Viking Maul Ball On The Orkney Islands [Stories That Don’t Suck]

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Occasionally, we’ll select stories – old and new, sports and otherwise, relevant and merely sublime – that we urge you to read for one reason or another. Today: An examination of “The Ba’,” a primal form of mass rugby and a male rite of passage that erupts every Christmas in Kirkwall, a town on the rugged Orkney Islands of northern Scotland. More »

[Deadspin]

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