Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. HORN LAKE, Miss., Oct. 9, 2023 — Bridge players across the country came together in June to raise more than $1 million for the ...

SCOTTSDALE, AZ — A group of Scottsdale bridge players has finally gotten back together in person after more than a year apart because of the pandemic. “Oh, it's the best feeling in the world! You have ...

Above: At the height of its popularity, bridge was played at business and academic gatherings and at society functions, including this 1937 game at Pittsburgh’s Loendi Social and Literary Club. Dr.

Dr. Joseph L. Henry looked down at his hand: a queen of hearts, a six of clubs, and an eight of diamonds. Not promising. But the Howard University professor of dentistry hadn’t become a renowned ...

Online bridge games were a lifesaver at first. They provided a Plan B when the lockdown ended the card club gatherings that brought friends together three or four times a week to swap stories, nibble ...

Editor’s Note: This story is one in a series of Black History Month stories that explores the role of resistance to oppression in the Black community. The card room of the Quality Living Services ...

A team of University of Illinois students will be competing in the 2023 Collegiate Bridge Bowl in Chicago next month. The Illini team won one of only eight travel packages to attend the event. The ...

BRAINTREE − You have to see Bob Boyd play to fully understand the marvel of this testament to the human spirit. His card-playing buddies at the Puritan Bridge Club have been raving about him for years ...

During the last week of August, the European Bridge League held a qualifying tournament for the 2021 World National Team Championships. Nineteen days before it began, two well-known German players ...

For eight days as many as 85 people gathered at the Sheraton Hotel in Center City for the American Bridge Association’s national tournament. The organization was founded in 1932 in Virginia as a space ...

Today sees the Open Pairs Championship taking place at the Bermuda Bridge Club – it is a two-session event and I will bring you the results in next week’s column. One of the great things about our ...