Obscure Sports
Club Sports
An interview with the Nationals-qualifying UR Quidditch team
The UR Thestrals, the University’s Quidditch team, recently participated in the US Quidditch Cup in Salt Lake City, Utah on April 23-24. Read More
Obscure Sports
The future of classic Tetris
On Oct. 20, 17-year-old Joseph Saelee was crowned Classic Tetris World Champion for the second year running, blazing past a field made up largely of much older, more experienced competition. He proved his miracle win last year over seven-time champion and Tetris legend, Jonas Neubauer, was not a fluke. The kid is just that good, […]
cars
A novice’s guide to Formula 1
Do you want to watch cars designed by mad scientists scream around a track? Do you want to see cars take corners at 180 mph and almost tear their drivers’ heads off? Do you simply want to watch something better than NASCAR? I present to you the pinnacle of motorsports: Formula 1 (F1). F1 currently […]
Obscure Sports
Marching band is too a sport
Marching band lies in the sweet spot where love of music and physical activity overlap. Marching band, despite (un)popular belief, is indeed a sport, requiring as much team coordination, technical skills/know-how, and endurance as any other school-funded group activity. While it may be the most esoteric form of physical activity known to man, for those […]
Basketball
‘Jackets adapt to Rochester Wheels’ tough competition
The men’s and women’s basketball teams played a scrimmage against the Rochester Wheels, a professional wheelchair basketball team, last Wednesday. The ‘Jackets won 73–71, though they received lots of help to stay in the game. Read More
Football
Sports entertainment can be the future
For years, I thought World Wrestling Entertainment was a punchline. Why would people spend time watching a sporting event they know is fake? Read More
Obscure Sports
Obscure Sports: Fighting below (or between) the belt
Belt wrestling comes in many forms throughout the world, and is even sparring for Olympic status. Read More
Obscure Sports
Kyudo: what you get when archery takes the scenic route
I apologize for the long delay, but I can assure you it has not been spent procrastinating. Instead I have been digging deep in the jungles of Peru, the shores of the Nile and the snow banks of Russia, all searching for a sport with that unique quality that makes it more obscure than the […]
Obscure Sports
The eccentric trip of bossaball
Sometimes it seems that the best and oddest obscure sports actually aren't new ideas so much as conglomerations of other sports taken to extreme levels that are often thought not close to possible. Enter bossaball. Bossaball is the bastard child of a massive orgy of sports. If volleyball, football, gymnastics, basketball and soccer all decided […]
