POWAY POWAY — The first time Jeffrey Hedgecock saw a suit of armor as a child, he didn’t think of the man inside, but saw only the sculpted shell of a human body. “I’m fascinated by the image of the ...

Tournaments originated around the time of the First Crusade as a way for the newly emerged class of knights to practice their skills in mounted combat. Today, jousting has become a familiar feature of ...

Long ago, before David Beckham donned a pair of body-hugging boxers to hawk his line of underwear for H&M, the star athletes of the day were knights -- specifically, guys who charged at each other on ...

Kalleigh Wagner had just watched a horse throw an armored knight during a joust when Captain Hook walked up to her. Hook told the 10-year-old girl he was looking for Peter Pan. “We have some ...

James Zoppe, short and stocky with shoulder-length silver hair, is known as Sir James of Lockwood, the Red Knight. He says his adrenaline is pumping most when he looks through the narrow slit in his ...

When "Full Metal Jousting" premieres on the History Channel Sunday, the producers hope jousting will catch on as a modern spectator sport. Charlton native Paul Suda was just glad for the opportunity ...

In medieval times the curious practice began of organising teams of people to kick a pig’s bladder about. They called it football, but it didn’t really catch on for centuries – because jousting was so ...

HOLLY (WWJ) - Where's the one place you can go to see fairies, gypsies, pirates and knights? The Renaissance Festival in Holly, of course, where you never know what you'll find or who you'll meet. WWJ ...

The gates of the Gulf Coast International Jousting Championships opened at 6 p.m. one Friday in January at a 4,500-seat arena 13 miles outside Pensacola, Fla. Some of the spectators were dressed in ...