With heavyweight champ Brock Lesnar as a role model, college wrestlers are finding that mixed martial arts gives them a chance to compete and make money after school. By MYRON P. MEDCALF, Star Tribune When Division I football coaches called,…
WILTON — The Wilton Youth Wrestling Club is set to start its inaugural winter beginning Tuesday, Nov. 16. Brian McGovern is going to be the head coach, and Greg Morris and Ted Young are assistants. Practice begins on Tuesday, Nov…
By DAVID WATSON The wrestling room at the University of Wyoming UniWyo Sports Complex is thick with humidity as the heater is turned up before the start of practice. The music is blaring as the Cowboys enter from the locker…
Author: Justin Tasch After a groundbreaking 2009-10 campaign in which the team finished 21st at the NCAA championship, the Binghamton University wrestling team won’t be surprising many people this upcoming season. The Bearcats have garnered several preseason accolades this week.…
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Purdue wrestling team is set to open its season on Saturday with the first practice of the season. The Boilermakers are set for their best season in recent history, returning seven NCAA Championship qualifiers and…
Plans for the USA Wrestling California training facility in northeast Tulare are coming together, sources close to the project said. Private financing for the estimated $50-million facility is lined up, an architect and general contractor have been hired and scouting…
ATHENS, Ohio-Ohio senior Germane Lindsey (Cincinnati, Ohio) has been selected to wrestle in the National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA) All-Star Classic on Sunday, November 21st at Selland Arena in Fresno, California. Lindsey went 30-9 en route to the NCAA quarterfinals…
By: Brian Lopez-Benchimol Shinya Aoki is probably one of the most reserved fighters in the sport. Although his in-ring antics against Mizuto Hirota at”Dynamite!! 2009″³ would inidicate otherwise, the grappling ace usually keeps to himself and refrains from doing a…
Timmins Wrestling kicked off the start of its 2010-11 season Monday night with a training session at École secondaire catholique Thériault. Neil Bangs, one of the coaches of the club, said they usually get about 30 to 40 athletes” ranging…
Mixed martial arts has always had a difficult time deciding exactly how much it is sport and how much it is fighting. And while virtually every aspect of the sport needs fine tuning in terms of judging criteria and point…
