Historically, gravedigging has not been considered a respectable profession. Because of their association with death, gravediggers are sometimes thought to be at least ritually unclean if not physically dirty.But it's a...

The Canary Islands are a Spanish archipelago off the coast of western Africa. Before tourism transformed the islands into a sunny destination, the economy was dominated by shepherding. Long centuries of this profession l...

USA Today reports that Brooklyn Anderson, a high school student student at a state-wide track and field competition in Oregon, stumbled at the end of a 100-meter hurdles race.Even though she was in the lead, that fall pr...

Great Big Story introduces us to the NYO Games. Yo...  ...ve communities come together to compete in twelve sports . These events are developed from the practical ne...  ...raordinary athletic skills and describe how these sports help participants connect with their heritages.

In Novaria di Sicilia, a neighborhood of Messina,...  ...ns. It's called Lancio del Mairochino.Traditional Sports explains that residents take a wheel of the local...

Do you remember ice tennis? It's tennis placed on skates on an ice rink. Ice football is similar in that it is American football* except played on an ice rink. No, the players aren't wearing skates. They're wearing shoes...

Board racing is a traditional sport of the Zhuang people, an ethnic minority in southern China. Legend has it that the sport was devised as a military training technique. In this video, you can see why: the sport require...

Spikeball is a recently-invented game that developed from volleyball. A webpage from Southern Arkansas University summarizes the rules. Two teams of two players each surround a circular let. Each person bounces a ball to...

Conkers is a traditional British game that uses conkers--the fruits of a horse chestnut tree. They're inedible by humans, so Britons instead drill holes through them and attached a cord. Two players square off against ea...

Think of the Tour de Donut of Troy, Ohio as a race that combines competitive eating and bike racing. It's the chessboxing of the bicycle world.Competitors race their bikes to a sequence of participating donut shops. Each...