APPLETON - At first glance, the World Axe Throwing and World Knife Throwing Championships seem more like a huge family get-together than a sporting event. On Friday morning, as the first rounds of ...

A 99-year-old British woman finally had a daring dream come true — getting knives thrown at her during a circus performance.. Annie Duplock entered the ring at the end of Zippo Circus’ finale and ...

St. Cloud ax-throwing business owners Dustin and Niki Knight competed in the World Axe Throwing League Championship in Appleton, Wisconsin, at the beginning of the month. Dustin Knight finished third ...

LANDIS — The town of Landis is home to many uniquities and recently added a gold medalist knife thrower to the list after a successful showing last month in Ohio. Judah Myers won the top prize in the ...

NEW YORK-- The idea of switching careers at the age 50 might seem stressful, but a new line of work offers new opportunities to grow. One man followed his passion 20 years ago and became the best in ...

Job jokes fly fast and furiously when you’re a professional knife thrower. "He aims to miss!" is the most common zinger. David Adamovich, 74, a gleaming star of the impalement arts — a term for ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — From Westerville to a world championship, Columbus' own Coleman Bates is a cut above the rest. “There was just something mean about it, ya know what I mean?” he recalled with a laugh.

99-year-old, Annie Duplock of Leicestershire, England, had a lifelong dream to be the “target girl” in a knife-throwing act. Thirty years ago, while working in ticketing and public relations for ...

I've always thought that the scariest part of the circus was the knife thrower. It's so easy to imagine the knife thrower's assistant going home minus an ear--but that isn't a worry for the little guy ...