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…
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…
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…
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:…
Tom Franck, Staff Writer [email protected] The team race in folkstyle wrestling tournaments is an exciting and important aspect of the sport. While the competition within each weight class is thrilling by itself, one wrestler alone can’t win a team title…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Pittsburgh, PA “The Dapper Dan Charities will sponsor The 32nd Annual Dapper Dan Wrestling Classic, the most prestigious high school all-star wrestling meet in the United States, on Sunday, March 26, 2006, in the University of Pittsburgh Fitzgerald Field House.…
