Category Amateur Wrestling

Hipps Toss: College Wrestling Recap

Hipps Toss Weekly College Wrestling Recap: Catching Up With Nate Gallick A Look Back at the Week of College Wrestling By Andrew Hipps – Staff Writer Please send comments, questions or replies to: [email protected] Catching up with Nate Gallick Nate…

Patriots’ Neal Grappled With Career Change

Patriots’ Neal grappled with career change By Gary Mihoces, USA TODAY JACKSONVILLE ” Sports agent Neil Cornrich was at his Cleveland-area office in 2001 when he received the telephone solicitation. “Hi, Neil, my name is Steve Neal, and I’d like…

DeWitt Driscoll Profile

Wrestling Feature – DeWitt Driscoll Practice is wrapping up deep in the bowels of Rec Hall. The Penn State wrestling team has just completed some conditioning drills and the Nittany Lions are straggling out of the wrestling room. Coach Troy…

Gaining Weight – It’s a good thing….

Wrestling Feature – Joel Edwards It’s late one afternoon earlier this week and Penn State wrestling coach Troy Sunderland is sitting in a near-empty wrestling room talking to a reporter. In the middle of the conversation a wrestler pokes his…

Wrestling To Make Pro Debut

Wrestling to make pro debut By Ron Bracken [email protected] Saturday morning smorga-sports … Unlike almost any other sport, folkstyle or freestyle wrestling offered no professional opportunity once a wrestler finished his collegiate career. There were no professional leagues, no tours,…

Light Weight, Heavy Competition for Indiana’s Dubuque

Light weight, heavy competition at IU By Andrew Petersen Indiana Daily Student Bloomington, IN (U-WIRE) — It’s almost match time, and junior Joe Dubuque is pacing around like a caged tiger awaiting a meal. Back and forth he strides, rolling…

Roger Kish’s Official Minnesota Bio

Roger Kish School Year: Hometown: LaPeer, Mich.Old School: LaPeer West HS Bio information: 2003-04: Redshirted “¢ compiled a 9-4 record at 184 pounds “¢ had two pins and one technical fall “¢ went 3-2 at the Harold Nichols Open (11/15)…

Un-welcome mat: Practice simply the pits for ex-wrestler

Un-welcome mat: Practice simply the pits for ex-wrestler By TIM BADLEY For the Traveler Coach Wayne Jackson started practice by announcing my wrestling career synopsis: “When Tim started organized wrestling, he had his work cut out for him, “or words…

Chatting with the O-line on media day

Chatting with the O-line on media dayBy Bryan Morry, Patriots Football WeeklyThe Patriots offensive line works well together on the field, but how close is the group off of it? My Media Day quest was to find that out. Continuity,…

Letters of Intent explained

Signing letters half the story for recruits By Mike Knobler Cox News Service ATLANTA — National Signing Day has become such a big deal that it has acquired capital letters, such a huge news event that it has spawned its…

Real Pro Wrestling 50th Anniversary Reunites Wrestling Family

REAL PRO WRESTLING 50TH ANNIVERSARY REUNITES A WRESTLING FAMILY NEW YORK, Friday, Nov. 1, 2052 — The highlight of the 50th anniversary celebration of Real Pro Wrestling (RPW), held today at the new underwater Madison Square Garden situated beneath the…

Earl Caddock: A Real Wrestler, A Real Hero

Earl Caddock made the transition from three-time national AAU champion to world heavyweight professional champion on April 9, 1917, when he took the world title from the great Joe Stecher in Omaha. The epic match lasted nearly three hours, with…