Wrestling

Football isn’t bad, Soccer may be better; Both nothing but a warm-up For the blessed wrestling season. Mano-a-mano is the game; Can’t put on another the blame. Responsibility you must bear; Can’t hide from the stare.The glory is yours in the winWhether by decision or pin.But thank God for your skill;May His purpose you fulfill. […]

The Palumbos were talented athletes, And others, in competition, would defeat, But they gave up the sport of basketball. When they saw it good for not much at all, They came into the light of wrestling: That glorious sport from the beginning.Being quite short as they areAnd though already in that sport – stars,They took […]

Football isn’t bad; Soccer may be better. But both are but a warm-up For the blessed wrestling season!“Mano-a-mano” is the game;Can’t put on another the blame.Responsibility you must bear;Can’t hide from the stare.The glory is yours to winWhether by decision or pin.But thank God for your skills;His purpose may you fulfill. 16 Oct. 2023

Bowie Wrestling Hall of Fame Class of 2019, Bringing back memories. Thanks for your work so grand! Got that medal hanging on my shelf.Like some curious elf,I look at it from my chairGiving it a smile with a stare.The sport sharpens the soul;Can’t blame some other fool.It’s the sport of the Book.Open it up and give […]

Kicked Off the Team for . . .“Vaping”!“Who’d ‘e rape?”“Nobody! Said he got kicked off for VAPING!”“What? What’s ‘at? Don’ it with many real fast?”“NO!”“You mean he vaporized ’em?”“NO!”“You must be Jokin’. He killed ’em, right?”“No! You . . . ! No! I said he was SMOKIN’”“Oh no! Who’d he smoke? They gonna hang ‘im? […]

(The First Reflection)0755 on 26 Feb., 2023 Wrestling competition was coming up soon –Which I enjoy better than my classical tunes.Gonna leave my radio behindAnd watch Wilmington kick some behind!But one of my stars in not there!He’ll be sittin’ in the stands somewhere;“Kid got kicked off the team for a vape!”“Oh no! Whom did he […]

Kicked off the wrestling team for “vaping”? Yeah, not raping . . . V-A-P-I-N-G! Pretty dog-gone harsh and down-right cruel to us spectators. Why should we fans be punished for such a simple “offense”? Not to mention screwing over a kid’s wrestling scholarship opportunities. Any discipline for students who blaspheme or disrespect teachers in class? […]

Ikeman, Eggman matters not, He’s the seventh we begot. Has his good points and his bad; I don’t mind ’em, I’m his Dad. Keeps that wrestling on the table; That’s our thing, like a label. We like to roll and wrestle others; Helps that fellowship of brothers. He’s teachin’ school and bein’ cool, Got no […]

The ancient word for what we now call a gymnasium or a stadium where public sporting events took place in ancient Greece. Nice. The oldest of these panhellenic games organized as a quadrennial event was put together in 776 B.C. It consisted of five contests, a “pentathlon,” all in which all athletes participated. “To promote […]

12 Nov., 2018 The “Golden Sayings” of Epictetus, the first century Greek philosopher, were compiled by a contemporary philosopher and historian, Arrian. Epictetus is the main authority on Stoic morals of which he gained an understanding probably from the lectures of C. Musonius Rufus. Of the 189 Sayings, many reference wrestling. I am happy to […]

Church Ministry and Wrestling: A Sport to Advocate Basketball is the sport of pussies. My dad is an exception; limited opportunities. He grew up on Paterson, New Jersey and there were no wrestling programs in his neighborhood. So, he did what he had to do. He played basketball, was the class president, and went off […]

Posted on 31 March, 2017 (Amended on 30 May 2017) 4 March, 2011 Wrestling season comes to a close. My last high school wrestler has finished his course. Both my sons have gotten from the sport what I had hoped they would get. The sport is a wonderful means of character development. Mack Remington, writing […]

31 March, 2017 Revised 22 July, 2017 Distinctive Features of the Sport One of the great blessing of wrestling is instruction in humility. Everyone takes a beating sometime. Thinking back, I believe I also learned through wrestling about the value of volunteer work: those coaches who put so much time and patience into my efforts […]