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Killer Kowalski, Wrestler, Dies at 81

Killer Kowalski was one of pro wrestling’s biggest stars and most heinous villains in the early years of television.

Posted Sunday, August 31, 2008 1:31 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Deaths (Obituaries), Wrestling

Young U.S. Wrestler Makes a Golden Journey

For 21-year-old Henry Cejudo, the path to gold changed many lives along the way.

Posted Tuesday, August 19, 2008 10:14 AM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Olympic Games (2008), Wrestling

Coping With Tragedy, Wrestler Learns to Take Care of Himself

After the death of his daughter in 2003 unraveled his career, Daniel Cormier is finally wrestling for himself.

Posted Tuesday, August 19, 2008 2:03 AM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Olympic Games (2008), Families and Family Life, Wrestling, Jackson, Kevin

Billed as the Future, Ready for the Present

Henry Cejudo feasts on pressure. And he will feel it again Tuesday when the freestyle wrestling competition begins at the Beijing Games.

Posted Tuesday, August 19, 2008 12:31 AM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Olympic Games (2008), Families and Family Life, Wrestling, USA Wrestling, Mexico

Greco-Roman Coach Survives to Defy Expectations

Steve Fraser went to the Beijing Games to lead the United States Greco-Roman wrestling team by achieving the impossible.

Posted Sunday, August 10, 2008 11:12 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Olympic Games (2008), Olympic Games, Wrestling, USA Wrestling, Domino's Pizza Inc|DPZ|NYSE, Fraser, Steve

U.S. Wrestlers Marvel at the Great Wall and Find in It a Lesson

The wrestlers found the lesson fitting: practitioners of an ancient wrestling discipline, self-proclaimed gladiators, gathered at an ancient wall built to protect an empire.

Posted Thursday, August 07, 2008 6:30 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: China, Olympic Games (2008), Wrestling, Gardner, Rulon

Hometown Honor, Earned in Eye Pokes and Dropkicks

For more than a century wrestling fans have watched an evolving crew of local heroes slug it out in the beery St. Louis night.

Posted Saturday, August 02, 2008 10:39 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: St Louis (Mo), Wrestling, World Wrestling Entertainment Incorporated|WWE|NYSE

A Match That Was Meant to Be

Wrestler Jake Deitchler, straight out of high school, has qualified for the Olympic games under the mentorship of his coach, silver medalist Brandon Paulson.

Posted Thursday, July 10, 2008 10:10 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Olympic Games (2008), Wrestling, Deitchler, Jake, Paulson, Brandon

30 Seconds: With Rulon Gardner

Gardner’s victory over the Russian Aleksandr Karelin to win the gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling at the Sydney Olympics in Australia in 2000 became known as the Miracle on the Mat.

Posted Saturday, July 05, 2008 11:31 AM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Olympic Games, Wrestling, Gardner, Rulon, Karelin, Aleksandr

China Bars Wrestler After Drug Test

Chinese wrestler Luo Meng tested positive for a diuretic, a drug that could be used to rid the body of performance-enhancing substances.

Posted Wednesday, July 02, 2008 12:53 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Olympic Games (2008), Wrestling, Doping, Meng, Luo

Olympic Hopeful Has Promise to Keep for Grandfather

Dremiel Byers’s path to elite wrestling and the Olympic trials has not been typical. He stumbled into it almost by accident.

Posted Saturday, June 14, 2008 2:44 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Olympic Games, Wrestling, Byers, Dremiel

Wrestling Couple Grapple for Love and Achievement

Friends say Patricia Miranda and Levi Weikel-Magden argue like an old married couple, but really, they argue more like what they are — married wrestlers with law degrees.

Posted Wednesday, June 11, 2008 9:38 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Wrestling, Friendship, Love (Emotion), Marriages

Women Want to Wrestle; Small Colleges Oblige

Women’s college wrestling teams are sprouting in the most unlikely places. And it has little to do with Title IX and everything to do with the bottom line.

Posted Monday, May 26, 2008 9:43 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Women, Education and Schools, Colleges and Universities, National Collegiate Athletic Assn, Wrestling, USA Wrestling

Gladiator

Just because he keeps a fist in both the underground and state-sanctioned worlds of mixed martial arts doesn’t mean Shad Smith lacks an inner life.

Posted Saturday, March 22, 2008 8:23 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Mixed Martial Arts, Ultimate Fighting Championship, Homosexuality, Boxing, McCain, John, Smith, Shad, YouTube.com, Perrottet, Tony, Spike TV, Martial Arts, Wrestling, Prisons and Prisoners

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