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O'Hara K. Shipe Hardcourt = Hardcore The babes of bike polo. Photo by O'Hara K. Shipe “You smell that? Smells like comeback season!” Zachary Tate wildly chirps on another seemingly endless Alaskan summer night. “Oh yeah? Watch this!” yells Liam McMahon...

Polo—that horseback sport popular in India—has a young, grungy cousin emerging from the northwest: hardcourt bike polo. For those unfamiliar with hardcourt, as its called, it’s similar to horseback polo except two teams of three players are on bikes...

When thinking about recreational sports played in Winnipeg, what comes to mind? Hockey? Soccer? Hardcourt bike polo? If you are like me, you know next to nothing about that last one. As a sport, modern hardcourt bike polo, or simply “hardcourt...

As much as it pains me to write it, the end of the 2013 bike polo season is within sight. Disappearing are the days of the 8:30 sunset, the three-gallons-of-water-why-is-it-so-hot playing, and the joys of a full, unknowable tourney schedule. Yes, friends...

“The Wizard” is wearing a bright yellow “Livin’ on a Prairie Dog” t-shirt and cut-off black denim shorts. He has shoulder-length, light-brown hair, tied loosely behind his neck, and a mustache and beard. He sports an elbow pad—only on his left elbow...