Recall, if you will, the collective jaw of the sports world hitting the floor in April when Iowa State’s superhero, Cael Sanderson, decided to leave ISU for the relatively unheralded Penn State. While most of the wrestling world pointed and laughed at ISU, Cyclone fans were livid, and probably rightfully so.

(”Hey, let’s make this guy feel unwelcome. What could go wrong?”)

One tiny problem: he’s still in Ames as we speak, working on things like summer wrestling camps. And as the CEDAR RAPIDS GAZETTE notes, it’s probably not a good idea to give jilted fans multiple months to get their Glenn Close on, whether it’s to you, your wife, or your infant son:  Read more…

In all of college wrestling history, there’s been exactly one person who’s ever gone his entire career without losing a single match: Cael Sanderson. The native Iowan, Iowa State alum, and Iowa State head coach is, quite simply, the face of Iowa State wrestling’s past, present, and future. He even made it onto a Wheaties Box–and that was before he won a gold medal in 2004. He is, in all likelihood, the most beloved son of Iowa (sorry, Tom Arnold and Ashton Kutcher).

(Yeah, that autographed box is probably a little less valuable in Iowa today than it was yesterday.)

Oh, did we accidentally use the present tense? Yeah, let’s just do a find/replace and toss in some “was”es instead, because, as KCCI reports, Sanderson just peaced out and went to Penn State. For an idea of how surreal a move this is, imagine if Phil Jackson left the Lakers and went to… well, hell, Penn State. And if you’re thinking, “Hey, Iowa State, didn’t they already choke away a coach under hilarious circumstances recently?”, yes, yes they did. Read more…

Just about every man goes through a mid-life crisis. When men reach their mid-40s or 50s they suddenly realize that they don’t have as much time left on this Earth, and can’t take anything for granted, which is why they go out and buy that new Porsche or pick up that 20-year old girlfriend. Frankly, it sounds pretty awesome, and I can’t wait to have mine.

Still, there are some men who actually have their mid-life crisis and do something beneficial for themselves. Guys like Terence Haynes who found himself in his early 40s weighing in at 429 pounds, and knew he’d probably die soon if he didn’t make a change. So what did he do? He began working on achieving his dream of being an old guy wrestling with much younger men.

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Over the last few days, University of Nebraska wrestlers Paul Donahoe and Kenny Jordan have gotten quite a bit more attention that college wrestlers are used to. That tends to happen when you start posing nude for gay porn sites, which is exactly what the two grapplers did for FRATMEN.COM.

Unfortunately for the two young men, showing your penis on the internet doesn’t fit the type of image that Nebraska would like their athletes to portray. Which is why after discussing the matter internally at the school over the last few days, the school has decided to kick both wrestlers off the team.

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A friend of mine used to wrestle back in high school while I chose to spend my time playing football. We would often argue about which sport was manlier, as teenage boys are so often trying to prove to each other who the real man is (Though this doesn’t really change much as we grow older, does it?). Obviously, my main mode of attack on wrestling was that it featured two men wearing a body suit grappling with each other on the ground. I would often say that watching a wrestling match was just about the same thing as watching gay porn.

Turns out it isn’t. No, watching wrestling is nothing like gay porn. Wrestlers posing for pictures on a gay porn website, that’s almost the same thing as gay porn. Which is exactly what two wrestlers at the University of Nebraska have done for the website FRATMEN.com.

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