Gable set for next stage
By MATT LEVINS IOWA CITY “Dan Gable has been the face of amateur wrestling for the better part of the last half-century. During that span, Gable has done just about everything there is to do for the sport of wrestling,…
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By MATT LEVINS IOWA CITY “Dan Gable has been the face of amateur wrestling for the better part of the last half-century. During that span, Gable has done just about everything there is to do for the sport of wrestling,…
How a Small College Upset All Major Competitors to Win NCAA Wrestling Championship Arno Niemand Arno Niemand, longtime wrestling proponent, historian and member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame, has written and published “The Dream Team of 1947, “a…
BY JENNIFER JACOBS – desmoinesregister.com No one stopped 17-year-old Jerod Botts of Waverly from climbing into the cage for a mixed martial arts fight even though he was underage, didn’t have a parent’s permission and had never fought before. An…
Craig Sesker USA Wrestling Iowa’s Brent Metcalf shoots in on North Carolina State’s Darrion Caldwell during the 2009 NCAA finals in St. Louis. Photo by Larry Slater. IOWA CITY “Brent Metcalf took the college wrestling world by storm during the…
Andy Hamilton “¢ Iowa City Press-Citizen The top-ranked Iowa wrestling team did enough Friday to beat up on two more opponents and set another school record for dual dominance. But the Hawkeyes didn’t do enough to appease coach Tom Brands…
By KATHIE OBRADOVICH “¢ [email protected] Republican Jim Gibbons of Des Moines, a former Iowa State University wrestling coach, will run for Congress in Iowa’s 3rd Congressional District. The winner of the GOP primary will take on incumbent Democrat Leonard Boswell.…
by SEAN KEELER State College, Pa. ” The wrestling room is bigger than a VFW hall, the mats wide as a country mile. Four high-definition televisions hang on the walls, each one placed strategically a few feet apart from the…
For most high school athletes, particularly those competing in fall sports, what looms ahead mostly is a diversion at this stage of the school year. What Matt Lackey and Wes Hand are offering high school and upper-level middle-school wrestlers at…
Andy Hamilton – Iowa City Press-Citizen Danny Song wasn’t certain what he was getting into three years ago when his search for a place to continue his wrestling career led him from New York to Iowa. He had just finished…
More than two years after their last matches at Iowa State, twins Trent and Travis Paulson remain inseparable. They live together, they train together and now they’re back at ISU together to continue their quest to become world and Olympic…
AMES, Iowa “For Iowa State’s current 141-pound wrestling standout, a former Cyclone 141-pound NCAA champion is in his corner all the way this season. Luckily for Nick Gallick, it’s his workout partner, coach and older brother, Nate Gallick. The Gallick…
Andy Hamilton “¢ Iowa City Press-Citizen Nick Moore joked in May that he might hold off on making a commitment until next spring just to throw off all of the people who expected an announcement this summer that he was…