Watching My Sons Wrestle

From the Chattanoogan newspaper in (you guessed it) Ferris Robinson: Watching My Sons Wrestleby Ferris Robinsonposted December 17, 2004 When my three sons were young, and just starting out in tee-ball and the very first level of sports, my…

Fight Ends WVa JR HS Wrestling Match

From the Parkersburg (West Virginia) News and Sentinel Wrestling altercation may result in disciplinary action By MICHAEL ERB WILLIAMSTOWN – Police and school administrators are investigating an altercation among a coach, student and parent that ended a junior high…

Illness Derails Darrell Vasquez’s Hopes

From the Bakersfield Californian Illness derails Vasquez’s wrestling hopes this year By JEFF EVANS, Californian staff writere-mail: [email protected] Posted: Friday December 17th, 2004, 1:00 AMLast Updated: Friday December 17th, 2004, 1:00 AM Darrell Vasquez’s hope of winning a Division…

Missouri Travels to Columbus, Athens for Three Duals

The Tigers will compete against Virginia Tech, Ohio State and Ohio this weekend. Missouri Wrestling Team Travels to Ohio Tigers Wrestle in Three Duals in Two Days Dec. 17, 2004 Head Coach Brian Smith and his 12th ranked Missouri…

Eddie Goldman: The Life & Death of Dimitri Gavriel

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF DIMITRI GAVRIELSubmitted by: E.Goldman/Boxing & Wrestling EditorPosted On 12/18/2004 With all the names, numbers, and political debate coming out of the war in Iraq, it is sometimes easy to forget that all this involves…

Gavriel: The Lance Cpl Who Left Wall Street

Thanks to Eddie Goldman for alerting me to this story from the New York Observer In some ways he was like every other young banker: toiling day and night on Wall Street, crowding the bars of Murray Hill and…

Buckeyes Encouraged By Impact of Freshmen

Thanks to “TheOhioState “for posting this to TheMat college forum 20041217-D7-00.html&chck=t OHIO STATE WRESTLINGBuckeyes encouraged by impact of freshmenFriday, December 17, 2004 Scott PriestleTHE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Inside the Ohio State wrestling room, the seeds have been planted for another…

NY State Champ Lucas Chooses Hofstra

sklucas164086314dec16,0,6007619.story?coll=ny-li-hsports-print State champ Lucas decides on Hofstra BY GREGG SARRASTAFF WRITER December 16, 2004 The decision, like his takedowns, came easily for Alton Lucas, the area’s most highly recruited wrestler since four-time state champion Jesse Jantzen. Lucas, a state…

Ex-Wrestler/Morgan Stanley CEO Richard Fisher Dead at 68

Richard Fisher, 68, Chairman of Morgan Stanley in 1990’sBy JOSEPH B. TREASTERPublished: December 17, 2004 Richard B. Fisher, a former chairman of the Morgan Stanley investment bank, died yesterday at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan. He was 68…

Ohio U’s Spires TheMat Wrestler of the Week

Spires named TheMat.com Wrestler of the Week12/15/2004John Fuller Jon Spires (Lancaster, Ohio/Ohio Univ.) has been named TheMat.com Wrestler of the Week for the week of December 7-13. Each week, TheMat.com will select an Athlete of the Week, based upon…

Ex-Wrestler from Marion, Indiana Killed in Iraq

From the Marion Chronicle-Tribune Soldier with county ties killedJosh Ramsey attended Oak Hill Junior High BY JONATHAN BETHELY MEMORIES – Joy Ramsey holds a photo of her son, Army Pfc. Josh Ramsey, who was killed in Iraq. Joy Ramsey…

Cael Remembers Visits to PA

From the Shamokin (PA) News-Item http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=13568012&BRD=2311&PAG=461&dept_id=482259&rfi=6 Sanderson, an NCAA and Olympic champion, remembers visits to Keystone State 12/16/2004 As an unbeaten, four-time NCAA wrestling champion and Olympic gold medalist, Cael Sanderson owns plenty of great memories. Many of them occurred…