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Probably the most misspelled award in all of sports, the Gorriaran Award is named for Hall of Famer Manuel Gorriaran, who "is best known for his insistence on the fall as the ultimate goal of amateur wrestling, and for inaugurating an award given at tournaments everywhere, the Gorriaran Trophy for the wrestler scoring the most falls in the least total time." Check out his full NWHOF bio: https://nwhof.org/hall_of_fame/bio/66 Wrestle, Wrestle Wrestle. Twist 'em Like a Pretzel. Iowa State leads all schools with 8 Gorriaran winners. Big Boys On Their Backs The heaviest of weights has been the most prone to the worst of endings. But the keen observer will note that the lion's share of those came from the absolute biggest of the big boys when the weight knew no bounds. So maybe things are different now? And indeed they are. While 285 still leads the way, 165 is close behind with just one fewer winner (6 vs 5). It is pretty wild that for the first 38 years of the award it was almost a 50/50 proposition that the pinfall leader was also the scale leader. Backside Backsides It is probably no surprise that the 3rd place winner is the most common source of Gorriaran glory given the extra matches. Love Me Two Times It is no surprise that the original pinfaller himself was also the first to win the award twice. But how about Nebraska's Gary Albright? He won as a true freshman, and then again as a redshirt senior. Most Gorriaran-est Say that ten times fast. Sorted by pinfalls, place and year.

I have Zain at 1 inj/def/for and 2 decisions. Kevin has it as 3 decisions.

The Athletic was able to review new NIL contracts being used or proposed if the House settlement goes through. " While there is no such thing as a standardized NIL contract, all contained language intended to deter the player from entering the portal. “You’re seeing some stuff similar to coaching contracts with the buyout language in there,” said agent Joe Hernandez of Just Win Management Group. “Which is something that you wouldn’t really see in an NFL player-team contract.” One Big 12 school required the athlete to pay a buyout equal to 50 percent of his remaining compensation if he transferred before the end of the deal’s term. An ACC school required the athlete to pay back 100 percent of his earnings if he transferred before Jan. 31, 2026. One Big Ten player’s contract, based on a suggested template the conference sent to all of its members, requires the athlete to pay liquidated damages in the event he transfers. Another defers two-thirds of the athlete’s payments for the coming season until the end of January — after the winter portal window closes."

You don't need to be in MS13. You only need Trump to decide you are. Doesn't matter if the Supreme Court says he is wrong, either. That is the Supreme Court Donald Trump engineered. You are trying to argue the facts, but to Trump the facts do not matter. So why bother debating them. Just look out for that administrative error. It'll getcha.

Don't kid yourself

We are all just one "administrative error" away from being disappeared.

How sweetly naive of you that you think Trump can be trusted to make that determination, or rely on the courts to protect you.

By rule Ferrari does not qualify. To get a hardship waiver for an injury: The injury or illness occurs before the first contest or date of competition of the second half of the playing season. In wrestling the first date of competition of the second half is defined as the 10th competition date for the team. Ferrari was 10-0 with all of his 10 coming in dual meets, the last of which was January 23. This was the eleventh competition date for the team. The injury or illness occurs when the student-athlete has not participated in more than three contests or dates of competition or 30 percent of the maximum number of contests or dates of competition of the playing season. The maximum number for wrestling is defined as 17 and the 30% provision is defined as 6 in the rules. He is clearly over the 30% provision. All that said, we have seen the NCAA lose a lot of court cases on eligibility issues, so who knows. But as the rule is written, he does not qualify for a medical redshirt, and he is not particularly close to the cut offs. Sparks only used 4 competition dates in 2022. The last was the Southern Scuffle, which was Minnesota's 7th competition. Sparks was under 6 competition dates (30%) and before the first date of competition of the second half (11th date of competition).

He sure as hell does.

He never said MS 13.

Does anyone think Bukele is doing this out of the goodness of his heart? Or perhaps foreign aid committments have benn made? Maybe Bukele was even told the aid would disappear if he said he could send the guy back? Nah, someone as transactional as Trump would never pay off another politician to help him defy the Supreme Court. Never.

Except that is not what he said. In the press availabilty he said he doesn't know what the law is but he wants to send our homegrown criminals. He is talking about US citizens. And if you think you are safe because you haven't broken the law, what difference does that make? If someone is willing to send US citizens to Salvadorian prisons, what difference would guilt or innocence make to that kind of person? If Trump decides you are guilty, or inconvenient, you will be sent. Then he will tell Bukele to say it is impossible to get you back.

How about if one of you break the law and Trump decides to ship you to prison in El Salvador? Then would you be against it? Before you claim this is prepostrrous, Trump was caught in the background of a Salvadorian live stream from the White House telling Bukele that "home gowns are next". https://newrepublic.com/post/193985/trump-deport-homegrown-criminals-el-salvador

So.... Remember when I said to take the exact rankings with a grain of salt? Turns out that was good advice. I committed a cardinal sin. I trusted Wikipedia. Well, the results they have for Cael Sanderson are a hot mess. Instead I should trust @Cornell Kevin. I have spent some time putting together what I now think are accurate match by match results, including the matches that were not official. During Sanderson's four non-redshirt years wrestling D1 he won 159 straight official matches and 170 straight total matches. Sanderson's 2002 dominance score of 5.5 moves to number 2 (number 1 among Hodge winners) on the list, ahead of 2017 Zain Retherford (5.484), but still behind 1957 Dan Hodge (5.813).

At this point Trump is white labelling it.

God, no.

Who...

Pro tip. If you feel the need to check your insurance before doing an activity, do not do that activity.

do you know what his 1981 stats were?

The good news is that @Cornell Kevin does have the stats for Emmet Wilson. In 2004 he was 50-0 with 24 pinfalls, 10 tech falls, 8 majors and only 8 decisions. His was one of only 17 seasons to hit the 5.0 mark in the Hodge era. He had the most matches of any of the 17, which makes it that much more impressive.

It is an interesting dynamic right now. Treasuries have always been the safehaven in risky times. Even to a paradoxical extent. When the risk was the US and treasuries being downgraded by ratings agencies, people sold risk assets and bought treasuries. But now the risk is the capriciousness of the decision making by Trump, making holding treasuries as a reserve asset by foreign governments too risky. Trump has a target for 10 year yields, but his own actions are making the target unattainable. Apparently it was the bond market that made him blink, not the stock market.

The internet never forgets, or forgives. It is a brutish wasteland of typos.

Who is Rutherford? And why would anyone name a wrestling award after him?

Good question. His 1957 campaign was unparalleled. But 2017 Retherford pips him the other two years.

Thank you to @jross and @Cornell Kevin for plugging holes in my data. Here is the updated, corrected version of most dominant Hodge winners of all time. With the new data Zain Retherford hangs on to the title, but Stephen Neal knocks Ben Askren and Cael Sanderson down a peg. Speaking of Retherford. His 2016 dominance score of 5.03 was higher than eventual Hodge winner, Alex Dieringer's, score of 4.76. That is the last time the Hodge winner did not have the highest dominance score. Though it had happened prior to 2016. In 2011, Jordan Burroughs won with a dominance score of 4.61, which was only third best among finalists. Jordan Oliver (4.79) and Anthony Robles (4.64) each had higher scores.