A prison chess teacher, a young boxing coach working to tackle knife crime and a chef who creates recipes for those ...

James Canty III, 33, of Detroit has only competed in the sport for three years, but has now won the super heavyweight chessboxing world championship at a match in Serbia. He says his next goal is to ...

What happens when you combine chess and boxing into one sport? Today I'm traveling to New York City to find out and ...

James Canty III, a Detroit native, is the new world champion of chessboxing, a hybrid sport combining alternating rounds of speed chess and boxing.

Will MacLeod ’26, a math major in the College of Arts and Sciences, earned silver for Team USA in the Chessboxing World Championships in September after starting the sport just three months prior. And ...

Chess boxing is the ultimate test of both brain and brawn. Two fights go back and forth between intense rounds of strategy and athleticism as they battle in a mental battle on a chess board and an ...

Time once again for the annual “Bernies,” awards designed to sum up just what kind of year it was in sports. Drum roll, please. The What’s He Taking Off if the Bears Win the Super Bowl ...

BERLIN — Nikolay Sazhin almost knocked out his opponent with a blow to the chin in the second round. But he had to take the queen to win the match. In front of 1,000 cheering fans one recent Saturday ...

The sport was born from a 1992 French comic book and became a real thing in the early 2000s. It’s grown since then. Canty is part of Team USA, coached by Matt Thomas, the first American to win a world ...

No sportsperson has been recommended for the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna award for 2025, marking the first time in a decade ...

The fourth Ashes Test begins, and Manchester United host Newcastle at Old Trafford. Check out a comprehensive list of the ...