Randy Couture Knows How to Pick His Battle

By STEPHEN C. SMITH, SR. Funny thing about being in the military – once you’ve been a part of it, you don’t look back on the experience as just some job you had – it’s a part of who you…

The Oklahoman: Mocco Tackles New Role

By Jenni Carlson The Oklahoman STILLWATER – Steve Mocco has worn Oklahoma State orange time and again. Never, though, quite like this. The wrestling stud is playing football for the Cowboys. You read right. Mocco, a two-time NCAA heavyweight wrestling…

Tom Cruise, Dirty Wrestler??

Tom’s wrestling tricks revealed Indo-Asian News Service Actor Tom Cruise reportedly played dirty when he used to wrestle for his high school in New Jersey. According to pagesix.com, a former wrestler from a rival school said: “Even then everybody knew…

Zavada Keeps Busy with Summer Wrestling

By Jamie Rankin DAILY COURIER At this time of year when many other teens are playing baseball and softball, or they’re just taking advantage of the summer break, Matt Zavada is wrestling. Zavada, of Dunbar, will begin his junior year…

OCU wrestling program finds home in former church

By Leslie Berger Communciations & Marketing Writer Oklahoma City University wrestling coach Archie Randall began preparing for the school’s new wrestling program in February, but until this summer, he wasn’t sure where the team was going to practice. After renovations…

Rumble Down Under

Bryan L. Fuell The Virginia Gazette Most of the land is desert or semi-arid. It covers a diverse range of habitats, from koala bears to tropical rainforests. A stark contrast from Williamsburg, Lafayette High wrestler James Lipford recently traveled to…

Northeast National Beach Wrestling Championship

The Northeast National Beach Wrestling Championship will be held at Pine Lake on Aug. 5 in Caroga. Among the local competitors will be Amy Whitbeck (Duanesburg), Brendan Lapp (Maple Hill), Diana Acors (Charlton), John Acors (Charlton), Nick Bergami (Niskayuna) and…

Wrestlers take to the “beach”

A leap into the Tualatin River should have been a requirement of all competitors in the beach wrestling tournament last Saturday at the West Linn Fair. It was bad enough that temperatures soared over 100 degrees that day. By the…

The Myths and Realities of Wrestling

Written by Josh Lashley Those who competed with sincerity in sport of wrestling, whether their career ended with their graduation from high school, after their collegiate days, or if they stayed involved as coaches, competitors, etc. for several decades, know…

No legs, no problem for Penn State’s Rohan Murphy

By Nina Mandell Penn State senior Rohan Murphy is a better athlete than you. And now he’s a world championship bronze medalist — and don’t you dare say it’s because he’s disabled. “Rohan may not have legs, “Penn State ability…

Fixing Internet Explorer Issues

It never seems to stop amazing me, how one browser can be so popular and so horrible at web standards. 🙁 I’ve recently come to find out that Internet Explorer was causing two big issues. One, the right sidebar was…

Wrestling With Commitment: Readers Write RE VaTech vs Iowa

Regarding the Virginia Tech wrestling saga involving those players who want to transfer to Iowa, several of the Iowa parents have thrown out the word commitment and promise when talking about the alleged communication by Jim Weaver of a general…