Kabbadi, a Punjabi Sport, Finds a Home in New York

Kabbadi, a Punjabi Sport, Finds a Home in New York

By l0gikal on from www.nytimes.com

Successive waves of immigrants have woven ethnic sports like hurling, bocce and cricket into the New York fabric. On Sunday, Cunningham Park in Queens became an arena for kabbadi, a traditional Punjabi competition, which perhaps could be thought of as a combination of rugby and wrestling — without the ball and the protective gear — with a helping of the old New York street game ringalevio thrown in.

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