DECATUR, Ill. (WCIA) — Two new sports are set to kick off next school year at one Decatur college. Millikin University will be welcoming women’s flag football and women’s wrestling starting the ...

The NCAA approved the addition of women’s wrestling at the Division I, II and III levels as a championship sport, it announced Friday. The sport’s first NCAA women’s championship will take place in ...

The turf pounded with the rhythmic thud of feet sprinting atop it. Every few seconds, the sharp pop of leather meeting hands was heard. Throughout it all, shouts of encouragement and laughter hummed ...

Maxxine Dupri gets her first taste of championship gold. Jacy Jayne regains the NXT Women’s Title. Mercedes Moné bests Red Velvet. Celine Faery chats with WrestleZone and more! The reign of Becky ...

IYO SKY wins the WWE Women’s World Championship. Maple Leaf Pro will crown its first ever women’s champion. Skye Smitson chats with WrestleZone and more! At WWE Elimination Chamber, Bianca Belair ...

When Ben Fallon was growing up in Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania, all he ever wanted to do was play football. Fallon was in fourth grade, and in Western Pennsylvania, pretty much every boy wants to ...

An NCAA committee recommended on Wednesday adding flag football to its emerging women’s sports program, a significant step toward it becoming an officially sponsored championship sport in all three ...

Iowa's only loss came at 160 pounds with Cadence Diduch bumping up a weight class and suffering a loss by fall to Celina Preston. Even so, the Hawkeyes closed with a 10-0 technical fall from Kennedy ...

Millikin University will expand its athletic department with the additions of women’s flag football and women’s wrestling beginning in the 2026-27 academic year, the school announced in a press ...

Following producing national champions and All-Americans in its inaugural season, the Iowa Hawkeyes' women's wrestling team will be getting a documentary series with FloWrestling. Iowa’s Kylie Welker ...

WWE is going to kick-off the ESPN era with a bang. The inaugural WWE Wrestlepalooza will take place Saturday, September 20 from the Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana. It will be the first ...

This story is featured in the January/February 2025 issue of ESSENCE. On April 10, 2021, wrestling fans at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, witnessed history. Performers Bianca Belair and ...