Jake Herbert

Ellis Coleman already was YouTube famous. Now Coleman and his "flying squirrel" move that went viral are headed to the London Olympics. The 20-year-old from Oak Park High School became the youngest member of the 2012 U.S. Olympic wrestling team Sunday...

LONDON – When Greek artists portrayed wrestling on red and black figure vases, when it became part of the first ancient Olympics, it was the most elemental of sports. "Rub some grease on your body so you can slip from his false charges," goes the...

Wrestling was present at the creation. It is in the Book of Genesis, where Jacob goes to the mat with an angel. It is portrayed on a renowned, 2,500-year-old Greek vase, with Hercules wrestling the life out of the previously invincible Antaeus. It...

Friday's print column Dear International Olympic Committee: I don't ask that you back down from your preliminary plan, announced this week, to eliminate wrestling from the list of now-25 core events for the 2020 Summer Olympic Games and beyond. And......

A couple Californians who wound up in the state of Illinois won Big Ten wrestling titles Sunday in Champaign. Northwestern senior Jason Welch of Walnut Creek, the second seed, took the 157-pound class with a pin of Nebraska's James Green in the final....

Rulon Gardner's epic upset of Russian wrestling great Alexander Karelin in 2000 remains one of the most compelling moments of the modern Olympics. Starting in 2020, youngsters looking to Gardner and Karelin for inspiration won't have a chance to excel on...

LONDON --  Jake Herbert had to root for the man who beat him. The only chance for Northwestern's Herbert to wrestle for an Olympic medal in the 185-pound freestyle class Saturday was to have Azerbaijan's  Sharif Sharifov make the final. That is what...

LONDON -- The U.S. won its second wrestling medal of the Olympics when Coleman Scott came back to win a bronze in the 132-pound class on Saturday. Scott was beaten by eventual gold medalist Toghrul Asgarov of Azerbaijan in the semifinals but worked his...