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By Gregory Kane | June 25, 2008
I "ran across" Lloyd Keaser on Sunday, but not, thank God, in the way Irv Johnson "ran across" Keaser 40 years ago. The school year 1967-1968 found me having some way bungled my way onto City College's wrestling team. I didn't make the team because of talent. I made it because, obviously, City head wrestling coach Clark Hudak lowered his standards considerably. I was 135 pounds of distinctly non-athletic skin and bones, which allowed me to compete in the 127- and 133-pound weight classes.
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By Kevin Van Valkenburg | March 4, 2007
COLLEGE PARK -- If you don't follow high school wrestling in Maryland, you might be surprised to learn that the most interesting story line at yesterday's state tournament didn't involve a defending champion or a three-team race for the overall title. Instead, it involved a wrestler dressed in pink socks, lime-green headgear and sporting a ponytail who finished second in the final of the Class 4A-3A 103-pound weight class. More wrestling Old Mill captures its eighth state tournament title; Asper becomes Hereford's first three-time state champ.
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By Jeff Seidel | March 9, 2005
The Class 4A-3A division of last weekend's Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association state high school wrestling tournament had a distinct Anne Arundel County feel to it. Arundel High finished fourth in team points, with Chesapeake seventh, Old Mill ninth and South River 11th. In addition, two Anne Arundel County wrestlers won state championships, and four others were runners-up. That's not unusual for the state tournament, in which Anne Arundel schools have long fared well.
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By MILTON KENT | February 13, 2005
THE NUMBERS, the cold, hard numbers, suggest that this hasn't been an especially good season for the Patapsco wrestling team. But numbers, cold, hard numbers, seldom tell the entire story. All year long, coach Bob Gorsuch and his team have been caught in a numbers game, where the numbers of team members have been small, so small that the competitive part of most of their matches has been over before spectators can get their seats warm. But Gorsuch and his team are looking past the numbers toward the future, when the Patriots will be back on track.
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By GREGORY KANE | January 31, 2004
FOR THE PAST 25 years, Jerome Featherstone Sr. was known to local high school wrestling aficionados as "the only guy to beat Rico." Rico is Rico Chiaparelli, perhaps the greatest wrestler to come out of the Baltimore area's greatest high school wrestling program: Mount St. Joseph. Chiaparelli went on to finish fifth, fourth and then first in the NCAA championships during his three years as a varsity starter at the University of Iowa. Featherstone's life took a different path: three years in the Marines, a marriage of 19 years, three children, and coach of the McKim Center junior league wrestling team, where he steered perhaps dozens of black boys away from the clarion call of the streets.
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By Rick Belz | February 9, 2003
Ryan Lauer of River Hill learned quickly about the pressure of following an undefeated brother into the world of high school wrestling. Last season, the Hawks wrestled perennial county power Hammond in a December dual meet, and, with his college freshman brother, Brandon, watching, Ryan walked over to check in at the scorer's table. That's when Golden Bears fans chanted, "You're not Brandon." "I got a little upset," said Lauer, then a freshman. "I thought it was kind of harsh on their part.
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By GREGORY KANE | January 29, 2003
IT'S FUNNY how acting on a whim can take you back 35 years. I was recovering from a nasty virus my grandchildren -- Senor Spences and his kid sister and partner in contagion, Kaila -- had passed on to me nearly two weeks earlier. (They recovered sooner, proving that their little bodies are made for regeneration and rejuvenation and granddad's is made for the couch.) It was the Saturday before the Super Bowl. I trolled the papers, antsy to get out, afflicted with borderline cabin fever and looking to take in some wrestling because the virus had caused me to miss the Hammond tournament a week earlier.
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By Rob Kasper | March 4, 2000
RECENTLY I wrapped up the "I am the dad of a high school wrestler" stage of my life. Like most matters connected with high school wrestling, my goodbye was intense and long-lasting. It stretched over three weekends. First there was a conference tournament, a spirited two-day affair held at Mount St. Joseph in West Baltimore. Next there was a state tournament, an even noisier two-day drama held at McDonogh in Owings Mills. Then there was the National Prep School Wrestling Championships held last weekend at Lehigh University outside Allentown, Pa. This was an eight-mat extravaganza that lasted either three days or an eternity, depending on how your back felt after you had been sitting in the stands.
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By SUSAN REIMER | January 9, 2000
MOTHERS, DON'T let your babies grow up to be wrestlers. Trust me. You'll hate it. The only activity our sons could choose that would be less mother-friendly is patrolling sniper zones in the Balkans. Wrestling is as close to hand-to-hand combat as your baby boy can get without carrying a knife between his teeth. There is no place for mothers in wrestling. "I watch through my fingers," one wrestling mother told me. "I am afraid to be here in case something happens. But I am afraid not to be here in case something happens.
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By Lem Satterfield | November 18, 1999
A Montgomery County Circuit Court judge denied yesterday the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association's move to block a lawsuit seeking another upper-weight class for public high school wrestling.Attorney Robin Ficker, who sued in September, said Judge James Chapin also scheduled four days beginning Jan. 10 to hear arguments, after which he will rule on whether a 215-pound weight class should be created. The state's heaviest classifications are 189 pounds and unlimited (a maximum of 275 pounds)