JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (WTAJ) – By growing up with a brother diagnosed with autism, Richland freshman Mari Weaver saw firsthand that not all sports are inclusive. “It always played like a big impact on me,” ...

Bocce ball is more than just a game. Many see it as a sport that promotes inclusion and creates opportunities for students with intellectual disabilities to get involved with athletics. Now, with the ...

Hanover High School in Pennsylvania has started a unified bocce team, a partnership between the Special Olympics and the school's special education department. Unified bocce is similar to curling and ...

Thanks to the tireless efforts of a Wallenpaupack Area "dream team," freshman Ryan Wilcha is able to be part of the school's ...

John Paul Vyborny and his family discovered bocce ball while vacationing in the Bahamas many years ago. When they returned home, they looked for bocce courts near their house in Tucson, Arizona. They ...

CHESTERFIELD, Mo. – Vi Rumbolo has become a legend at Friendship Village in Chesterfield. Once told bocce was a “man’s sport,” Vi discovered her late husband’s bocce balls after moving to the ...

Many people associate bocce -- as in the game that involves rolling balls along the ground -- with older gentlemen, Italian gangsters and maybe beret-wearing Frenchmen flinging balls into sandy pits ...