Amateur Wrestling news, gear and photos from the side of the mat.
Amateur Wrestling news, gear and photos from the side of the mat.
The next major building project for Des Moines will probably be a new downtown hotel. Why, you ask? After spending $217 million of public money on a new arena/convention complex, we now learn that not including a new hotel as…
By Rich Bell As a proud practitioner of the transformation arts, I enjoy working with clients of all ages and abilities, as long as work is what we do. But if I had to choose the ideal guinea pig for…
By Andy Hamilton Iowa City Press-Citizen The Iowa wrestling team is still more than a week away from its first competition of the year, but Charlie Falck’s sophomore season has reached injury-plagued status. Iowa’s 125-pounder is expected to miss at…
MARK KARPF In about six minutes, a Lincoln house received at least $7,500 worth of damage, the lives of 11 men were changed and the blood of those involved was all over the floor and walls. Neighbor John Harris, who…
NCAA college coaches may now coach their college wrestlers at various events within or outside of the playing season Gary Abbott/USA Wrestling USA Wrestling has been notified that the NCAA has passed legislation allowing staff members to engage in coaching…
Doug Carroll The Arizona Republic Eighteen years ago, they entered the world one minute apart. Even now, only 5 pounds separate fraternal twins Kyle and Bobby Ellsworth. That, plus the 3,½-mile stretch of Arizona Avenue that runs between Chandler and…
VANCOUVER — Daniel Igali is driven by dreams. His are not the fanciful visions so many of us conjure up in idle moments, however. Mr. Igali’s dreams are few in number and he is deadly serious about them. The Nigerian-born…
Zeke Jones brings Olympic talent, strong desire and an odd nickname By ilario huober Who exactly is the man that the Penn athletic department brought in to replace the most successful wrestling coach in school history, Roger Reina? He is…
For about three and a half years now, I have been promoting RealProWrestling (RPW), traveling the world spreading the news of this New League of Superheroes. I stood on the very same dusty ground Socrates stood on at the Parthenon,…
By Cecily Cairns [email protected] There are only three people who own an official Afleet Alex Kentucky Derby jacket. The garments were stitched for a trio of history-makers: one for the horse’s trainer, one for the owners, and, of course, one…
By KRISTINA TORRES The Atlanta Journal-Constitution The father of a Cobb County teenager who in June successfully completed a Juvenile Drug Treatment Court program is asking the county school board to back an effort that would allow the youth to…
OAKLAND ” As expected, the CIF Federated Council voted Friday to go ahead with high school girls regional open wrestling tournaments beginning in January. The two-day, double-elimination events ” one held in the north and the other in the south…