Reporting from BERKELEY — The athletes wear plastic black-out goggles and throw or block a ball filled with bells. Just outside the boundaries of the playing court in UC Berkeley’s recreational gym, ...

Goalball is a paralympic sport created for blind and vision-impaired athletes. NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Andy Jenks, a former member of the U.S. goalball team and a silver Paralympic medalist.

OWEN MCDONNELL: Hello Gophers and Gopher adjacents, my name is Owen McDonnell and welcome to yet another episode of In The Know, a podcast dedicated to the University of Minnesota. As you probably ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Goalball, a sport that most people have never heard of, was created specifically for athletes with visual impairment. "It was developed after World War 2," says goalball Paralympian ...

A woman who discovered the Paralympic sport goalball at college is launching a club in her home town after discovering there ...

On the court, he doesn’t so much walk as swagger. Every move is fluid yet purposeful, with the natural athlete’s melding of grace and physicality. A strapping 6-foot-4, 225 pounds, he looms as he ...

The very first athletes to play goalball were veterans who lost their sight fighting in World War II. Today, the game is played all over the world, including on a court inside the rec center at ...

WEBVTT ♪JOSHUA: THE SOUND OF SILENCEISN'T COMMON FOR MOST SPECTATORSPORTS, BUT HERE, IT'S ANECESSICITY.THIS IS GOAL-BALL, A FAST-PACEDTEAM SPORT DESIGNED SPECIFICALLYFOR BLIND ATHLETES OF ALL AGES.>> ...

With the squeal of a whistle and a call for quiet, players at the Washington State School for the Blind in Vancouver faced off in a silent gymnasium. They wore blacked-out goggles and crouched in an ...