Some of the best checkers players in the world will be coming to Vidor next week for the ACF GAYP USA National Checkers Championship. "Players from across the world will be traveling to our town and ...

VIDOR, Texas — A familiar face to the annual checkers championship in Vidor has officially defended his crown. Master checkers players from all around the globe gathered for tournaments all week, with ...

For four days, Vidor was at the epicenter of the speed checkers world. Every move was tactical, trying to outmaneuver what was done just seconds before. Fingers were pressed into foreheads. Fists were ...

The possibility of a Game 7 gave Rory Douglas, a Charlotte native and Checkers superfan, goosebumps. But to get to what would have been the final game of their season, the Charlotte Checkers had to ...

The Charlotte Checkers opened their 2018-19 season on the road, came home unbeaten, and had a defenseman named Trevor Carrick in the lineup. That team went on to win the American Hockey League’s ...

Mike Benning’s shot found the top corner with 15:58 left in overtime, but the real story was what happened before the puck landed in the net. Charlotte’s power play, which went 0-for-5 in Friday’s ...

Organist and keytarist Jason Atkins, also known as Greazy Keyz, plays a Hammond C3 Organ, a 450-pound instrument that has been associated with the Charlotte Checkers since the 1950s, during the Calder ...

It’s always 90 degrees outside these days. But a local sports team has gotten even hotter than that – the Charlotte Checkers. On Saturday at Bojangles’ Coliseum, the Checkers begin one last best-of-7 ...