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Marietta Daily Journal
Gwinnett Daily Post
Grey Richardson excels as Buford wrestling state champ, football defensive lineman
Anytime, anywhere. That’s the motto for Grey Richardson, a state champion wrestler in his weight class and a key member of Buford’s state championship football team last season. It’s not a combination of sports that usually goes together with the calendars overlapping and the physical demands both require, but none of it bothers Richardson. Not even when the two schedules completely back into each other. “I love his attitude,” Buford wrestling head coach Tom Beuglas said. “For example, we’re going out to Kansas City two days after the football state championship. And if we make it, he’s going to have to stay and play football. And I go, ‘I guess you’re not going to be going to Kansas City.’ And he goes, ‘Oh, I’m going!’” Richardson plays on the defensive line in football, a body type that creates both advantages and disadvantages for wrestling. On one hand, a lot of the techniques are the same. Getting leverage, using his hands, beating the guy in front of him. But in the same vein he wrestles in the 285-pound division, a spot many schools either can’t fill or maybe only have one wrestler. It meant at times he had to wrestle a
Gwinnett Daily Post
northatlantastar.com
World Market Opens in Cumming Today, Bringing Global Foods, Home Furnishings and Gifts
Cumming shoppers have a new destination for international foods, furniture and home décor beginning Friday, Nov. 13, as World Market opens its fifth Atlanta-area store. The 14,727-square-foot store is at 2265 Market Place Boulevard, next to Ulta in Cumming Town Center. A ribbon-cutting ceremony is scheduled for 8:45 a.m., followed by a weekend of product tastings and giveaways.