PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — Four centuries after white Europeans stepped off the Mayflower and onto America’s shores, some descendants of the colonists are wrestling with the complicated legacy of...
Cody Rhodes s tood bloodied atop a 20-foot high steel cage, steadied his nerves and attempted a foolhardy moonsault -- in laymen terms, a backflip splash -- onto his waiting opponent.
A federal appeals court dismissed a lawsuit Wednesday that had been filed by 50 former pro wrestlers, many of them stars in the 1980s and 1990s, who claimed World Wrestling Entertainment failed to...
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Indiana has halted all voluntary workouts indefinitely for its men’s basketball, field hockey,...
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Pro wrestling is replacing pro basketball at the Florida arena that is home to the Orlando Magic, at least for the time being amid the coronavirus outbreak.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Long before the days when most facts were a click away on the internet, Lee Kemp kept the details of his wrestling success to himself.
Former wrestling star Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson said he has acquired the XFL.
The 48-year-old Johnson made the announcement Monday on Twitter. The price reportedly is $15 million.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The governing body for high school athletics in Illinois decided Wednesday to push football and other fall sports to the spring due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Helen Maroulis will never forget that epic night in Rio.
As she and thousands of her fellow Olympic athletes waited to make the long walk from a volleyball arena to the massive Maracanã...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Carlton Haselrig, a Pro Bowl right guard for the Pittsburgh Steelers in the early 1990s who is also the only wrestler in NCAA history to win six individual national...
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — School districts that plan to reopen classrooms in the fall are wrestling with whether to require teachers and students to wear face masks — an issue that has divided urban...
Rulon Gardner is living a quiet life, just the way he likes it.
He is 48 now, sells insurance and has a second job coaching wrestling at a Salt Lake City-area high school.
Jordan Burroughs, the face of U.S. wrestling for nearly a decade, said he plans to compete another four years with the hope of finishing his career at the Paris Olympics in 2024.
Four-year college athletic teams eliminated because of budgetary cuts or school closures associated with the coronavirus pandemic, according to Associated Press research through Wednesday, June...
Four-year college athletic teams eliminated because of budgetary cuts or school closures associated with the coronavirus pandemic, according to Associated Press research through Friday, May 29...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The body of former World Wrestling Entertainment pro Shad Gaspard was found early Wednesday on Los Angeles' Venice Beach, after he was caught in a rip current last weekend,...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former World Wrestling Entertainment pro Shad Gaspard was still missing Tuesday after he was swept out to sea in Southern California last weekend while swimming with his young...
Countries around the world are wrestling with how to ease curbs on business and public activity without having the coronavirus come surging back.
Countries worldwide are wrestling with when and how to ease the restrictions meant to slow the spread of the coronavirus amid rising unemployment. Spain, which imposed one of the strictest...
STAMFORD, Conn (AP) — WWE started releasing professional wrestlers on Wednesday in budget cuts related to the coronavirus pandemic.
The moves came even with the company allowed to continue...
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Body slams and pile drives can go on in the Sunshine State.
With Florida under a lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, there's one business deemed essential by...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are wrestling over how best to assail President Donald Trump for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and the economy’s shutdown, even as the country lurches into...
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Spencer Lee of Iowa has been voted the winner of the Dan Hodge Trophy as the most dominant college wrestler in the nation.
LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — A 16-year-old wrestling champion helped stop a kidnapping and assault near Las Cruces, New Mexico, by pinning a man to the ground until deputies arrived, authorities...
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Gronk is going to WrestleMania.
Rob Gronkowski, the retired New England Patriots tight end, is set to host WrestleMania in April from WWE's performance center.
PARK CITY, Kan. (AP) — Tanner Farmer, the former Nebraska football player wrestling for Concordia University, lost in the heavyweight championship match at the NAIA tournament Saturday...
YPSILANTI, Mich. (AP) — More men came forward Thursday with allegations of sexual abuse by a late doctor at the University of Michigan, as the state's attorney general insisted that the school...
SEWARD, Neb. (AP) — Tanner Farmer just wants to be another guy on the Concordia University wrestling team, and for the most part he is.
DETROIT (AP) — A man who was a college wrestler in the 1980s sued the University of Michigan on Wednesday, alleging that a school doctor molested him dozens of times despite the university knowing...
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa’s top-ranked wrestling team made it through the regular season undefeated.
Ten of the Hawkeyes’ 13 dual-meet wins came against nationally ranked teams, including...
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (AP) — In the fall of 1976, Pat Pecora packed what he could into a $150 car bought from a family friend and made the hour-long drive east from the Pittsburgh surburbs into the...