I haven't been able to weigh in on Hastert yet because I am still a wrestling coach in IL and wrestled against Hastert's Yorkville teams throughout my HS career when he raped the team manager who died of AIDS in the 1990s and I'm still distraught over it. I only live an hour from him.
The wrestling community is a very conservative one. We were shocked, demoralized and devastated at this news for the family of the boy. It's bad enough that we battle very real viruses like ringworm and even MRSA on occasion. Boys don't even want to wear genital-exposing singlets any more.
Wrestling has more inequality in it now than ever, with the rich able to wrestle 365, travel the country, heavy junior high recruiting, about 10% haves.
When I taught in Iowa for 3 years, I still remember Hastert, Iowa wrestling legend Dan Gable, and Gingrich being introduced to the Veteran's Auditorium in Des Moines.
I'm so sad to see Hastert ruin these boy's lives and ruin the reputation of wrestling, his family, his community, his school, his GOP, the Speakership, and our Nation.
I'm also ****en sick to death of the ... but someone else garbage ... in this thread. As if GOPs need to have their noses rubbed in the ... but Sandusky and the rest of the GOP pedophiles **** ...