When playing with four balls, a maximum of 4 points can be earned on one frame, and a minimum of 1 point will be earned. Two competing teams will be comprised of 1, 2, or 4 players each. Bocce ...

The game's simplicity is one of its most appealing aspects. The object is to roll the bocce balls -- diameter 41/2 inches, weight three pounds -- closest to the small, white target ball, called ...

Bocce ball is a growing sport across the nation, including Rapid City. Tuesday, there was a groundbreaking ceremony at the ...

It’s a long roll of the bocce ball from Egypt, where the game originated 5,000 years ago, or even Greece or Italy, where it ...

During a game, a ball is either rolled or tossed underhand down a long court with the aim of coming to rest near a smaller target ball called a pallino. Standard bocce balls weigh 2 pounds and ...

Four coworkers form Darling Paint play a game of bocce ball after work, at Ilio DiPaolo’s Restaurant in Blasdell, Tuesday, May 24, 2016. From left are Tim Drews, Nick Manolakis, Mike Neth and ...

Gov. Larry Rhoden and NASCAR legend Rusty Wallace were among the many who appeared Tuesday for the groundbreaking event of ...

A hush descends as the brightly colored ball leaves the player's hand. It caroms off a side wall, knocks another ball out of its way and comes to rest against a small white ball — the pallino ...

That explosion led some in the Valley to believe the time is now to create the region's first semi-pro bocce league, and from ...

Alex Perec of Walnut Creek, left, and his brother-in-law, Rehaan Raheel, play bocce ball at Pinstripes on Friday, Jan. 24, 2025, in Walnut Creek, Calif. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group) ...

We also like croquet. Bocce, however, is more free-reeling, skylarking, unless you’re playing croquet with flamingoes for mallets and hedge-hogs for croquet balls, which ...