Word: wrestler
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Georgia had Lester Maddox and Louisiana had Earl Long, and now Minnesota has gone and got an interesting Governor of our own: a pro wrestler with a shaved head and a bad-boy swagger whose voice is hoarse from bellowing at opponents and threatening to rip their arms from their sockets. He was the protest candidate, a chance to throw toilet paper in the trees and piss off Dad, nobody dreaming he would actually be elected. But in a three-way race the ball takes funny bounces, and that is how Minnesota...
...former pro-wrestler body slams his two opponents. We're waiting for the Hulk Hogan, Mr. Perfect cabinet. --The editorial board
...that he's a candidate for Governor of Minnesota, Ventura, 47, has hung up his boa and no longer espouses cheating. But to the state's Democrats and Republicans, the former wrestler, actor and radio shock jock is still playing the bad guy. Most observers had considered Ventura's shoestring Reform Party campaign an entertaining sideshow to the main event. Then a new poll in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune showed him with an impressive 21% of the vote--double what he had had a month before and within striking distance of his two major rivals. Gnarled in a statistical headlock...
Senior Anthony Ackil, a 6'1", 250-pounddefensive tackle on the football team who doublesas a heavyweight wrestler during the winters, sayshe has used creatine for the past three summersbut that he does not use it during the seasons.Although he acknowledges that his coachdiscourages the use of creatine, he says he gainedabout five pounds using the supplement lastsummer...
...Creatine can help wrestlers with theirstrength and help them get in shape, but it doesnot help with their skill," DeNunzio says. "Youwill get stronger if you use creatine. But you arestill the same wrestler, only now you are in adifferent weight class...