Tag: Wrestling
Super League among sporting ventures that went wrong
The aborted plan to create a breakaway Super League with 12 of the biggest clubs in European soccer was perhaps the most egregious example...
Asian Americans wary about school amid virus, violence
BOSTON — A Chinese American mother in the Boston suburbs is sending her sons to in-person classes this month, even after one of them...
Activists call for IOC to sanction Iran Olympic program
LAUSANNE, Switzerland — A group of athletes and human rights activists is calling on the IOC to sanction Iran's Olympic program for what it...
MLB hires Brian Stedman from pro wrestling to head strategy
NEW YORK — Major League Baseball reached into professional wrestling, hiring Brian Stedman as executive vice president of strategy and development.
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Ex-youth worker charged with rape was known for ‘wrestling’
CONCORD, N.H. — A former counselor accused of raping one boy and repeatedly groping another at New Hampshire’s youth detention center in the 1990s...
Video shows Israeli police beating lawmaker at protest
JERUSALEM — A video circulating online shows Israeli police punching a member of parliament and wrestling him to the ground at a protest against...
Charly Arnolt completes move from WWE to ESPN
Charly Arnolt has gone from ESPN part-timer to a full-time employee in three short years.
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Olympic gold: ‘Keep Stanford Wrestling’ aims to save program
The Stanford logo was missing on Shane Griffith's all-black wrestling singlet when he won an NCAA national title last month.
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Alvarez, Mighty Mouse back on US TV with One Championship
LOS ANGELES — Demetrious Johnson and Eddie Alvarez have never gone this long without a proper fight in their lengthy mixed martial arts careers.
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Kyle Dake off to Tokyo after sweeping Burroughs at US trials
FORT WORTH, Texas — Kyle Dake ended Jordan Burroughs' decade of dominance in American wrestling, making the Olympics for the first time with a...
