Virginia Marshall can do anything except pick herself up from the floor. At least, that’s what she declares one morning in June after completing a dizzying, gravity-defying four-minute routine. The ...

She dreams of flying high in the maroon and white uniform of Texas A&M. Of competing in pole vault events held on city streets. Of wearing the red and white of her birth nation in an Olympics. The ...

GLOUCESTER — As a thick fog rolled over Gloucester Harbor, a man in a white T-shirt stepped out onto a 40-foot greased telephone pole suspended above the surf. He slipped and fell into the water. For ...

In the annual Gloucester greasy pole competition, where participants take turns running down a greased pole to capture a flag before falling into the water, a 20-year-old came out victorious. Nick ...

KOCKENGEN, Netherlands (AP) — A split second of flight, then a landing on the sand — or a splashdown in a canal. That's the thrill of the Dutch sport of “fierljeppen” — far leaping — which sees ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – Sunday marked the last day of the Italian Feast in Springfield. And it’s no Italian celebration without the grease pole competition! The grease pole competition is a ...