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Kurt Angle and AJ Styles to Work WWE TLC, But Is It the Right Move?
When a case of Viral Meningitis affects your roster, what is a company to do, right? WWE knows how this feels better than most, as they have a case of this and mumps going around the WWE RAW locker room. However, they are thankful for the brand split now more than ever. The rosters are not with each other as much as they used to be, which allows for many to be save from harm if an issue like this goes down.
By Joe Burgett8 years ago in Unbalanced
An Open Letter to Myself as a Younger Wrestler
Dear Dennis, Your last year of wrestling in high school will be an interesting one to say the least. I realize looking back now that I can't change the past and so the feelings I had back then won't change simply because what I'm feeling now, but I wish to tell you this nonetheless. Your first day of practice your senior year will be hard. Not hard in the sense of a hard workout, you've been through much harder workouts at this point, but hard in the sense that you realize it's the beginning of the end. Something you've held dear, and as much as you don't want it to go, time wants to happen and we as humans are no match for time, no matter what we try to do. You won't go back after your first practice to your room and cry or whatever. It's not the time to be emotional. No, there's too much work to be done and so instead you'll go home, run and go to bed, exhausted and frustrated from cutting weight. Every day of the season will be a tough one. "Last meet with this team." "Last time I'll ever wrestle in this tournament." You'll love wrestling more than ever before because you realize more than all the previous years that it's fleeting. Yet there will also always be a sort a melancholic ring to every match. After every win, you'll be excited for a minute before thinking about how much you love this sport and get scared that it's leaving you or rather you're leaving it. Not due to your own accord, but due to time forcing the clock around. When you go into Sectionals your senior year you'll get the one seed, you'll be excited as at this point you still have only ever gotten second at a tournament before and feel that winning Sectionals would be the most amazing tournament to get your first tournament win at, sadly though, you will place 4th. Upon getting to States you won't really be that excited, just kind of content. Happy for your season to go on another week and you don't have to say goodbye so soon, but angry when you look at the top of the stand and realize that should be you. You vow to be even hungrier next week, shock the state at the tournament. At your last practice you won't be nearly as heartbroken as your first practice. Maybe it's because you're so confident in how hungry you are and your ability to shock the state or maybe you've just matured to the fact that you can't change time. The next day at States is when you'll cry. Immensely. Truth is you are close to doing something at the tournament when a badly shot takedown (while being up on points) will put you to your back. You'll leave the mat after rising your shoes above your head and putting them there. You'll cry harder than ever before shouting out "THIS WASN'T HOW MY CAREER WAS SUPPOSED TO GO OUT!" Which yes, you'll be right, you worked harder than that, but it happens. You'll be a broken man the next day looking at brackets. Just kind of hurt and mad at yourself. That day isn't the last day you'll be hurt. You'll be hurt for a while but you'll get over it. You'll have surgery on your wrist and that will hurt, but your pride will still hurt more, but eventually the pain will subside and you'll go on to choose a college and graduate and appreciate all what you had in wrestling even if it ends. Now if you want to know what's happened later on, well. You didn't wrestle your first two years of college. Life gets in the way sometimes. You'll coach though and as you'll tell the newspaper that you would love to coach one day, you're nothing if not true to your word. You love it more than anything and you seem to potentially have even more talent for it than you did the sport itself. Wrestling, though, you've decided to finally go back to it this year realizing yes, you've squandered the opportunity to continue a sport you love more than almost anything for two years, but you're not squandering that opportunity anymore. Because opportunity doesn't come around much. If there's any advice I can give you for life that I've learned these past years, it is don't squander opportunity and live in the moment and I think you're learning that just fine.
By Dennis Begley8 years ago in Unbalanced
Why Millennials Need Martial Arts
It was a normal day like any other. I was distracted, not doing my assigned schoolwork and goofing off like I always did. I didn't know today would be the day that testing my training in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. This would be more important than any other test I had ever taken in a classroom.
By Cody David8 years ago in Unbalanced
Descriptive Side of You
The Leather Sphere It had been traveling as if it was on a set course passing by like an out-of-state family member visiting. The body weirdly was shaped in an oval type of look, its skin coat brown like wet dirt freshly mixed with a white rigid lace exerting down the spine with gap sizes like SpongeBob’s teeth that fingers are placed in for grip. It is stitched in to help hold and accurately place the ball. The shape looked like the head of Hey Arnold from Cartoon Network. The feel of the brown leather oval shape instrument hones like a missile chasing its target. The force could be heard coming at the rip of a whip. If you were to hear the cut of the air, it was literally too late.
By isaiah cruz8 years ago in Unbalanced
Best NFL Running Backs of All Time
Running back has become a devalued position in the modern NFL game. It's a passing league now and quarterbacks are all the rage. They are the ones who receive the most praise and have offenses designed around them as the centerpiece. However, having a game-changing running back can make all the difference and may even be more valuable than a quarterback. Only a select few NFL running backs would fall under that category but all who do were beasts and changed the sport of football. Narrowing it down was rough, but someone had to do it. So these are the runners that would even give the best defenses in NFL history broken ankles and will be remembered forever.
By Jesse Kinney8 years ago in Unbalanced
Emily Boyd GK/Fitness and Food Enthusiast
A 5'9" GK from Seattle, Washington, Boyd attended Nathan HS. She was a 1st All-Metro League player and played for CrossFire Premier Club in the ENSL. At California Berkley for her Senior year, her college accolades include that she was 2014 Pac12 All-Freshmen team, 2x Pac12 All-Conference 2nd team, 2nd team All-American. Boyd is the all-time leader in 26 Career shoutouts, and fourth in program history to make 200 saves with 216 saves in career total. Boyd had spent time with the US U20 Women's National Team's in the World Cup test run in preparation for the 2016 U20 Women's World Cup. She has also spent time in the US U15, U18, WNT's. At one time she was selected as 1 out of the 16 players for a 4-day National GK training camp in December of 2014. During the Summer in her college years, she joined the Seattle Sounders (women) in the WPSL. Since she is from Seatle Emily has looked up to Hope Solo the legendary Gk for the US Women's National Team and Seatle Reight(2013-2016) NWSL and Seattle Sounders Women WPSL Elite. It may be possible that she may have seen Hope in person. Boyd would get drafted by the Chicago Red Stars in the second round 15th overall pick in the 2018 NWSL College Draft. Towards the start of the 2018 NWSL season, the Chicago Red Stars would sign Emily Boyd.
By John McKeon8 years ago in Cleats
Top Indoor Soccer Shoes of 2018
There are plenty of reasons to play indoor soccer that are beneficial to not just soccer players, but anyone who wants find a fun, sports-driven hobby. If you already play in an indoor soccer league, you know what I'm talking about and have experienced those benefits firsthand. Whatever your relationship with indoor soccer is, having the best gear will only help your chances of success. With fewer players than traditional soccer, dribbling and speed become much more important. Having the top of the line indoor soccer shoes will only help your game and make you a force on the pitch.
By Connor Brighton8 years ago in Cleats
