It doesn’t take long. Just a few minutes into the second quarter of the opening game between the U.S. and Great Britain, three players have slammed their wheelchairs hard into the opposition player ...

If you couldn’t get enough of watching rugby superstar Ilona Maher stiff-arm her way through her opponents at the Olympics earlier this summer, you won’t want to miss Paralympic wheelchair rugby—a.k.a ...

According to FOX, for the "Murderball" challenge, the recruits are "split into two teams and must fight to get a ball over the opposition’s goal line," with the preview footage showing that it all ...

"Murderball." It's a scary word that provokes some alarming images. But murderball is just another name for rugby -- quadriplegic rugby. Murderball is a full contact sport, where athletes play in ...

Four thousand athletes representing more than 150 nations have gathered in Paris to kick off the 16th edition of the Paralympic Games. There are a total of 549 gold medals up for grabs in 22 sports, ...

The sport is relatively young but fast-growing, and the competition to win gold in the Paris Paralympics is expected to be tight. Morris reported this story from Team USA’s wheelchair rugby training ...

The sport has been part of the Paralympics since 1996 and is played with mixed-gender teams. The United States team was once dominant in the sport, winning gold in three of the first four Games where ...

The latest extreme sport is played by some of the world’s toughest athletes —in wheelchairs. It’s called murderball, a sport that can only be described as a combination of football, hockey, basketball ...

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