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In spite of the fact that it ended with the biggest upset of the tournament, 285 was the most chalk weight. The sum of absolute deviations from seed was 77, just ahead of 125 at 81.5. This also made the heavies the second most chalk weight since the 33 seed era began. Only 165 in 2019 was more chalk. At the other end of the spectrum 141 was the most busted bracket this year (but only sixth most in the 33 seed era). A lot of the "bust" came from five of nine guys seeded to go 0-2 finishing with win(s), and three higher seeded wrestlers doing the opposite.

Not to worry, Trump and his cabinet have less than 4 years remaining of their predatory incursion.

For very personal reasons, I sure hope not. #nerdsunite

In Times Of War. We are not at war.

I am sure

The NCAA is getting its ducks in a row in anticipation of the House settlement being approved. https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/44787232/ncaa-proposes-new-rules-allow-direct-payments-players

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/21/nx-s1-5371312/trump-white-house-pete-hegseth-defense-department A little smoke there.

Good question. The only thing I can think of is the re-weighting of some criteria, but not sure of anything else.

Sure it is

Do you think a person who has a history of doing exactly what he is accused of doing, and just fired three people he accused of leaking information about what he has done, is more likely, or less likely to have done it more than once?

They do not name the sources but say it is "according to four people with knowledge of the chat. Also from the article: "Unlike the chat in which The Atlantic was mistakenly included, the newly revealed one was created by Mr. Hegseth. It included his wife and about a dozen other people from his personal and professional inner circle in January, before his confirmation as defense secretary, and was named “Defense | Team Huddle,” the people familiar with the chat said. He used his private phone, rather than his government one, to access the Signal chat. The continued inclusion following Mr. Hegseth’s confirmation of his wife, brother and personal lawyer, none of whom had any apparent reason to be briefed on operational details of a military operation as it was getting underway, is sure to raise further questions about his adherence to security protocols."

After updating the scoring model I decided to looking into why the shifts that occurred had occurred. I was really focused on the seeds in the twenties and thirties as there was some expected smoothing out in that area. And sure enough, the #22, #23, #25, and #29 seeds all had their best ever performance. Though the #27, #31, and #32 had their worst performance ever. But what really jumped out was the #4, #5, and #6 seeds had their worst performance in the 16+ seed era. And it wasn't even close for the #5 seed. This year the 5 seed produced only 3 All-Americans. That is tied for the lowest total ever in the 8 AA era (1979 - 2025). In 1980, when there were also only 3 AA's from the #5 seed they finished second, fourth, and eighth. This year they finished fifth, fifth, and eighth. No #5 seed beat his seed. This year the #12 seed had more AA's (5) than the #5 seed (3). That had never happened before.

DEI hire Pete Hegseth needs to go. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/us/politics/hegseth-yemen-attack-second-signal-chat.html

When Trump read his Chinese Bible he thought Pontious Pilate was the hero of that story. Just kidding. Trump has never read a Bible.

Not 100% sure if it is all, but it is a lot more than what UWW lists. That total is from his wikipedia page.

Sometimes it does

Meh

To ne clear (because the OP is rarely clear), if it is a scholarship then it is not taxable. If a third party pays, it may be taxable to some extent.

If so, so is every freestyle wrestler ever.

Freestyle wrestlers do not wrestle often. In 12 year Sadulaev has 163 matches and has gone 10 months to 1 year between competitions 4 times.

You do NOT have permission to use my picture.

And is that Tom Brands saying "Whoa" as Mike Caliendo jogs past?

Drew Henson seems to be doing OK