ANCHOR INTRO: Dust off your armor and pick your finest steed because today the Tournament of the Phoenix kicks off three days of jousting, equestrian display, and poll-axe combat at the Poway Rodeo.

Tournaments originated around the time of the First Crusade as a way for the newly emerged class of knights to practice their skills in mounted combat. Today, jousting has become a familiar feature of ...

Long ago, before David Beckham donned a pair of body-hugging boxers to hawk his line of underwear for H&M, the star athletes of the day were knights -- specifically, guys who charged at each other on ...

When "Full Metal Jousting" premieres on the History Channel Sunday, the producers hope jousting will catch on as a modern spectator sport. Charlton native Paul Suda was just glad for the opportunity ...

Raven Eastwood used to compete in rodeos in high school. But now when he rides a horse, he puts on 70 pounds of armor and gallops with a lance toward an opponent in the medieval sport called jousting.

McDADE — Thundering down a narrow lane at 30 miles an hour, 2,500 pounds of man, horse and armor drives a lance at another man doing the exact same thing. A mighty crash later, two knights are ...

The gates of the Gulf Coast International Jousting Championships opened at 6 p.m. one Friday in January at a 4,500-seat arena 13 miles outside Pensacola, Fla. Some of the spectators were dressed in ...

SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - This weekend, the Kingdom of “Riverssance” returns for its 21st year at Riverside Park. This year promises to offer fans something they’ve never seen at Riverssance before ...

COSTA MESA — Kyran Fairchild, clad head to toe in armor, is sitting on his horse when an assistant hands him an 11-foot piece of solid Douglas fir. He directs his horse to turn and, seconds later, ...