I know definitely it took place in Iowa, three or four decades ago. It involved a gold standard, and one for quite some time, of the collegiate/university level wrestling program. Otherwise, maybe I read it in Sports Illustrated or was it my paper? Was the incident in a bar or a coffee shop? Some kind of eaterie/drinkerie, I'll say.

And I seem to recall Coach Dan Gable being present, but in retelling it to a few people I would mumble, "Probably not so much as a wind sprint at the next practices resulted."

Anyway, wrestling team plus the heartland: the men-folk, coach and wrestlers, would work the grips, grunts and groans at practice on frosty afternoons and there would be the women-folk when they rolled home. The latter were there to nurse the bruises, have dinner ready, and all that other corn on the cob and apple pie that fit the image.

One evening the wrestling team were out and spotted an attractive coed with her boy friend. They sauntered to the table with snide propositions. The upshot was the boyfriend was beaten and she didn't fare much better.

And really nothing resulted; this is how things were done and undone.

Our late sports writer Jim Murray, not that he had anything to do with the story but to show another gold standard of the time, could write very well about how society accepts alcohol, an athlete executing a feat which could smother all viewing, his eye problems, and "the boys on the Arizona finally coming home."

But he could wink at the antics of the 70's Oakland Raiders and call Bo Schembechler's brand of authority---yes, you already read part of this---corn on the cob and apple pie football. it made the dismay especially sting, but that's complexity.

Looking at the awful stuff in the sports page and the alleged social consciousness it has raised----look at the ratings, for Christ's sake---well, many BS detectors have been going off over the years. And said detectors have, with the internet now providing millions more of amateur commentaries than were ever in the print medium, been called such things as "faggots". Hmm, remember the story that was to have dominated the NFL this season?

Back to the sport of wrestling. For a long time one did not have to write "men's".