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AFTER HIS FRIENDS reported receiving odd text messages from him, police searched the Georgia home of chiseled pro wrestler Chris Benoit, who had canceled a weekend pay-per-view event for "personal reasons." In the house, investigators found prescription anabolic steroids--and the telegenic "Canadian Crippler," his wife Nancy, 43, and their 7-year-old son dead in an apparent murder-suicide. Officials said Benoit--the 2004 world heavyweight champ whose signature move was the "crippler crossface"-- strangled his wife, smothered his son, placed Bibles beside them, and hanged himself on the pulley of a weight-lifting machine...
...upper chamber of Japan's Diet legislature goes by the august title of the House of Councilors, but it tends to attract the off-beat: baseball players, TV stars, even the occasional pro wrestler. A candidate who is the ex-president of a foreign country currently living under house arrest 11,000 miles away , however... that's a new one, even for Japanese democracy. But on Thursday morning the tiny conservative People's New Party (PNP) confirmed that Alberto Fujimori, the former president of Peru and a Japanese citizen, would campaign for the Diet under the PNP's banner...
...season riddled with sometimes devastating injuries, it became clear toward year’s end that the success or failure of the Crimson wrestling season would be decided by just four performances at the NCAA Championships in Auburn Hills, Mich. Harvard had four wrestlers qualify for the nationals: tri-captain Max Meltzer, tri-captain Robbie Preston, sophomore Louis Caputo, and freshman J. P. O’Connor. The Crimson did not disappoint. The team put up historic numbers at the tournament, earning its highest point total ever at nationals (29), and seeing three of its four wrestlers (Meltzer, Caputo...
...know if I’ll make the travel squad yet,” Flood said, “but I’m hoping to.”Flood was undoubtedly chosen because of his prowess throughout his career at the faceoff X. A former high school wrestler, Flood has applied his wrestling technique to the lacrosse field to the tune of the second-best faceoff percentage in all of Division I lacrosse. His win percentage of 67.1 was also best in the Ivy League, and he won at least half of his faceoffs in every game...
...Stacy Keibler finished third. In a humbling post mortem of my prediction, I looked back at the way people were searching for Stacy. Her searches weren't about her dancing ability or even the show. Internet users were looking for pictures of the tall, leggy blond wrestler, fewer clothes preferred, en masse. This led to a new step in my prediction method, what I refer to now as an SKCC, the Stacy Keibler Correction Coefficient...