HENAN, Central China — In the final minutes of the game, kung fu master-turned-soccer player “Mighty Steel Leg” Sing launches into the air and, with a seemingly light kick, sends the ball flying at ...

In a BBC interview last week with Manchester United legend Eric Cantona, here’s what the Frenchman said about his infamous kung-fu kick against a Crystal Palace supporter… “When I did the kung-fu kick ...

After all the mounting hysteria among Sinophiles about how it would turn out -- including a rumored retitling to "Kung-Fu Soccer" -- Miramax's cut and English-dubbed version of Stephen Chow's ...

Combining sports to make new ones is not ground-breaking. Kids do it all the time with their friends at the park, and "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone famously did the same with the ...

If you’ve seen a movie at a Landmark theater in the past year or so, you’ve probably enjoyed the trailer for Shaolin Soccer. Over a lilting Asian flute that morphs into pounding percussion, airborne ...

(CBS) - New sports should be like new foods; we should all try as many as we can. Case in point: women's World Cup soccer. Who thought that was going to be the game of the weekend? Well, now it's on ...

A player launched a flying kung-fu kick at a referee as tensions boiled over at the end of a match. Neftchi Fergana and Turon Yaypan were battling it out in a winner-take-all promotion clash on the ...

"No more soccer!" declares small-time thug Sing (writer-director-star Stephen Chow) as he vigorously stomps on a child's ball. In the context of Kung Fu Hustle, it's a pathetic attempt by Sing to make ...

Another weekend, another ugly incident in Turkish football. One week after a fan's brutal attack on a goal-line official led to the abandonment of Trabzonspor's Super Lig match against Fenerbahce, ...