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 ...

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 ...

[media-credit name=’YANA PASKOVA’ align=’alignnone’ width=’648′] [/media-credit]Thirteen years ago, Mark Zupan's life was changed, and Monday night he ...

When Alex Fraser, a champion high school swimmer at Blue Valley, became paralyzed following an accident in March 2014, he was unsure if he would ever compete again. Thanks to a few new friends, he is ...

Mark Zupan is a member of the U.S. National Wheelchair Rugby team and was featured in Murderball, a new documentary about the team's efforts at the Paralympic Games in Athens. He talks about his sport ...

According to FOX, for the "Murderball" challenge, the recruits are "split into two teams and must fight to get a ball over the opposition’s goal line," with the preview footage showing that it all ...

"Murderball." It's a scary word that provokes some alarming images. But murderball is just another name for rugby -- quadriplegic rugby. Murderball is a full contact sport, where athletes play in ...

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 ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) - Chuck Aoki has used a wheelchair for most of his life due to a genetic condition. "I don't feel anything below my elbows and below my knees, and I've had that since birth. So that ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Go ahead and take a swing at me, says the man in the wheelchair. “I’ll hit you back.” And that’s what the remarkable documentary “Murderball” does to us for ...

It is nicknamed murderball and it has been the smash hit, so to speak, of these Paralympics because it is the only contact sport in the Games — and the violence is part of the attraction. So it seems ...