Petrana Radulovic is an entertainment reporter specializing in animation, fandom culture, theme parks, Disney, and young adult fantasy franchises. Two real-life Quidditch organizations are working to ...

"I've had my shoulder thrown out from an illegal tackle. I've had my lips busted open more times than I can count. I had a concussion earlier this year and I spent my first week of senior year with a ...

The American governing body of a version of Quidditch played in real life is looking for a new name for the sport, partly to distance itself from author JK Rowling and her work over her comments on ...

If you’ve read the “Harry Potter” books or seen the movies, you know Quidditch is a sport played by wizards and witches that involves flying around on broomsticks. In 2005, students at Middlebury ...

U.S. and U.K. associations devoted to quidditch will change the sport’s name, following comments on trans people by “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling. Quidditch, a fictional, fast-paced sport played ...

Yes and no. It depends on how you define quidditch and how you define sport. In the Harry Potter universe, quidditch is a game played by wizards and witches. Each team consists of seven players, each ...

Quidditch, anyone? No idle question in Columbia, South Carolina, where a big championship match is underway this weekend. Anna Werner attended last year's contest, where she saw an author's imaginary ...

The real-life sport of quidditch will be known as something to be determined once it changes its name and distances itself from author J.K. Rowling, who created the game in her best-selling Harry ...

OXFORD, England, July 9 (Reuters) - Quidditch players riding broomsticks tagged on to the Olympics on Monday, acknowledging the game adapted from the Harry Potter series was for nerds but arguing that ...

OXFORD, England (Reuters) - Quidditch players riding broomsticks tagged on to the Olympics on Monday, acknowledging the game adapted from the Harry Potter series was for nerds but arguing that it was ...

Alex Benepe, one of the sport’s founders, set up the New York-based non-profit International Quidditch Association in 2007 as players started to take the game more seriously and quidditch now boasts a ...