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ONEIDA – The eighth annual Sportsman Show gathered a record-breaking crowd with a larger-than-ever group of outdoor sporting vendors.

Matt Dening, 44, grew up on sunshine in a small beach town south of Sydney. Like most Australian youths, Dening played "all the regular sports — swimming, cricket, rugby — but not really well." "I never had one sport I was completely interested in, but I was always outdoors and active. My father was a builder, so if I wasn't working outside with him, I was playing sport with my brother."

Professional wrestling has sometimes been likened to a dance. It’s an art form, albeit a physically challenging one, in which stories can be told in an athletic and entertaining fashion. It can be a choreographed ballet that combines style and grace with power and strength. In extreme cases, though, it can prove deadly.

Find a weekly roundup of local sports signups on Tuesdays in the sports section. To submit an item, email it to sports@rgj.com, call 775-788-6345 or fax it to 775-788-6458. Please include contact information for applicants.

Jefferson Forest 160-pound senior Josh Bowyer still grapples with the death of his older brother Chris, a former football and wrestling standout at JF who took his own life the summer before his freshman year at Virginia Tech in 2008.But rather than dwelling on the loss of his only sibling, he’s kept it in perspective, using it as motivation.