Month August 2005

By MARCIA C. SMITH The Orange County Register SANTA ANA – Jesse Ruiz lurches up and back, bounding around a white circle for a raging warrior’s dance. His arms shake loose like wet linguini. His head and mountainous afro swivel…

BY CHARLIE BERGMANN: Staff Writer Members of the Union Pines wrestling team that attended last week’s team camp at Bloomsburg University in central Pennsylvania learned moves and techniques that will help them individually during the coming season. But the second…

By Jeff Kolpack, The Forum The conference room in the upper level of the Fargodome had more than one meaning Thursday night. Representatives from seven Division I wrestling schools agreed they would like a league up and running this season.…

Columbia, Mo. -Wrestling in the 2005 Show-Me State Games July 23 in the Hearnes Center, five Missouri athletes walked away with a finish in the top three, and four Tigers grappled their way to the top of the podium by…

FARGO, N.D. The owner of a company selling T-shirts and other wrestling merchandise near the Fargodome is promising to shut down if USA Wrestling agrees to hold its Junior and Cadet National Championships in this city another three years. Officials…

BY M.A. MEHTA Star-Ledger Staff The news tiptoed along the electronic superhighway, a few paragraphs lost on the Montclair State University Web site 11 days ago. Three months after the second largest university in New Jersey reinstated its wrestling program…