PLEASANTON — Everyone may be honorarily Irish on St. Patrick’s Day, but everyone at the Alameda County Fairgrounds this weekend was an honorary Scot. The Caledonian Club of San Francisco presented its ...
Don’t let the guys in the plaid skirts fool you. They heave logs around for fun.That’s right. The brawny men in kilts are back for today’s Highland Games at Snowmass Village. The event moves from last ...
Mike Smith of Broken Arrow, Okla., the strongest of the strong, showed several thousand spectators Sunday at Bethlehem’s Celtic Classic how to toss a caber, a 20-foot tree trunk weighing about 150 ...
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 champion, ...
CNY Scottish Games demonstration CNY Scottish Games director of athletics Bill Monette shows reporter Katrina Tulloch how to do the traditional sheaf toss, weight throw and stone throw. SYRACUSE, N.Y.
GEDDES, N.Y. -- Lads and lassies, prepare to stuff your face with haggis puffs and Forfar bridies (meat pies). The 74th annual Central New York Scottish Games and Celtic Festival will return on ...
Seven feet tall, seven feet wide and arms the size of tree trunks. Monsters. That’s the way young R.J. Sutherland used to view the male athletes participating in Highland Games. Now, he is one of them ...
When most of the nearly dozen men competing in the caber toss at the Long Island Scottish Festival and Highland Games in Old Westbury on Saturday were able to heft and flip the large, hewn log, it was ...
This past weekend the 43rd Scottish Highland Games wrapped up on Grandfather Mountain. Among the unique events in the games is the caber toss. Other WRAL Top Stories Ken Starnes is a world class ...
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