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Despite gritty wins by Preston, Jones, and DeNunzio, the Crimson fell 28-15 to Penn on Friday afternoon, with much of the attention centering on an epic, double-overtime heavyweight match between the Quakers’ No. 6 Matt Feast and sophomore No. 7 Bode Ogunwole...
...Bode keeps getting closer,” Weiss said. “It was a very good match, well-wrestled. And you couldn’t get much closer than it really...
...much about Bode (Bo-dee) Miller is conventional. Raised in a mountainside cabin in Franconia, N.H., that lacked electricity and plumbing, he was home-schooled until he was 8 by hippie parents. His father Woody was on the ski patrol and sold energy snacks to scrape by. His mother Jo came from a family of racers. As a young boy he spent nearly every winter day on nearby Cannon Mountain. His mother dropped him off at the base of the hill, and he would find his own ride home. In the summer, tennis gave him agility and soccer a great...
...skis, his personality is stubbornly down-to-earth. In the off-season, he goes back to New Hampshire to help out with the kids at his parents' tennis camp. On the World Cup racing circuit in Europe, he drives from alp to alp in a huge RV, the "Bode Mobile." He recently started his own talk show on the Sirius satellite-radio network, on which he can chat about skiing and partying in a "fairly core" way. Despite his growing exposure, Miller says he is not designed for stardom. In fact, the media interviews, the frantic fan adulation...
...most popular skier on the mountain. He's even appreciated by his rivals. Writing in Sportwoche, an Austrian weekly, slalom ace Rainer Schoenfelder credited Miller and his versatility with keeping media attention on the old-fashioned finesse events like slalom in the X Games era. "Thank God for Bode Miller!" he said. Heading into next year's Olympics in Torino, the U.S. ski team feels exactly the same...