Amateur Wrestling news, gear and photos from the side of the mat.
Amateur Wrestling news, gear and photos from the side of the mat.
By BILL MURPHY The Times Flowery Branch’s Carson Fields could hear the excitement from his Team Georgia teammates. And he knew exactly why they were cheering. His opponent could only imagine the mistake he had just made. Fields, 16, was…
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…
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’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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…