billyhoyle

I listed Hall next to other NCAA champions, so I do think he lived up to expectations-he had many doubters because of his age/being seemingly undersized. I just think there is a tier above that you can't predict or expect a recruit to be (outside of Lee or Snyder)-MM seems to be in that tier. I said that in wrestling there is a tradition to require people to beat somebody ranked ahead to move ahead-so I get that is how people currently do it. But rankings are inherently subjective. This requirement doesn't exist in any other sport. Without subjectivity, rankings should just be done by an algorithm. It's very easy to see how dominant MM has been and also his results internationally and recognize that he should be in the top 4.

As long as they are the top 3 it’s fine with me. All three are elite wrestlers. Having him at 7 at this point doesn’t make sense to me.

From what I’ve seen from MM, he is more like Brooks, Starocci, Taylor, Ruth, Nolf than Haines, Mark Hall, RBY. All are great wrestlers but some of the PSU guys are just at a step above in term of dominance.

They will do nothing because they can do nothing.

Woke ppl are broke. Have you not followed Elon lately? The people buying those cars are just as likley to be the right wing VC/tech/finance types.

I get that there's a tradition in wrestling to not jump up the rankings unless you beat a higher-ranked wrestler, but when will a ranker out there move him to at least #4? If you look at his performance at U20 worlds (one of the best indicators of NCAA success) and his absolute dominance so far this year, does anybody doubt that he should be in the top 4? If it were me, i'd move him to #2. Maybe Carr was rusty early and beats him, but I doubt it.

This is the closest the U.S. has been to going to war with Iran since the nuclear deal. The critics of that deal (mainly the neocons) said it only postponed the inevitable. Were the neocons correct? Tensions are rising now more than any time since, so is war with Iran inevitable? Or should it be avoided regardless of Iran's actions overseas because of the terrible consequences that would occur? Let's try to keep the Biden/trump discussion to a minimum here because this decision could potentially be made either in the rest of Biden's term or a potentially Trump's 2nd term. It will likely be the most significant foreign policy decision since the 2003 invasion of Iraq. My opinion is that I don't really know what we should do. When I see these proxy attacks being carried out, it reminds me exactly of what Bin Laden did prior to 9/11 with his attacks on U.S. Embassies and the USS Cole. If the U.S. had done more leading up to 9/11, the attacks would have been avoided. I also know how terrible the consequences of military intervention would be, and the greatest mistake since Vietnam was the decision to preemptively intervene in Iraq.

If this is true, why are Tesla owners the most annoying car owners on the planet because they never STFU about how obsessed they are with their cars?

https://www.mmanews.com/news/brock-lesnar-implicated-sex-trafficking-lawsuit Like I said, it's not clear whether Lesnar really is accused of doing anything wrong. It sounds like Vince pressured her into sending him explicit content to get him to sign with WWE. Gable isn't involved in this at all-in fact it seems he has next to no involvement with WWE at this point other than them sending him on a goose chase around the country.

Just wondering who's crazier-the person who won 83 million or the person who lost 83 million because he couldn't stop lying about her>

I mean she did win 83 million from a jury so if she's crazy this isn't an example of it.

He's being accused of sex trafficking. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/wwe-founder-vince-mcmahon-resigns-ex-employee-accuses-lawsuit-sexual-a-rcna135981 Lesnar is involved as well in this but it's not clear whether he knowingly did anything wrong (she was allegedly coerced into sending him sexual content). I wonder if this will turn into another Harvey Weinstein/Jeffrey Epstein/Bill Cosby situation where he ends up in prison. A minor note to this is that it can't be good news for Gable Steveson in WWE given how they haven't used him at all in a year in anyhting remotely important (maybe more now) and the prior accusations that he faced.

This guy bet on LSU football games while on the LSU football team. That is about as dumb as it gets and he should be arrested for that. And the sportsbook needs to be fined for booking the action.

Brands and Dresser need to take responsibility for their failure to inform their wrestlers that they can't gamble on college sports rather than blame the people who caught them. Or how about taking responsibility for creating a culture where those actions were widely acceptable? The first thing you are told by the compliance office freshman year in a giant meeting with every student-athlete is that you can't gamble on sports.

1000% yes he should for the sake of all wrestling fans and the female students at the University of Iowa. But for his own sake, the last thing he needs is even more brain damage.

This guy is one of the most impressive freshman I’ve ever seen. Period. The dominance reminds me of Taylor.

If he loses or gets hurt, possibly. If he wins, he could go down as the greatest U.S. wrestler ever if he keeps competing.

Why not just let these athletes compete indefinitely? They're being paid, so at this point it's professional athletics. Barely any of the best athletes are taking legitimate classes, so the 4-year concept is arbitrary. Tebow could have had a longer career!

I voted for Poulin, but the vote was based entirely on the youtube video from 15 years ago.

Tesla is kind of a shitshow isn't it. The cars seem nice, and everyone who has one is obsessed with it, but damn they seem like a huge headache. But then again, it took decades for gasoline cars to improve reliability, so I'm sure that eventually these issues will be figured out.

There's something to the concept that New Hampshire is not representative of the democratic party-it's not just a DEI thing or payback. Clyburn may not even be around in four years when there's the next competitive democratic primary. Most of the nominees have lost NH. Biden lost it very convincingly four years ago despite leading in national polls and winning the nomination convincingly. Hillary lost it to overwhelmingly to Bernie in 2016 despite the primary not really being that close overall. Obama lost it to Hillary. Bill Clinton even lost it. Compare that to SC-where the winner of SC pretty much always wins the nomination. SC is just more indicative of where the democratic party is than NH. The problem with NH first is it isn't indicative of the party overall, so people like Bernie who are on the fringe appear to be more popular than he actually is. I think that's partly why the primaries are always such a shitshow-where it's a fight for the socialist vote in the early states.

Obama killed a terrorist, which pissed off ISIS. ISIS wants to sue Obama now.

Why did Trump increase military spending and sell weapons to Ukraine?

This is good Supreme court already ruled this is free speech. Not sure what you expect anyone to do about this. That's the definition of a military alliance, and we are bound to do this by treaty obligation regardless of who the president is. Trump did this many times. Good You don't think killing Bin Laden was good? What's wrong with India? This is in the constitution-nothing a president can do about this. This is already happening de facto and benefits republicans There's nothing wrong with this a priori-some mergers are anti-competitive, but corporations often need to do this to increase efficiency.