Timmins Wrestling kicked off the start of its 2010-11 season Monday night with a training session at École secondaire catholique Thériault. Neil Bangs, one of the coaches of the club, said they usually get about 30 to 40 athletes ”…
Adam Frey, the 2005 national junior Greco-Roman champion and the 2007 Ivy League wrestling rookie of the year, is wearing a long-sleeved sweatshirt and ski cap, standard garb for the weight-cutting jock. Indeed, for much of his young life 23-year-old…
Gary Abbott, USA Wrestling Dennis Hall of Stevens Points, Wis. has been named the head coach for USA Wrestling’s Greco-Roman program at the U.S. Olympic Education Center at Northern Michigan University. Hall was one of the greatest Greco-Roman wrestlers in…
FARGO, N.D. “Incoming Purdue wrestling freshman Kendrick Sanders won the U.S.A. Wrestling Junior Greco-Roman National Championship at 152 pounds on Tuesday in Fargo, N.D. The national title was the second for the Florida native, who joins the Boilermakers this fall.…
Josh Lowe, InterMat High School Analyst Heading into the 2009 Schoolboy Greco-Roman National Duals, one wondered whether it would again be a battle between Minnesota and Pennsylvania for the title. In each of the last two years, those squads met…
Council Bluffs, Ia. ” Greco-Roman wrestling got to be a drag for Mark Rial, especially after a subpar showing at the 2008 Olympic Trials. A move back to Cedar Falls, where his college wrestling career began, helped Rial get back…
YOKOHAMA “Greco-Roman wrestling champion Joe Warren upset local favorite Norifumi “Kid “Yamamoto Tuesday at the Dream 9 Featherweight Grand Prix 2009 Second Round. “Kid Yamamoto is a champion, and I respect him, “said the 32-year-old American from the winner’s circle,…
By ALAN ROBINSON, AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP)”The Olympic wrestling mat is red, yellow and blue, dynamic colors designed to give the athletes a vivid backdrop for their talents. It’s that gray area outside the wrestling circle that discolors what…
By Jeff Beshey A few weeks after the Sydney Games were over I sat down with Olympic Bronze Medalist and University of Minnesota heavyweight Garrett Lowney. Although the 21 year old Lowney has been a student/athlete at the U of…
The Associated Press BEIJING: It turns out that the Greco-Roman wrestler who was stripped of his bronze medal for dropping it in disgust on the mat had reason for being angry, according to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Ara…
