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That doesn’t mean anything. Your wife is that and she’s 190

I wonder why he couldn't score any points against that?

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/ensuring-accountability-for-all-agencies/ Does the judicial branch report to the executive branch? Nope. Article III of the Constitution keeps the judiciary separate. Does the judicial branch still hold checks on the executive branch? Yep. The EO does not rewrite the Constitution or neuter the courts. Trump now gets alignment as he promised within the executive branch and reduces being undermined by the "deep state." Win for the people! Trump is a dictator! Fact Check FALSE.

I wish I shared Nolf's overflowing confidence in a Spencer win (he even said a tech was possible). I'll pick Spencer because it is in my contract but I'm very nervous about this match. Ono's speed and low level attacks seem tailor made to beat Spencer.

idk why you keep posting about federal employee cuts affecting the economy. that shouldn't be a concern. it's not the taxpayers' responsibility to fund unneeded jobs to artificial buoy wages. that's just a shell game (and what Biden did as soon as he got in office. check the data on jobs added under biden and then see what % of them were federal/government jobs. it was a sham.)

It's not like it'd just be handed to him. I did vote for Mesenbrink, but...he'll have to beat Parker in this scenario and he's pretty close to a 100% bonus rate for "csall." Kinda crazy a guy has that nickname and yet...he's got one match where he hasn't gotten bonus and like 3 more where it's only been a major. If you assume each of the three, Starr, Mesenbrink and Gable all win it and they're all dominant, It'd hardly be an outrage that the 5X Champ gets it over the 3X Champ(who should also be done with his eligibility) and the RS Soph who has 2 more years left but has an objectively easier weight. We've still got a month to go though. So, we'll see how it plays out.

No one serious takes 5 seriously.

Stewart sure looked like he was pinned to me, but that would have been a ballsy call

I don't think he belongs in the top four all-time, but to call him cstall is just plain dumb.

Bearclaw has a better chance against Monster Mitch than the entire HWT field does against Steveson.

Game on! As a reminder, here's the final scoreboard from last year's contest:

And trans-swimming.

OK ST IOWA 125 Spratley dec Cruz 3 0 133 Witcraft maj Ayala 3 4 141 Jamison dec Block 6 4 149 Young dec Parco 6 7 157 Fish dec Teemer 6 10 165 Amine dec Caliendo 6 13 174 Hamiti maj Kennedy 10 13 184 Plott dec Ferrari 13 13 197 Surber dec Buchanan 13 16 285 Hendrickson pinfall Kueter 19 16 I have the least amount of confidence in Plott over Ferrari. If Arnold takes the mat I am more confident in a Plott win. If Brands goes instead of Kennedy, I think it tightens it up but I still have Hamiti by a hair. On the other side, I am least confident (though still pretty confident) in Caliendo over Amine. I can talk myself in to a plodding Amine win in SV or ride outs if I had to.

Hopefully the Epstein and Diddy lists come out soon

Hendrickson is pinning Kueter. That's the only prediction I've got

thank you.

if you don't think Carter Starocci's mentality is a great asset and superior to most of his contemporaries you don't know ball.

We were hoping to keep your Porta Kleen. Those, 'Non Wrestling Topic' posters' hear about this, it's gonna be a sh*t show. They run in packs and they're slippery...

says the guy who voted for hillary clinton lmfao

If you think hard enough you might be able to come up with an answer. mspart

They sure loaded him up with a lot of gear

New lines starting to pop up: Penn +6.5 v. Rutgers (today) OkSt -1.5 v. Iowa (Sunday)

The Cult of Cael runs deep within Ono.

It is correct that the original mistake was made in 2022, but according to the community note (hopefully Musk doesn’t delete it for speaking out against DOGE), the claim of $8 billion linked back to the already revised contract saying $8 million. In addition, they apparently corrected other errors (and only those errors and not other things that were likely impacted by the same methodology flaws) called out by this anonymous x user, but did not change the overall $55 billion number.

"but where's the fraud" - red viking

Of his two career losses that is how one of them happened (Washington)

I would bet 100 pushups that both Andreas and Musk are correct, but Musk is the asshole. Picking one is the suckers choice. I wonder what sort of NDAs and contracts Musk has with his women about their children. An absent father is a bad father.

Maybe if all of us use your response he will finally get it. Maybe. Have a good reasonable discussion is healthy. Having One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nests Topics 3 times a day is a little crazy.

Is there anybody that did not withhold information, misdirect, deflect, refuse to answer questions, lie, misrepresent, push fantasy, etc. that hasn't been replaced?

Might need to bookmark this question. List includes lots of studs. Bruce Baumgartner, Dave Schultz, Kenny Monday, Troy Nickerson, Kendall Cross. Here's a good one for the Lehigh guys (@gimpeltf)....Kirk Pendelton, and we can't forget Dustin Schlatter

so you cant blame the Israelis for doing something about Hamas butchering their innocent friends and relatives

Thank you for admitting you were wrong based on the proof you thought would prove you right. Takes a big man to post that. mspart

https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/musk-compares-doge-clintons-government-efficiency-initiative-big/story%3fid=118980481 Looks like VERY different processes. One worked with congress and did it strategically over time. The other is dictatorial, drastic, and not putting as much thought into it. Looks like these weren't necessarily mostly military. I know he cut military though.

He can't. He believes that if he says it, it must be fact. He never substantiates what he says. mspart

I'll be decked out.

It would...

Just like the match they already wrestled. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Schtick Alert

Last year I definitely lived up to my name as JV State Champ... I plan to improve to below .500 starter this year

He is also just making up things and stating them as fact like Schultz's cuts 50+ pounds....

I think you're missing the difference between a young man who was training to win the peak event for a wrestler, vs a guy who left the sport to chase WWE and the NFL. When it comes down to talent, there is no question where Gable falls, but I think it's fair to question how much of his heart and soul is going into training and how bad he will want it if he has to go to deep waters. I think it's fairly clear that no one is predicting an upset, but if he loses, it is more likely that he isn't as invested as he was previously and that the gas tank could be a reason.

This cold MF'er celebrates by putting on his prescription sunglasses and flexing over his opponents. I love this cat...

I have spent some time cleaning up the Big Board data @Husker_Du so kindly shared. Who knew Shakur Rasheed was Corey Rasheed in high school? I am sure some of you did, but I didn't. I also updated the results to include the 2023 class and the 2024 results. Last time around I pulled data from Flo, but this time it is just the Real Big Board data from Willie. So there will be some differences based on that. For this round I am focusing on the Top 10 recruits. Like Jesse James with banks, that is where the money is. The Top 10 only produced 39% of the AAs in the sample, but they produced 77% of the Champions. So, it seemed like they should be their own category. The next 10 (11 - 20) produced 18% of the AAs and 16% of the champions. That seemed like their own bucket too. The next 20 (21 - 40) produced 19% of the AAs and that gets us to 76% and that is enough. As suspected, Penn State and Ohio State dominate the Top 10 recruits with 18 each. If you were to rank the recruiting classes without knowing what the results would be for the whole 11 years, it would probably look like this. A tie between Ohio State and Penn State with Oklahoma State a little way back, and Iowa/Michigan a long way back. If you re-rank those classes based on results, I think it would look like this. Penn State runs away with it. While Penn State and Ohio State each had 18 Top 10 recruits in 11 years, the Penn State recruits produced a whopping 33 trips to the finals and 25 total individual titles. Bo Nickal was right. That's what they do. Oklahoma State drops from #3 to #7 once you see the results. While their 12 Top 10 recruits produced 16 AA's, they only had 1 title out of 6 finalists. Iowa also slips a spot from #4 to #5 as their 7 recruits produced 6 trips to the finals with 3 titles. Michigan drops from #5 to #10 having gotten only 9 AAs and 1 title from their 7 Top 10 recruits. Meanwhile Missouri and Cornell did more with less. Missouri moves up from #12 to #4 once you factor in their 5 titles from 5 trips to the finals with only 3 Top 10 recruits. Cornell jumps from #7 to #3 on the strength of their 6 titles from 6 finals with 5 top 10 recruits. Arizona State hangs in there at #6 in both the before and after rankings.

The whole "our transfers are virtuous, yours are an indictment" thing is so tired

Spencer Lee is an announcer now?

Harsh. I am not prostrating myself at all. I do not care for how he handles himself. But in spite of that, I can acknowledge he is one of the greatest folkstyle wrestlers of all time and wonder why. As for Ferrari, he may be a true freshman, but he is not undersized or physically outgunned. He was mentally outgunned, though. He came out with a poor strategy and lost points as a result. Starocci's success is not coincidental, luck, or favorable calls from the ref. He wrestles too many matches just like this one, and wins them all, for that to be true. His mental approach to folkstyle is superior even while his mental approach to everything else is problematic.