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By John McMurray

Mike Luzzi, a veteran jockey, knows about injuries.

During the first race at Aqueduct Race Track in Queens this year, Luzzi fell to the track when his horse, Land Mine, stumbled and threw him. Luzzi lay on the brown, slightly wet dirt for about a minute before he got up and went to seek medical attention inside. He had been there before.

By Kate Brumback

With adrenaline coursing through his veins and a voice in his head screaming, “Don’t do it!” Matthew Willis runs toward a solid 4 1/2 foot high concrete wall on a bridge. He jumps at the last second and vaults over, only to fall 17 feet. Rolling on the ground upon impact, he springs up unharmed.

By Lisa K. McDivitt
James Zoppe, short and stocky with shoulder-length silver hair, is known as Sir James of Lockwood, the Red Knight. He says his adrenaline is pumping most when he looks through the narrow slit in his 14-gauge steel helmet and sees a horse coming toward him at full gallop, its rider carrying a 10-foot lance made of lodgepole pine.

By Jennifer Mascia

On any given weeknight you can find real estate developers, pharmacists, doctors and architects sprinting across rugby pitches in Charlotte, Dallas and New York, doing something they rarely got a chance to do in high school: be jocks.

By Alex Waterfield

When Jimmy Higgins boards a plane and sees seatbelts, in-flight magazines and little sachets of salt and pepper, he doesn't see traveling amenities, he sees weapons.