I was given the ok by our Sports Moderator to start this thread. It is gonna be all about me, so if you don't like it, get the hell out! :p

For anyone who doesn't know, I'm a senior in high school. I wrestle at 145 lb or 152 lb. My individual record this season is 13-6.

Here's how indivudual scoring breaks down:

Takedown - 2 pts
Escape - 1 pt
Reversal - 2 pts
Near Fall - 5 pts
Pin - no pts, match is over

Here's how team scoring breaks down:

Decision (won by 8 pts or less) - 3 team pts
Major Decision (won by 8-14 pts) - 4 team pts
Technical Fall (wrestler up by 15 pts, match immediately stops) - 5 team pts
Pin - 6 team pts
Forfeit - 6 team pts

My match today was postponed because of the snow.

Someone remind me to slap the sports thread moderator. j/k.

So I guess we can all start our own threads. Sort of like Toby Keith's song, "I wanna talk about me, I wanna talk about I, I wanna talk about #1, oh my me my!

Good luck with your wrestling.

Freddie, it's been a while so I don't remember but do they still give back points or is that just 5 for the near fall?

Since this is my thread, I'll post something off topic.

My coach called me at about 9 am to tell me that the match was postponed. Now, my sister goes to Villanova, and she had a ticket to today's basketball game vs #2 Kansas. She was going to go with her boyfriend, who also goes there, but she was afraid of getting stuck in the snow, so I took her ticket and went with her bf. He's a really cool guy, my favorite of all the bf's she's had. Anyway, Nova pulled the major upset, blowing out the previously unbeaten Jayhawks 83-62. After the final buzzer, all of the students stormed the court, so I figured 'what the hell' and joined them.

Yes, there are still back pts.

On back for two seconds - 2pts

On back for five seconds - 3 more pts

So 2+3=5.

Why don't you just wrestle inside then? :p

There are 14 weight classes in high school wrestling. They are (in lbs)...

103
112
119
125
130
135
140
145
152
160
171
189
215
275

All wrestlers have to weigh in 1 hour before the match begins. There is actually a lot of coaching strategy involved in a wrestling match. Coaches don't have to submit a line-up before the match starts. So there is a "chess mtach" being played by opposing coaches on who to send out. A lot of people don't realize this.

I also enjoyed going to a match and seeing 10-15 guys running around the building trying to sweat off a pound or two lol

The wrestlers also enjoy it. :rolleyes:

I don't have a problem with running, and I actually kinda enjoy it. If I didn't play football, I would've ran cross country. I ran the course this fall to see what time I could get, and I ran the 3.1 miles in 17:41, which is a decent time.

Go Freddie Go. I'm an ex-wrestler. Ancient history, class of '67. Great sport. Builds character.

I too am a Villanova fan. My daughter is a graduate class of 2001. I've been following the BB team since she enrolled. And I can't believe I didn't watch that game on TV. I didn't realize it was on. 'Nova has lost 4 games by a total of 10 pts. They will make some noise this year in the Big East.

PA wrestling is very competitive. Lots of good college teams, especially in the Div. III class, but Iowa, Oklahoma, Minnesota are still the class of the country. Good luck on the rest of your season.

This post is about basketball.

My high school team just took a major blow. Our starting center, who is one of my best friends, broke his ankle this weekend, playing in the snow with his little sister.

He leads the team in scoring and rebounding. My school is currently in first place in our league. Our record is 15-3. But now this totally changes things. Some guys are gonna have to step up.

What school, Freddie? I live on the Jersey side and may have heard of it.

I lost last night, 12-3 at 152lb. The kid I faced was really good. Tonight we have a match against the #16 ranked team in the country. I'm going to be trying just not to get pinned.

I go to Spring-Ford High School.

Based on the "New Girl Problem" thread, now we know how FC loses the extra pounds! :p

Freddie, by now I hope you didn't get pinned. When you're up against a good opponent, don't you just go psycho? Grunt, yell, do crazy things. Throw him off his game...maybe you'll get lucky and catch him with his guard down.

Is pinching nipples allowed?

Well, I did get pinned tonight, in the second period.

:D

I got a forfeit yesterday at 152lb. My team won, 46-15.

Sometimes you can get away with sucking, but pinching is a little too obvious.

I got a pin last night at 145lb. I got him in a cradle in the 2nd period and it was over. My team had 10 pins out of the 14 matches. We won, 70-9.

Do you have matches every night?

Besides our league matches, my team participates in a lot of tournaments. We have had a lot of matches lately. The team's season is almost over, which means that my season is almost over. Some of my teammates will continue on to states. Last year our 103lb finished 2nd in the state, and our 135lb finished 6th.

Has anyone else seen Marat Safin's gf... Dasha Zhukova. She's beautiful. I'm in love (just don't tell my gf)

To each his own Freddie. Her mouth looks like the grill on a '56 Oldsmobile. :rolleyes:

You're right. What was I thinking? She's hideous! :rolleyes:

My school's B-Ball team has made it to the league championship game. The big game is tomorrow night, but I have a match tomorrow. The match starts at 4pm, and the game starts at 7pm. I should be able to make it to the game. I'm part of the "Bleacher Creatures". That is the name of our student section. (No one goes to wrestling matches ) My school had t-shirts made for us. We're playing our biggest rivals in the championship. When we played them a couple weeks ago, there were 7 police cars in the parking lot. This game will be intense.

I won a 14-3 major decision yesterday at 145lb . My team won easily, 56-12.

But we lost in the b-ball final, 66-47. I was really into the game (yelling a lot and such) and now I have no voice. Districts start on Friday. Wrestling districts start on Feb 25 (if I make it, I'll probably lose the first match )

Such negative thoughts!! Remember...GO CRAZY!

I won last night, 8-1 at 145lb. My team also won, 33-26. That was our last match of the season, which also made it my last team match of my high school career. I still do not know whether I'll qualify for districts.

I went to the batting cage this afternoon. Baseball starts right after wrestling. This season, I'll probably be starting in center and batting either 1 or 2 in the order. I might even make it into the starting rotation, but I doubt it. The coach will want to use me as the "situational lefty". :rolleyes: