I'd have Dean as a solid underdog

Yeah but we will now never know if Rider pulled the upset.

I say this with all due respect, but at least this was the event they screwed up tonight instead of CKLV *knocking frantically on wood*

One hour later…

Is it time to organize and put these #*#*!@s out of business?

Can’t stream from a college campus. Pure amateurishness. My wife’s comments, not mine: How much do we pay for this? What do they spend their money on? I think they get it wrong more than they get it right.

Looking forward to the Ungar Figueroa rematch

I am upset he lost. Injuries suck.

Minor change: The Bloodround (Consolation 2nd Round of Eight) is actually being wrestled Friday night, and wrestling is starting at 1 PM Eastern on Saturday.

Ladies, Ladies. There's a great tournament going on. Let's focus on that. Let's put the cat claws away

Heinselman with the 2nd period ride out, no score after 2. Ungar with the 4pt near fall and a ride out for 4-0 victory.

i'm not gonna argue with you if you want to keep your head in the sand. it's widely known and accepted. do a simple google search ffs. look up a list of the ridiculous grad course offerings and course descriptions. and there are a gazillion videos / news stories about bonkers professors spouting and assigning nonsense. and ultimately - i lived it. in multiple programs at multiple universities with multiple professors, grad school roommates, cohorts and friends.

You absolutely should state your opinion as you are never a tool about it.

There's only one Willy but which JB are we talking about?

It looks like Antman is making his MMA debut tonight at Ikon 6: The fight is at 265lbs. He is facing a guy who last weighed in at 214.5lbs, but has fought at 205 as recently ad May and holds a record of 3W-19L. https://www.tapology.com/fightcenter/events/95595-ikon-fc-6

Its a puff piece, but its one with a lot of candid photage of the athletes, so at least we get a little insight into how they act off the mat. Better than long build ups till the moment we finally get to find out when Pyles decided Bo Nickal was special or something....

Thus conceding.

He's a Texas guy. They hate Cali, hence the Boone's Farm reference. You shouldn't need Vegas to be explained to you. It's a rather popular destination choice for many obvious reasons.

From the looks of Feldman's, Bouzakis and Mendez's houses they aren't getting any financial aid, probably don't need any NIL money either.

None that I've found. Sites like these are promising, and then you look; the most unbiased news is still biased when you read it. https://www.allsides.com/media-bias Just the facts are unprofitable. One must read the shit on both sides and form their own opinion.

Greetings All, With the release of the brackets today, revised thoughts for the semi-finals, finals, and 3rd place winners, as well as thoughts for the Michigan gents in this bracket... Also... no Bullock at 197 for Michigan? Yatooma? Are you kidding me? - 125 - Semi-Finals: Figueroa over DeAugustino, Ramos over Kaylor Finals: Ramos over Figueroa via Decision 3rd place: Heinselman Thoughts: I think Figs shows everyone here that he does contend, just as much as Courtney would/will. McHenry loses to him, then the grind of the backside will get to him that will show that he is just meant to be a 118lber. I think 1-2 wins is peak for him here. - 133 - Semi-Finals: Arujau over Latona, Ragusin over McGee Finals: Arujau over Ragusin via Decision 3rd place: McGee Thoughts: I think Ragusin is going to show here that he belongs in the conversation with Arujau for #3 in what will be a much closer bout than folks thought before this weekend. - 141 - Semi-Finals: Mattin over Jack, Cornella over D'Emilio Finals: Mattin over via Cornella via Decision 3rd place: Carlson Thoughts: Mattin is a grinder and I think where he is most in danger is going to be Vasquez - if Vasquez gets past Hardy. It is someone who will be able to out-quick and out-athlete him enough to where he can't get his grind on. He is set up beautifully to miss those highly athletic 141lbers all the way through the finals. - 149 - Semi-Finals: Sasso over Thomas, Lamer over Millner Finals: Sasso over Lamer via Decision 3rd place: Parco Thoughts: I really think this is going to be Lamer's coming out party and he will beat two gents folks consider high contenders en route to getting controlled in the finals. - 157 - Semi-Finals: Lewan over Coleman, Robb over Scott Finals: Lwan over Robb via Decision 3rd place: Coleman Thoughts: I think Lewan could win 3-2/3-1 in every match through the finals. I am more worried about a Coleman match than a Robb, tbh. I think a healthy Coleman is as much of a contender for a NC as any 157lber in the Top 10. - 165 - Semi-Finals: Kharchla over Yant, Olguin over Formato Finals: Kharchla over Olguin via Major 3rd place: Cook Thoughts: Mattin has Ramirez in the first round and I think he is going to try to throw the sink at him... and fail - unfortunately. I do think that the bottom half of this bracket is very likely to ge tblown up. Olguin and Formato are real threats to knock Ramirez off, and I think they will. - 174 - Semi-Finals: Smith over Lewis, Labriola over Walker Finals: Smith over Labriola via Decision 3rd place: Lewis Thoughts: A lot of very physical, very tough gents here. I think Walker shows he belongs right up there, though, in beating Conigliaro and Romero before dropping in the semi-finals and beating Foca in the consi-semis. I think Smith balls out here. He is hungry for that Lewis win and he got Labs last time out too. - 184 - Semi-Finals: Keckeisen over Munoz, Hidlay over Bolen Finals: Hidlay over Keckeisen via Decision 3rd place: Romero Thoughts: I think Bolen gets Romero this time, but Finesilver beats him on the backside - then proceeds to lose to Romero for 3rd. - 197 - Semi-Finals: Sloan over Harvey, Trumble over Allred Finals: Sloan over Trumble via Major 3rd place: Harvey Thoughts: I think this is the year we start seeing the Sloan we thought we would have a couple years ago and I think he wins this weight class convincingly. Also... Yatooma? Are you serious? There is no way this guy is the best guy they have for 197 to put out there... when Bullock is still on the roster... what the actual deuce? - 285 - Semi-Finals: Davison over Schultz, Parris over Hendrickson Finals: Parris over Davison via Pin 3rd place: Hendrickson Thoughts: I think Davison pulls off the dub against Schultz. Just got me a feeling. Of all the weights, this is the one where the 1-2 seems to be the most likely weight to happen... so it won't. I don't see anyone on the bottom side capable of beating Parris. We have seen Davison beat the elite of 285 before, albeit in freestyle (Cassioppi). I think Schultz then forfeits out.

Well said....I agree.....but in some of Jordan's interviews he even goes beyond the mat itself, talking about balancing family life with his training and there, he'll get into the training, including wt. management, competitive schedule, wt. training, technical stuff and more, not so much when he has the opportunity to announce but on Flo for example....loved his interview termed "Coffee With Jordan Burrough's", and then to be there the other day on television with his family at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade as proof of what he talks about....great role model.

I was talking Jordan Burroughs also. And he does remind me of Tony Romo. His energy, enthusiasm, positive energy, likeability and they're both great at dissecting their respective sports

If you recall, my argument is that there is not an unbiased source for news. Why on earth would you think I'd have an answer to your question? Shirley you can't be serious.

Getting ready to roll here in a few hours.... Best regular season tournament of the year.... anybody got picks going for a/all weights? Two wrestlers who I think will turn some heads this weekend are two Oregon kids .... Lamer and Harvey.

University towns are democratic hubs, no doubt. But you are implying that the universities and their professors are pushing a liberal agenda through their curriculum. Which is utter nonsense.

The company you keep...

Dang, that's the funniest thing I've seen in a while. And, I don't even know what Franzia is.

Well, who's 'Dickie' then if he isn't a 'Willie' ... it's really all quite confusing.

John Smith originally wanted him at 174, so he must be overcompensating

125 - Terukina over Harris via Major ISU 4-0 133 - Schriever over Attasauov via Decision ISU 4-3 141 - Swiderski over Woods via Decision ISU 7-3 149 - Murin ovee Johnson via Decision ISU 7-6 157 - Kraisser over Siebrecht via Decision ISU 10-6 165 - Carr DEC Kennedy via Decision ISU 13-6 174 - Brands over Broderson via Decision ISU 13-9 184 - Coleman over Assad via Decision ISU 16-9 197 - Bastida over Warner via Decision ISU 19-9 285 - Cassioppi over Schuyler via Pin ISU 19-15 If this match starts at 133... it will be 15-9 heading in to heavy... a Cassioppi Pin will tie it at 15-15. Then the Lee gets freed... and he wins via Tech - giving Iowa the 20-15 dual victory.

You're off. JB is our Tony Romo.

Not sure...JB is more our Jimmy Lennon Jr., IMO.

Yeah, Apple releasing an iPhone update in China limiting Airdrop functions to prevent communication between protesters is absolutely dystopian. Anyone cheering Apple's potential move to limit Twitter's availability in the App Store with the defense "but but but it's a private company" is either too stupid or too tribal to take seriously.

I consider JB our greatest ambassador right now.....articulate, great role model, has his "stuff" together and can express it so well..... Great to listen to!! I don't think I would put him with those two. He's special!!! Another great announcer from past .....Keith Jackson, also I liked Jim McKay.

Every Iranian person I've met has been great. The two best specialist physicians I've ever had were Iranian and were deeply caring, patient-first doctors. Like a lot of situations, there is a difference between "the people" and the current ruling government/religion/government-religion of countries.

It's a really great field.

That is just plain loony.

Yes - Intermat for College Rankings; MatScouts for HS stuff. of course both will cross over often for content, but that's the plan for rankings. if you subscribe to Intermat on Rokfin, you get all the MatScouts stuff already. Josh Lowe, who used to do the rankings for Intermat, still does the National Team Rankings (and all kinds of great info pieces to accompany them) for MatScouts

Cody Chittum is going to be very good.

He may very well be the best wrestler that I've seen period, regardless of school and medals.