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Most Mexican women in this country look like they jumped the border so that they could eat. Nothing is as dangerous as a Mexican with a weedblower, they blow dirt all over your car they blow dirt all over you. This country is in good shape and getting better. A lot on the "History Channel" is real good but then they bog down by spending a lot of time on people driving trucks, people arguing over which tree to cut, UFO's (how interesting could it be if after all these years there's no good evidence there are any, .....Take us to your leader......) and other boring things. When I was a grad student at Kent State I had a friend from New York who had been his high school newspaper's sports editor near the Catskills when Joe Frazier was preparing for one of his big fights. He called Joe's Camp and told them that he'd like to interview Joe, his call went to a couple more people and then Bill heard "Joe Here." Bill was invited up to Joe's Camp (a smallish heavyweight whose bobbing and weaving style and relentless pressure ever forward with his best weapon being the trademark of a Philadelphia fighter, a left hook thrown from the hip and with Joe often only from a foot away, when he fought George Chuvalo who never was knocked down in 97 pro fights George thought at one point that his eye had knocked out, well, on to pleasanter things). Bill had a half-hour interview with Joe and his trainer, Yank Durham, in which he mainly asked about whether there should be high school boxing teams and he won a state award for this, afterwards they gave Bill lunch. You like that story. It's been one of my longtime goals to attend a boxing card at the Blue Horizon, as I understand it the doors suddenly open and everybody rushes in to get the best seats. My older brother, Bob, for a many years has been one of the main people in the country for high school wrestling. Bob has often been the director of the Ironman Invitational in Ohio and the "Tournament of Champions' in Reno, the 2 best high school tournaments in the country as well being a writer. He's interested in the sport a lot more than I am, a labor of love he does all this for little or nothing. Several years ago Bob was the writer for "USA Today" in which he picked a weekly top 10 in the country and it was he alone who selected the final rankings with a mythical high school National Champion. That year Lakewood St. Edward's was considered to be the best team in the country. In a Cleveland suburb, Bob lived near there and was" always up there, an extroverted type anyway he knew everybody there real well. But St. Edward's didn't do as well in the state tournament as they were supposed to with one of the kids commenting in "The Cleveland Plain Dealer," "I suppose Preusse will hold it against us." Yeah he did Bob placed St. Ed's at 3rd in the final rankings.