Newark, NJ By Jason Bryant [email protected] The Prudential Center in northern New Jersey is the brand-spanking new gleaming home of the National Hockey League’s New Jersey Devils. On Tuesday, USA Wrestling made “The Rock” the backdrop for an announcement of…
Sports Illustrated recently provided a list of the “top ten up-and-coming stars in Mixed Martial Arts”… and three had US collegiate wrestling backgrounds. Thanks to the Yahoo group Fight_Planet for providing the information seen here… C B Dollaway – known…
Arizona State University Sports Information TEMPE, Ariz. — Arizona State University Vice President for Athletics Lisa Love announced Friday that the athletic department is fully reinstating the sport of varsity wrestling, effective immediately, due to financial support from local civic…
Former Missouri wrestler Ben Askren, top, is competing at the Olympic Trials on June 13-15 in Las Vegas. By DAVID THIESSEN It would be wise not to doubt Ben Askren. He is competing at the Olympic Trials in Las Vegas…
Ackerman’s win recognized by magazine Simpson College Sports Information NCAA Champion Magazine has named Simpson College wrestler Nick Ackerman’s 2001 National Championship victory the No. 1 most dramatic championship victory in NCAA history. Ackerman, who lost his legs due ot…
National Wrestling Hall of Fame STILLWATER, Okla. — Jason Chamberlain, a high school senior from Springville High School in Springville, Utah has been selected as the national winner of the 2008 Dave Schultz High School Excellence National Award presented by…
By GREG TUFARO Sophomore Darrion Caldwell, an NCAA All-American wrestler who asked for his release from North Carolina State University, has been granted permission to speak with three schools, including Rutgers, where he would like to continue to wrestle and…
‘Wrestlers At The Trials’ – excerpt from Gene Mills Amongst the 90 wrestlers and coaches whose never-been-published stories are captured in the recent book about the 1960 thru 1988 Olympic wrestling Trials is former Syracuse standout Gene Mills. From “Wrestlers…
By Kyle Klingman, W.I.N. Columnist Wrestling has the distinct privilege of calling itself the Sport of Lincoln, a fitting tribute to Abraham Lincoln, the man many consider the U.S.’s greatest president. Lincoln’s wrestling match with Jack Armstrong in the tiny…
