The Basque Country accounts for 1.4% of Spain's territory, 4.9% of its population and 20% of its first-division teams. Twenty-five percent if you count Osasuna, which you probably should. It also ...

It’s a Wednesday night... game night for Ysabel Bilbao. She’s part of a women’s league that plays the Basque racket sport of pelota. "As we go downstairs, this is what I describe as the fight club ...

Tradition and culture drew the local Basque community Saturday for the 80th annual Kern County Basque Festival. In between food and drinks there were demonstrations of the game pelota, along with a ...

For much of the 20th century, the sport of jai alai was a big deal — not just in Basque Country, where it originated, but around the world. In the '60s, it was marketed to Americans as the next big ...

The soaring number of 'Game of Thrones' fans flocking to the Basque Country’s San Juan de Gaztelugatxe has upset bird breeding in the area and ruffled feathers among locals. Local authorities have ...

Some players in Spain better identify with their Basque background. La Liga is home to a wealth of Spanish players, but not all want to play under the same flag. Many from Bilbao, Pamplona and San ...

MADRID — By Sept. 17, the 51st San Sebastian Film Festival already had a standout pic. That’s curious: The fest hadn’t even begun, the film had hardly been seen, and its producers hadn’t courted press ...

Take the crack, crack, crack of hard leather balls smacking into concrete, mingled with cheers yelled out in Euskara, a language unrelated to any other. Add the scent of roasting lamb and sloshes of ...