OXFORD >> Imagine if you’ve never flown on a jet larger than a 737, and suddenly find yourself on a Jumbo Jet. Or, imagine riding a 140-foot centipede. That’s more or less how members of the New Haven ...

PITTSFIELD — Once settled into a single-person ocean shell at the Berkshire Rowing and Sculling Society on Onota Lake, I took a deep breath before Lauren Miller launched me out toward the open water.

WKYC's Sara Shookman looks ahead at the rowing and sculling and how the Ohio Olympians are doing. Today in Rio, Sara says the sun is out and the winds are calm as both Ohio rowers are ready for the ...

The sleek carbon hull comes emblazoned with a rainbow of Rowing Blazers’ signature rugby stripes across the decks and sculling blades embellished with a playful zig-zag pattern. Produced in a limited ...

Sculling, rowing, crew — whatever you call it, this sport in which skinny jocks pilot skinny boats up skinny rivers comes with some unfortunate stereotypes. They’re a bunch of spoiled prep-school kids ...

In the beginning was the river. It served Native Americans as a highway, a food source, and as a social and spiritual nexus for at least 12,000 years. They called the conjoined rivers “pesce tegwe” or ...

Lee Smith pushed and pulled. His oars broke through the water as he traversed the Trinity River on a recent gloomy morning. “I’m a weirdo for small boats and getting out on the water,” Smith said, ...

WINDSOR, EnglandWINDSOR, England — The “Sculling Sloth” is getting even slower. Hamadou Djibo Issaka, the Niger rower at the London Olympics despite only three months of experience in the sport, ...

A stiff breeze whipped off the rippling, inky water of the Port of West Sacramento, making me shiver in my thin workout shirt and leggings. Eight of us, each with a portion of the gunwale wedged on a ...

He walks to the river with a long, pointed tube slung over his shoulder. On a small wooden platform east of Beach Street, Patrick McDonough carefully sits down in what is now an unstable boat, puts ...