Pelota mixteca, an ancient ball game with roots stretching back thousands of years and thousands of miles to pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica — a sport nearly snuffed out of existence when the Spanish took ...

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 ...

A hard ball flying like a trapped bird in a courtyard with smooth stone walls, its floor marked into divisions by lines and trod by leaping black-haired men—such was the game the oldtime Aztecs ...