The afternoon sun beats down on the South Quad, where six black rings – three at each end of a coned-off area – stand vertically on the top of white PVC pipes, all at varying heights. Students run ...

Given its unconventional and recent origins in the fictional book series Harry Potter, quidditch doesn't always get the same respect as more traditional college sports. However, as one of the only ...

Brandon Spence stood on Hume Field at the University of Florida a Saturday morning with a PVC pipe between his legs. And he wasn’t the only one. Spence, a 20-year-old UF junior, was giving orders to ...

Players from the University of Sydney and McGill University grapple over the quaffle during the 2014 Quidditch World Cup in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina Richard Ellis/Demotix/Corbis France just beat ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — For three years straight, the University of Texas at Austin quidditch team was at the top of the sport, winning the U.S. Quidditch Cup from 2013-2015 and helping transform the sport ...

The fast-paced fantasy sport played by wizards and witches in J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" universe has stepped out of fantasy and cemented itself as a trophy-winning competitive game at the ...

When Lindsay Kohan was tackled, she didn't initially go down. But, mid-tackle, she tripped over her stick and fell backward on her head. It took the University of Maryland student several days before ...

went 3-1 in pool play, beating reigning Mid-Atlantic Regional Champion Villanova University in the game author J.K. Rowling invented and made famous in her Harry Potter series. was April 13 and 14 in ...

In J.K. RowlingâÄôs books quidditch is played by a team of seven wizards flying on broomsticks. In front of Coffman Union on Sunday, there were University of Minnesota students, quidditch and ...