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IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) A former University of Iowa wrestler has pleaded guilty to a federal computer fraud charge for manipulating the school’s network so he could access its computers and change his and other students’ grades for classes.
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CLEVELAND (AP) Bo Nickal reversed an early attack from Ohio State’s Myles Martin and spun him on his back for a first-period pin that clinched Penn State’s seventh team title in eight years at the NCAA Wrestling Championships on Saturday.
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CLEVELAND (AP) Ohio State sits atop the team leaderboard after three sessions of the NCAA Wrestling Championships.
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) Iran’s student news agency says the former head of Iran’s wrestling federation is asking the country’s diplomats to take responsibility and support athletes who refuse to compete against Israelis.
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) The resigned head of Iran’s wrestling federation has asked the country’s diplomats to take responsibility and support athletes who refuse to compete against Israelis, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported Saturday.
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NORMAN, Okla. (AP) An Oklahoma judge has dismissed charges against a 17-year-old driver involved in the crash that killed the wife of Jim Ross, a longtime play-by-play announcer for World Wrestling Entertainment.
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Hulk Hogan is set to be a homebody for WWE’s All-Star bash.
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) An Iranian wrestler says his managers told him to intentionally lose to a Russian competitor to avoid facing an Israeli wrestler in the next round.
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Kyle Snyder has won three consecutive world titles, including Olympic gold, and this past summer he toppled Abdulrashid Sadulaev – a.k.a. ”The Russian Tank” – to earn the unofficial crown as the best pound-for-pound wrestler in the world.
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PARIS (AP) Ohio State star Kyle Snyder scored a late takedown of Olympic gold medalist Abdusalim Sadulaev in the deciding match, and the United States won the world freestyle wrestling title Saturday night for the first time in 22 years.
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ATLANTA (AP) A representative for Ric Flair says the pro wrestling legend has been hospitalized and is dealing with some ”tough medical issues.”
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) Women’s wrestling could someday be an NCAA-sanctioned sport.
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GILGO BEACH, N.Y. (AP) The son of World Wrestling Entertainment CEO Vince McMahon has been rescued unhurt from a helicopter that made an emergency landing in the ocean waters off New York.
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WASHINGTON (AP) A mock video tweeted by President Donald Trump showing him pummeling a man whose face is covered by the CNN logo has become Trump’s most-shared post on the platform.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) Former Iowa State coach Kevin Jackson has been hired by USA Wrestling.
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LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) Chris Jericho stood with his back to the hyperactive crowd, his arms outstretched and lights flashing on his jacket. The classic Jericho pose had been an anticipated staple at WWE arenas for years.
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This Sunday night’s Backlash show marks the beginning of a new era in WWE, one that would have been shocking even two years ago. For the first time in its history, the world’s largest professional wrestling promotion is attempting to turn a Japanese wrestler into one of its top stars—the top star, in fact, of one of…
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WWE champion Randy Orton is normally not much of an interesting follow on Twitter. Sometimes he’ll express a thought of his own, but for insight into his personality, you’re not usually getting it there. That changed over the weekend.
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Wrestling fans might be used to hearing Justin Roberts introduce names like John Cena, Daniel Bryan or The Undertaker. But for the finale of the Video Game Championship Wrestling series, Roberts himself took to the mic to announce the entrance of rejected Street Fighter concept Zubaz and the dark lord of Hyrule…
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This excerpt in Caity Weaver’s GQ profile of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson makes me believe that within a few years, he’ll at least run for office, if not president:
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Depending on the specific argument you’re making, you might say that the National Wrestling Alliance, pro wrestling’s oldest governing body, ceased being relevant as much as 35 years ago. So it was definitely surprising last week when Billy Corgan (yes, that one) bought its remnants from Bruce Tharpe, a lawyer and…
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Last night, the WWE held its first ever “House of Horrors match.” It did not go over well.
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There are a few different ways to experience WrestleMania these days. The most basic distinction to make is between is watching at home versus taking a trip to the host city. From there, there are further distinctions. Some fans only check out the WWE offerings, and some take in the numerous independent shows that run…
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Throughout its entire existence as a subgenre of pro wrestling, the pseudo-sport’s presence in Japan has been consistently defined by how much harder-hitting it is there than it is elsewhere in the world. Hard hitting can take a lot of forms. It can mean hard shots in safe places; it can mean laying everything in even…
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For one night, Braun Strowman was the best wrestler in the world. A tremendously entertaining episode of WWE Raw culminated in a spot where he broke the ring with a superplex of the Big Show, sending referee John Cone flying. It was a spot everyone saw coming and made no sense—why didn’t the Andre the Giant Memorial…
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In WWE storyline, Kane is the half-brother of the Undertaker. For the past 20 years, he has both feuded with Undertaker and won the tag team championships with him as a partner three times. He once defeated Stone Cold Steve Austin for the then-WWF championship. He holds the record for Royal Rumble eliminations, ended…
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Wrestlers are artists who perform dangerous, violent stunts nearly every night, and it is extremely important that these stunts be done with care. If a match features one participant who is not equipped to properly pull off the stunts with his or her opponent, disaster can strike. That’s nearly what happened during…
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Yahoo has a story about Drew Gintis, a high school wrestler who started taking Oxycodone as a senior. His doctor prescribed it to him after a shoulder injury that ended his wrestling career. At 21, he died from a fentanyl overdose.
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Iowa senior Cory Clark was understandably pretty pumped to win a national championship last night. So much so, apparently, that he threw one of the team coaches to the ground in his celebration:
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