Dark Energy

Wow.

Let’s go David Taylor!!! Do this!!!

Just tuned in. Announcers saying Taylor / Sad up next. 4: 30 to go on clock for current match.

For those interested, Pyles is saying 5th match on mat B. Do your own math from 5:30am eastern time with reasonable cushion. Confirmed on UWW arena site. Appears to be first mens FS match of the day for USA.

Someone have a reasonable best guess for the time of the Taylor / Sad match? Eastern U.S. time preferred.

Takedown - and escape. Score is 3-1 Takedown - reversal and escape - score is 4-2 Both situations end up with both on feet. 2 pt differential. I can see the OP’s point. Or wrestler B starts on bottom. - Reversal then escape … net 1 pt improvement - Simply just escape … net 1 pt improvement Again, can see OP’s point. I’d suggest the reversal deserves more reward.

I watched one of Mess’ prior matches and the fellow was able to get in. Scrambled with Mess well. Ran out of steam in second and Mess won. Felt mess was the better wrestler … but not by much at all. Might have been vs KAS. Was surprised - feeling Mess hype is quite high.

People love to justify their opinion so much that they ignore the plain and simple definition of words. If the word commitment is new to you, look it up in the dictionary. If the wrestler is simply indicating that they are leaning toward a particular school and are not committed, then be clear about it. I definitely would not want to rely on the ‘word’ of some of you or be a business partner.

Seeing the questions above about what the logic is behind not allowing scholarship athletes to compete. One suggestion that it is about title IX - which maybe it is but it doesn’t sound quite right. Anyone have more concrete info on this? Really weird. Sorry to see this. Yes, I expect it in the start of the large dislocation all these changes will bring.

Nomad listed out top teams over past 20 years on Twitter. Average placement at NCAAs 1. Iowa 3.35 2. Penn State 5.15 3. Cornell 5.89 Yes, PSU is held back by early year poor placement. But I’d like to highlight Cornell. # 3. Pretty freaking impressive. Go Big Red!!

Seems like many are cool with 19 year olds winning state titles in high school. Basically the same thing. Kid is clearly too old for high school, or kid is clearly too old for cadets.

No tickets is pretty wild. You sure?

KC > St Louis. That said, we all need to read and appreciate Jason’s posts. (holy crap it is getting hard to post in this forum with all the ads covering what I’m typing. Must must use precision skills to x them out.)

Clearly will be a big benefit to him. Wrestling with Vito and Yianni. The Big Red will welcome him and guide home to future success on the mat and in life as a whole.

Pretty sure they said no qualifier. Thought about entering.

Nice write up. Has anyone heard anything regarding Vito’s health? I expect he would not have signed up for this if was hobbled but have heard 0. Freaking great job by Blades.

Allow riding for full period with no attempt to, or pretend attempts to, turn opponent.

PD3 was winning. But now lost by TF.

A damn good podcast overall. Worth getting into your rotation to simply learn about a lot of things. Just listened to an Aug 11 podcast titled “Extra: Here’s why you are not an elite athlete (update)”. A good listen. Covers a wide range of topics. Many debated here. - Talent (it exists) - early specialization (suggests not good) - so many strive yet end up worse off income wise when don’t hit it big And more - importance of mind, sacrifices. If you are a hard core sports junkie, perhaps too ‘light’ for you and perhaps topics are already well covered for you. For me, it was just right.

Wow. This is awesome. Big big names. Very cool.

Has anyone taught Mirasola how to act in last 20 seconds when winning? That disengage and run to the center thing seems logical but doesn’t pass the smart acting thing. Don’t get me wrong, stupidly screwed, but he could have acted WAY smarter in those final seconds.

Love when the pop ups stake on each other and you have to be hyper careful to click the x button to close ad to be able to interact with site. Happened just now with annoying tapatalk float up and an add. Better part was that the ad was a moment delayed so when I when to click on continue (not get tapatalk app), the ad slide under my finger so I hit the ad instead. Not gonna lie, kinda sucks.

You realize he is not being facetious right? Lots of people saying he is completely serious.

Kudos to you for your professionalism and effort here. Getting the name pronunciation right is no easy feat. I expect it gets easier with practice but early on I also expect it was pretty tough.

This is so …. Meh. Do people really feel this is creating fans for him? Gotta say it is doing the opposite for me …