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Brands Together: Terry Leaves USA Wrestling To Work for Tom at Iowa
Terry Brands to leave USA Wrestling to accept assistant wrestling coach position with the Univ. of Iowa Gary Abbott USA Wrestling USA Wrestling’s Assistant National Freestyle Coach and Head Resident...
Wrestling deals with new allegations of corruption
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 a...
From Olympian to Collegian - Garrett Lowney is determined to continue his winning ways
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 s...
Court: Medal-Dropping Abrahamian Wrestler Was Right
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 o...
US Freestyle Coach Jackson: “We Have To Rethink Our Whole System”
Wrestling coach Jackson calls for program ‘overhaul’ After winning wrestling gold for the USA in his first Olympics in 2000, Brandon Slay left the sport and now is in real estate in Dallas...
Wall Street Journal cites Title IX as impediment to US Olympic Future
Cutbacks in College Sports Risk U.S. Olympic Future By CHRISTOPHER RHOADS BEIJING — The U.S. won more medals here than it has in any nonboycotted Olympics, but even with that haul, its days of d...
Title IX Tied Our Hands At the Olympics
Title IX Tied Our Hands At the Olympics Phyllis Schlafly The Olympics demonstrated again what competition, hard work and determination can produce, as numerous world records were shattered. American s...
Q&A With Tommy Rowlands, Olympic Alternate
Tommy Rowlands Places Second at the Olympic Trials: Buckeye Coach will be 2008 Olympic Alternate Kevin Schlosser; the-ozone.net Tommy Rowlands advanced to the finals of the Olympic Trials by winning ...
BC Olympics.com Q&A With Brad Vering
A 2004 Olympian, Brad Vering will make his second straight Olympic appearance at Greco-Roman’s 84kg/185 lbs division. The Nebraska native won silver at the 2007 World Championships, at which the...
Flood Damage at Gable Museum Makes An Impression
By GREG OLIVER - Producer, SLAM! Wrestling WATERLOO — It’s one thing to read about the flood damage to the Dan Gable International Wrestling Institute and Museum, but it’s another th...
Anoka wrestler, Jake Deitchler, pulls off a stunner
Jake Deitchler became only the third high school wrestler to make the U.S. Olympic team with a shocking upset of Harry Lester — considered one of the best Greco-Roman wrestlers in the world at a...
USA Wrestling looks to fuel Olympic dream for wrestlers’ families
Newark, NJ By Jason Bryant jbryant@intermatwrestle.com The Prudential Center in northern New Jersey is the brand-spanking new gleaming home of the National Hockey League’s New Jersey Devils. On Tues...
Askren set for Olympic wrestling trials
Former Missouri wrestler Ben Askren, top, is competing at the Olympic Trials on June 13-15 in Las Vegas. By DAVID THIESSEN It would be wise not to doubt Ben Askren. He is competing at the Olympic Tri...
Gene Mills Tells His Story RE ‘80 Olympic Boycott
‘Wrestlers At The Trials’ - excerpt from Gene Mills Amongst the 90 wrestlers and coaches whose never-been-published stories are captured in the recent book about the 1960 thru 1988 Olympic...
Wrestler teaches kids in preparation for Beijing
By Travis Johnson Email Collegian Staff Writer A gray-haired man in his 60s sits on a bench in the Lorenzo Wrestling Complex beneath championship plaques. He watches intently as his grandson, an eleme...
NWCA, Gable, Hastert Lobby PA Legislature RE Olympic Sports
By Jason Bryant jbryant@intermatwrestle.com The clouds hanging over the State Capital building in Harrisburg, Pa., on Wednesday morning shrouded the city skyline and blanketed it with a damp chill. Th...
More than just a mini-Olympics
Lee U-Wen u-wen@mediacorp.com.sg WITH 3-on-3 basketball and even beach wrestling potentially on the programme, the inaugural Youth Olympic Games in 2010, for athletes aged 14 to 18, is shaping up to b...
Kurt Angle Charged With DUI
Posted at the Wrestling Talk forum… Olympic gold medalist and professional wrestling star Kurt Angle was charged Friday with driving under the influence. Moon Township police said they received ...
1960 Olympic Gold Medalist Shelby Wilson Sets the Record Straight
Mark Palmer, Staff Writer at RevWrestling Take a look at the wrestling resumes of most Olympic gold medal-winning wrestlers from the US, and just about all of them had considerable international exp...
Ex-Huskers Ruiz, Vering Ready for the Worlds
BY KARL VOGEL / Lincoln Journal Star For most of the last four years, the Nebraska 197s have painted a small corner of Colorado Springs, Colo., their own shade of Husker red. Two members of that club ...
US Olympic Freestyle Dream Dual: 1972 vs 1992
What Would Happen if Two of the Greatest Olympic Teams Ever Went Head-to-Head? Read Below to Find Out By Kyle Klingman – TWM Columnist Please send comments, questions or replies to: info@thewrestli...