There are some absolutely insane “sports” for people to try these days. However, a really weird one has been in the streaming news lately and doing the rounds, thanks to Ludwig. We have all the ...
A new sport is slowly becoming a sensation, and it combines two pastimes that seem to be polar opposites: chessboxing. The game is exactly what it sounds like, as it combines chess and boxing to ...
In what can only be described as the ultimate test of brains and braun, chessboxing is a “sport”. It’s actually a fairly popular sport in London and Berlin. The game is exactly what it sounds like; ...
And so, we begin a discussion of outside-the-box competitions with the aim of categorizing each one: Real sport or just a weird activity? In our first review, we will look at a competition that ...
There are several sports that combine multiple two disciplines, such as biathlon (cross-country skiing), nordic combined (ski jumping, cross-country skiing) and the decathlon or heptathlon in track ...
Bill Whitaker is an award-winning journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent who has covered major news stories, domestically and across the globe, for more than four decades with CBS News. When Matt ...
A chessboard awaits the next round just outside the ring during a chessboxing match in Berlin in 2012 AP Images There’s a boxing ring planted in the middle of a London nightclub. So far, nothing too ...
BERLIN — Nikolay Sazhin almost knocked out his opponent with a blow to the chin in the second round. But he had to take the queen to win the match. In front of 1,000 cheering fans one recent Saturday ...
Will MacLeod, second from left, at the podium after winning a silver medal at the recently completed World Chessboxing Championship, held in Loznica, Serbia, in late September. MacLeod is a 2022 ...
When Matt Thomas dropped out of law school, he devoted himself to a sport he initially thought was a joke: chess boxing. In 2018, he became the first American to compete for a world chess boxing title ...