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EIWA: Competitions start Jan. 1, EIWAs held as scheduled
Villas, NJ, August 12 — The Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association is a wrestling only association whose member schools are all affiliated with other conferences. As such, our member teams may be subject to restrictions imposed by their parent conferences and home states with respect to athletic practice and competition during the current Covid-19 pandemic. The […]
Updated qualifiers for 2020/21 U.S. Olympic Team Trials as of July 30, 2020
By Gary Abbott, USA Wrestling | July 30, 2020, 4:09 p.m. (ET) COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – USA Wrestling will post regular updates on the athletes who have qualified for the 2020 U.S. Olympic Team Trials, which will determine the 2020 Olympic Team in all three styles—men’s and women’s freestyle and Greco-Roman. The U.S. Olympic Team […]
Nike Reports Surprise $790 Million Loss, 46% Plunge in North American Sales
Disclaimer. I’ve been a Nike product tester since the early 1990’s. Editorial up top and business reporting below In 2008 the Oregon Ducks dropped their wrestling program. Oregon’s athletic programs are heavily subsidized by Nike. While Oregon wasn’t a power house it had two All-Americans in 2006, Joey Bracamonte and National Champion, Shane Webster. Since […]
Meet The Young Man Who Overcame Brain Surgery To Become Champion Wrestler
A young man in Rockford, Illinois, is being recognized for his bravery and determination in the face of unthinkable challenges. When Boylan Catholic High School wrestler Dathan Wickson Jr. was 10-years-old, he fell off a couch and hit his head on a coffee table, according to USA Today. “Doctors closed the wound, and Wickson seemed […]
What College Athletes are Doing to Return to Sport
Ohio State football players and their parents were asked to sign an acknowledgment of risk waiver regarding the coronavirus pandemic before returning to campus for voluntary workouts on June 8, athletic director Gene Smith confirmed to ESPN on Sunday. The “Buckeye Pledge,” obtained by ESPN and other media outlets, asks players to “help stop the […]
Say goodbye to cauliflower ears! Chinese scientists create an injection which fixes deformed ears in mice and could work on humans
Deformed ears are a hallmark of contact sports, including boxing and rugby Chinese scientists found a way to sculpt fresh tissue using 3D bioprinting Was tested on mice and was able to create brand new ear-shaped supportive tissue and correct defects By Joe Pinkstone For Mailonline Published: 14:00 EDT, 5 June 2020 | Updated: 14:26 EDT, 5 […]
Smith: NWCA discussing the potential of shifting college wrestling to spring
By Jason Elmquist CNHI Sports Oklahoma The idea of moving college wrestling out of the winter sports window isn’t a new idea, but it is one that is gaining momentum in the current environment of sports in a global pandemic. According to Oklahoma State wrestling coach John Smith, the National Wrestling Coaches Association has had […]
Everything is Different This Time – But IS IT?? Updates at Bottom of Article Everyone is “Obedience Signaling”
Wrestling (Sports), Politics and American History What if tens of millions of Americans had the flu? What if 100,000 were hospitalized because of the flu? Surely it would be a national emergency, right? What if 60 million people in the US were infected and 300,000 were hospitalized. Surely that would be considered a pandemic. Surely […]
Top 5 Story Lines for the 2019-20 Wrestling Season
There are so many moving pieces with D1 teams trying to win while some of their best wrestlers are trying to make the Olympic team that there are many truly unknowns out there. Things on your favorite team might not be so clear. So many college wrestlers are looking to qualify for the 2020 Olympic […]
Boys Wrestling Comes Under Attack from American Psychological Association
As if wrestling needs one more adversary, the American Psychological Association (APA) has released guidelines that teach psychologists working with men and boys that “traditional masculinity is psychologically harmful.” This is a clear and direct attack on nearly every male wrestler (and every male, btw). APA has issued its first-ever guidelines for therapy practices dealing […]
College Bound Wrestlers Beware: NC State may not match your values
What happens when high school and college kids study intersectionality and Social Justice? In most places it is merged with all courses. If you major in this area you learn through various diagrams showing matrices of privilege and persecution. It’s not only Caucasian privilege causing black oppression, and male privilege causing female oppression; its heterosexual […]
Top D1 Transfers
The top 30 D1 transfers. Eastern Michigan (closed) and Edinboro have the most wrestlers transferring. Not one Boro wrestler went to West Virginia. You got to wonder if they were blocked by the Edinboro administration (Bruce Baumgartner)? I couldn’t get one person to talk with me about it from Edinboro. What will happen with Austin […]
ISIS Suicide Bombers Target Afghan Wrestling Match, Killing 22
A pair of attackers from ISIS hit a wrestling match in the Shi’ite part of the Afghan capital city of Kabul. The first attacker killed a guard outside the sports center, forced his way in, and detonated in the crowd. A second bomber detonated outside in a car, causing more casualties. The wrestling club that […]
Little Rock announces addition of Division I wrestling program
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Sports Information 3/18/2018 LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas at Little Rock today unveiled a plan to add a major sport to its intercollegiate athletics program, a strategic decision that is expected to increase student enrollment. The final decision is conditional on approval from the University of Arkansas […]