Gaze intense, feet flying, Curtis Taylor is on a hot string. His eyes and his whirling feet are locked on a tiny bag that he's kicking, kicking, kicking. The 17-year-old Clear Lake High School senior ...

Champion athletes from the United States and Canada, will compete this weekend in a U.S. Open tournament at Willamette Park. Their sport, almost 40 years old, has its roots in the metro area. What ...

The hacky sack players often spotted in White Plaza are a diverse group of "footbaggers" from across the globe. (Serenity Nguyen/The Stanford Daily) Passing through White Plaza on a Tuesday afternoon, ...

Many have played the game before, even if unknowingly. Footbag, also known as hacky sack, has been played professionally for nearly three decades. This weekend, its national championship tournament ...

More than once, Matt Baker has dropped his keys and, without really realizing it, found them flying off the side of his foot, into the air and back into his hands. That’s the kind of move you find ...

Many of the world's elite footbaggers have one thing in common. Smooth talocrural joints, when turned parallel to the ground in a split second, can catch a 55-gram leather sack filled with stainless ...

Like volleyball for feet, athletes propel a hard footbag over a five-foot high net. The U.S. Open Footbag Championship will take place in Willamette Park in West Linn on June 28 and 29. (Kenny Shults) ...

Breakpoint, a rapidly growing developer and publisher of entertainment software for wireless devices, has been granted a license by the International Footbag Players' Association (IFPA) to develop and ...

The 2016 US Open Freestyle Footbag Championships are Saturday and Sunday at Boise State’s Centennial Amphitheatre. It’s the sport many remember as Hacky Sack, which is a brand name. Three of the best ...

These days, we spend far too much connected to the world on our smartphones and tablets, so much so that we forget to have fun sometimes. I’m sure that more than a few of you have been staring at your ...