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Keith (125) had one of the most challenging roads through the championships, as the rookie entered the tournament unseeded. The young grappler cruised through his first bout, besting Columbia’s Kyle Gilchrist, 8-2, to set up a battle with reigning national champion Troy Nickerson. The Cornell standout showed no mercy as he earned a fall in 2:46, but Keith proved undeterred. The freshman stormed through the consolation bracket, winning four more matches to take third place...
...perhaps none of Keith’s performances was more dominant than his last, in which a trip to the NCAA championships was on the line. Needing a win to qualify, Keith owned the third-place bout against No. 2 seed Joseph Langel, earning a 16-0 technical fall and a ticket to Omaha...
...Connor also felt that he did not have an ideal tournament, but a lack of offense did not stop the All-American from going undefeated in Bethlehem, Pa. O’Connor rolled through his first two bouts with a major decision and a technical fall before running into trouble in the semifinals. The Harvard co-captain took on Daryl Cocozzo of Rutgers and immediately found himself in unfamiliar territory, as Cocozzo notched an early takedown for a 2-0 lead. O’Connor kept his cool, though, and quickly turned the match around for a 4-2 advantage...
...that trade has put as many as 20,000 locals out of work. The price of utilities has jumped. On top of that, the unpopular governor, a Kremlin-appointed former tax minister from Moscow named Georgy Boos, levied a new tax on drivers. During the worst bout of unemployment and economic decline in a decade, reports of Boos' lavish vacations to Europe have made many locals despise him. (See pictures of Russian police breaking up an anti-Kremlin rally...
...often, a knee to the face. Ultimate Fighting does have a set of rules to which all play must adhere, but even when the prohibitions against eye gouging and against kicking the head of a grounded opponent are accounted for, the result is still a fierce and brutal bout. An onlooker of sports could, over time, feasibly point out that the recent surge of interest in this sport is not altogether different from the popularity of professional wrestling, but there is, in fact, a key difference between the two. Whereas a great part of the fun of professional wrestling stems...