USOEC wrestlers finish on top in Thailand - UpperMichigansSource.com
27 May 2012, 7:37 pm
PATTAYA, THAILAND -- Two United States Olympic Education Center Greco-Roman wrestlers grappled their way to the top during Saturday’s FILA Junior World Team Trials in Colorado Springs, Co. Their victories earned them a trip to the FILA Junior World ...

Performance of Iranian sports teams last week - Islamic Republic News Agency
27 May 2012, 7:41 am
The victory was achieved after Iranian team beat Azerbaijan, Belarus and Russia, the host of the competition, Bulgaria and Turkey in the final. In another field, International Disk-Throwing Contest, Iranian champion Ehsan Haddadi hit 68.20 meters record in ...

Lakers' Kobe Bryant makes All-NBA team for 10th time - PanARMENIAN Network
25 May 2012, 6:53 am
Armenia's Greco-Roman wrestling team headed by Olympic champion Levon Julfalakyan came back home with one gold and two bronze winners. China says Iran nuke talks gained “new achievements” "All sides put forward their concerns and proposals, as ...

'On The Mat' Wed.: 2012 Olympic wrestler Chas Betts, 2000 Olympian Kip Janvrin - Examiner
22 May 2012, 11:21 am
Chas Betts, member of the 2012 U.S. Greco-Roman team, and Kip Janvrin, decathlete for the 2000 Olympics, have been announced as featured guests for the "On The Mat" radio broadcast this Wednesday, May 23, the National Wrestling Hall of Fame Dan Gable ...

Iran wins Greco-Roman Wrestling World Cup - Payvand Iran News
21 May 2012, 10:18 am
Iranian Greco-Roman wrestling national team managed to top 2012 Greco-Roman Wrestling World Cup for the third successive year. Iranian Greco-Roman wrestlers crashed Turkish practitioners 5-2 in Saransk town, Russia on Sunday. The Iranian team managed to ...

USA-Georgia Greco-Roman wrestling teams meet for Curby Cup - Chicago Tribune
19 May 2012, 6:13 pm
So much has happened to Greco-Roman wrestler Justin Lester over the last four years it's hard to pinpoint his greatest motivation heading into the Olympic Games this summer. It might be his failure to qualify for the Beijing Games in 2008 ...

How Islam Killed Greco-Roman Civilization - Front Page
18 May 2012, 6:57 pm
A number of books published in recent years have demolished the myth of an allegedly tolerant Islamic culture that preserved the Greco-Roman heritage. Ibn Warraq’s book Why the West Is Best is among the better and more accessible titles in ...

How Lincoln Used Words To Get His Way (EXCERPT) - Huffington Post
18 May 2012, 4:20 pm
Lincoln was a clever, gangly, pugnacious, provincial lawyer. His special distinction as a speaker was not to deliver the full-bore, self-consciously Greco-Roman ornamentation of his predecessors. It was to tame those techniques—to yoke ...

Barnett-Cormier could come down to hands - USA Today
18 May 2012, 10:22 am
He hasn't squared off against an elite-level wrestler since March 2002, when he defeated Randy Couture, a Greco-Roman grappler rather than a freestyler. Cormier's performance last June against Monson, an acclaimed practitioner of jiu-jitsu ...

Jon Jones vs. Henderson set for September - USA Today
10 May 2012, 10:17 am
Although the 41-year-old Henderson has a small frame compared to most fighters in the 205-pound division, he compensates with a powerful punch from the right side and Greco-Roman wrestling skills that were good enough to earn him two Olympic ...