For brothers Drew and Dawson Prickel, basketball has always been more than a game; it’s been a shared language. “We were always close,”... Oregon men’s basketball (8-14, 1-10 Big Ten) received good ...

Because they are part of a club and not a school-sanctioned athletic team or recreational sport, quidditch players get last dibs on field sign-ups, Dever said.</p> <p>"At large schools, particularly ...

The afternoon sun beats down on the South Quad, where six black rings – three at each end of a coned-off area – stand vertically on the top of white PVC pipes, all at varying heights. Students run ...

The Creighton University quidditch team has qualified for the national tournament and is asking for the public's help funding their trip.The team hopes to raise $5,000 and, as of Sunday night, had ...

On Sundays and Fridays at the East River Flats, a group of college students can be seen “flying” around on PVC pipe brooms and throwing deflated balls through towering vertical hoops. These students ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — For three years straight, the University of Texas at Austin quidditch team was at the top of the sport, winning the U.S. Quidditch Cup from 2013-2015 and helping transform the sport ...

The fast-paced fantasy sport played by wizards and witches in J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" universe has stepped out of fantasy and cemented itself as a trophy-winning competitive game at the ...

Given its unconventional and recent origins in the fictional book series Harry Potter, quidditch doesn't always get the same respect as more traditional college sports. However, as one of the only ...

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Brandon Spence stood on Hume Field at the University of Florida a Saturday morning with a PVC pipe between his legs. And he wasn’t the only one. Spence, a 20-year-old UF junior, was giving orders to ...