Andy Hamilton

I'm still mesmerized by the final 30 seconds of Haji vs. Rashidov.

@TalkinYanks You can't predict baseball, Suzyn!

Wow look at Billy's in the Bronx after Jazz got a challenge right

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Iowa State’s wrestling program made 4 MAJOR announcements this morning! 1. The Cyclones are adding women’s wrestling and will begin competing in the 2027-2028 season. 2. Kevin Dresser has been elevated to the Director of the men’s and women’s wrestling programs. 3. Brent Metcalf will be Iowa State’s next men’s wrestling coach. 4. Alli St. John will be the first head women’s wrestling coach in Iowa State history.

@coachkwbb Congrats on the new job, Chris. Does the move to Texas mean you'll be getting back into the cattle business?

J Robinson was one of the most interesting, innovative and influential figures in wrestling history. I appreciated so many things about J — his background and story, how accessible and candid he was with the media, what he stood for, the thousands of lives he helped shape through his intensive camps, his outside-the-box ideas, and the quotes I can still hear him saying: “I’m not very smart, but I can take what other people do and make it work for me.” “If nothing changes, nothing changes.” “You’re either part of the problem or part of the solution.” One-on-one interviews with J often morphed into philosophical conversations. He challenged you to think. Sometimes I felt J would take a contrarian stance on something he didn’t even believe in, either to make you consider another point of view, to gauge the strength of your conviction on the matter, or maybe just because he appreciated a good debate. "Sometimes the problem I have is shutting my mind off," J told me in 2007 for a story I wrote about him when I was writing for ESPN (PDF below). "It continually spews out ideas and thoughts. There are a hundred projects I'd try if I had the resources." J crammed a lot of life into 79 years. He was an Army Ranger who served in Vietnam, a 1972 Olympian, Dan Gable’s right-hand man during the construction of the Iowa dynasty and the guy who turned Minnesota into a perennial power with teams known for toughness and discipline. J was also a guy who — at the age of 55 and after 28 knee surgeries — climbed 14,162-foot Mount Shasta to win a bet with his assistants after the Gophers won their first NCAA title in 2001, and a guy who years earlier went to Oregon with plans of rounding up a couple wild mustangs and wound up renting a semi to haul home 36 horses and two buffalo. "With the horse deal, I asked everybody about it and they said, 'No, don't do it. You don't have anywhere to put them,'' he said. "I listened to people and after a while, I said, 'Here's something I've always wanted to do.' I went and did it and it was one of the most fun experiences of my life." Kyle Klingman and I had the chance to spend a few hours with J one summer afternoon in 2019. True to form, J was incredibly generous with his time, telling stories and reflecting on the lessons he learned — and instilled in others — over nearly five decades in college wrestling. A few of those soundbites are captured in the clips below.

Third team championship tie in Iowa state tournament and first since Cresco and New Hampton tied for the 1933 title.

🚨 Possible round of 16 rematch this week at the Iowa state tournament 🚨

Quite possibly the wildest 5 minutes and 29 seconds in Iowa high school wrestling history. flowrestling.org/video/15388682…

@smcfee1961 Six

@Andy_Hamilton how many of those losses have been to Americans?

Yazdani's 10th loss in 13 years on the Senior level and the first time the four-time World and Olympic champ has been teched.

Wrestling begins tomorrow at the Zagreb Open with a LOADED squad from Team USA taking the mats! All the action starts at 4:30 am (ET) live on Flo🔥

Diego Pavia 🦆

Gonna be another kick ass weekend of D1 wrestling on FloWrestling imo

Two of Iowa high school wrestling's all-time greats.

The Cy-Hawk dual is about to get started in Ames.

@Hlas Think big, Mike.

Well, I'm at Kinnick, and let's play the game. All over the world, the rain is pouring. It is here, anyway. Scratch where it itches.

NWCA Executive Director @MikeMoyerNWCA jumped on @FloWrestling Radio Live before the NWCA All-Star Classic on Saturday to talk about many things including program sustainability. ‣Key takeaway: Cut a D1 wrestling program today, and it may take $20M to bring it back. Just one of the many reasons why the NWCA is committed to protecting opportunities across every collegiate division. Huge thanks to FloWrestling whose support makes up nearly 1/3 of our annual revenue and fuels our mission to #GrowWrestling. Watch the full interview 🖥️ youtube.com/live/MAvM7vx-M… @WrestlersInBus @NWHOF @USWFoundation