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 ...
Rhianna Malas is a creative writer and essayist currently living in Melbourne, Australia. An RMIT alum, she has self produced a comic zine, and has written short stories and creative non-fiction ...
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 ...
Some of the most dramatic and violent tackles in sports don't happen on the football field, but on the court at the Paralympics when the wheelchair rugby teams face off in bloody battles. Aptly ...
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 ...
NPR's Bob Mondello reviews Murderball, a new documentary about the U.S. Paralympic Rugby team. The film offers a honest and raw look at the fierce — and inspiring — group of disabled competitors. One ...
The movie "Murderball" is one of the year's bona fide festival circuit hits, a hugely entertaining story about a group of charismatic athletes playing a particularly high-stakes game of rugby. Before ...
In the Gotham acting categories, Noah Baumbach‘s Sundance ’05 winner “The Squid and the Whale” won the prize for “Best Ensemble Cast,” honoring the film’s stars Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse ...
At a Paralympic training camp, Chuck Aoki sped down the court in his wheelchair before getting rammed from the side by another player, which caused him to go tumbling, flipping three times in his ...