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Nepo baby Carson Briere gets probation for pushing wheelchair down flight of stairs [Updated]Updated Dec. 21, 2023: The Erie County District Attorney’s Office approved Carson Briere, the son of Philadelphia Flyers GM Daniel Briere, and Patrick Carrozzi’s applications for Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition, a special program for first-time, nonviolent offenders....

How a sport to rehabilitate paralyzed veterans birthed the Paralympics. [Los Angeles magazine]...

Wheelchair Basketball Game Abandoned After Fans Attack Each Other With Knives & Baseball BatsEurope’s top wheelchair basketball tournament came to a violent halt in Zwickau, Germany Saturday as 60 fans attacked each other with knives and baseball bats during a game between Turkish rivals Galatasaray and Beşiktaş, according to Die Welt....

Here's The Wheelchair Collision From The London Marathon

We told you earlier today about the accident at the London Marathon early Sunday morning between an olympic champion and a wheelchair racer. Now we have video....

Dick Vitale Would Like To Know Whether "The Young Guy With The Wheelchair" That Stormed The Court At NC State Is OK [UPDATE: He Is]

NC State upset Duke today 84-76, bringing to a close Duke's undefeated run and perhaps ruining their number one ranking, but who cares, because this happened at the end of the game: A young man in wheelchair zoomed out on to the court with the rest of crowd to celebrate the win, and Dick Vitale ha...

Police Have To Use Tear Gas To Subdue Fighting Fans At Wheelchair Basketball Game

Throw out the records when Turkey's Galatasary and Besiktas get together to play wheelchair basketball. They're "bitter rivals," according to Euronews, and their game over the weekend was marred by a fans' brawl that forced police to use tear gas and to make at least 10 arrests....

What Is Going On With All The Doping In Wheelchair Curling?

Stop reading right now if you'd like to believe that curling, or the Paralympics, or frigging Paralympic Curling is the last bastion of drug-free sports in the world today. Nothing is pure anymore. Jim Armstrong, a member of the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame and skip of Canada's 2010 Paralympic gold...

Wheelchair-Bound Fan Storms Field, Very Slowly

That's 18-year-old quadriplegic soccer fan Derry Felton with the slow motion pitch invasion during League Two side Northampton Town's match this weekend. "I said to my mate 'If they score I will go on the pitch,'" Felton said. "But I didn't believe that they would. Then they did and it was a bit o...