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What Students Have Taught Me About Wrestling
For a long time, I never gave this fact much consideration, but as the days became the months became the years, I began to realize that if wrestling was my story, and if I were the stereotypical narcissist who only cared about his own story, then all that mattered was wrestling. And if this were the case, and the only thing that mattered was this wrestling story that was 29 years in the making, then the only people, places, and things that mattered were the people, places, and things that were a part of this story. This realization terrified me.February 21, 2020
UPJ’s Pecora becomes winningest college coach
Over 66 years ago, Pat Pecora was one of five children born to Richard and Rose Marie Pecora in the shadow of Pittsburgh’s steel mills and amidst a strong Italian love of life. “I thought we had everything because we had family,” recalled Pecora. “You didn’t need anything else.”February 20, 2020
Second-year Michigan team wins girls state; unites veteran coach and sport’s newcomers
Rick Kacher had heard Forest Hills Central High wrestling coach Brad Anderson speak many times about starting a girls wrestling program at the Michigan school considering the head man had three girls of his own. “I told him he ought to start one,” said Kacher.February 19, 2020
