On a recent sunny Saturday morning, about a dozen players gathered on the fields of Sacramento’s Land Park for preseason practice. About half sported purple and gold striped jerseys, with a ...

“How much for this one?” I asked the proprietor of a time-portal-in-the-wall antique shop in the charming Ireland town of Kilkenny. The hurling stick I held forth looked as ancient and weathered as ...

The sport of hurling has received a boost from the Blenheim Estate amid threats from ash dieback in Ireland. The estate has supplied hundreds of ash trees, which are needed to make the hurling sticks, ...