By GREG OLIVER – Producer, SLAM! Wrestling WATERLOO — It’s one thing to read about the flood damage to the Dan Gable International Wrestling Institute and Museum, but it’s another thing altogether to witness it — and to smell it.…
Jake Deitchler became only the third high school wrestler to make the U.S. Olympic team with a shocking upset of Harry Lester — considered one of the best Greco-Roman wrestlers in the world at any weight. By RACHEL BLOUNT, Star…
Newark, NJ By Jason Bryant jbryant@intermatwrestle.com 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…
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…
‘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 Travis Johnson Email Collegian Staff Writer A gray-haired man in his 60s sits on a bench in the Lorenzo Wrestling Complex beneath championship plaques. He watches intently as his grandson, an elementary school wrestler, rolls around the mat with…
By Jason Bryant jbryant@intermatwrestle.com The clouds hanging over the State Capital building in Harrisburg, Pa., on Wednesday morning shrouded the city skyline and blanketed it with a damp chill. There’s also been a damp chill shrouding college wrestling, not specifically…
Lee U-Wen u-wen@mediacorp.com.sg WITH 3-on-3 basketball and even beach wrestling potentially on the programme, the inaugural Youth Olympic Games in 2010, for athletes aged 14 to 18, is shaping up to be more than just a mini-version of the Summer…
Posted at the Wrestling Talk forum… Olympic gold medalist and professional wrestling star Kurt Angle was charged Friday with driving under the influence. Moon Township police said they received a call from a motorist at 1:49 p.m. complaining that someone…
Mark Palmer, Staff Writer at RevWrestling Take a look at the wrestling resumes of most Olympic gold medal-winning wrestlers from the US, and just about all of them had considerable international experience, built on a foundation from being state champs…
