Thousands prepare to descend on Vets for wrestling tourney by Stella Shaffer More than 40-thousand fans are expected to crowd into Vets Auditorium in downtown Des Moines for the high-school wrestling tournament that begins tomorrow and runs through Saturday night.…
Last state tournaments at Veterans Auditorium rekindle memories By: CHUCK SCHOFFNER, AP Sports Writer From the time it opened 50 years ago, Veterans Memorial Auditorium – a solid brown brick building on the north edge of downtown – has been…
Missouri’s Cody Greene Looking to Prove It Was Worth The Wait Senior 149-Pounder Looking to Make Most of One Shot at Reaching the NCAA Tournament By Brandon Siem “Staff Writer Please send comments, questions or replies to: [email protected] Many great…
Olympians Abas, Williams and Cormier to lead U.S. Men’s Freestyle World Cup TeamJohn Fuller/USA Wrestling Colorado Springs, Colo. – USA Wrestling has announced its 2005 U.S. Men’s Freestyle World Cup Team, which will compete at the 2005 World Cup in…
Wrestling: Missouri ChampionshipsCoaches debate new four-class systemBy Joe Lyons Post-Dispatch If nothing else, the move to four classes in Missouri wrestling is prompting discussion. “I don’t like it, and I didn’t talk to a single coach who does, “Francis Howell…
Huff Hall was full of highlights and accomplishments Thursday night as the No. 3 Illini dominated No. 18 Northwestern 29-6. Not only was it senior night, with Michael Boyd (157), Anthony Castillo (165), Mark Jayne (133), Anton Dietzen (149) and…
Cooperman avenges an earlier lossBy J.F. PIRROThe Express-Times BETHLEHEM — If Lehigh University’s wrestling match with visiting Pennsylvania Sunday afternoon at Leeman-Turner Arena at Grace Hall was a tune-up for the EIWA Championships in two weeks, there’s at least one…
Lehigh crushes Penn in finaleBy BRIAN FORTNERThe Express-Times BETHLEHEM — The long grind of college wrestling’s regular season is littered with peaks and valleys that every team inevitably encounters. Those who can navigate through the rough patches are the ones…
Wrestling falls hard vs. Lehigh Quakers follow home win over Princeton on Senior Day with deflating loss to No. 4 HawksBy ilario huober The Penn wrestling team headed toward this weekend, and its last two dual meets of the season,…
By Seth Gordon, Daily Sports WriterWrestling The Michigan wrestling team just added two notches to its belt. But now the real work begins. The fifth-ranked Wolverines dominated Michigan State on Friday, 34-8 and Purdue yesterday, 29-18, to secure a share…
