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Mike Parrish

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  1. Nah. It was a job interview. He's a douchie techbro and I declined.
  2. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed dwarf is king.
  3. Nobody with an ounce of sense is going to pay for social media. That model is doomed to fail.
  4. lol, no. I've met him.
  5. I watched her last match from matside. The opposing coach told his athlete at the break between rounds, "Pulling moves only. DO NOT push on her. She needs that to throw. She has nothing else." He was absolutely right and his wrestler prevailed.
  6. Twitter used to have standards for what they would allow. There were entire departments that vetted things. Currently, all you have to do is get Elmo's attention.
  7. Your concern is touching. What was unclear?
  8. My bad. I'm three lengua tacos in right now and feeling sleepy. 'Emerging sport' is the term of art. https://www.ncaa.org/sports/2016/8/26/ncaa-emerging-sports-for-women-process-guide.aspx From 2016 https://www.ncaa.org/sports/2016/3/2/emerging-sports-for-women.aspx
  9. I missed this reply before. There are already over 100 colleges offering women's wrestling. https://www.americanwomenswrestling.com/news-2/all-womens-college-wrestling-programs
  10. Elon Musk is a gullible dipshit. https://www.thedailybeast.com/eliza-bleus-own-friends-arent-buying-her-trafficking-story
  11. Get ready to be sick to your stomachs. https://www.rawstory.com/florida-abortion-law-2659437634/
  12. That's right! Give Jake Paul a call.
  13. 1971 F250 4x4 Granny gears in 4L Blown glasspacs 50 gallon extra tank in the bed Cowcatcher with the spare in front Ranch truck
  14. Any business that isn't a scam should process customer cancellations without drama. I don't want to reenter new credit card information for every site I use.
  15. What's the over/under on the dwarves?
  16. Hackers worldwide, rejoice! https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2023/an-update-on-two-factor-authentication-using-sms-on-twitter
  17. He needs to grow up first.
  18. What will his next big thing be?
  19. I can't speak to every state, but that's the trend. It may take a year or two to go that way after the separate state tournament is agreed to. My understanding on this topic is anecdotal, not an in depth survey of all states.
  20. Mostly in states without a girls' wrestling state championship.
  21. Teshya and Teniya They both kind of flamed out and there were family personality issues.
  22. Kayla Marano
  23. I wasn't making that point. Women and girls should have their own state, sectional and league competitions. Excluding the girls from the boys' tournaments makes it harder for them to get tough competitions that their predecessors were able to take advantage of. Until girls' wrestling expands more and is able to attract top athletes in high school away from soccer, softball, track and field, etc, it's going to be hard for elite girl wrestlers to find consistently tough competition. It's fundamentally a numbers game. Compare the 2015 Fargo finals to the 2022 Fargo finals. Night and day. It's even more pronounced when you go back to the semis and quarters. Also, to be clear, at the heavier weights, it's nearly impossible for a girl to compete successfully against boys. I's say the cutoff is around 130. Physiological advantages just start stacking up too high for the boys. At the lighter weights, boys tournaments were the proving grounds.
  24. Leathers was tough. She beat Dom twice, once at WCWA's in the semis and once at the US Open. Lots of the senior national team are getting married these days. Fearnside, Heaton, Mason, Villeascusa, Velte, Bell Gray just had twinsand she won't be the only one who starts having kids. Many of these women were tough as nails. Dom had loses to Liang, Leathers, Figueroa, and very close matches with Birrueta and Roberts. One sad note on this is that many of the heavier girls had nowhere to go after college, since the top senior women's weight is only 76kg...
  25. Amit Elor is the only one I can think of. The underlying topic that I've been thinking about for a while. Dom's group is the last one that had to/could wrestle boys regularly in high school. After that group, girls wrestling grew quickly and there was a nationwide push to get separate state, sectional and league level competition for girls. This is a generally good thing. However, there was also a push to exclude girls from boys' tournaments at the same time. I talk to a lot of the collegiate women's coaches and they have noticed a dip in the overall quality of recruiting prospects they're getting. There are more of them, but they're not nearly as tough or sharp or conditioned as the previous group. I suspect this is due to the segregation of girls from boys wrestling. They may practice together, although it's moving away from that now, but competing and winning against boys is much tougher than girls tournaments. Almost all of the current world/national women's team members are from that previous generation, with some exceptions at the higher weights https://www.teamusa.org/usa-wrestling/team-usa/national-team-bios I don't see the next generation making much headway into senior world team spots against the current world/national team members, with a few exceptions(Audrey Jimenez out of Arizona is one to watch, Adaugo Nwakchukwu is another), until the current world/national team members retire. https://www.flowrestling.org/rankings/7493986-2022-domestic-womens-freestyle-rankings/42199-50-kilograms Hildebrandt Parrish Winchester Maroulis Nelson <-- likely when she returns to competition Miracle Velte Mensah-Stock Elor Gray I don't see any of them losing to the younger generations, which leaves them out of the senior medal contention. Women's/girls' wrestling is in transition now and it shows.
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