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I was one minute too late to include this in my above post, so I'll put it here....this is my pass/ticket collection since 1970...I put it in special effect to protect my innocence. 43 NCAA's/37 in row.....many Big Tens, Midlands, USA/USSR, World Cups and more. Fadz

Often times I/we try to visit some special sites in the city where the NCAA tournament is being held, beginning with Washington D.C./Maryland 1972. Here are a few of our visits....some enjoyable and some very sad. Fadz

I'm not sure AOC has a chance here. She doesn't really have a wrestling mentality. mspart

2023 Big Ten Wrestling Championship Coverage SATURDAY - MAR 04 9:00 AM CST BTN Network (9am - 1pm) - Session 1 (First Round, Quarterfinals, Wrestlebacks) 9:00 AM CST B1G+ - Session 1, Mat 1 9:00 AM CST B1G+ - Session 1, Mat 2 9:00 AM CST B1G+ - Session 1, Mat 3 9:00 AM CST B1G+ - Session 1, Mat 4 9:00 AM CST B1G+ - Session 1, Multi-Camera 4:30 PM CST BTN Network - NO COVERAGE - Session 2 (Consolation Matches, Wrestlebacks) 4:30 PM CST B1G+ - Session 2, Consolation Mat 1 4:30 PM CST B1G+ - Session 2, Consolation Mat 2 4:30 PM CST B1G+ - Session 2, Consolation Mat 3 4:30 PM CST B1G+ - Session 2, Consolation Mat 4 4:30 PM CST B1G+ - Session 2, Multi-Camera 6:30 PM CST BTN Network (6:30pm - 8:30pm) - Semifinals Round SUNDAY - MAR 05 12:00 PM CST BTN Network NO COVERAGE - Session 3 (Consolation Semifinals, 7th-Place Matches) 12:00 PM CST B1G+ - Session 3, Consolation Mat 1 12:00 PM CST B1G+ - Session 3, Consolation Mat 2 12:00 PM CST B1G+ - Session 3, Consolation Mat 3 12:00 PM CST B1G+ - Session 3, Consolation Mat Multi-Camera 3:30 PM CST BTN Network (3:30pm - 6:30pm) - Finals Round (1st-, 3rd- and 5th- Place Matches) 3:30 PM CST B1G+ - 3rd Place Mat 3:30 PM CST B1G+ - 5th Place Mat 3:30 PM CST B1G+ - 3rd and 5th Place Multi-Camera From 9a CST to 1p CST on Saturday, March 4, BTN will broadcast the opening session on television with whip-around coverage and quad box views. On B1G+, individual mat cameras, as well as the quad box, will allow viewers to customize their experience. For session two on Saturday night, coverage of the wrestleback matches begins at 4:30p CST and will be streamed exclusively on B1G+. Television coverage resumes for Saturday night's semifinals from 6:30p CST through 8:30p CST. On Sunday, March 5, competition begins at 12p CST on B1G+ with individual mat cameras for the consolation semifinals. At 3:30p CST, television coverage resumes as Big Ten champions are crowned, while third and fifth-place bouts will be streamed on B1G+. Links: Event Calendar (bigtenplus.com) Big Ten Network Presents Coverage of 2023 Big Ten Wrestling Championships - Big Ten Network (btn.com)

GAAP stands for generally accepted accounting practices. It is a way to measure things like earnings and cash flow. It can require some weird stuff though. For example, if a company owns securities and their price goes down then that has to come out of earnings even though the securities were not sold. However, if the security price goes up you do not add it to earnings until you sell the security. Because of esoteric things like this GAAP is not always used. But whatever, Twitter was profitable by one measure and not by another, related measure, so not exactly great financially, but also not awful. Somewhere in between. The best companies would be profitable by all measures. The point though is was not a financial dumpster fire. As for value, that is different. A public company is worth what someone will pay for it (or has paid for the last trade multipled by all shares). Elon Musk, Fidelity, and a few others as a group, paid $54.20 per share. (That's right, Musk chose a weed joke as his bid price. Though he swore in court it was not a weed joke.) Fidelity marked that down 56% by year end. That is their best estimate of what they could sell their stake for. Musk borrowed a ton of money to purchase his shares. Typically the banks who lend that money immediately securitize the loan and sell it to investors. In this case they could not do that at anywhere near breakeven because Musk was busy loudly pretending Twitter was a fraud because he was trying to get out of overpaying for an asset he was doing his best to ruin before he bought it. Those banks took huge earnings losses (see GAAP accounting) and have periodically explored selling those loans. Initially they floated a price of 65 cents on the dollar, but later lowered that to 60 cents. Nothing has sold so far. In classical finance, if a bond is priced below 60 cents the market believes there is not enough money to pay back lenders (i.e. possible/probable default/bankruptcy) which zeroes out equity investors. So now we have two estimates of Twitter's equity value. A high estimate of $30.35 per share and a low of zero.

@PortaJohn values all #2's equally.

This will be my 48th. My longest streak started in '87 ended in '19. So only 33. Started overall in '71. Missed '73, '77, '86, '20 (But we all missed that year), and '21. I didn't keep the tickets.

Not that many of these.....the Covid Year

As preseeds come up, I am updating my interactive brackets so that you play out different scenarios and see how it effects team scoring To advance wrestlers: D = Decision M = Major T = Tech Fall F = Fall (or any other combination of MFF, def., etc.) X = Bye Big 10 Interactive Bracket Big 12 Interactive Bracket (this is obviously not 100% because I don't believe we know the random draws of the unseeded wrestlers until the day of the tournament)

Don't know how Humphries could be 12-0 because I distinctly remember seeing Gfeller pin him at least twice.

True ... but believe he said "some are more rank than others."

My assumption of the point of the article was exposing hypocrisy. Maybe erroneous. I see the article is dated and I'm unsure of the reason it was posted. Next dinner date with Mike, I'll ask.

Ysa is going. They are pulling his shirt.

We almost know each other....have to have crossed paths at sometime....lol.

So Mikey...you blame the car for hitting the girl because you have an unnatural obsessive hate for the guy running the company as opposed to hating the idiot drunk driver who hit the girl scout stand...again you can't make this stuff up...

Might be easier to say which ones you missed.

43rd NCAA Championship and 37 years in a row (attended in some capacity). "The streak" started in 1985 (Oklahoma City) and I haven't missed since.

What part of 43 NCAA's/37 in row. don't you understand?

Can't wait, but first things first....conference championships....for me the Big Ten and then onto number 43/37 in a row....not my first rodeo. Fadz

Here's a little history lesson for the board: Before World War II, the committee put out these pre-seeds: 1. Germany 2. Japan 3. Great Britain 4. Russia 5. Italy 6. Austria 7. France 8. THE U.S. OF ******-******* A. They actually seeded the French surrender monkeys ahead of Uncle Sam. But their chicanery failed! The United States won both brackets, in Europe and in the Pacific. My friends, if you believe---if deep in your heart you really believe---in our country, in our flag, in our way of life, then you know that the ILLINI will triumph over all odds and against all comers just like the good old USofMFingA. As history repeats itself.

Wrestlestat is a precious resource.

I thought using marginalized groups as your mascot was largely phased out over the past couple of decades.

Thursday 3:30am EST Women’s Freestyle 50kg: Audrey Jimenez 55kg: Alex Hedrick 59kg: Michaela Beck 62kg: Janida Garcia 62kg: Jennifer Page 68kg: Solin Piearcy 72kg: Marilyn Garcia Men’s Freestyle 57kg: Gabe Townsell 61kg: Devan Turner 61kg: Thomas Gilman 61kg: Nathan Tomasello 65kg: Joey McKenna 74kg: Mitchell Mesenbrink 79kg: Isaiah White 79kg: Michael Kemerer 79kg: Devin Skatzka 86kg: Andrew Morgan 86kg: Quentin Perez 97kg: Kyle Snyder 125kg: Ty Walz Greco-Roman 60kg: Ryder Smith 63kg: Aidan Nutter 67kg: Charles Welcome 67kg: David Stepanian 77kg: Riley Briggs 77kg: Mike Higgins 82kg: Michael Altomer 82kg: DM Hallet 87kg: George Sikes

OSU has a very good chance.

Missouri could do it, but it would need a good tournament from Colton Hawks

Sorry that was so long.

hate to ruin your weekend watching replay but Penn St wins b10.

Shocking!

Two informed opinions. Fidelity wrote down their shares by 56% at year end. The banks that lent money recently tried selling those loans at 60 cents on the dollar, which in a textbook would suggest no equity value.

When was the last time Yianni competed at 125?

The info on "8 kids missing weight" came from Pyles' conversation with Valencia's dad. It seems as Mr. Valencia is the source for the "eight guys missed" info

Again, GAAP vs non-GAAP. The reality is it is overly simplistic to use GAAP in most circumstances, but GAAP must be disclosed by public companies. Most analysts rely on non-GAAP or a hybrid rather than pure GAAP.

That tilted World Trade Center was killing me....when I drug it in, it would turn 90 degrees....put it in Photoshop to fix it....I'll add 2 more as well. .

dinner time!

Nobody knows what it’s “worth”. The Chinese might buy it for $80b. What is Elon’s SpaceX worth? More or less than the $137b at the last money raise?

I don't recall where I read this exactly. I took a quick look around and couldn't find it anywhere just now so I'm going off memory... If your school is competing in the event, the event is included in the school pass. $10/month for school pass, $15/month for conference... so if I'm wrong, I'll owe you $5

There seems to be mixed reviews on this subject. https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-elon-musks-twitter-faces-mountain-of-debt-falling-revenue-and-surging-costs-11669042132 From the article dated Nov. 2022 "Twitter Finances, Pre-Musk Twitter is and was a popular tool for politicians, celebrities and journalists. But as a business, it was stagnating. It hasn’t booked an annual profit since 2019, and posted a loss in eight years of the past decade. The company’s net loss narrowed in 2021, to $221.4 million from $1.14 billion the previous year."

The BIGGER problem is the media/news doing it. There is absolutely no more integrity to news outlets and the media anymore...they "heard" something and then go and publish it without doing any investigation or corroboration...hence, fake news. I myself have heard that Twitter wasn't ever really profitable, but never looked into it...because I really didn't care that much about it to since I don't use it.

Wow. Perhaps that says something about what you listen to? You do realize that one of the biggest problems in this country is exactly that? People giving traction to crap they've "heard" with no knowledge of the validity of it.

does coaching count"

To be truthful it's just something I've heard over and over. I can't deny or confirm any of it

and he would have got away with it if it wasn't for you meddling kids...

Maybe it would be clearer if he drew some circles...

Switzerland came in as the 33 seed with a record of 0-0 but everyone knew they were the absolute best when choosing neutral

Wrestleknownothing explained it pretty well. I’ll also add that there are many club coaches that would do things similarly if they could. The problem is that, for 95%+ of guys, if you actually want to build a sustainable club financially. You have to cater to the parents that do the toxic stuff. They’re almost always the ones most willing to spend the money

They put the D1 record in parenthesis next to the overall record at the individual season level. I am not sure why they do not carry that convention through to the total, but with a touch of math you can see that 5 of his freshman wins and 1 of his sophomore wins were against non-D1. So his D1 win total is 112. They make you work for it, but it is there.

I’m Not in the know how it is run. Here in Indiana, as pointed out in another thread, the wrestling state tournament,is one of the best high school events in the country.

Hi! Your entry has been entered. That gives you an excellent chance to win at least one ILLINI Wrestling Blog and Forum and Beyond t-shirt, which, as far as you know, has never been worn before. Good Luck!

Jeez you guys are sensitive. I'd say the same thing about Mizzou if they scheduled such a weak non-conference opponent for their last home dual, so don't get your panties in a wad.