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The “best wrestler on God’s green earth’s” wife has died…

Eight time World Heavyweight Champion Harley Race’s wife B.J. Race passed away Friday in Osage beach, Missouri at the Lake regional Health System where she was being treated for pneumonia and other complications. The jury is still out on the exact cause of his wife’s death, Race says.

“She was the most wonderful woman in the world,” Race says. “It’s almost impossible to believe that she’s gone.”

When it came to Harley’s World League Wrestling league and the Race Wrestling Academy for up and coming pro wrestlers in Eldon, Mo., “She ran everything,” Race says of his wife. Continue reading

Anti war activist Cindy Sheehan loomed large at the Uptown Theater Sunday at a KKFI 90.1 FMcommunity radio station rally / fundraiser…

Sheehan doesn’t think much about critic/Fox News host Bill O’Reilly, though she awoke recently to him dissing her. And while her enmity towards former President Bush is well documented, she’s far from enamored with President Obama.

“Why would I think that protecting George Bush and Dick Cheney from prosecution is good?” Sheehan queried. “I’m not a Democrat. I want the troops home from Iraq.”

Sheehan is touring in support of her online book, Myth America: 10 Greatest Myths of the Robber Class and the Case for Revolution.

Her goal: to build grass roots communities less dependent on government, more dependent on one another and “not really counting on the Robber Class,” she says. “There are two classes in American today – the Robber Class and the Robbed Class.”

Did Sheehan attend any of the April Tea Party action around the country?”

“No, why would I?” she asks. “I think (the Tea Parties) started out good and then got co-opted by Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck.”

The behind-the-scenes on Sheehan’s agreeing to make an appearance on Hannity’s show?

“I said, sure if he calls me and personally apologizes for every nasty thing he’s said about me,” Sheehan says. “And he did.”

Her overall take on the new prez First 100 or so Days:

“I think he’s doing exactly what I expected him to do,” she says. “A very slow – even slower now – withdrawal from Iraq and sending more troops to Afghanistan and protecting George Bush from prosecution just like Nancy Pelosi did. I am not so much into the person as I am their policies, so I’m disappointed in him although I’m more vindicated than disappointed because I knew (what he would do) all along. Obama is a member of the Robber Class.” Continue reading

The sad situation involving former pro wrestler Verne Gagne body slamming a 96 year-old fellow memory care patient who later died in Minnesota takes eight-time world heavyweight champ Harley Race back to his kinder, if not gentler days…

I was up there wrestling for almost five years from the latter part of 1963 through 1969, and I was always wrestling Gagne,” Race says.

What the now-senior citizen was like in those wild and wooly days?

“Verne was more of a person that was inclusive just within Gagne,” Race says. “He never was much of a partier that I knew of.”

One signature Gagne wrestling move was “the sleeper.” Did he ever slap one on Race?

“No,” Harley says. “I never let myself get in that position.”

Even though Gagne was wrestling a super star?

“So was I,” Race quips. “But just wrestling Verne during that period of time was grinding. He was on you constantly. He probably had – and this is no exaggeration – 20 different ways he could pin you. Probably his smoothest move was the inside cradle.” Continue reading