It’s a Wednesday night... game night for Ysabel Bilbao. She’s part of a women’s league that plays the Basque racket sport of pelota. "As we go downstairs, this is what I describe as the fight club ...

MADRID (AP) — A small sport popular in Spain’s northern Basque Country has stirred up a political controversy that triggered court action and fanned the region's long-held feelings of nationalism.

GUADALAJARA, MexicoGUADALAJARA, Mexico — Cricket is sure to stump a Chilean. Argentines are unlikely to understand American football. Baseball is bound to confound a Russian. And don’t expect a Greek ...

The Estadio Español de Las Condes has been confirmed as the venue for Basque pelota and 3x3 basketball at the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games. Organising Committee chief executive Gianna Cunazza was ...

These beloved wall sports are considered to be the descendants of a 17th-Century game and the direct ancestors of tennis, squash and racket ball. I am dazzled by the rural beauty of France's Basque ...

Basque Pelota, in which the ball can reach speeds of over 300 kilometres per hour, was once an Olympic sport. No longer part of the Games, its popularity has nevertheless reached far beyond the Basque ...

This Memorial Day weekend, as is tradition, the Kern County Basque Festival highlighted the talent of both local residents and those living afar. This weekend, visiting players from the pelota ...

Christian Jaureguy plays esku pilota (Basque handball) on the Folklife Festival Frontoia. Photo by Robert Friedman, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives When people play sports at the frontoia, the ...

Lima, Monday August 05, 2019 - Mexico ’s Isaac Perez, left, and Cristopher Martínez from Peru during the Men’s Individual Peruvian Fronton Qualification match at the Complejo Deportivo Villa Maria del ...

With his tall, muscular frame, tanned face and Red Bull baseball cap, Iñaki Osa Goikoetxea tends to stand out from the crowd in his home town of Zumaia, on Spain's Basque coast. That's not surprising, ...