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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...

Wrestling icon Vince McMahon resigns from WWE parent company after ex-employee files sex abuse suit

Jan. 26, 2024 22:59 PM EST

STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) — Wrestling icon Vince McMahon resigned Friday from WWE's parent company t he day after a former employee filed a federal lawsuit accusing him and another former executive of serious sexual misconduct, including offering her to a star wrestler for sex. McMahon...

Wrestling icon Vince McMahon resigns from WWE parent company after former employee files sex abuse lawsuit

Jan. 26, 2024 21:54 PM EST
STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) — Wrestling icon Vince McMahon resigns from WWE parent company after former employee files sex abuse lawsuit.

Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson gets rights to one of the most famous nicknames in entertainment, his own

Jan. 23, 2024 10:32 AM EST

It is a name that has become almost synonymous with professional wrestling but its bearer, Dwayne Johnson, has never legally owned “The Rock.” That will change under a new agreement with the WWE under which Johnson will also join the board of TKO Group, the sports and...

WWE stars Cody Rhodes, Rhea Ripley, Bianca Belair headline 2K24 covers

Jan. 22, 2024 09:08 AM EST

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Cody Rhodes needs only to look at the wedding band tattoo on his finger for a reminder of the days when he was a big gamer: It’s the Triforce symbol from “Legend of Zelda.” “I have good love for the lore,” Rhodes said. The WWE star needs...