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“Commute from The Westin Chaoyang to the Main Press Center: 20 minutes by TG-B-28 bus. “Breakfast: Awesome crunchy bacon, chicken sausage, three delicious little pork dumplings, banana chips, broccoli, three little triangular spring rolls, orange juice, grape juice, milk. “The nurse who does our daily throat-swab Covid test in the Westin held up a sign this morning: ‘Are We Leaving Today?’ This young woman is on worldwide television!

She’s 15 years old! When I was 15, I had just retired from my career as a paperboy in Hobart and moved to my second career as a janitor. “Plus, Valieva is younger than Jack Hancock, our youngest grandchild. These are crusty people but most felt really sorry for her.

Reporters in the arena gasped when Valieva fell. Several reported they had never seen anything like it. One was in the mixed zone waiting for the athletes to arrive. “This morning, reporters trudged into the office with their stories about having witnessed the drama. “I don’t think she realized she had called me at 2 a.m. “I insisted that she tell me, which she did, and the news certainly was shocking. “‘I won’t tell you because I don’t want to spoil it.’ “‘You and Nicki are at the Olympics? Oh, my goodness!’ Before she let me say anything, she said, ‘Did you watch the drama at the figure skating this morning?’ “When my phone rang at 2 a.m., it was Linda, the nice scheduler at my dentist’s office, to change my March appointment. They are sweethearts and so will not object to sloppiness.) Saturday “(Please excuse the typos and bad writing in this friendly message to family members. His daily dispatches give us a look at what life is like in the Olympic city. The Hobart native and decades-long college championships director has volunteered at both Winter and the Summer Olympics going back to 1984 (Summer) and 2006 (Winter). More excellent adventures from Bill Hancock. “Young Popovich was already an old-school coach like Parcells and myself, so we got along well and learned from each other,” Baughman wrote.īaughman was inducted into the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame in 2013.Īnother Olympics has arrived, and you know what that means for the ScissorTales. He rubbed shoulders with the likes of Gregg Popovich and Bill Parcells. in the World Championships.īaughman became head coach at Air Force in 1975 and served 27 years. He served as captain of two Olympic teams, coach of another and five times coached the U.S. Baughman became the first athlete to win a national title in USA Wrestling’s four recognized style – folkstyle (collegiate), freestyle, Greco-Roman and Sombo.īut Baughman’s greatest renown was as a coach. Wrestling has lost a true legend.”īaughman grew up in Oklahoma City and was part of Virgil Milliron’s great wrestling teams at John Marshall High School.īaughman was not a state champion at John Marshall but became an NCAA champion at OU, sandwiched around a couple of national runnerup finishes. “He was a man with incredible drive, determination and toughness, yet always willing to lend a hand to those that shared his passion for our great sport. His legacy is seen today all over the sport. “Involved in every aspect of the sport, Wayne has impacted countless wrestlers and wrestling organizations.

“Few men in the history of our sport have had a more profound impact on wrestling than Coach Baughman,” said USA Wrestling executive director Rich Bender. At the request of the Baughman family, in lieu of cards or flowers, donations are asked for the Wayne Baughman Wrestling Program Endowment. Mountain time March 12 at Crossroads Chapel in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where he coached at the Air Force Academy for 32 years. His funeral service will be held at 1:30 p.m. 'Go out with a five-game win streak': Key storylines to watch as OSU men's basketball closes out its seasonīaughman died last week at age 81. A league that not long ago dreamed of eight teams and figured seven was a cinch, now would be thrilled with six. That scenario looks good for the Big 12 in 2022. The Cowboys and Wildcats made the NCAA Tournament, giving the Big 12 six bids, but KSU was among the last four teams selected and played in the pigtail round at Dayton University. Next came OSU (9-9) and Kansas State (8-10), then a drop to TCU and Tech at 6-12. This season is very much like 2017, when Kansas won the Big 12 at 16-2, followed by a three-way tie at 12-6 between Baylor, West Virginia and Iowa State. But no one else outside the top four seems likely.īig 12 bull horns will say the conference is cannibalizing itself. Iowa State, with a Net rating of 35th, looks like a solid NCAA Tournament team. Tech is 5-3, losing at OU, at ISU and at KSU. Texas is 7-3, losing at home to KSU and at Iowa State and OSU. Baylor is 9-1, losing only to OSU, in Waco. Kansas is 9-0 against the bottom six teams.