What’s the old saying about hockey fans went to see a fight and a hockey match broke out?
Well, as Gary Gaffney reports, when the University of Iowa and Iowa State University wrestling squads got it on over the past weekend, 13,700 screaming Iowans showed up and the respective coaches — including Iowa’s legendary former head coach, Dan Gable — almost got it on, too.
Even though the other coaches involved are quite a bit younger than Gable and — like Gable — former Olympic wrestlers, don’t bet against Gable in a fracas.
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My son went to the meet. He said it was electric. 13,000 fans there, about 5 times as many as for the Iowa basketball loss to UNI in CHA last night.
Maybe the Univ of Iowa faculty could recruit Dan Gable to confront the Iowa Board of Regents, in a very testy/tense situation to name a new university president?