Jason Bryant

Amos Mutke, the “Egg Noodle Assassin” is an all-time great.

Fanbase doesn’t prefer a style as much as they prefer the college team-based system. You could change the style from folkstyle to amish rakefighting and there’s still a built in team component and tribalistic following that appeals to more people. Olympic sports don’t draw as well as professional sports - not because of their rule sets - but more people are going to dial in to watch North Carolina or Texas anything over Team USA. There’s varied rule sets internationally in a lot of different sports vs. a U.S. domestic version. The U.S. pro sport (save soccer) will almost always outdraw an Olympic-type of comparative event.

Not Necessarily The News was funny as a kid, but the subject material was definitely above my head at the time. I remember laughing at a lot of the cutaway gags or voice overs that didn’t match the actual clips. Just some good ol’ basic comedy. Probably the one reason I ever knew who the Speaker of the House was before I took a class on Speakers of the House in college. Wife and I watched all of the US version of House of Cards and generally liked it. Last season was meh. Started the original British series, but got sidetracked after maybe 2 episodes.

First swimming and now you’re either talking bowling or the WWE.

Swimming: Way to keep from drowning.

I like the SwimSwam crew.

I scoured my email and couldn’t find anything from Rokfin about USDC. I was a creator for a short bit on the platform and got small residual RAE from every couple of months after I pulled my stuff off the platform. Haven’t received anything in months and no idea if I ever will again. No idea if I’m owed any Schrute bucks or a legit stablecoin. So even though it’s not any part of my income, I’d be annoyed if I didn’t get anything either. Not sure what the WR content creators on the site are dealing with but some of the larger ones are still using the platform.

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.

Brian Owen’s (apostrophe S) son Cam Jones’ kid won As did Mocco’s (beating Josh Etu’s son)

For those interested, I put some of the more notable NIL things (dropped programs, Title IX lawsuits, etc.) in a section in my (mostly) Daily Wrestling Newsletter. It’s free, sign up at: https://mattalkonline.substack.com For those unfamiliar, I scour the web for news from around the world, linking to them and saving wrestling junkies hours of time searching for news (but likely taking up more time by reading)

This thing was put together last week, so promotion was pretty limited as a result.

Sioredas (current Cal Poly HC) was the coach when GCU shuttered the sport. HC before him was the one the school let go.

Most Recent. I don’t go to as many shows anymore since having kids. I used to go to 2-3 a month in my 20s. This is since 2016 … Kidz Bop Live - Minnesota State Fair Adele - Messe Munchen (Munich) Social Distortion - Palace Theater Ethan Carle - Some place in KC Weird Al Yankovic - State Theater Carrie Underwood - Wells Fargo Arena (DSM) Weird Al Yankovic - Minnesota State Fair Jesse Stratton Band - Firehouse Saloon (TX) Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Xcel Energy Center Cody Canada and the Departed - Turf Club AC/DC - Xcel Energy Center Korn - Myth Comedy Shows: Greg Warren - ACME Minneapolis Greg Warren - Some place in KC

Did a little fun bingo card for the last stretch to Fargo on 94 for most teams coming through Minnesota from the east.

That account tracks things a little differently- here is my all division tracker that breaks out the data in several ways - much like I did during COVID. https://almanac.mattalkonline.com/house

Front page of themat- dropping rosters daily.

Grand VIEW not Grand Valley.

Impressive stuff @cowcards … as a data miner, this effort is greatly appreciated. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I tried to get the crowd to pick an athlete based on the color if they didn't have a favorite - If you're Team Pork Roll, root for red. Taylor Ham, root for blue. Second round I lost count and ended up running around chasing athletes down for interviews the rest of the day.

Hey, I tried that in venue … then lost track of who won.

Fan vote was HEAVY on the 75th anniversary team - which is why Gray Simons was excluded.

I’m not taking any freestyle events into consideration here @Mr. PeanutButter - this was the instance I was referring to - it also points out the weakest L.

Another angle: Who was Lee’s worst in-season loss? What about Abas? There’s at least two instances where Lee lost before a final and didn’t wrestle back. Abas was only in one consolation bracket and wrestled it to completion.

Iowa's also undefeated in fan votes since Tim Berners-Lee.

Nice find. I'd never actually seen his JC year record posted anywhere. I know he lost to longtime Greco national teamer Glenn Garrison (Clackamas) in the 97 finals.