Pinnacle

Higuchi destroyed Cruz.

Ed Ruth showed uo!

RBY forgot to bring some version of hand fighting and defense. Guy goes right thru him.

They don't show celeb spectators like they do in Women's gymnastics. Lol.

UZB on both mats stirring up the crowd.

Kazakstan having a bad day.

I like dancing. Where can I sign up?

Brooks looked great. Two clean shots and finishes to win 4-1.

Brooks is like "I will act busy while they think I am going to turn this guy".

Big cheer for Brooks and USA.

Is this your best "set up" to dunk on Lee if you get the chance?

Not much of a size advantage, but a very large talent advantage. Elor dominated bigtime.

I hear ya. Seems wrong on the surface for an Engineer undergrad to be financing athletes, but nobody asked for my $0.02.

A lot of $$$ going to athletes. For the experts, seems that money is coming partly from boosters thru NIL, partly from revenue generated i.e. TV contracts and stadium revenue, but perhaps also partly from higher tuitions? Is the general student population at least partly financing these payments?

Speaking of wrestling and swimming there is a video out there somewhere where Trent Hidlay swims to the other end of the pool and back. I think his girlfriend was an NC State swimmer and she put him up to it. He struggled to say the least.

65Kg is entirely in one day?

O-V-A-L-T-I-N-E A crummy commercial

How many top Russians are repping other countries?

You know when else public perception existed that crime was high in America? Pretty much always. And when immigration would make it worse? Again, pretty much always. That feeling is heightened right now. As recently as 10 years ago we'd see news reports or TV media run stories that stated that immigrants were less likely to report being the victim of a crime out of fear of deportation and/or further crime being committed against them. The same goes for minority communities. "Stiches are for snitches" is a familiar axion to many. Before writing this post I read a story from 2014, just 10 years ago, stating that immigrants were 78 percent less likely to report crime when compared to US citizens. If this is true, then how can the public believe immigrants are somehow less likely to commit crime than US citizens? Especially when many of those immigrants are coming from the most dangerous places in the world. Most as are running from the crime there, but how many commit crime. Enough so that people intuitively know something is wrong. You have to make them believe it, right? And how does that work? You create a study and then cite that study as the gospel truth. Then you repeat it over and over and over again in unison. So you may cite a study as reported in the .org world but the public holds little trust in those studies when they don't comport with what they think makes common sense. This is why Europe is turning away from the hard left as they see it, and why it is happening here as well. This is not to say that our citizenry are all saints, no one believes that. The USA now has some of those most dangerous cities in the world. And what is going on with crime statistics in some of our cities? A number of things are happening. Since the defund the police movement came into vogue they had to make people believe the police were oppressors. They clearly are not, but anything to get power, right? In some cities they have created new categories to explain away deaths. One of those categories is "suspicious deaths". In Philadelphia an enterprising reporter went looking into those situations and came away believing most were homicides. Can't have people thinking there were too many homicides now. So overlay all the new crimes victimizing the citizens with the existing crime victimizing the citizens and people are going to feel less safe, and no study will change that. People feel unsafe in their gut. And what about the financial costs of all of this policy? The country can't afford it. Cities are cutting programs all over the place because of skyrocketing costs. As since you asked, the oil being depleted here in the USA is the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. It stands at about one half of its high set during the last administration. https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&s=mcsstus1&f=m This means that at the same time our Strategic Reserve was cut in half, literally in an effort to add supply to consumers, gas prices still rose about 50 percent. People feel this in their wallets. As for the currency, it is stable for now. But China and Japan buy far less of our debt these days. Trust in what we are doing here is dropping. Currency that is good doesn't go bad over night, it takes a lot of bad leadership to make it happen. Just as in Europe. in New Zealand, in Canada, people want change. They no longer trust the status quo as they feel it everywhere that something just isn't right.

I have been to Nashville and Gatlinburg and the Great Smokey Mtns. Also to Omaha, Lincoln and out to the Sand Hills of Nebraska. Enjoyed all of it. Some crazy roads up top in Tennessee.

Without the portal all top teams would score fewer points at NCAA but Iowa's relative place within that group might suffer. Maybe I'm wrong because I did not do the math on NCAA points scored by portal acquisitions. Maybe someone with more time can answer that question.

I am worried more about our country today than at any point in my lifetime. One side hates Trump, but what about what is going on right now? Reported today on top of all of the other murders, two Chick Filet workers killed by Illegal border crossers. Another killed a 21 year old and carried the dead girl's corpse on his shoulder in front of a passing police cruiser. This on top of the many other killings. Our nation's oil is depleted. Our resources are depleted. Our military disrespected. Our currency can easily be de valued at the rate we are going. Worst of all is this violent crime. Things need to change.

My sister and her girls hike the same trails that Rachel Morin was raped and killed on. The perp who came here illegally and did that to Rachel is a bad person. Feel free to de humanize that scumbag all you want.

I think your point was to equate Metcalf to Zain on the World stage and the only evidence you could muster to compare to Zain's world silver and world gold was a win over a then Junior. Not only is Zain more accomplished than Metcalf internationally, so is Yianni.

The point is that you elevated Sidakov above what he actually was at the time - a junior (who would not inconsequentially lose Euro Juniors the following year) to what he would eventually become several years later. Why? Presumably to pump Metcalf above what he too was at the time, a good but nowhere near great wrestler. Had Dake or Burroughs wrestled Sidakov in 2015 they'd have beaten him easily too. Also, if Metcalf were able to beat the savviest of all Russians then one would expect him to have produced World and Olympic medals or at least to have advanced beyond the Round of 16 at Worlds that year, but no.