Lawmakers have filed legislation that would ban transgender girls and women who attend public K-12 schools, colleges and universities from playing on single-sex sports teams designated for girls and women. More here

The Montana House Judiciary has passed the Save Women’s Sports Act, legislation that would prevent biological men who “identify” as women from competing against biological women. Lawmakers will hold a hearing on the bill. More here  

by Tyler Durden Thursday, Jan 21, 2021 – 17:00 On Wednesday, President Biden signed a flurry of 14 ‘Day One’ Executive Orders, most of which are targeted at walking back President Trump’s agenda – such as stopping border wall construction, rejoining the Paris Climate Ag...

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December 10, 2020 Press Release Washington, DC—Today, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (HI-02) and Rep. Markwayne Mullin (OK-02) introduced H.R.8932, the Protect Women’s Sports Act. Given the average difference in abilities conferred by biological sex, this bill would clarify Title IX protections for female athle...

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As I have written for the last few weeks NBA viewership is in a freefall. Even with the biggest star and franchise in the NBA finals, fans didn’t tune in. Game 5 had the highest ratings of the series and had nearly 9 million viewers. Last year with no LJ, Lakers and a Canadian team […]

Ten of Thousands of Doctors Confirm this is a Hoax https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/ten-of-thousands-of-doctors-confirm-this-is-a-hoax/

YouTube/Screenshot Penny Starr 17 Oct 2020633 2:46 The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) notified Concerned Women for America (CWA) on Friday that its Office of Civil Rights (OCR) had settled its complaint against New Hampshire-based Franklin Pierce University after the school agreed to rescind its...

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A college freshman in Storm Lake, Iowa, is getting a lot of attention for helping save his coworker who experienced a heart attack on September 17. His first day working at Walmart, Buena Vista University (BVU) student Diego Aguilera was being trained in the produce department when he and another as...

STEVE HEISER 717-505-5446/@ydsports The number of Pennsylvania school districts willing to exceed the state’s limits on outdoor and indoor gatherings is growing. Monday night, LNP reported that the Eastern Lancaster County School District unanimously voted to increase its spectator limits at extracu...

By Peter Hall The Morning Call  Sep 22, 2020 at 2:29 PM A federal judge in Pittsburgh said Tuesday he would not allow coronavirus mitigation measures he declared unconstitutional last week to remain in place while Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration appeals the decision. U.S. District Judge William S. St...

Why should wrestling be any different. No vaccine necessary. Lets go. By Maddie Robertson – Photo: Rick Bowmer/Associated Press Throughout the Spring and Summer there was some concern that football games and the crowds that come to them could be a spreading point for Covid. So much of a concer...

You can check out the 30 minute interview over on my Rokfin page. Follow the link below Thanks Mike https://rokfin.com/post/16535/Shayne-Van-Nes    

Shayne Van Ness is widely considered the #1 prospect in the country. He, like fellow New Jersey lightweight Robbie Howard, will be going west to State College. The lower weights have been less consistent for Coach Sanderson during the PSU remarkable run over the last decade. If there is wrestling th...

The memo from NCAA President Mark Emmert went out to the association’s more than 1,200 member schools Wednesday. The furloughs will not affect senior executives. Starting Sept. 21 through the end of January 2021, all national office staff will be subjected to a mandatory three-week furlough, Emmert ...

The Big 10 conference must provide more documents related to the football season being canceled a Lancaster County District Court judge within 10 days.Shinning a light on any bureaucracy will always revel misconduct and wrong doing.  I’m guessing the Big 10 conference and some school president...

Courts in the Iranian city of Shiraz slapped a champion wrestler with a shocking penalty of two death sentences and whipping for protesting in 2018 against the Islamic Republic of Iran’s disastrous economic policies. The sentencing against 27-year-old Navid Afkari has triggered widespread outrage fr...

Published September 1st, 2020 by NLWC Staff https://rokfin.com/NLWC Nittany Lion Wrestling Club Set to Host Freestyle Event Live Online Over 10 freestyle match-ups set to stream live on Rokfin   UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.; September 1, 2020 –  The Nittany Lion Wrestling Club (NLWC) will host a freest...

Maybe the most woke organization on the planet is the NBA and yet the NBA’s playoff ratings are still tanking. NBA Playoffs were sapposed to change that slump but they haven’t. Sports Media Watch reported. Viewership on ABC is down 23 percent and the numbers are down 20 percent overall compare...

A brief history of the process of bringing men’s and women’s wrestling to Slippery Rock University. The University provided a letter of understanding to a group of alumni detailing a fundraising requirement – to be conducted under the auspices of SRU Foundation, Inc. – of $5 million with...

By Eric Knopsnyder  [email protected] Official Ed Bishop declares Chestnut Ridge’s Kai Burkett the winner of a 106-pound bout after he pinned Westmont Hilltop’s Connor LaMantia, during a Laurel Highlands Athletic Conference title match in Johnstown, PA., Tuesday, Jan.22, 2019. Chestnut Ridge won 44...

by Jason Whitlock  45 Comments It’s time for BLM 101, Volume 6. This online class is dedicated to educating professional athletes on the real agenda and impact of the so-called Black Lives Matter movement. Earlier this week, I renamed BLM, calling it Bigots Love Marxism. BLM 101 makes a good-faith e...

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The NCAA’s Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren decided to cancel the conference’s fall sports schedule due to COVID-19, despite every Athletic Director in the Big Ten making it clear they want to play. It appears Warren, who is a progressive BLM supporter, is not taking the advice of “medical experts,...

The CDC has quietly changed its recommendations as to testing asymptomatic people for COVID-19. The following is the new guidance from the CDC: If you have been in close contact (within 6 feet) of a person with a COVID-19 infection for at least 15 minutes but do not have symptoms: You do not necessa...

Ohio State insider Jeff Snook says, Gene Smith and several other Big Ten athletic directors are working behind the scenes to create a six-team, 10-game season. Apparently there is one governor reportedly standing in the way of all the others. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer is being referred to a...

Great news from @PIAASports The vast majority of #Pennsylvania #athletes will benefit from this. #Sport provides so many positives for all ages. Take advantage of the opportunity

The University of  Iowa president Bruce Harreld and athletic director Gary Barta wrote an open letter today in which they aid that 4 sports were being discontinued : men’s gymnastics, men’s and women’s swimming and diving, and men’s tennis. The B1G’s cancellation/postponement of the fall sport...

After Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren published an open letter saying that the conference would not be revisiting its decision to cancel fall sports, Ohio State athletics director Gene Smith released a statement to the media that seems to indicated that Ohio State isn’t happy with Warren&#82...

Sports fans have been starved for games to watch but the ratings show that fans just aren’t all that interested in the new, woke version of the either league. Both basketball and baseball resumed their schedules this summer with little sporting competition on TV and fans staved for some action. Howe...

The mounting pressure on the Big 10 might cause the conference to reconsider the decision to cancel the football season.I sure hope this report is true. This would be the best sports news since the lock down began besides maybe the UFC fight island.. If football is played the chance for other sports...

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We are down to just three major conferences playing football — the SEC, Big 12, and ACC — who have not yet canceled their football seasons, the College Football Playoff committee plans on moving forward with their championship game in Miami. By Mark Heim | [email protected] If there is one word to d...

Authored by Patrick Buchanan via Buchanan.org, If the definition of racism is deliberate discrimination based on race, color or national origin, Yale University appears to be a textbook case of “systemic racism.” And, so, the Department of Justice contends. Last week, Assistant Attorney General Eric...

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Reports show that it will cost the local economy more than $500 million. Happy Valley Adventure Bureau President and CEO Fritz Smith of Penn State football told Yahoo Sports that it’ll be somewhere between $70 million and $80 million for every home game.  PSU generally plays seven home games a year,...

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Dan Wetzel     Yahoo SportsAug 15, 2020, 6:53 PM On Tuesday, the Big Ten and Pac-12 canceled fall sports, including football. On Saturday, the FDA approved a coronavirus testing system known as SalivaDirect, which was developed by Yale University in conjunction with the NBA and the NBA Players Assoc...

Bad news continued for the Big Ten leadership and PR machine when a third parental group filed a petition to reinstate the B1G football season. Penn State parents did what Ohio State and Iowa parents did earlier this week calling out the the B1G leadership, decision making process and contradictions...

NATIONAL WRESTLING COACHES ASSOCIATION Founded 1928 August 11, 2020 Dear Administrator and Coach, Last month the NWCA DI Leadership group urgently suggested that wrestling impose a shift to the 2020-21 season as a result of ongoing complications related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Following up on that...

Fox will reportedly lose a staggering amount of money with the Big 10 and PAC-12 not playing football in the fall. According to Sportico.com, the Big 10 and PAC-12 canceling their football seasons will cost Fox $167.5 million in TV money. August 12, 2020 12:35pm Big 12 telecasts could generate aroun...

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Villas, NJ, August 12 — The Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association is a wrestling only association whose member schools are all affiliated with other conferences. As such, our member teams may be subject to restrictions imposed by their parent conferences and home states with respect to...

By Ford Turner The Morning Call | Aug 12, 2020 at 11:09 AM Emmaus’ Rachel Herbine (10) shoots the ball for a goal against Easton’s Onalee Long (25) during a District 11 3A Field Hockey championship held at Whitehall High School last year. (April Gamiz/The Morning Call) The Pennsylva...

California Sen. Kamala Harris (D) co-sponsored a bill that would force public schools to allow biologically male athletes who identify as transgender on girls’ sports teams. In March 2019, Harris cosponsored the Equality Act, which would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to make “sexual orientation...

For Immediate Release Contact: Adam Augustine, Big Ten Conference Aug. 11, 2020 Big Ten Statement on 2020-21 Fall Season ROSEMONT, Ill. – The Big Ten Conference announced the postponement of the 2020-21 fall sports season, including all regular-season contests and Big Ten Championships and Tournamen...

by Clay Travis The 2020 college football season is hanging by a thread right now and with it so are all of college sports until the fall of 2021. Because make no mistake about it, if college football isn’t played this fall, it’s highly likely no college sports will be played again until the fall [&#...

Notre Dame’s Ryan Crookham has committed to Lehigh.Saed Hindash | For lehighvalleylive.com By Brad Wilson | For lehighvalleylive.com Lehigh has landed one of the nation’s top wrestling prospects as Notre Dame junior Ryan Crookham has committed to the Mountain Hawks. Crookham made the...

By Taylor Miller, USA Wrestling | Aug. 07, 2020, 3:01 p.m. (ET) To cap off what would be Olympic week for wrestling at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, today’s #FreestyleFriday looks at the past U.S. Olympic gold medalists in men’s freestyle and the schools they represented. An athlete who attended mor...

The PIAA Board of Directors met this afternoon to review Governor Wolf’s statement strongly recommending no interscholastic and recreational sports until January 1st. As we have noted, our member schools have worked diligently to develop health and safety plans in accordance with the Department of H...

The top medical experts in the world can’t decide if masks are helpful in reducing the spread of COVID-19 or just make things worse. Thursday, August 6, 2020 From left to right: Professor Henning Bundgaard, Tamara van Ark, Anders Tegnell | Composite image by FEE (Rigshospitalet, Wikimedia Commo...

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By Gary Abbott, USA Wrestling | Aug. 03, 2020, 4:39 p.m. (ET) One of the toughest days for the U.S. wrestling community since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic was an announcement from Stanford University on July 8 that it will drop 11 varsity athletics programs after 2020-21 season. Almost a ...

The Big 10 2020 football schedule format will reportedly be released Tuesday. According to John Talty, the B1G is expected to announce a 10 game conference schedule for teams at some point Tuesday. It was already known the Big 10 would only play conference games during the coronavirus pandemic, and ...

Tens of thousands of Germans marched through Berlin on Saturday, proclaiming a “Day of Freedom” and demanding an end to government-mandated face masks and “social distancing.” The UK and Netherlands also saw large protests against their governments’ tyrannical actions in response to the coronavirus ...

‘The Dan Le Batard Show’ Asks If It’s ‘Funny’ That Jonathan Isaac Tore His ACL Because He Stood For The National Anthem. The Twitter account for “The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz” posted an absurd tweet Monday about Jonathan Isaac. According to Outkick, the official Twitter account for the show h...

Rutgers first national champion Nick Suriano has re-enrolled at the university this week. Suriano won a title at 133-pounds versus Daton Fix on a controversial call in 2019 before taking an Olympic red-shirt last season. Suriano and his father told many people that he would never return to college o...

 

A group of Pac-12 football players from multiple schools wrote a letter in The Players’ Tribune threatening to opt out of fall camp and game participation unless their demands for fair treatment, safety regulations and concerns over racial justice for college athletes are met by the conference...

31 July, 2020 – 14:02 Riley Winters The Olympics, as they exist today, are but a shadow of their former glory. Though there are more activities and participants in the modern games, they do little to entice and arouse the Greek concept of glory and pride that once made them renowned throughout...

The easy answer is that they generally have been taught or have absorbed Georg Hegel philosophy that government is god and society needs to be destroyed to be rebuilt into a totalitarian utopia known as hell. by Clay Travis So how does a result like this happen? Well, the first and most fundamental ...

7/29/20 SAVE WOMEN’S SPORTS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: [email protected] INDIANAPOLIS – More than 300 current and former professional, Olympic, and collegiate female athletes sent a letter Wednesday to the National College Athletic Association, urging it to reject the call to boycot...

Sad news that former Montoursville head wrestling coach, David L Fortin Sr., has passed away at age 77. Dave was also an assistant coach at Lycoming College and coached at South Williamsport. More here

By Gary Abbott, USA Wrestling | July 30, 2020, 4:09 p.m. (ET) COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – USA Wrestling will post regular updates on the athletes who have qualified for the 2020 U.S. Olympic Team Trials, which will determine the 2020 Olympic Team in all three styles—men’s and women’s freestyle an...

It’s  not clear if there is an NCAA approved list of such slogans from which the student-athletes may choose. I’m guessing that their will be an approved list like the NBA and that  they will be overwhelmingly socialist. This will not end well and will alienate millions of fans The Natio...

Colleges and universities across the US are planning to roll out strict COVID-19 testing measures at their campuses for those starting back this Fall. In some instances, like Cornell University in New York or Baylor in Waco, all students, faculty, and staff will be required to test negative before b...

If you’re looking for peak idiocy from academic institutions that are falling all over themselves to kowtow to the mob’s notions of “social justice,” look no further. More here The English Department at Rutgers University has declared that proper use of grammar is a hidden form of racism because it ...

Paul Gallant took a slap at Trump for saying the waves of protesters are “terrorists,” he changed his tune when the rioters came to his home. Two weeks later, Gallant was again tweeting about the riots, but this time he was a bit less confident that the rioters were mostly peaceful. On June 25, Gall...

The former heavyweight champion will meet four-division champion Roy Jones Jr. in an eight-round exhibition match on Sept. 12 at Dignity Health Sports Park. Tyson became the youngest heavyweight champion in history when he won the title in 1986 at age 20 and for a time was the most feared fighter in...

Carlton Haselrig, one of Johnstown’s greatest sports figures, died Wednesday. Haselrig, 54, collapsed at his Johnstown home at 8:15 a.m. Wednesday and was pronounced dead at 9:19 a.m., Cambria County Coroner Jeffrey Lees said. The coroner said the death is believed to be of natural causes; an autops...

Red Bull has fired two ‘diversity directors’ who tried to force the company into virtue signaling about Black Lives Matter while also dissolving several ‘culture teams’ who were pressuring Red Bull to take a more aggressive ‘woke’ political stance. Stefan Kozak, its North America chief executive, an...

The Fighting Irish administered 103 tests to the football team for coronavirus, and all of them came back negative.  Notre Dame has done a total of 356 tests, and only two have been positive. It’s more than a little strange how some schools, such as Michigan, Wisconsin and Notre Dame, are all handli...

According to a report from NJ.com, Ohio State will lose more than $104 million if the football season doesn’t happen during the coronavirus pandemic. Michigan, Penn State, Nebraska and Wisconsin are all expected to lose at least $80 million. The amount of money on the line is staggering. While most ...

The reason New York failed to “flatten the curve” and Sweden succeeded probably has little to do with lockdowns. Wednesday, July 15, 2020 Image Credit: Yinon Weiss | Twitter: @yinonw Jon Miltimore           Coronavirus deaths have slowed to a crawl in Sweden...

Tokyo’s governor said on Monday the Summer Olympics – postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic – must go forward next year to symbolize world unity in overcoming the health crisis, Japan Today reported on Tuesday. Originally scheduled to start this month in Tokyo, the 2020 Olympic Games were postpo...

I didn’t grow up desiring to be an Olympic Gold Medalist. When I pulled up a singlet and strapped on my headgear for the first time as a kid in South Jersey, I was just hoping to win the tallest trophy at the local youth tournament. Long before I was standing on top of podiums […]

 

Guessing that watching Penn or Drexel in person this year is looking like a long shot.   The city of Philadelphia has banned large gatherings through February 2021, and that means the Eagles won’t be able to pack Lincoln Financial Field. “We have been in communication with the Eagles. We have t...

Is the the middle of the end for the PSAC conference? They are already in financial trouble. I know that several other conferences have dropped fall classes or sports but this conference is already in deep trouble before the government Covid crisis.           Michael Love &#...

The Power Five athletic conferences made a staggering amount of money in 2019. According to USA Today, the P5 conferences, which are the ACC, PAC-12, Big 10, SEC and Big 12, made nearly $3 billion in revenue, and the Big 10 led the way with $780 million in revenue. The B1G paid out more than [&#8230...

Bad news. And it’s not like Stanford is poor. A few justifications and noteworthy points. Stanford points to the fact that fewer than 22% of D1 schools sponsor wrestling. When they re-instituted wrestling it was because it was a cheap sport and it was easy to find wrestlers with high academics...

Barkley said, “I think what’s happening now is we have turned it into a circus. We are going to spend time instead of talking about racial equality, racial justice and economic justice. We spend all our time worried about who is kneeling and what’s being said on buses, what is being said on jerseys....

Authored by Dominick Mastrangelo via The Washington Examiner, Big take away For people younger than 45, the infection fatality rate is almost 0%. For 45 to 70, it is probably about 0.05-0.3%. For those above 70, it escalates substantially, to 1% or higher for those over 85. Stanford University&#8217...

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Disclaimer. I’ve been a Nike product tester since the early 1990’s. Editorial up top and business reporting below In 2008 the Oregon Ducks dropped their wrestling program. Oregon’s athletic programs are heavily subsidized by Nike. While Oregon wasn’t a power house it had two ...

I spent some time today talking with PA AAA state champ, former Mt Lebanon and future Princeton wrestler Luke Stout. We covered a bunch of ground. I look forward to seeing him a Princeton this fall. You can listen on Sound Cloud or You Tube. Unfortunately the video had technical issues. Just audio.

Ratings for last weekend’s woke ESPY Awards crashed to the lowest numbers the show has ever recorded. The ESPYs only earned 482,000 viewers over both ESPN and ESPN2 combined, making it the smallest audience the show has ever reached dating back to its inaugural awards in 1993. The previous low occur...

A young man in Rockford, Illinois, is being recognized for his bravery and determination in the face of unthinkable challenges. When Boylan Catholic High School wrestler Dathan Wickson Jr. was 10-years-old, he fell off a couch and hit his head on a coffee table, according to USA Today. “Doctors clos...

In an interview with CNN’s Sanjay Gupta, the head of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, told viewers that there could be no football this year unless NFL players were kept “in a bubble.” There is clearly a deliberate move to keep the world shut down and t...

Democrats are not happy about a Department of Education decision to withhold federal funding from Connecticut schools for violating Title IX’s discrimination statute by allowing biological men who claim to be transgender women, to compete agains biological women in high school and college sports. Tw...

Wednesday, June 17, 2020 – 19:48 By United World Wrestling Press CORSIER-SUR-VEVEY, Switzerland (June 17) — The United World Wrestling bureau voted Tuesday on a large number of changes to the 2020 and 2021 competition calendars, including a blanket delay on all competitions until no earl...

Division I Council adopts legislation, joining Divisions II and III Acrobatics and tumbling and women’s wrestling will be added to the NCAA Emerging Sports for Women program in Division I, the Division I Council decided Wednesday. The Council met virtually. Members noted that some schools already ha...

In a step backwards for PA wrestling the PIAA Board of Directors passed a measure to approve a reduction in the number of high school wrestling weight classes from 14 to 13 for the 2020-’21 season. The board unanimously passed the measure on a second reading, setting up a third reading at its July m...

Last month, ESPN saw its lowest ratings in the network’s 41-year history as “WokeCenter on steroids” takes over, Outkick’s Clay Travis noted on Friday. On his popular Outkick the Coverage site, Travis insisted that the cable network’s ratings crash was not because of the coronavirus, but instead bec...

Ohio State football players and their parents were asked to sign an acknowledgment of risk waiver regarding the coronavirus pandemic before returning to campus for voluntary workouts on June 8, athletic director Gene Smith confirmed to ESPN on Sunday. The “Buckeye Pledge,” obtained by ES...

Deformed ears are a hallmark of contact sports, including boxing and rugby Chinese scientists found a way to sculpt fresh tissue using 3D bioprinting  Was tested on mice and was able to create brand new ear-shaped supportive tissue and correct defects By Joe Pinkstone For Mailonline Published: 14:00...