By PAT GRAHAM BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Hall of Fame pro wrestler Bill Goldberg isn’t just another celebrity that coach Deion Sanders has walking along the Colorado sideline. He’s not…
FILE – Bill Goldberg hypes up the crowd during the NCAA college basketball team’s Stegmania event at Stegeman Coliseum in Athens, Ga., Friday, Oct. 11, 2019.
Ultimately, the 6-foot, 210-pound linebacker wanted to follow in the footsteps of his father, a defensive lineman out of Georgia who got picked by the Los Angeles Rams in the 11th round of the 1990 draft.Saban announced his retirement“As a father, you obviously want your son to go to a place where he fits in, where he can prosper, where he can learn, where he can get a great education and just learn how to be a good person,” Bill Goldberg said.
How’s this for a streak: For more than a year beginning in September 1997, Goldberg went 173-0 in the ring with World Championship Wrestling. Sure, he had his signature moves — the “Spear” and ”Jackhammer” — but more than that, he just had a defensive lineman’s mentality. “He comes up to the door and says, ‘You all right?‘” Goldberg recalled. “I’m like: ‘Yeah, Coach, it’s just another day. I’m just trying not to get cut.’
“I see him as an All-American, as the best linebacker in college football,” Goldberg said. “That’s an extremely high ceiling to shoot for, but if you don’t shoot for being the best, then why do it?”Colorado’s new wolf pack -- including pups -- to be captured and relocated after livestock depredations
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