Former Oklahoma State basketball player Mason Cox became an unlikely Aussie rules football star, ... oval-shaped ball, Aussie rules, or footy, was born in Australia 165 years ago.

Nine years ago, Mason Cox was an Oklahoma State basketball walk-on who attended an Australian rules football tryout — and he never looked back.

Mason Cox, a 32-year-old Texan and Australian rules football star, ... Cox has become an evangelist for his sport, which is played on an oval surface almost double the size of an NFL field.

A Texas man had an engineering job lined up, but then an opportunity came knocking from across the globe. Mason Cox tells Jon Wertheim how he became an unlikely Australian rules football star.

A fast-paced mashup of soccer and rugby played on a cricket ground with a plump, oval-shaped ball, Aussie rules, or footy, was born in Australia 165 years ago. And at the professional level at ...