Players wearing capes whip by on broomsticks. With one hand on broomstick, the other free to toss a white ball back and forth, they try to earn points for their teams by zinging the ball through one ...

If you've got an itch to play Quidditch, you no longer have to be a student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. You could be a student at UC Berkeley. Quidditch, the favorite pastime of ...

Author J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series has spawned six movies, seven video games and enough clothing to keep all of the Weasley children warm during winter. It was only a matter of time, therefore, ...

The last time that I interviewed members of the UMass Quidditch team, they were a struggling group – few in numbers, and no place to practice. However, that was back in the spring of 2008 after ...

Toss in some broomsticks, and you are now ready to play the sport that was introduced to Harry Potter in his first year at Hogwarts and the sport that is now sweeping college campuses across the ...

“I mean, what constitutes a ‘real’ sport? Sports are inherently fabricated — a set of rules and stakes that come completely from the imagination of one person or of a group of people. What makes ...

They can’t fly, and they don’t have any magical powers. But that doesn’t stop groups of college students across the country from playing Quidditch, the midair “sport” from J.K. Rowling‘s “Harry Potter ...