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Discuss (0 comments)May 19, 2008
Wasatch has another big wrestling day - Deseret News
Wasatch has another big wrestling dayDeseret News,?UT?- 1 hour agoBy Amy Donaldson The best wrestler in NCAA history, after all, hails from the Heber Valley ? Olympic gold medalist Cael Sanderson, who earned a perfect ...

Murphy: As Pac-10 loses another team, what lies ahead for BSU ... - IdahoStatesman.com
Murphy: As Pac-10 loses another team, what lies ahead for BSU ...IdahoStatesman.com,?ID?- 1 hour agoWhat would be best for West Coast wrestling is to stop losing programs like Oregon, Arizona State and Fresno State, which cut wrestling in 2005. The NCAA ...

Wasatch has another big wrestling day
Heber City is used to seeing it's wrestlers do great things. The best wrestler in NCAA history, after all, hails from the Heber Valley - Olympic gold medalist Cael Sanderson, who earned a perfect 159-0 record ...

Catalina grad takes part in NCAA Championship - Monterey County Herald
Catalina grad takes part in NCAA ChampionshipMonterey County Herald,?CA?- 51 minutes agoCall 722-8178. North County is in need of a varsity girls volleyball coach and head wrestling coach. Call Roger O'Sullivan ad 633-5221, ext. 258.

NCAA lacrosse breaking barriers - Sports Business Journal (subscription)
Sports Business Journal (subscription)NCAA lacrosse breaking barriersSports Business Journal (subscription),?NC?- 44 minutes agoIt is a group that includes men?s basketball, hockey, baseball and wrestling. Under their agreement with the NCAA, Gillette Stadium and its local partners ...

Haines, Taylor Named To NWCA All-Academic Team - CSTV.com
Haines, Taylor Named To NWCA All-Academic TeamCSTV.com,?NY?- 1 hour agoHaines finished the season with a 16-10 record at 184 pounds while Taylor finished third at the NCAA Championships to become Maryland's first wrestling ...

Arkansas Wrestling Academy to host John Smith Camp
The Arkansas Wrestling Academy is proud to be the host of the 2008 Olympic Hopeful Training Camp. 6-Time World, 2-Time Olympic Champion and arguably the greatest American wrestler ever … Head Coach of Oklahoma State University: JOHN SMITH! May 30-June 7th www.arkansaswrestlingacademy.com 6900 Pinnacle Valley Rd. Little Rock, AR 72223 Contacts: Pat Smith at 501-519-0850 or Greg Hatcher at 501-517-4734

Cavs take on UGA - Charlottesville Daily Progress
Cavs take on UGACharlottesville Daily Progress,?VA?- 44 minutes agoOn Saturday, Inglot?s costume featured a Mexican wrestling mask and gloves. However, he said it was too hot to do that on Sunday. ...

2007-08 athletic department awards announced - Wartburg Athletics
2007-08 athletic department awards announcedWartburg Athletics,?IA?- 1 hour agoBorchers, a two-time National Wrestling Coaches Association Scholar All-American, helped lead Wartburg to its sixth NCAA Division III national wrestling ...

County Clipboard: Catalina grad takes part in NCAA Championship - Monterey County Herald
County Clipboard: Catalina grad takes part in NCAA ChampionshipMonterey County Herald,?CA?- 1 hour agoCall 722-8178. North County is in need of a varsity girls volleyball coach and head wrestling coach. Call Roger O'Sullivan ad 633-5221, ext. 258.

Wrestling: Chris Martin leaves Granby for Western Branch job - The Virginian-Pilot
Wrestling: Chris Martin leaves Granby for Western Branch jobThe Virginian-Pilot,?VA?- 18 minutes agoBefore that, Martin was busy becoming an All-American at Virginia Tech, finishing fourth at the 2000 NCAA championships. In four years coaching the Comets ...

Wrestling: Chris Martin leaves Granby for Western Branch job
Chris Martin, a former state champion wrestler at Granby who has revived the Comets' program in recent years, is the new head coach at Western Branch.

Six Preps Commit to Upper Iowa - CSTV.com
CSTV.comSix Preps Commit to Upper IowaCSTV.com,?NY?- 35 minutes agoThe Upper Iowa wrestling team, which spent most of the season in the top ten in the national polls, finished 14th at this year's NCAA Division II ...

Wrestling legends gather at Beat the Streets event
The Beat the Streets Wrestling Program will honor New York City school coaches and the Public School Athletic League (PSAL) at a gala fundraiser held at the Bowery Hotel in New York City on Tuesday. Gathering to show their support of the Beat the Streets Program are wrestling legends Dan Gable, U.S.A. Wrestling Hall of Fame and U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame member and Gannet Co.'s "Wrestler of the Century"; Lee Kemp, 2008 U.S. Olympic Freestyle Coach and three-time World Champion Winner; John Smith, Olympic and World Championship Medal Winner; and Lee Roy Smith, Executive Director, National Wrestling Hall of Fame. "Beat the Streets teaches students through wrestling how to meet challenges head-on and encourages a mentality that can help you

Discuss (0 comments)May 18, 2008
Four athletes choose colleges
Davison senior Justin McDermitt has always been known as a wrestler who is hard to stop.

OSU wrestling team makes room for Clear Fork heavyweight
BELLVILLE -- When Dalton Britt goes on a training run, he doesn't need to leave his driveway.

AP: UFC Officially Announces UFC 87 "Seek And Destroy" - 411mania.com
AP: UFC Officially Announces UFC 87 "Seek And Destroy"411mania.com,?TX?- 14 minutes agoThe NCAA wrestling champion and former professional wrestler now returns to the Octagon to take on one of the fight game's true legends, Mark "The Hammer" ...

Next Brock Lesnar UFC Fight Confirmed - 411mania.com
Next Brock Lesnar UFC Fight Confirmed411mania.com,?TX?- 2 hours agoThe NCAA wrestling champion and former professional wrestler now returns to the Octagon to take on one of the fight game's true legends, Mark "The Hammer" ...

// Next Brock Lesnar UFC Fight Confirmed - 411mania.com
// Next Brock Lesnar UFC Fight Confirmed411mania.com,?TX?- 31 minutes agoThe NCAA wrestling champion and former professional wrestler now returns to the Octagon to take on one of the fight game's true legends, Mark "The Hammer" ...

Discuss (0 comments)May 17, 2008
Neck injury threatens ex-Scot's wrestling career - Longview Daily News
Neck injury threatens ex-Scot's wrestling careerLongview Daily News,?WA?- 43 minutes agoThey've had four or five other athletes come back from this same surgery, including one who finished second at the (NCAA) nationals."

Paradise Hall of Fame Inductees - Paradise Post
Paradise Hall of Fame InducteesParadise Post,?CA?- 26 minutes ago... State University in 1991 where he was a conference and regional champion followed by a fourth place finish at the NCAA Division II wrestling tournament. ...

Schultz's wrestling skills seize the day
Ryan Schultz's lightweight title defense against Deividas Taurosevicius promised to deliver -- and it did. In the end, Schultz's better wrestling skills saved the day and earned him a unanimous decision victory.

RIC Honors Winter Sports Teams - RIC The Anchor
RIC Honors Winter Sports TeamsRIC The Anchor,?RI?- 54 minutes agoOn the wrestling team, senior Mike Bonora from Bronx, NY, was named MVP. At 141 lbs., he earned the National Championship at the 2008 NCAA Div. ...

Title IX's headlock - Arizona Republic
Title IX's headlockArizona Republic,?AZ?- 1 hour agoIn 1987, ASU's wrestling team won the NCAA title. On Tuesday, it joined the hundreds of college wrestling programs that have been eliminated since 1979 as ...

Discuss (0 comments)May 16, 2008
Indians' Reik Heads To Mcdaniel
Jacob Reik has thrown his allegiance to the McDaniel College wrestling team, which is gaining a versatile and self-motivated athlete.

Rev Rewind: Gary Kurdelmeier
Launched in the summer of 2007, Rev Rewind wrestling historical features will continue to appear from time-to-time now that the high school and collegiate wrestling season is over. Wrestler. Coach. Athletic director. Innovator. Promoter. Architect. Gary Kurdelmeier's lasting legacy a decade after his death may well be as the architect whose planning and efforts thirty-five years ago helped put Iowa at the top of the collegiate wrestling world in 2008 (Photo/National Wrestling Hall of Fame)Gary Kurdelmeier wore many hats in his life. Although he was a two-time Iowa high school state champ, a Big Ten titlist, an NCAA champ, and coach whose wrestlers won conference and national titles, Kurdelmeier's lasting legacy a decade after his de

Two former Augsburg wrestlers featured on fight card
On Saturday night, Minnesota-based company Seconds Out Promotions will be putting on its second combined mixed martial arts (MMA) and boxing event. The event, called "Uncaged," will take place at the St. Paul Armory in St. Paul, Minnesota. It is set to get underway at 7 p.m. CST. The first combined MMA and boxing event put on by Seconds Out Promotions ("Evolution") took place on March 29 at the Myth Nightclub in Maplewood, Minnesota. The event drew around 1,300 fans. Seconds Out Promotions President Tony Grygelko expects around 2,000 or more fans for "Uncaged" on Saturday night. "I think the format makes a lot of sense," said Grygelko, a former professional boxer who wrestled collegiately at Augsburg College in Minneapolis. "It

Smith laments loss of another wrestling program - NewsOK.com (subscription)
Smith laments loss of another wrestling programNewsOK.com (subscription),?OK?- 1 hour agoASU gained national attention thanks to freshman Anthony Robles, who qualified for the NCAA Wrestling Tournament. Robles was born with just one leg, ...

Opinion by Greg Hansen : For DeBerry, et al., latest move is a gut ... - Arizona Daily Star
Opinion by Greg Hansen : For DeBerry, et al., latest move is a gut ...Arizona Daily Star,?AZ?- 1 hour agoFor two days, many of the NCAA's 85 surviving wrestling programs have phoned Kyle and Bobby DeBerry with an invitation for Kyle to wrestle at their school. ...

Arizona State drops program; Kerr irked - Bakersfield Californian (subscription)
Arizona State drops program; Kerr irkedBakersfield Californian (subscription),?CA?- 1 hour agoBut Kerr said he feels wrestling's long-term future is secure as an NCAA sport. "A lot of sports are reeling, not only wrestling," Kerr said. ...

Utah Valley State signs seven highly-touted recruits
OREM, Utah -- Utah Valley head wrestling coach Greg Williams announced his 2008-2009 signees Wednesday, a list that includes seven accomplished grapplers from Utah and Nevada. With the additions of these top recruits UV will look to be make an impact in the Western Wrestling Conference (WWC) in the 2008-09 season. "We are very excited to have this caliber of young men come into our program," Williams said. "They are all gifted wrestlers, good students, and hard workers. We feel this will be a group that will help Utah Valley get to the next level in competitiveness. In the short history of our program, we have not signed so many talented individuals in one year. To sign this many top recruits is a statement of the growth of the Wolverine

For DeBerry, et al., latest move is a gut wrencher - Arizona Daily Star
For DeBerry, et al., latest move is a gut wrencherArizona Daily Star,?AZ?- 2 hours agoFor two days, many of the NCAA's 85 surviving wrestling programs have phoned Kyle and Bobby DeBerry with an invitation for Kyle to wrestle at their school. ...

For DeBerry, et al., latest move is a gut wrencher
For two days, many of the NCAA's 85 surviving wrestling programs have phoned Kyle and Bobby DeBerry with an invitation for Kyle to wrestle at their school.

Grappling with memorable - UI The Daily Iowan (subscription)
Grappling with memorableUI The Daily Iowan (subscription),?IA?- 53 minutes agoHow about the Hawkeye heroes that returned to their pedestal atop the wrestling world by decimating the competition by earning a 21-1 record, national coach ...

Smith laments loss of another wrestling program [10 hrs ago]
Arizona State University announced this week it was dropping three men's sports, including wrestling, due to rising costs.

Comments on this Story - Arizona Daily Star
Comments on this StoryArizona Daily Star,?AZ?- 34 minutes agoFor two days, many of the NCAA's 85 surviving wrestling programs have phoned Kyle and Bobby DeBerry with an invitation for Kyle to wrestle at their school. ...

Even as it aims to be politically correct, NFL can't get every vote in nation's capital
DESPERATE: Fanatically fanning the embers of the Patriots' Spygate story, Sen. Arlen Specter says, "If the public loses confidence in professional football, it will be like wrestling." No, it'll be like ...

Discuss (0 comments)May 15, 2008
Wyoming Wrestling Recognized With 11th Best Recruiting Class in the Nation
It didn't take long for wrestling analysts to realize how complete the 2008-09 recruiting class was for the Wyoming Cowboys this season. Wyoming earned some national respect by signing the 11th best recruiting class according to the most recent issue of W.I.N. Magazine.

South Dakota State signs on with Brute-Adidas
Brute-adidas wrestling announced today it has signed on with South Dakota State University in Brookings, S.D., The South Dakota State wrestling team, which just completed its second full season of Division I competition, has a proud wrestling history and for years, was one of the programs in Division II contending for national championships. "We're excited that coach Jason Liles has brought the Jackrabbits wrestling team on board with us at Brute," said Brute-adidas wrestling Partner and CEO Tom Sculley. "South Dakota State is the only Division I wrestling program in the state," said Sculley. "Getting an opportunity to not only provide the school with the best in wrestling shoes, equipment and gear, but getting exposure for our pro

Minnesota inks No. 1 recruiting class
The Golden Gopher wrestling program has signed the top recruiting class in the nation this year, according to the most recent issue of W.I.N. Magazine. All six of Minnesota's early period recruits ended their prep careers ranked in the top-11 in the final W.I.N. Magazine national high school rankings. Jake Deitchler (Anoka, Minn.) and Ryland Geiger (Scapposse, Ore.) were each ranked No. 1 in their weight classes following outstanding prep careers - Deitchler at 152 pounds and Geiger at 189. Deitchler will also have a chance to make the U.S. Olympic team this June when he competes at the U.S. Team Trials in Las Vegas. Blair Academy's (N.J.) Mario Mason was the nation's second-best recruit at 145 pounds, according to the publication, wh

Nittany Lion Wrestling Program Finalizes Outstanding Recruiting Class - CSTV.com
CSTV.comNittany Lion Wrestling Program Finalizes Outstanding Recruiting ClassCSTV.com,?NY?- 55 minutes ago... it go 14-5 in dual meets, have four wrestlers become All-Americans, crown one National Champion and place third at the 2008 NCAA Wrestling Championships.

Penn State finalizes outstanding recruiting class
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- The Penn State Nittany Lion wrestling program, fresh off a superb 2007-08 campaign, has finalized its recruiting class for the upcoming year. Ten outstanding high school talents are set to help the powerful program continue its climb on the national scene. The class begins, alphabetically, with Justin Aube (Harrisburg, Pa.). Aube will matriculate at Central Dauphin High School this year after wrestling in Minnesota for three years. During his four years as high school wrestler, Aube was a three-time captain and four-time all-conference selection. A state qualifier, Aube helped guide Central Dauphin to the 2008 Team State Championship this season and was a member of the Mid-Penn All-Star Team. He ended his high schoo

Wrestling coach chosen
Less than one month after the search for a new head coach began, the Terrapin wrestling team welcomed Kerry McCoy, former head coach of the Stanford Cardinal, as its new leader Monday.

Dollar signs drive demise of wrestling teams
Mitchell Lofstedt stood underneath the doorway leading into an athletics office at Roseburg High recently with a look of assurance no school but Southern Oregon University could provide.