A couple of years ago during a vacation in France, Dan Danielson was intrigued by all the people he saw playing petanque (pe-TONK), a French cousin to bocce ball. You know how tourists are. They see ...

Please forgive the members of the Chicago Petanque Club as they compare themselves, tongue in cheek, to hoops star Ben Wallace and company: “The Chicago Boules: It’s not just a basketball team anymore ...