Recent wrestling gig is humbling

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Recent wrestling gig is humbling

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I need to learn more about wrestling. By “wrestling,” I don’t mean the scripted professional version I watched on television as a boy, provided we could get a clear picture on the UHF channels of our family TV set in our Ray County living room. No, I mean the unscripted kind that’s offered at thousands of U.S. high schools and hundreds of colleges and universities. Obviously, I also mean the versions of wrestling that, for some nutty reason, are offered during the Summer Olympics, rather than the Winter Olympics, where wrestling obviously belongs, along with some other indoor sports played primarily during cold months (I’m looking at you, men’s and women’s basketball!). I decided I needed to expand my knowledge of the unscripted forms of wrestling while recently helping to cover the Richmond and Excelsior Springs girls teams at a tournament at Lexington for the Richmond News and its sister newspaper, The Standard. If you saw our coverage in our Jan. 3 issue, you’ll recall we…

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