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Prep wrestling: All-Star Matches on tap

Staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, January 7, 2013 - 11:08pm

OREM — For Utah wrestling fans, tonight has the feel of a heavyweight title fight card.

For 15 Top of Utah wrestlers, the momentum is building for their marquee moment.

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New colleg graduate has thriving wrestling career

John Raby The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, December 24, 2012 - 5:15pm

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — More than six years after entering West Virginia University, Michael Paris got his advertising degree this month. And for as long as he can, he doesn’t plan to use it.

Not while he’s traveling the globe for TNA wrestling, which signed him in June 2011 as alter ego Zema Ion, a hair-obsessed Filipino supermodel.

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All-Star wrestling lineup set for Jan. 8 meet

Staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, December 24, 2012 - 4:41pm

The lineup has been set for the Utah High School All-Star Wrestling Matches, set for Jan. 8 at the UCCU Center at Utah Valley University.

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(STEVE SMITH/Special to the Standard Examiner)
Weber High’s Dakota Caldwell (left) attempts to pin Tooele’s Carver Jaramillo during the Warrior Duels in Pleasant View on Saturday.

Prep wrestling tourney to test champs of all classifications

Staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, December 24, 2012 - 3:51pm

MIDVALE — A postseason basketball tournament featuring the championship from Utah’s different classifications?

How about a football game matching the 5-A champion against the 4-A champion?

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(STEVE SMITH/Special to the Standard-Examiner)
Weber High’s Trayson Swenson (left) fights to stay off his back against Tooele’s Jarrid Lavios in Pleasant View on Saturday.

Prep wrestling: Syracuse claims top spot at Warrior Duels

Staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, December 22, 2012 - 11:37pm

PLEASANT VIEW — Several top teams met in the Warrior Duels prep wrestling tournament on Friday and Saturday, but it was the Titans who topped them all.

Host Weber, Bear River, Alta, Logan and Tooele each had individual champions, but the Syracuse Titans rode their talented lineup to a 7-0 run through the dual match competition at Weber High School.

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Box Elder High’s Jake Smith (top) battles for position against Bingham High’s Colton Schieving during the Layton Invitational at Layton High School last Saturday.

Wrestlers impress at early invitationals

Staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, December 3, 2012 - 11:41pm

Top of Utah wrestling squads made impressive splashes at the first weekend of invitationals around the west.

Box Elder won the Layton High Invitational, with host Layton second, Viewmont third and Fremont fourth.

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Top of Utah wrestlers size each other up

Staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, November 26, 2012 - 11:04pm

The top wrestlers in the state have put away the Thanksgiving leftovers, and are now targeting the big invitational portion of the season as teams figure out where they stand.

Based on preseason rankings by the Wrestling USA magazine’s Utah editor, it looks like it could be a banner year for Top of Utah schools.

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Police: Pair of Iowa wrestlers hunted rabbits for hats

Ryan J. Foley The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, November 21, 2012 - 4:31pm

IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Two University of Iowa wrestlers were suspended from the team Wednesday after police said they admitted to illegally hunting rabbits in hopes of making rabbit-skin caps.

Police said Alex Meyer and Connor Ryan, both freshmen, were arrested Tuesday night after they inadvertently caused a campus security scare.

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FILE - This Aug. 4, 1984 file photo shows Olympic gold medalist Jeff Blatnick of Niskayuna, N.Y., holding a news conference in Los Angeles. Blatnick, who overcame cancer to win a gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling at the 1984 Summer Olympics, has died in New York state at age 55. Ellis Hospital in Schenectady, N.Y., said Wednesday Oct. 24, 2012, that he died there of heart failure. (AP Photo/Trovati, File)

Jeff Blatnick, 1984 gold medal wrestler, dies

The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - 3:09pm

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. — Jeff Blatnick, who overcame cancer to win a gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling at the 1984 Summer Olympics, has died in New York state at age 55.

Ellis Hospital in Schenectady, N.Y., said Wednesday that he died there of heart failure.

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Gardner says body told him to stop comeback

Luke Meredith The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, April 21, 2012 - 7:42pm

IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Rulon Gardner's coach said the 40-year-old heavyweight trained like a madman to get back to the Olympics.

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Former pudgy teen in physical education class now bids for Olympic wrestling berth

Charean Williams McClatchy Newspapers

Last updated Friday, April 20, 2012 - 8:47pm

ARLINGTON, Texas -- Wrestling coach Henry Harmoney was scouting physical-education classes for talent at Arlington High School when he came across . . . a future Olympian?

It's good to be lucky.

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Rulon Gardner ends comeback bid

The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, April 20, 2012 - 5:22pm

CORALVILLE, Iowa -- Forty-year-old heavyweight Rulon Gardner has ended his comeback bid a day before the U.S. Olympic Team Trials.

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Sanderson's absence opens door for Jake Herbert

Luke Meredith The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, April 19, 2012 - 5:36pm

IOWA CITY, Iowa -- The past had threatened to overshadow the future at this year's U.S. Olympic Team Trials, with gold medal-winning wrestlers from each of the past four games planning comeback attempts.

One of those former champions, Cael Sanderson, won't make it to Iowa City. His absence could help open the door for up-and-comer Jake Herbert to showcase his talents in London this summer.

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PSU coach Sanderson to sit out Olympic trials

The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, April 12, 2012 - 5:17pm

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Penn State wrestling coach Cael Sanderson has decided against competing in next week's Olympic Team Trials and will not chase another gold medal.

Sanderson came out of retirement last year, seven years after winning gold at the Athens Olympics.

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Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson set for WWE return

Dan Gelston The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, March 25, 2012 - 6:31pm

PHILADELPHIA -- Dwayne Johnson's latest movie just topped $300 million in worldwide grosses. He's laid the smack down on Hollywood and become an in-demand action star for hire.

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