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Midweek morsels: Baseball, basketball, wrestling and Olympics (The Sierra Vista Herald)
By Phil Vega Quote of the day: “What does a momma bear on the pill have to do with the World Series? No Cubs!” — Longtime Chicago broadcaster Harry Caray. *** Yes, it’s time for baseball again with the last spring training season in Tucson going on right now. The quote, of course, refers to the futility of the Chicago Cubs who haven’t won the Series in more than 100 years. Will this be the ...

High School Athlete of the Week (The Sault Star)
Name: Reyanna Sangestino School: Sir James Dunn Sport: Wrestling Grade: 12 Age: 17 Last week's performance: Captured a silver medal in the girls 77-kilogram class at the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations championships, Friday in Tillsonburg.[...]

Malo finishes second at NCAA wrestling nationals (The Daily News of Newburyport)
Ryan Malo became the first Williams College wrestler to finish second at the NCAA National Championship in consecutive years and was named All-American at the Division 3 competition at Cedar Rapids, Iowa over the weekend.

Martens is Headed for World Junior Alpine Ski Contest (East Aurora Advertiser)
Peter Martens, the son of Clark and Theresa Martens of East Aurora, will compete at the World Junior Alpine Ski Championships in Valsugana, Italy, on March 6 and 7. Peter is 14 years old and is one of three American boys to qualify for this event. They will all compete for the Topolino Trophy. He qualified last March as the top ranking 13-year-old at the Eastern Junior Olympics held at Gore ...

Tom Goff column: Thirty years of covering state wrestling leads to these all-time Top 10 best (The Appleton Post-Crescent)
The date was Feb. 28, 1981. The last Class A match of the night. Kimberlys Mark Rietveld vs. Appleton Easts Matthew Renn for the WIAA heavyweight wrestling championship.

Even the salad-wrestling champ gets a dressing-down (Seattle Times)
What, you think it's easy being a coleslaw-wrestling champion?

Female Wrestlers Vie for Piece of Turkey's Heart (Women's eNews)
ISTANBUL, Turkey (WOMENSENEWS)--Three hundred wrestlers from 24 countries sweated it out at the 38th Yasar Dogu International freestyle wrestling tournament hosted here in February. read more

Jayson Stark: Washington Nationals phenom Stephen Strasburg makes quite a first impression (ESPN)
Hyped phenom lives up to billing with electric spring training debut for Nationals

RECREATION NOTEBOOK: Whatcom wrestlers place at Oak Harbor (The Bellingham Herald)
The North Whatcom Wrestling Club was led by Brody Weinheimer, who won the novice 120-pound division,

Henry Wittenberg, Champion Wrestler, Dies at 91 (New York Times)
Wittenberg was an Olympic gold and silver medalist had an undefeated streak of more than 300 matches and was one of the first wrestlers to lift weights.

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