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What sport should replace wrestling in the Olympics?
The International Olympic Committee dropped wrestling as a Summer Games sport on Tuesday, meaning that effective with the 2020 Games, freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling won't be a part of the festivities after being in every Summer Olympics since 1896....
Tags: Politics, Baseball, Injuries and Wounds, FIFA World Cup, Modern Pentathlon
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Stanford-Wisconsin not exactly a matchup made in Rose Bowl heaven
The Rose Bowl pregame weather has been about as crummy as the seven combined losses for Stanford and Wisconsin. It's never good to make Dick Butkus, who made the game-clinching interception for Illinois in the 1964 game, slog through drenching rain...
Tags: Colorado Buffaloes, Washington Huskies, Washington State Cougars, Big Ten Conference, Nebraska Cornhuskers
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Jeff Blatnick dies at 55; won gold in Olympic wrestling in 1984
Jeff Blatnick, who overcame cancer to win a gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, died Wednesday. He was 55. Blatnick died of complications from heart surgery, USA Wrestling said on its website, citing a report...
Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Summer Olympics, Television Industry, Cancer, Hodgkins Disease
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L.A. Times March MMA rankings
Todd Martin reveals his MMA rankings by weight division. Heavyweight 1. Junior Dos Santos 2. Alistair Overeem 3. Cain Velasquez 4. Fabricio Werdum 5. Daniel Cormier 6. Frank Mir 7. Josh Barnett 8. Antonio Silva 9. Fedor Emelianenko 10....
Tags: Concerts, Pitbull (music artist), Entertainment, Wrestling, Music
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Rulon Gardner makes no excuses
For much of his storied sports career, two-time Olympic medalist Rulon Gardner was a slave to the scale. He used rigorous, hours-long workouts to keep his weight in check and relied upon old-school wrestling tricks — like exercising in a sauna &#...Tags: 2016 Olympic Games, Celebrities and Health Issues, Health, Multi-Sport Events, Entertainment
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UFC 129: St. Pierre vs. Shields, live updates
The Fabulous ForumUFC runs the biggest live event in its history Saturday night from Toronto. The sold-out show will be attended by approximately 55,000 fans and is headlined by a UFC welterweight title fight between Georges St. Pierre and Jake Shields. Also...... -
Randy Couture wants Rua, Machida, or UFC retirement
The Fabulous ForumUFC hall of famer Randy Couture all but announced his retirement on Tuesday night via his official Twitter account, but told the Times heâd be willing to hold out for bouts against either UFC light heavyweight champion Mauricio âShogunâ Rua...... -
Jim Murray on John Wooden, Aug. 10, 1972
This column on John Wooden, written by the late Jim Murray, was originally printed in the Aug. 10, 1972 edition of the Los Angeles Times.
You picture the man who is, demonstrably, the world's greatest basketball coach, and there comes to view a guy...Tags: Civil Unrest, John Wooden, Monuments and Heritage Sites, Basketball, Elgin Baylor
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Crime more than 'public safety challenges' for Rio 2016 bid
L.A. Times Olympics BlogA police officer escorts a man shielding a child and two other civilians trying to reach safety after police intervened in an April 2007 gun battle between drug traffickers in the Morro da Mineira shantytown of Rio de Janeiro, where...... -
IOC needed to dump tennis, not add mixed doubles
L.A. Times Olympics BlogThe International Olympic Committee has made two more ill-advised decisions regarding the program for the Summer Olympic Games. Today the IOC executive board went along with a recommendation from the International Cycling Union to dump what some call... -
Democrats are hypocrites when it comes to paying taxes
During the presidential campaign, Joe Biden insisted that paying your taxes is a patriotic duty. No, scratch that. He said that supporting a tax hike was the American thing to do. "It's time to be patriotic," he told America's putative tax slackers....Tags: Barack Obama, Politics, National Government, Parties and Movements, Internal Revenue Service
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Former Lehigh all-American named wrestling coach at Blair Academy
Solomon Fleckman, an all-American at Lehigh University in 1992, has been named head wrestling coach at Blair Academy in New Jersey. Fleckman will replace Charles Danhof, who had served as an interim coach for the 2012-13 season following the...Tags: Wrestling, Lehigh University, National Collegiate Athletic Association
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