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Let the arms race continue. Pleased to see the hype video includes yours truly in a couple team photos. https://pennathletics.com/news/2025/7/22/penn-athletics-receives-20-million-gift-to-support-wrestling.aspx https://pennathletics.com/documents/2025/7/17/Penn_Wrestling_Lasting_Legacy_of_Excellence__2_.pdf

He's out!!!!

I was asked to commentate while I was working Fargo. Release was dropped while the majority of USAW staff was in Fargo (all the comms). The in-arena emcee was doing MMA over the weekend in Prague as well. Coordinated it all pretty quick.

To start, I also think the quarter century team is dumb, especially when the majority of guys wrestled at multiple weight classes during their careers and there is picking and choosing regarding which weights guys are being considered. That being said.. I would 100% pick Askren over Pendleton. 4x Finalist, 2x Undefeated National Champion, 2x Hodge winner, most pins in NCAA wrestling this quarter century, and he absolutely dominated his junior and senior years.

Great news for the Quakers

You did great! Its always fun hearing you on random streams and events. You are everywhere. If anyone missed any of the matches, I have them uploaded here:

That's 2% of an annual subscription to FloSports! We sure did take them to the cleaners!

Looks like Askren...

You: Don’t talk about Biden he’s in the past you what about ism wingers. also you: Popeye and olive oil are racist and so is Henry ford..

Pendleton was great. How did he do at OTT? I'm very interested in Pendleton's career outside of his wins over Askren. He has a three paragraph wikipedia entry and one whole paragraph is devoted to beating Ben? Literally 9 sentences total, and five about Askren. Like who did Pendleton beat? Was he undefeated for his career? No record or list of wins. Kinda tough to say he's the best of the last 25 years with that lack of info.

Not good enough - he still wants that airfare so he can practice there.

I know; was just easier to make a point of the two finals losses in the comment I was quoting. I believe Ben did get him once in college but that's nothing compared to Pendleton's 7

Burroughs as HC is the obvious move

Manufactured in the sense that they knew it fake and presented as truth, and withheld key elements that didn’t work in their favor to mislead the court. Everything about it was an illegal operation and criminal abuse of their power. They absolutely were the bad guys and their tactics mirrored those of the NKVD.

Good question. Ivy League cannot even offer athletic scholarships so maybe this is focused more on endowing the coaching positions and building state of the art facilities

I was disappointed to see Yianni and Rob Koll visit the WH with (not all of) the other NCAA champions and take a photo with Trump. Same reaction when Vito went over to Trump after winning his second NCAA tournament. Neither of them were "blue collar" raised, nor from a rural area (Rochester and Long Island? Ha!).

I hear everything is on cruise control. It's a perfect system.

Asked Gemni to do it

I don't think Chris wrote his own Wiki page. Here's some more bio on him that doesn't mention Askren if that's what you're wanting https://osubeavers.com/sports/wrestling/roster/coaches/chris-pendleton/3081 I'm not necessarily contending that Pendleton is the greatest of the quarter century, just that I can't fathom putting him behind Askren.

I believe he had 1 loss each in his Junior and Senior years, 1 of those to Askren. His junior year he was 1 point against Askren away from bonusing his way through the NCAA tournament. His senior year he beat Askren 10-5 in the finals and only had 1 other non-bonus in the tournament. He didn’t beat him but Jake Herbert was in this bracket and took 3rd. His sophomore year he got a pin and a tech to make the quarters before losing to Brad Dillon. He had a 17 second pin the third place match, and the guy he lost to got 5th.

I'm afraid you've got it backwards. As I mentioned above, Pendleton won their freestyle faceoff as well

It will be worse for Azarpira this time I think

Due to the climate thing or the stock market crash?

I am very interested in a Taz vs Azapira rematch as well as a Sadulaev rematch. Azarpira is young as well so I suppose those two could battle it out for awhile but it sort of feels like this could be the last year someone can knock Taz off.

Brian coached me at SIUE a couple years. Great guy. Crazy his son is even old enough to be at Fargo, let alone win it. I remember him being just a pup.

Are you aware that he was our Olympic rep?

I can't say one way or the other, as I've obviously never coached there. But I know that Donnie Vinson is doing a great job recruiting there, with 16 committed recruits combined between c/o 2025 & 2026 (including c/o 2025 #223 and #241 & 2026 #64, #128, #138, #178, #192, #217, and #235). So you can see the recruiting improvement from his first year to second year. Time will tell what these kids become in college, but this is promising to me.

Who are these "top guys" you speak of? Pendleton and..

It wasn't just the two finals wins. Pendleton beat Ben 7 times in college and then a couple years after Askren was out of college he beat him again in freestyle. Pendleton was just better.

They can afford scholarships for sports, but choose not to provide them. They do have a lot of financial aid for non wealthy students. They look at sports as an extracurricular activity, belive it or not

the renderings show actual windows in the wrestling room. Thats not allowed!!1 amateur hour

Those of us who are honest and paying attention realize that when Strzok’s girlfriend texted him that Obama wanted to be told about everything they did, it puts him at the head of the operation. As usual, you offer nothing more than baseless denial and uninformed conjecture.

Great News!

Truth, and it’s amazing how many will so easily believe the lie just because it was said.

I got my settlement check today! $ 5.27 Whew! It's good to have that one behind me.

This should be the new mascot and logo.

I was curious if he was Brian's son. Brian graduated a year ahead of me in Washington. I remember him wrestling a tight match with J.O. in the Fargo finals. Jason, I don't know how you have room in that brain of yours for all of the random wrestling facts you possess. Truly remarkable. Thanks for all that you do.

I think it's great wrestling and the event in particular is getting this exposure. What I find odd is how it seems like wrestling is almost being politically commandeered or owned by right wing politics. I don't say that to start a debate but just seeing how things have played out with the prez at NCAAs and the spectacle that was made on his entrance, Bo Nickal and his outward political nature, Dan Gable stumping for trump in Iowa and just the kind of people that seem to be involved lately even at a youth wrestling level. Just never really saw that in other fringe sports before to my knowledge. Maybe it's just the nature of wrestling being more of a blue collar sport and the rural/urban divide but it's just a weird thing to watch happen in real time... Maybe it's always been a sport with the same people but the attention it gets from folks on the right side of the spectrum just seems to be increasing and more in your face than it ever was:.

How could you possibly know this ... where's your evidence?

Barry Davis, Wisconsin seemingly pushed out in 2018 CD Mock, UBC fired in 2015 Kevin Jackson, Iowa State stepped down 2017 Zalesky, Iowa was fired in 2006 J Rob, Minnesota fired in 2017 And then you can list programs dropped. That's a longer list.

You and Wkn need to get a room.

Real Woods and Lance Palmer were on Fox and Friends

Most of his posts are

Idiotic things like this is why democrats own approval rating is sub-20% and dropping. Imagine if they had the foresight to replace Colbert years ago?

A good time for all to make sure their ID reflects DONOR. If so the chances your eyes, lungs and whatever possible can be used to help others since you will not be needing them any longer.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) will answer questions under oath in relation to the Richard Strauss sex abuse scandal at Ohio State University, sources have told NBC4. After years of appeals, depositions are underway in the sexual abuse scandal involving Strauss, a former Ohio State University doctor. It has been seven years since the first lawsuits were filed against the university. Jordan is set to be deposed on Friday in Washington. Former Ohio State Athletic Director Andy Geiger was deposed on Wednesday in Los Angeles.

That's not the only explanation that results in Nickal hating Taylor. It is just the only reasonable one tied to Taylor's injury and Final X 2019. Nickal could primarily hate him for other reasons or it could be unreasonable hate. Taylor could have actually been getting second opinions and waiting to see how well he could wrestle in that condition. He could have given no thought whatsoever to keeping Nickal at 92kg. Nickal meanwhile had an unreasonable expectation that Taylor should have decided to go under the knife within 10 days of the injury so as to give him enough time to cut weight and change his registration for the WTT. Spencer Lee had two torn ACLs and he took like 9-10 months to decide to have surgery. Taylor was supposed to make this decision in 9-10 days because it would better suit Nickal? That's unreasonable. It's possible Nickal thought he had a better chance at beating Cox. I wouldn't expect it to be his primary motivation for going 92kg vs 86kg or 97kg. I don't know that your conjecture about what happens in the room really matters. Yianni Diakomihalis had said the first time he had ever beaten Jordan Oliver in a wrestling competition of any kind even 1 min situations in the room was in the semifinals of the US Open in 2019. I would guess that Nickal primarily was interested in maintaining his training situation in 2019 and thought that the ability to train with Taylor for another year would give him the best shot at making the Olympic team.

Not a chance...

What an utter embarrassment this guy has been become.

Free markets exist in Every college town. If your n or i or L can generate a business $$$$ they will pay you. You could go to psu and get some guy in Texas to have uou bbq commercials of that guy thinks you would up his sales. The sky to what they can make is infinity as it pertains to how well they sell themselves. I know d1 kids who sell shirts and other stuff. Ever see That super cringe vid of Aj Ferrari selling some steaks on insta. No way some business didn’t pay him for that.