The gays have a new favorite sport, although safety is not guaranteed for bottoms — or, well, anyone. In the spirit of slap fighting, toe wrestling, and competitive hot dog eating, the English county ...

All British sports must eventually face their dark night of the soul pondering the failures of home-grown talent. In elite dairy-chasing some urgent questions are reverberating after Monday’s Cooper’s ...

One of the most unique traditions in sport, the annual Cooper's Hill Cheese Rolling competition in western England will be held this Monday. Thousands of spectators and brave competitors from all over ...

Each year competitors hurl themselves down a steep slope in pursuit of the rolling cheese, a tradition thought to date back hundreds of years.

Pressed against a hill in Gloucestershire, in south-west England, on Bank Holiday Monday, the crowd knows exactly what it wants. “Cheese! Cheese! Cheese!” they chant. Soon they get their wish. A seven ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LONDON (AP) — The big cheese of extreme U.K.

Master of ceremonies Jem Wakeman, decked in a white smock and donning a black top hat with red, white and blue ribbons circling it, yells over the chaos of the crowd. It’s 2022, and about 6,000 people ...

LONDON (AP) — Dairy-loving daredevils threw caution to the wind Monday for one of Britain’s most extreme annual events: Cheese rolling. Cheered by several thousand spectators, scores of reckless ...

It’s been described as the world’s most dangerous race, and it’s certainly one of the most ridiculous – a 200-yard dash after a wheel of Double Gloucester cheese. To win, all you have to do is chase ...