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Here is an excerpt of an email that was forwarded to me by a friend who had this forwarded to him...please take the time to read through this blog posting...

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Here is the email:

Fellow coaches,
 
Many of you are aware that I am pretty active in trying to prevent the gender-quota-based destruction of college wrestling opportunities.  I have been at it for about 10 years.

The College Sports Council is the organization through which I contribute most of my work - the 7 CSC board members that do the heavy lifting include 5 members with wrestling backgrounds. 

With the help of volunteers and professionals who do a lot of pro-bono work for us the CSC have had some real successes.    We drive opposition groups with multi-million dollar budgets crazy, mostly because we are on the right side of this issue.   

I have never asked anything of my fellow coaches in this battle (because I feel you are already devoting much to our sport) until now - and that is because we are in a tough, time pressure situation.  I really was hesitant to send this email and I want to assure you that this is a one-time deal.  The situation is spelled out below.

Can you please get the below to people who you think would be concerned about the destruction of college and high school opportunities in any sport and will sit down and write a check (any size check) today?   If it arrives by June 30 whatever they send (501 c3 tax deductible) will be matched, doubling their contribution. 

Thanks for you attention to this -  call me if you have any questions. 

Leo



Dear Concerned Fan,

Below are excerpts that should give a sense of what the College Sports Council has been doing for the last 4 years - they come from a letter to a contributor, and a letter to a foundation. Primarily we are about fighting gender-quota-destruction of athletic opportunities through the moving of public opinion.  We battle on the PR/media, grass roots, governmental, and litigation fronts. I work with some smart, wonderful, people in the CSC and they have been doing a great job on a shoestring.

The College Sports Council is in danger of not getting some significant funds from a $60K matching gift offer.  A pretty solid expectation of $20 K just evaporated on us at the last minute - and the loss of the matching fund will turn it into a $40K setback. The deadline is June 30 and not meeting this pledge will leave a big hole in the defense of boys opportunities in sports.

If we get it done about half of the money will be used to hire a woman named Jessica Gavora to serve as our director of communications. She has worked in Washington DC for the last decade. A few years ago she wrote the defining book on the Title IX sports crisis, TILTING THE PLAYING FIELD. She is enormously capable and more importantly is passionate about the cause. Between her abilities and the fact that she is a woman there will be a great impact.

Thanks

Leo Kocher
Head Wrestling Coach
University of Chicago
219-308-4048 (c)

Home address
5063 W. 113th Ave.
Crown Point, IN  46307

PS - Checks should be made out to "College Sports Council" and mailed to my address above. The CSC is a 501 c3 so contributions are deductible.

Here are the home meets and tournaments for the Northwestern Wildcats:

Sun 11/12 - Northwestern University Duals 9:00 a.m.

Sat 12/2 - Northern Illinois Home (High School) 7:00 p.m.

Sat 12/9 - Eastern Illinois 2:00 p.m.

Fri 12/29 - Midlands All Day
Sat 12/30 - Midlands All Day

Fri 01/19 Illinois (it's in Champaign, but I added it since its in IL) 7:00 p.m.

Sun 01/21 Iowa 2:00 p.m.

Fri 01/26 Wisconsin 7:00 p.m.

Fri 02/16 Purdue (Alumni Night) 7:00 p.m.

Sun 02/18 Michigan 2:00 p.m.

Today is national hunger day. Here is a little blurb from hungerday.org's website. There link is below:

Tuesday, June 6, 2006 is National Hunger Awareness Day, the grassroots movement to raise awareness about the solvable problem of hunger in America. This day serves as a platform for domestic hunger-relief organizations to raise awareness about hunger in America and the work we do.

http://www.hungerday.org/content/index.php

While supplies last, order a singlet (uniform) and get a blood rag free...You need a blood rag when you wrestle freestyle or greco.

New products we have include the Gripmaster. It's under accessories at the bottom of the page. The socks are linked from our home page and can be found in our clothing section.

  

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-Jeff Pape

I was doing some searches on Google and I thought I would share some simple tips that a friend fortunately shared with me several years back.

The first step is to decide on the key words. They are the most important. No need to put extra words like the, of, how, etc. They are too common and really won't help your results. Try and think of a unique word or two that maybe in a potential article.

After I do a fast search without thinking too much, then take a look at the results. Many times you will find unexpected websites that relate to the words you typed in, but don't relate to what you are looking for at this time. Think about words you can remove or add to make your search results more focused on what you were looking for.

If you know a certain phrase or two words you want to look for, put quotes around the word or words to help find that particular phrase. For example, "wrestling shoes" if you were to type wrestling shoes, it would look for wrestling and shoes individually, but if you put "wrestling shoes" together it will look for that phrase.

Finally, after you completed a quick search, you can add + or - symbols in front of key words. So if you want to find adidas wrestling shoes. You might search for +"wrestling shoes" +"adidas" If there is something you want to exclude, say a particular brand you could put a - in front of the brand.

Just like anything else the more you practice the better you will get with searching and more importantly finding what you are looking for on the internet.

Jeff Pape