Month December 2005

Merry Christmas – Happy Holidays

I hope everyone enjoys their holiday season and has a wonderful new year! If you’re on the mat, working hard, or just lazing around, Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays from WrestlingPod.

SportsFan Mag Weighs In On NY Tossed Headgear Case

An excerpt from a column in SportsFan magazine There was a state championship high school wrestling match in New York where one of the wrestlers won by a score of 7-6. Before the official raising of the hand by the…

Friends/Future Roommates May Face Each Other on the Mat

By TODD HOLCOMB The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Caleb Anthony and Dustin Harvey have gone shark fishing off the Florida coast and snowboarding in North Carolina. Next year, they’ll be college roommates and teammates on the wrestling team at Newberry College in…

Humbling experience Prep Wrestling Spotlight

By Tim Masmar STAFF WRITER BURLINGTON CENTRAL ” Burlington Central’s Ricky Leos still thinks about the bizarre set of circumstances that swiftly unfolded and wiped out a memorable junior season on the wrestling mats nearly one year ago. How could…

Takedown Radio announces upcoming schedule of events

Scott Casber/Takedown Radio Takedown Radio Upcoming Schedule: December 24 — No Show, off for the holiday ___________________________________________________________ December 29-30 — TDR will come to you live from the 44th annual Midlands Tournament at Northwestern University This year’s broadcast team includes:…

NCAA Releases Data on its New Graduation Success Rate

INDIANAPOLIS – First-year data from the NCAA’s new Graduation Success Rate show that about three-fourths of Division I student-athletes are succeeding in the classroom and earning their college degrees. The GSR is a new NCAA measurement that improves the federally…

Moeller Coach Saves “Dad” Role for Home

Coach’s son earns early win By Mark Schmetzer Enquirer contributor Moeller wrestling coach Jeff Gaier knows exactly what he’d say if his eighth-grade, soccer-playing daughter, Samantha, came to him and asked him if she could take a turn on the…

Ryan Tobin: Life After Wrestling

For most elite wrestlers, the challenge of working their life (school, family, job etc”¦) into their wrestling career is a daily struggle. Wrestling is priority #1 and everything else tends to suffer. Typically, when a wrestler is done competing, they…

OFFICIAL: NY HS Champ Loses Title Over Tossed Headgear

By RODERICK BOONE THE JOURNAL NEWS Former North Rockland wrestler C.J. Rodriguez learned yesterday that a New York State Supreme Court judge denied a request to overturn the controversial decision that stripped him of the Division I 135-pound wrestling championship…

Tom Tomeo named Clarion assistant

By Richard Herman Clarion University Sports Information Tom Tomeo, a former NCAA Division I wrestling All-American at Clarion in 1998 and a native of Grove City, Pa., has been named Assistant Wrestling Coach at Clarion University. He replaces Jason Robison…