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Wade Slatniske doesn't get much of a break between his fall and winter sports. The South Carroll senior goes from football, where he stars at linebacker, to wrestling, where last year he helped the Cavaliers earn a share of the Class 2A-1A state championship.

It was a year of uncommon sportsmanship, of loss, of individual accomplishments and collective ones -- 2014 was a year to remember for Catonsville-area sports.

For the third straight year, the Catonsville High wrestling team heads into the Christmas break with a perfect dual-meet record.

South Carroll and Westminster headed into the holiday break with similar feelings about their wrestling teams.

Centennial junior Austin Kraisser beat several nationally ranked wrestlers to earn a 6th place finish at the Walsh Ironman wrestling tournament in Ohio.

Loyola Blakefield wrestling took six of the first seven bouts to cruise to a 57-15 victory over host Gilman Friday in a Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference match.

Marriotts Ridge beat Howard despite injuries to both teams

Laurel and Pallotti wrestling teams have reasons for optimism this season

Every year local high school sports teams and individuals produce memories and championships. This year was no exception.

Not many teams could lose elite wrestlers such as Baltimore County champions Dylan Ruiz and Jacob Asher and still field a team capable of surpassing last year's 24-12 dual-meet record. Dulaney, though, is in position to do that because the Lions have returned 10 seniors to the starting lineup.

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Arundel wrestler Isaiah Olugbemi is the Boy Athlete of the Week.

Boys' Latin wrestling coach Drew Haugh gets enthusiastic at the start of every new season, but he approached the 2014-15 campaign with some trepidation.

On Sunday night, at WWE's TLC, the viewers were left with a final moment of a television exploding to cost someone a match.

The NXT crowd, which had always been behind Sami Zayn, was in a frenzy during his match with Adrian Neville. And they completely lost it when he finally won.

Perry Hall wrestling coach Jake Roche was concerned his team wouldn't be as consistent as past seasons because of eight new starters.

McCoy and the Terps were disappointed with Thursday's outcome, a 38-3 loss to No. 4 Penn State in Maryland's inaugural home match as a member of the Big Ten Conference. But this was another important step in their process.

Boys' Latin wrestling coach Drew Haugh had not seen his team deliver such a dominating victory over Gilman in his 17 years on the job.

Comets overcome 27-0 deficit and defeat Calvert Hall 44-33 in their wrestling season opener

Glenelg won the county opener with a 42-30 win over Reservoir in a match up featuring two top county teams

The Patterson Mill wrestling team opened its season with a big win Friday, knocking off host North East, 52-19. The Huskies won 10 of 14 weight classes, including the first six, taking full control of the meet.

The annual Slammy Awards were given out on Monday Night Raw and Roman Reigns was named Superstar of the Year.

Johns Hopkins football coach Jim Margraff earned American Football Coaches Association Region 2 Coach of the Year honors after leading the Blue Jays to an 11-1 record, a Centennial Conference title and the second round of the NCAA Division III tournament this season.

In this week's roundup, we'll take a look at CM Punk's latest revealing podcast, a (former?) World Wrestling Entertainment superstar's big movie role and another WWE superstar's assault charge.

Jaron Smith goes 8-0 to lead Oakland Mills to a 6-2 dual record at the Scopion Duals, while Wilde Lake goes 1-7.

The Johns Hopkins women's soccer team fell to the Williams College Ephs, 1-0, in the NCAA Division III semifinal Friday night at Swope Soccer Village in Kansas City, Mo.

There is strength in numbers, which is one of the reasons the Lansdowne Gators are eager to get the junior league wrestling season started.

As Mount Saint Joseph senior Sam Rowell enters this winter healthy with a summer of training behind him, he looks and feels better than ever.

Wrestlers to watch in the Baltimore-metro area during the 2014-15 season.

Preseason poll for high school wrestling teams in the Baltimore metro area.

River Hill looks for fourth straight county dual championship while Oakland Mills, Reservoir and Glenelg look to take over the top spot.

The "live podcast" special where Stone Cold Steve Austin interviewed Vince McMahon after Monday Night Raw delivered more than even the most optimistic fan hoped.

CM Punk went on his friend Colt Cabana's podcast over Thanksgiving weekend to finally explain why he left WWE in January.

With The Authority dispatched at Survivor Series, Raw dealt with the sudden vacuum in power -- and in doing so, showed us why the prominent authority figure is no longer needed in wrestling.

Sting finally made his WWE debut at Survivor Series, providing a moment that wrestling fans will remember for a long time.

It¿s almost Thanksgiving, and in the wrestling world, that means it¿s time for Survivor Series. The main event is Team Cena vs. Team Authority.

In this week's roundup, we'll take a look at TNA's new TV deal and how it changes the landscape of wrestling on American TV.

Frankie Kazarian and Christopher Daniels will take part in Ring of Honor's Tag Wars event in Baltimore on Saturday, and Kazarian spent some time talking to Aaron Oster about his transition from TNA to ROH, his view on tag team wrestling, and what makes ROH such a special company.

In this week's roundup, we'll take a look at Alberto Del Rio, another injured WWE superstar, the wrestling return of Good Ol' J.R. and more.

The WWE had its quarterly financial report Thursday. The main topic was the WWE Network and its subscriptions.

Hell in a Cell main event between Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins was interrupted by Bray Wyatt, drawing the ire of many pro wrestling fans.

Wrestling news and analysis on WWE's new no-tolerance policies, "Total Divas," the next NXT special and more.

Junior forward Jamie Dubyoski scored in the 10th and 13th minutes as Navy earned a 2-0 victory over UMBC that gave coach Dave Brandt his 300th career men's soccer win.

Two local wrestling coaches and an accomplished former high school wrestler will be inducted into the Maryland chapter of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame next month.

WWE news and analysis on Kurt Angle, Daniel Bryan Royal Rumble, SummerSlam and more.

Maryland wrestling begins its first season as a Big Ten member Oct. 26 and will later face perennial national powers like Penn State, Iowa and Minnesota in College Park.

What seemed like an obvious transition in the main event picture from Night of Champions to Hell in a Cell has been thrown into disarray over the past two weeks.

When Gary Coleman Jr. learned that his uncle, Marvin Matthews, had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer on Aug. 17, Coleman thought he would have to keep up the former Dunbar and Morgan State wrestler's spirits. He quickly found out that wasn't going to be the case.