James Zoppe, short and stocky with shoulder-length silver hair, is known as Sir James of Lockwood, the Red Knight. He says his adrenaline is pumping most when he looks through the narrow slit in his ...

McDADE — Thundering down a narrow lane at 30 miles an hour, 2,500 pounds of man, horse and armor drives a lance at another man doing the exact same thing. A mighty crash later, two knights are ...

YORK City Knights have announced they are to sponsor the newly introduced Shield competition in this month's York International 9s. The increasingly prestigious tournament, which will feature 26 teams ...

The Knights of Mayhem are attempting to take full contact medieval jousting, one of the world's oldest and most dangerous sports and turn in into America's newest extreme sport. Modern day Lancelots ...

COSTA MESA — Kyran Fairchild, clad head to toe in armor, is sitting on his horse when an assistant hands him an 11-foot piece of solid Douglas fir. He directs his horse to turn and, seconds later, ...

SETE, FRANCE — Behold the king of the boat jousters. The man-mountain stands silhouetted against the Mediterranean sun, gliding past spectators lining a canal: Aurelien Evangelisti, a.k.a. The ...

THERE’S a few rivalries between Australia and New Zealand, now there’s a medieval jousting tournament to add to the list. Now the trans-Tasman rivalry has moved from the rugby field, cricket pitch and ...

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