It's been a great week in wrestling. Jason Bryant provided great coverage of the Virginia Duals and TDR along with LiveSportsVideo.com provided coverage of the National Duals along with Iowa Public TV and the Big 10 Network. What a great weekend for our sport.
Friday night (01-15-10) wrestling will again take center stage on TV as HD Net's Inside MMA will broadcast LIVE from the U of Iowa Hall of Fame. The panel: Scott Casber, Dan Gable, Pat Militich, Guy Mezger along with Inside MMA Hosts Kenny Rice, Bas Rutten and Ron Kruck. The topic: wrestling's impact on MMA.
Make sure to tune at 8 PM CST. And also check out our recent set of audio features on the subject at Intermat Wrestle.com. Several wrestlers expound on the sports' impact on MMA, including The Natural — Randy Couture, Daniel Cormier, Cole Konrad, Tommy Rowlands, Ben Askren, Mark Munoz, Aaron Simpson, Marty Morgan and more.
Our guests this Saturday morning on TDR (Click here to listen):
Archie Randall — Head Coach of the OCU Stars. We'll the discuss the title the OCU's Women's team picked up at the National Duals last week.
Terry Brands — Iowa's assistant head coach joins us to preview Saturday nights Iowa v. Oklahoma State matchup
Jim Andrassy — Head coach of Kent State. We discuss his team's rise to prominence. Where once they were giant killers they now win as a matter of course.
Chris Bono — Iowa State's assistant head coach of Iowa State previews the Saturday's match with Illinois in Ames.
Jim Heffernan — Head Coach of the Illini of Illinois will face Kevin Jackson and his Cyclones. How important is John Dergo to this teams makeup.
Joey Krebs — our West Coast corrospondant has news. He'll join us as we wrap up hour number two.