As the referee's whistle signalled the start of the match, two five-year-old Iranian girls faced off, delivering a closely ...

Students of Allegheny Shotokan (Viola Karate) Martial Arts in North Huntingdon gathered outside of the dojo in front of a 20-foot screen, like Penguins fans watching a Stanley Cup playoff game on the ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - When karate makes its Olympics debut on Thursday, it won't just be the competitors out to prove themselves on the world's biggest sporting stage. The ancient Japanese martial art ...

Pictured above are members of Kebort’s Karate Tigers, who placed recently at the Pittsburgh State Championship. Renshi ...

From time to time every mixed martial arts fan has bumped into the friend, co-worker, or blogger who loves to tell them "MMA, ha, that's not a sport." Some say it to get a prescribed response, some ...

COLORADO SPRINGS — One sport that is making its Olympic debut this summer is karate. Caroline Peters spent Friday morning learning about this ancient sport at the U.S. Karate Academy. U.S. Karate ...

Patrick and Angela Januszewski come off as polite, engaging teenagers, with quick smiles at the ready. But put the South Beach residents in the middle of a martial arts competition and, well, that's a ...

Karate Combat, a league devoted to showcasing the ancient martial art, has signed a deal with beIN Sports to show its second season across five continents including North America, it said on Tuesday.

The Tokyo Olympics have marked the return of fan-favorite events like swimming and gymnastics. But viewers also are being treated to a number of sports – such as karate, skateboarding and sport ...

TOKYO – For Sakura Kokumai to step onto the mat at the famed Nippon Budokan with a chance for a bronze medal in karate’s Olympic debut is a storybook ending of its own. Kokumai is Japanese-American, ...

Ryo Kiyuna, a three-time individual world champion, hails from Okinawa, where karate was developed centuries ago. By Ken Belson and Enya Toyama TOKYO — Every city that hosts the Olympics pushes for ...