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Penn State's Carter Starocci, Aaron Brooks join exclusive club of 4-time NCAA wrestling champs

Mar. 24, 2024 01:00 AM EDT

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The only thing slowing down Carter Starocci's pursuit of wrestling glory was an ailing knee and some blood on his opponent's face, and he left Aaron Brooks no choice but to follow his Penn State teammate into the history books. Starocci won his fourth NCAA...

3-time champ Starocci tops ex-champ Lewis to reach semis at NCAA wrestling championships

Mar. 22, 2024 23:31 PM EDT

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Carter Starocci and Aaron Brooks will have a chance to make some wrestling history for Penn State. The two Nittany Lions passed their semifinal tests at the NCAA championships on Friday night, giving them a chance to join an exclusive club of four-time...

Penn State's Starocci, Brooks begin pursuit of 4th NCAA wrestling titles with easy wins

Mar. 21, 2024 23:23 PM EDT

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Carter Starocci thought it a little odd that the selection committee gave him the No. 9 seed for the NCAA wrestling championships. So did most people. After all, Penn State's star at 174 pounds has won three straight national championships. ...

Oklahoma State's Fix chases first national title. Penn State looks to win third straight team title

Mar. 20, 2024 12:54 PM EDT

Oklahoma State wrestler Daton Fix is positioned to finally win an elusive national championship, and Penn State is poised to win the team title again with two potential four-time champions. Fix has placed in the top four at the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships four times,...

Tiny North Central enjoying moment at top of women's wrestling with change on horizon as sport grows

Mar. 14, 2024 12:13 PM EDT

NAPERVILLE, Ill. (AP) — Joe Norton was plenty busy leading a successful men’s wrestling team at his alma mater when a conversation with his boss in the weight room changed things in a flash. Athletic director Jim Miller mentioned the school was adding women’s bowling. Norton’s response: Why...

Girls are falling in love with wrestling, the nation's fastest-growing high school sport

Mar. 12, 2024 11:59 AM EDT

MECHANICSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Jody Mikhail was a sophomore at Pennsylvania's Cumberland Valley High School when a poster for a new girls’ wrestling club caught her eye. So Mikhail, a senior now, tried the sport. “I fell in love with it the first time,” she said. ...

Manager, executive Paul Heyman chosen for WWE Hall of Fame

Mar. 04, 2024 12:59 PM EST

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Paul Heyman first hustled his way into professional wrestling as a teenager with a press pass at Madison Square Garden in the 1970s. Even then, working behind-the-scenes and mingling with the oddities in the outlier of the sports world appealed to Heyman. He struck up a...

At the Florida Man Games, big crowds cheer competitors evading police, wrestling over beer

Feb. 24, 2024 22:34 PM EST

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (AP) — They rose up by the dozens from across Florida, caricatured competitors in tank tops and cutoff shorts, for a showdown that treats evading police and wrestling over beer like Olympic sports. Promoted as “the most insane athletic showdown on Earth,”...

Former professional wrestler William "Billy Jack" Haynes in custody in wife's death in Oregon

Feb. 12, 2024 16:44 PM EST

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Former professional wrestler William Albert “Billy Jack” Haynes Jr. has been taken into police custody in connection with the death of his wife in Portland, authorities said. Portland police said in a statement over the weekend that Haynes, 70, was in...

NCAA could add women's wrestling championship in 2026

Feb. 07, 2024 16:16 PM EST

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The NCAA Committee on Women’s Athletics recommended Wednesday that Divisions I, II and III sponsor legislation to add a women’s wrestling championship, a key step to a potential jump from emerging sport status to an official NCAA championship sport. If...