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The ancient sport of tug of war is being kept alive in Brisbane by an enthusiastic team, and some are calling for it to ...

A movement is underway to make pok-ta-pok, the world’s oldest team ballgame, the national sport Robin Catalano The pok-ta-pok revival began in Mexico in the mid-1900s, but it only picked up steam over ...

Centuries before Monopoly, there was Patolli, a high-stakes Mesoamerican game of strategy and luck where players wagered crops and wealth as they raced their opponents around a cross-shaped board. The ...

The ancient sport of tug of war was once a mainstay of the Olympic games until being dropped in 1920. Now more than 100 years ...