Club wrestling underway at BGSU

Dan Mundrick breathed extremely heavily and pleaded for a drink of water. He even contemplated vomiting. And he couldn’t have been happier. Mundrick, a junior at BGSU, was one of 12 students at the club wrestling team’s first optional practice…

Iris Smith USA Today’s Athlete of the Week

By Beau Dure, USATODAY.com Japanese wrestler Kyoko Hamaguchi has won five world titles. Coming into the 158.5-pound final against Hamaguchi in Budapest, Iris Smith had none. Smith had only been to the World Championships once before ” in 2000. She…

Event Focuses On Bringing Wrestling Museum to Waterloo

Backers of a plan to move a wrestling museum to downtown Waterloo made their pitch to the people who could make it happen. The museum would bear Waterloo native and wrestling icon Dan Gable’s name. But it all depends on…

Canton Rep’s Editorial On Perry HS Coach Situation

GENERALLY SPEAKING MICHAEL E. HANKE You shouldn’t elect a person to office who won’t tell you what is going on. Elected officials represent you, the voter, and not themselves, and certainly not the staffs of whatever office they hold. The…

Katrina Forces Wrestlers To Move from LA to OK

High school wrestlers move from Louisiana to Oklahoma in wake of Hurricane Katrina Kristin Janloo Sports Writer Hurricane Katrina put an end to Jeff Slaughter’s and Chad Ravannack’s senior year of wrestling at Archbishop Rummel High School, an all-boys Catholic…

Vestavia, Hoover teams help Louisiana wrestlers

CHRIS KIEFFER News staff writer Wrestlers will be the first to tell you there is something transcendent about the sport. They might go at it on the mat, but off it they are one big family. The chance to help…

NDSU Coach Accuses Mankato Of Poaching

NDSU wrestling coach accuses Mankato of “poaching” FARGO, N.D. (AP) ” North Dakota State head wrestling coach Bucky Maughan is accusing Minnesota State, Mankato of “poaching “athletes from his team, a charge the Minnesota school rejects. Four Bison starters have…

Masillon Perry Coach Resigns

By MATTHEW RINK Parents and student athletes came away from Tuesday’s Perry Board of Education meeting with few answers about the direction of one of Ohio’s premier wrestling programs and the two coaches who run it. But they did learn…

Trost Named Assistant Coach of the Year by NWCA

MANHEIM, Pa. — University of Michigan assistant wrestling coach Kirk Trost was named the National Wrestling Coaches Association National Assistant Coach of the Year on Monday (Sept. 26) after helping guide last season’s Wolverines to their most successful season in…

The NCAA 75th Anniversary Team: Did the best men win?

We Americans cherish our right to vote. When asked, we will jump at the chance to cast our ballot, whether it’s for President of the United States, or our favorite on American Idol. We’ll endure long lines at the polling…

Toni Copeland Drowns In Lake Superior

BY JIM WRIGHT Press & Sun-Bulletin Toni Copeland, the 18-year-old McDonough woman trying to become an Olympic wrestler, drowned Sunday with a friend while they were swimming in Lake Superior. Copeland was staying at Northern Michigan University in Marquette, Mich.,…