I received an email from Ted Witulski (NCEP coordinator for USA Wrestling), letting me know that ESPN declared boxing, ice hockey, football, and basketball as tougher sports as its fifth ranked sport: wrestling.

There is an ESPN follow-up poll at http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/sportSkills , if you'd like to express your opinion.

Follow this link, and in a box on the right hand side (titled "SPORTSNATION: DO YOU AGREE?") you can go to a link to vote your toughest sport. Currently, the votes put wrestling at #3.

Um, basketball is ultra hardcore. Duh.

My friends just played a pickup game with Jeff Hawkins and that was rough for them apparently. I was forced to sit around with my stupid knee injury.

I guess it all depends on who you ask...I like basketball, a lot...but if you ask the b-ball players and wrestlers to switch roles, i bet there'd be more repect haha. oh wells.