The days of Kazakhstan's national sport kokpar being a wild free-for-all with a headless goat may be numbered since plans have surfaced to replace the bloody carcass at the center of the game ...

When a fledgling American team decides to challenge the Kazakhs at their own game, no one is quite prepared for what happens ...

The art of throwing dead goats while on horseback has a long and venerable history in Central and South Asia. "Kokpar," as the sport is known in Kazakhstan, is sort of like rugby except the ...

Kazakhstan's Association for National Sports has floated plans ... In a game of kokpar, a distant cousin of polo, two teams of mounted players struggle to take a headless goat carcass into the ...

Support runs deep for the national sport known as kokpar, in which two teams on horseback battle to drag a headless goat carcass into the opponent’s goal. And Kazakhstan brooks no mockery of its ...

It combines supreme horse-riding skills with elements of wrestling and the rugby scrum as players tussle over a dead goat. The film, released on September 20 under the titles “Time of the Stalwarts” ...

ASTANA, Kazakhstan, Sept. 11 (UPI) -- The first goat polo, or "kokpar," championships began Wednesday in Astana, Kazakhstan, with a four-day tournament involving 100 participants from nine nations.

A seemingly healthy two-headed baby goat suffered a gruesome death after fate cruelly intervened just days after it had been born on a farm in Kazakhstan. The video of the kid - shot in remote ...