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...Assistant coaches in wrestling are so valuable on the mat, so obviously with Jesse ranked No. 1, my big thing was to get someone who could be an excellent workout partner,” Weiss continues. “Also, Jared’s beaten Jesse twice in college, so I already knew of him from competition. When I met him, I felt he was a perfect fit for the whole team—not just Jesse—personality and everything...
...It’s important that he’s not only a workout partner, because both guys will need the training. If both need training, it’s easier that way, and he sets the standard for the whole team: if a guy’s assistant coach is training harder than them, then they know that something’s wrong...
...years the models were often redheads (as were many 50s movie actresses), but blonds quickly came to dominate the selection (as they did Hefner?s choice of companion). The traces of baby fat in the 50s and 60s Playmates gave way to the buffed and sanded ladies of the workout era. They were usually, though not necessarily, busty, and almost always Caucasian. And always very American: the ideal of the middle-class Midwestern boy who ran the magazine. Even the German models Hefner added for spice in 1961 (Heidi Becker, Christa Speck) looked like red-white-and-blue farm girls...
...Playboy did surrender to the eroto-chemical revolution: the siliconing of women?s breasts. No longer was the Playmate a triumph of good genes, a pretty smile and a light workout. Now when you looked at a Playmate you had to think of the plastic surgeon who made her that way. Bette Midler once made a joke about Bruce Springsteen in his 80s buff phase: ?Nice body, Bruce. Where?d you buy it?? Same goes for many of the Playmates of the past 20 years. The 50th Anniversary Playmate, Colleen Shannon, is a Pamela Anderson clone, a pneumatic cartoon drawn...
...theirs. Such changes will, of course, be logistically complex and financially challenging. But that is precisely what prioritizing something means. So the message to the administration is simple: Either step up and find a way, as so many other universities have done, to provide a first-rate workout facility or stop wasting everyone’s time by pretending that doing so is a priority...