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Fast Lane on road to WrestleMania

The Royal Rumble has been the beginning of the “Road to WrestleMania” for years now, but in recent years the WWE has been putting more of an emphasis on its February Pay-Per-View.Tonight’s show, titled Fast Lane, is a great example of how the company is keeping fans guessing of the ...

Long may Heath run

The news didn’t drop like the typical bad news on a Friday afternoon.Bad news loves that black hole in coverage, but Heath Miller merely loved the lack of fuss we were able to make.I can just hear him telling his wife now, “I hope Wexell doesn’t write one of his ghastly tribute columns ...

Fly-tyers make the most of winter, eager for spring

People who don’t fish tend to view fly-tying with humor, maybe even pity. There’s a popular image of a fixated angler, hunkered over the vise in the basement, squinting at a bit of feather and a barely visible hook. The TV show “M*A*S*H” fueled that impression with Lt. Col. Henry Blake ...

Daniel Bryan, other pro wrestling news

This pro wrestling column is a new weekly addition to the Herald-Standard, and before we get into some news, let me tell you a little bit about the column.As someone who began training for my own pro wrestling career in the late-1990’s, I started writing a weekly column in 1999 and I am ...

Takes a lot to be a good pro

<em>(Columnist's note: A warning to my niece Stephanie. ... I am about to go "old" in this column so you might want to start lining up your eyerolls now.)</em>"Show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser."No, not a quote I read on a fortune after a Chinese ...

Cal’s Brown looks back at 20 years, and ahead

The year was 1996 when California University of Pa. introduced Bill Brown as its new men's basketball coach.Twenty years later Brown is still guiding the Vulcans and has amassed more wins than any other coach in the program's history. His record currently stands at 365-206 at Cal U and he's ...