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...silence as the crowd considered the friend and classmate who police said had admitted double homicide. Son of a U.S. Army chief warrant officer, Mesa is a native of Guam. He was an enthusiastic athlete in high school; the Washington Post noted that when he was a school wrestler, it had once taken three boys to pin him. After transferring to Gallaudet's Model Secondary School for the Deaf, he had academic problems. His lawyer later suggested that he reads at about a fourth-grade level. But he is a handsome young man, deeply devoted to his girlfriend (also from...
...Especially exciting was sophomore Patrick O'Donnell's poignant victory at 165-pounds over Iowa State's Joe Heskett, the No. 1 ranked wrestler who had been undefeated prior to O'Donnell's Herculean feat. Coming from behind and forcing overtime for the huge win, O'Donnell asserted himself as wrestler to be both respected and feared...
...phenomenal performance--in which he pinned all four opponents-Rechul earned Outstanding Wrestler of the Tournament, the first heavyweight to do so since 1940. He also garnered the Most Falls in the Least Time, four...
...last century about the two-sport athlete. Bo Jackson. Deion Sanders. Michael Jordan. Perhaps it was '90s irrational exuberance that caused American jocks to ask themselves: Why excel at just one sport when you could be mediocre at two? That had economists wondering if 30-year-old retired sumo wrestler WAKANOHANA's hankering to play in the NFL could be a harbinger of impending Japanese prosperity. The former grand champion has said he's been more attracted to the gridiron than the dojo since boyhood. It would definitely be a career boost; since retiring last year, Waka has shilled...
Indeed, the extraordinary accomplishments of Harvard wrestler Jesse Jantzen have been nothing short of spectacular. And fortunately for the Crimson, he is only a freshman...