Ring Side Ramblings

As a callow youth I, along with my neighborhood homies, did my share of annoying the adults who lived in our neighborhood.
We accomplished this mostly by just existing, but we were also somewhat the scamps at times.
In response to their disapproval of whatever we did, we labeled them “old fogies”.
It would appear that I have […]

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Football Time!
Covered the first game last night of what one hopes will be a long - and successful - era at McCaskey for new football coach David Given.
As a proud J.P. alum [Class of ‘69. See everybody at the reunion on Oct. 24!] It would’ve been nice if the Red Tornado had won, but hey, […]

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There are cat people and there are dog people. And I am, most assuredly, dog people.
But over the past year my heart was stolen by a 7-1/2 pound ball of gray, tiger-striped American short-hair.
He first appeared just after the 4th-of-July holiday last summer, poking his tiny, kitten head out from under the gazebo on the […]

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Grazing over back blogs I noticed I had comments, three of them, on one of my earlier posts!
This is amazing in that there have been no comments posted, nada, not a one, since this opus began.
Until now.
I figured the “comments” option was not activated, and I was O.K with that. I would’ve been O.K. too […]

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Never one to follow the adage, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!” the rules committee of the National Federation of State High School Associations has once again weighed in on the subject of weight classes in scholastic wrestling.
Using a set of statistics gleaned from the National Wrestling Coaches Association’s Optimal Performance Calculator of wrestlers’ hydrated […]

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The Manheim Central School Board has hired former Penn State wrestling coach Troy Sunderland to lead Manheim’s high school wrestling program.
Sunderland, who stepped down in April after directing the Nittany Lion program for eleven years, replaces Shane Mack, who resigned to accept a teaching position in the Derry Township School District.
A 1993 Penn State grad, […]

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… to head one of the most storied programs in Pennsylvania.
In a recent conversation, Shane Mack confirmed he has tendered his resignation as head wrestling coach at Manheim Central High School.
Mack, who had been assistant principal at Manheim Central Middle School and then at the High School, wished to return to the classroom.
With no positions […]

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Since this is a wrestling blog, how about some wrestling news?
Several local wrestlers are competing in the National High School Coaches’ Association Team Duals.
McCaskey’s Devin Anderson and Warwick’s Adam Chapis are members of the Keystone Brawlers Gold.
Hempfield’s Dakota Minnich and Penn Manor’s Bobby Rehm are members of Team Premium.
Hempfield’s Austin Miller and Solanco’s Dan Neff […]

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Lost my BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN!!!!! virginity last week at Hersheypark Stadium, seeing BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN!!!!! and the E Street Band for the first time, ever.
Now, the above graph is not entirely true. I had seen the troubador of the Jersey Shore once before, but he wasn’t BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN!!!!! then. He was just Bruce Springsteen, and the E […]

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I refuse to listen to Rush. Ditto Hannity, Beck and the either/both Lauras.
I will not watch O’Reilly. I will not read anything by that aneorxic harpy Ann Coulter.
I make this choice for the same reason I do not shoot heroin into my veins.
It is toxic, addictive, and will destroy my soul.
[In the interest of unbiased […]

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