CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Basque sports are an integral part of Basque identity. Springing from the traditional activities of day-to-day farming and fishing life, the ...

Anyone who’s competed in a three-legged race will feel at home at the 2016 Smithsonian Folklife Festival. “It will look a lot like a field day,” says Mary Linn, one of the festival curators. That’s ...

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 ...

“Here, each village was its own universe, cut off from everywhere,” says Bernardo Atxaga. “San Sebastian is only a short drive away these days, but back then it was like another world.” Atxaga is one ...

Jai alai grew from centuries-old Basque ball games into a fast and dangerous international sport that briefly seemed capable of breaking into the American mainstream. Florida allowed betting on jai ...

MUNGIA, Spain, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Women lifted heavy stones up to their shoulders and swung axes during the Women's Championship of Herri-Kirolak - or Basque sports - as a new generation aims to ...

Luis de la Fuente demands Ballon d'Or recognition for Spain stars and tips Lamine Yamal for future glory Spain head coach Luis de la Fuente has called for a Spanish player to lift the Ballon d'Or this ...

MADRID — 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. There ...