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...were really happy to beat them," said junior wrestler John Drosos...
...almost logical that when he decided to take last year off for personal reasons, he--like Anteus, the Greek wrestler who drew strength from Mother Earth--would head straight back to his old neighboorhood...
...LAST YEARS OF HIS LIFE (HE DIED of cancer in 1984), comedian Andy Kaufman developed an inexplicable obsession with professional wrestling. First he satirized the macho sport by wrestling women, crowning himself the Intergender Champion. Then he launched a feud with Memphis, Tennessee, wrestler Jerry Lawler, and things began to get out of hand. He was seriously injured more than once, goaded the "hick" Memphis fans with increasing venom and began to worry even his closest friends. ANDY KAUFMAN: I'M FROM HOLLYWOOD (Shanachie Home Video), an extraordinary account of Kaufman's ring exploits, chronicles what was either the shrewdest...
Many at Malcolm X express a sense of desperation in trying to rescue the children. Frank Edge is a formidable 215-lb. former professional wrestler who works as a school security guard. Children follow him around the playground and through the halls, where he doles out lollipops and hugs in equal measure. But for Edge, this is no casual job. Before coming to Malcolm X two years ago, he was assigned to a nearby junior high. When students from the school were killed, it was his duty to walk the grieving mother or father to their child's locker...
...reporter for the Yale Daily News. But early on, he says, "I decided that I was much better with numbers than with words." A lightning number cruncher with a stern eye for fat in a budget, he honed his concentration and competitive skills as a 145-lb. wrestler at Phillips Academy. "It sure taught me to be tenacious," he says. Greg also discovered a passion for politics, working after college as a legislative assistant for Jonathan Bingham, a Democratic Congressman from the Bronx...