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 ...

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 ...

Originally developed by students at Middlebury College in 2005 as an intramural sport. The Intercollegiate Quidditch Association %28IQA%29%2C the sport%27s organizing ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Alex Benepe wrote the rule book on playing the fantastical game from the Harry Potter series. Here are the basics of play. Quidditch is played on an elliptical field. Two teams of seven players armed ...

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 ...