Recent wrestling gig was humbling
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I need to learn more about wrestling.By “wrestling,” I don’t mean so much 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 living room. Mostly, I mean the unscripted kind that’s offered at thousands of U.S. high schools, and hundreds of colleges and universities. Obviously, the unscripted version includes the codes 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 Excelsior Springs and Richmond girls teams at a tournament at Lexington for The Standard and its sister newspaper, the Richmond News. If you saw our coverage ...