BY KARL VOGEL / Lincoln Journal Star For most of the last four years, the Nebraska 197s have painted a small corner of Colorado Springs, Colo., their own shade of Husker red. Two members of that club ” Brad Vering…
What Would Happen if Two of the Greatest Olympic Teams Ever Went Head-to-Head? Read Below to Find Out By Kyle Klingman “TWM Columnist Please send comments, questions or replies to: [email protected] When conversations arise about great United States freestyle Olympic…
Bring On the World The son of former illegal immigrants, 20-year-old Henry Cejudo has overcome hardship to become the youngest U.S. wrestling champion in decades. Now he wants to be the best on the planet. Cejudo, who won his first…
By Gary Mihoces, USA TODAY Last year the world governing body for Olympic wrestling noted the appeal of beach volleyball and held its first World Beach Wrestling Championship in Turkey (yep, headlocks in the sand). Now it aims to ride…
By Jason Bryant [email protected] As you might expect, Chris Bono, Brad Vering and Patricia Miranda all come from completely different backgrounds. Of course, the three former U.S. World Team members wrestle three different styles, but all those backgrounds come into…
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -Olympic wrestling champion Rulon Gardner and two Utah men were rescued by a Lake Powell fisherman Sunday after surviving a small plane crash near Good Hope Bay the day before. Gardner was a passenger in the…
Waterloo, IA By Kyle Klingman Former WWE world heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar and former United States Congressmen Jim Leach will join several Olympic champions in celebrating the Grand Opening of the Dan Gable International Wrestling Institute and Museum (DGIWIM) on…
(Jan. 29) The 2007 Dave Schultz Memorial International looks to have its strongest field ever as the ninth year of the event will include top competitors from dozens of foreign nations like Russia, Bulgaria, China, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgysztan, U.S. and…
>> View all our wrestling books. “A good book is the purest essence of the soul” “Thomas Carlyle, Scottish historian and essayist “When a new book is published, read an old one” “Samuel Rogers, British poet By Kyle Klingman “TWM Columnist…
The International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles (FILA), the governing body of international amateur wrestling, aims to add beach wrestling to the Olympics program. FILA President Raphael Martinetti, who was in Antalya for the First World Beach Wrestling Championships, told…
