Rob Von Bargen, 25, of Massapequa competes in the caber toss during the 56th annual Long Island Scottish Festival and Highland Games at Old Westbury Gardens in Old Westbury on Saturday, Aug. 27, 2016.

Scottish Highland Athletes Toss the Caber Posted 2006-08-03T23:33:00+00:00 - Updated 1998-07-13T11:00:00+00:00 This past weekend the 43rd Scottish Highland Games wrapped up on Grandfather Mountain.

The champion of the world was changing into his skirt Thursday in San Francisco, inside a pickup truck. The pickup was parked smack in the middle of the Embarcadero. No respect, sighed the ...

Heavy things were heaved into the air as men and women grunted and shouted with the effort at Saturday’s 61st annual Scottish Highland Games at the Spokane Interstate Fairgrounds.

A teenager from the Highlands has set a new world record for tossing the caber. Andrew Murphie, 18, from Grantown-on-Spey, managed to toss 26 cabers in three minutes - smashing the previous record ...

Traditional Highland games will be played like caber toss, hammer throw and sheaf toss. Caber toss is a Scottish event where competitors toss a wooden pole around 18 feet long end-over-end.

When a celebration of Scottish and Celtic culture returns Saturday, it will have feats of strength such as caber toss, putting the stone and tossing a sheaf over a bar. The Bellingham Scottish ...

Tossing the heavy caber for over three decades has taken its toll on his body with aches and pains days after a tournament is over. That's why Trask said he's been thinking of retiring.

A teenager from the Highlands has set a new world record for tossing the caber. Andrew Murphie, 18, from Grantown-on-Spey, managed to toss 26 cabers in three minutes - smashing the previous record ...