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Privately, however, Louis was a womanizer and profligate who disastrously mismanaged his finances. A combination of pride and debt drove him to overstay his time in the ring. He lost his crown, became a referee and, briefly, an overweight professional wrestler. The battle between the Good Colored Boy and the resentful black man finally claimed its victim in the late '60s: he became a drug user and a blurting paranoid, convinced that murderers were stalking him. His last job before his death, in 1981, was as a "greeter" in a Las Vegas casino, where he signed autographs and played golf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pride and Prejudice | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...year after Jantzen (149 lbs.) was named national champion and the Most Outstanding Wrestler of the NCAA tournament, the Crimson’s precocious pair of sophomores did their best to take up the mantle in St. Louis, Mo. this past weekend...

Author: By Pablo S. Torre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wrestling's Preston, Ogunwole Shine at NCAAs | 3/21/2005 | See Source »

...Harvard, the focus now shifts to the NCAA Championships in Missouri, the same competition and the same place where Jesse Jantzen ’04 was crowned National Champion (149 lbs.) and the entire tournament’s Most Outstanding Wrestler overall last year...

Author: By Megha Parekh and Pablo S. Torre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Preston, Ogunwole Advance | 3/7/2005 | See Source »

...rotating their heads and shaking out their hands. Nicole Woody, 16, is the only girl on either team. It is unclear whether the 105-pounder will get a chance to wrestle this evening. She'll have to see if anyone on the Annapolis squad matches her weight. A female wrestler is still a curiosity, but Woody is no novice, having just returned from Russia, where she competed with the U.S. women's wrestling team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Girls Get A Grip | 2/27/2005 | See Source »

Even Harvard’s reigning NCAA national champion wrestler Jesse Jantzen ’04 and current assistant wrestling coach and former Oklahoma standout Jared Frayer have gotten into the act. Their respective websites boast extensive articles, photos, schedules, and even merchandise—most notably “Jesse Jantzen” t-shirts and others emblazoned with “Air Frayer...

Author: By Pablo S. Torre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'BLO IT RIGHT BY 'EM: World Wide Wonders Abound | 2/3/2005 | See Source »

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