Le duke

I have to ask you: Have you actually seen how produce is harvested? Because I've worked and lived in multiple areas with significant undocumented immigrant populations. It's all manual labor. There aren't any machines doing that work. It's men and women working in orchards picking your apples and cherries, groves picking your oranges, fields picking your lettuce.

Masking agents have been added to the WADA/USADA banned lists in great numbers in recent years. I have to ask, when was this?

The difference between what Lance Armstrong did and what a middle school, high school or college wrestler would be able to do is night and day. A team of actual scientists and doctors helped him get his blood values right up to the legal limits, and keep them there. Which in itself would have triggered a modern day biological passport violation. And, despite the public perception that he never failed a drug test, he did, and retroactive (post-retirement) analysis of his blood samples with modern techniques has detected the presence of multiple substances that, individually, would've resulted in 2 year bans.

Based on what, exactly? What personal knowledge of anti-doping science do you have that leads you to question the legitimacy or accuracy of testing performed on NCAA athletes?

If you can detain someone based on the color of their skin and suspected national origin, yeah, that's pretty problematic. I mean, you're literally conducting a search and seizure with no specific, actual crime in mind, and hoping to arrive at a crime after the fact. That's insane. Something something 4th Amendment.

I won’t pretend to know the level of training of the average LEO. Let’s get that out of the way right now. Friend of mine is a State Trooper. Been on the force for more than a decade. He gets to the range once, maybe twice a year. Last time I saw him he told me he’d put more rounds into dying deer, elk and bears along the roadside than paper targets that year. In the military, your training (in an infantry unit) is exhaustive. It identifies those ill suited and removed them. Those that can be reformed and remediated are trained up to standard. You carry a loaded weapon, all the time, at the low ready, and shoot regularly. Radio use and etiquette. You work on battle drills, movement, actions-on-contact scenarios, etc. You know who combatants are, when you must render aid. I would imagine this is very different than the average patrolman. So, is Parkland LEO prepared to enter a complex, unknown scenario? Likely not. I get any reservations he or she might have. However, you never, ever have perfect knowledge of a situation. Your job, regardless of what the courts say it is, is to save little kids from being shot to death. That said, holy shit, man. Uvalde cops? Should be fired to the last man. I don’t believe in capital punishment. But in cases of pure cowardice, by armed men, I might be fine with them bringing back the old Roman tradition of decimation. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Actually, that is still a crime which can be charged as a capital offense. Misbehavior before the enemy, and desertion. Purportedly, COs were more likely to just execute people on the battlefield in WWII than bother to actually press charges. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I think Texas will rethink this when their economy crumbles. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Do you have the same body now, that you had at 21? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Willie is never going to respond to this; he has no ability to read anything other than quick talking points from Twitter and quite literally can't comprehend the difference between making claims in a hearing vs providing proof in a court of law.

He looks like a guy who stopped starving himself. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yeah. He has two “quality matches” in three years (defined as top 16 opponents, per WS). I hate to say it, but if WrestleStat has you 9th, you aren’t #1 in the land. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Who had Figs ranked #1???? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

He and Zahid must have bird bones. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Interesting that Mirasola is being coached by McKnight today against Dean. His twin is wearing a NLWC sweatshirt in the corner, too. Varner has to be pumped about getting both of them. Really good match, by the way. Mirasola has defense I’d expect to see from a middleweight. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Warner vs Cass for 5th. HWC on HWC crime. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Mirasola over Wick for the second time in a couple weeks. That’s pretty damn impressive for a HS senior. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

They’ll have at least one of Facundo/Claw. If they both lose in consi semis, they wrestle for 5th, and winner qualifies. Losers of bouts 613 and 614 go to bout 505, for 5th. NLWC also has Josh Rodriguez facing Liam Cronin in a 57kg consi semi, opposite Lilledahl. If he wins one of the next two, he’s in. Same with Lilledahl, obviously. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

There will be a comical size difference. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

At least one of Barraclough and Facundo will qualify for OTTs this weekend. That means NLWC will have at least 4 guys at 74kg at OTTs. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

If you haven’t seen it, Beau Bartlett gets what can only be described as a shit-eating grin after dumping McKenna for 4. Also, Bartlett is incredibly fast when he actually decides to move. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I wonder what Cael plans to do at 184-197 next year. Kind of a rebuilding year. Mirasola the Smaller (86kg) looks like the real deal. Either weight he goes he’ll be an immediate AA threat. He’ll have the best training partners in the world, and he’s already very, very good. Wins over Wick and Dean as a high schooler. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Absolutely. They are both very well coached. Both staffs do a great job. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Which is ironic given that they have three PSU guys on staff, none of whom wrestle anything like that. Also: To whoever designed Taylor Lujan’s singlet. Straight to jail. It hurts my eyes. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Watching Brandon Counrtney and a lot of the other SK guys, many of them TRY to wrestle like Zahid. Both good and bad. A lot of excessive fakes. A lot of things of moves predicated on speed. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk