Goodbye U of Oregon wrestling and don't let the door hit you on the way out

[Smallpotatoes]

http://media.www.dailyemerald.com/media/storage/paper859/news/2008/02/19/Sports/Wrestling.Is.Being.Cut.But.Do.You.or.I.Really.Care-3218598.shtml

The kid had a bad experience with wrestling in middle school PE and is apparently holding it against his college's soon-to-be-extinct wrestling team.

 

[GB-Hack]

Eh, it's a student newspaper column. I'm sure he's done better stuff before, and will again after.

 

[zebracoy]

Didn't Oregon just add a baseball team?

Granted, I didn't read the link. But could that be a reason why?

 

[GB-Hack]

Didn't Oregon just add a baseball team?

Granted, I didn't read the link. But could that be a reason why?

It's not mentioned in there, but I believe the Ducks did announce the renewal of their baseball program right after last season ended.

 

[Tom Petty]

here's a mug of the author of the "column" linked above. you be the judge.

 

[BYH]

here's a mug of the author of the "column" linked above. you be the judge.

 

[Tom Petty]

here's my favorite line of the "column" "I've yet to attend a wrestling meet in my three years in Eugene." yet he cranks out 20esque inches on the topic.

not awesome.

 

[BYH]

Yeah he's going to have a bunch of guys ready to kick his ass.

That was terribly irresponsible.

 

[Dangerous_K]

here's a mug of the author of the "column" linked above. you be the judge.

"Here's your taco, sir."

"I don't want it anymore."

"But this will come out of my salary! If I had a girlfriend, she'd kill me!"

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Somewhere, Phil Knight is upset because he won't have the chance to revolutionize make the singlet highlight yellow and even uglier.

 

[BYH]

here's a mug of the author of the "column" linked above. you be the judge.

"Here's your taco, sir."

"I don't want it anymore."

"But this will come out of my salary! If I had a girlfriend, she'd kill me!"

"We're all out of secret sauce! Take this mayonnaise and put it in the sun!"

 

[Hammer Pants]

E-mail Jeffrey Dransfeldt at [email protected].

 

[Tom Petty]

Yeah he's going to have a bunch of guys ready to kick his ass.

That was terribly irresponsible.

nike U journalism folks like to think they have a reason to believe they aquired an excellent education. if this type of crap is taking place there, i have to wonder.

 

[Hammer Pants]

Yeah he's going to have a bunch of guys ready to kick his ass.

That was terribly irresponsible.

nike U journalism folks like to think they have a reason to believe they aquired an excellent education. if this type of crap is taking place there, i have to wonder.

A buddy of mine went to Maryland and has dealt with several Jayson Blair jokes.

 

[Shaggy]

He didn't rip on any wrestlers. He said he doesn't like wrestling, mentioned that he broke his wrist wrestling in junior high, then tried poorly to tie that into the fact the Oregon wrestling takes up a basketball court used for pickup games.

It's a desperate stretch. But I've seen worse in student papers.

 

[Starman]

The creeping influence of The Sports Guy, in which everything is filtered through a prism of how it affects the oh-so-ultracool author.

Jeffrey, about your cruelly-aborted junior high school basketball career:

We Don't ****ing Care. Nobody ****ing Cares. Nobody Should ****ing Care.

 

[Dangerous_K]

Not that this has anything to do with the topic at hand, but whenever I read Starman's signature I chuckle.

Oh, and keeping consistent with the Zit Faced Teen jokes:

"A belt, eh? No suspenders for you!"

 

[BigRed]

That's a very shortsighted column.
I'm from Iowa - one of the only hotbeds of high school and college wrestling - so I might have a biased opinion on this subject - but I think this writer has a very shallow and uninformed opinion of wrestling. It's one of the most physically demanding sports one can compete in, and instead of using his injury to form an informed opinion,the author has used it to form a rather baseless and emotional opinion.
I'm no champion wrestler - I competed for 6 years in middle school and high school, and won a total of 10 matches (with the highlight being a JV tournament title) but loved every minute of the challenge and opportunity. I still wish I'd applied myself more to the sport (I had uncles who were state of Iowa champs and placewinners), but I've come to realize I just didn't have the talent.
This guy just doesn't understand what it takes to wrestle, and I hope he either figures out what the sport means to those who compete in it - or his server crashes in the process.

 

[BigRed]

here's a mug of the author of the "column" linked above. you be the judge.

That is awesome.
This column is some epic FAIL.

 

[pseudo]

Will he put "I don't cover wrestling" on his resume, or will that be a given once a prospective employer Googles his name and stumbles across this gem?