Six Degrees of Dodgeball

WHO: Tucson Dodgeball
WHAT: $600 cash prize dodgeball tournament
WHERE: Bladeworld
WHEN: Sunday Dec. 2, 1-8pm.
Entry fee is $120/team. $20/individual.
Click here for more info!

This football organization is holding a dodgeball tournament Saturday July 14 at Stockton Arena, 10am-3pm. This tourney will take place before the football game on the turf. $200/team. Click here to learn more.

Classic Adam Sandler. This clip is hilarious, featuring Adam Sandler from the movie “Billy Madison”.

I broke my freaking collarbone (playing flag football; not dodgeball) so these posts will be short for awhile.
I found a cool dodgeball video from Brisbane, Australia. You can watch it here. The league’s Web site can be found at www.beatdodgeball.tk.

NewsTalk 101.5 is taking on the Madison County Sheriff’s Department in a game of dodgeball. They will play at 7 p.m. at Tigrett Middle School in an effort to raise money for charity.
I read about it here. And video clips will apparently be run here.

“The Carlsbad Recreation Department will offer open play dodgeball for adults 18 and older at the Stagecoach Community Center, 3420 Camino de los Coches, Carlsbad. Games are from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, June 21 through Aug. 2.
Cost is $1 or residents, $3 for nonresidents. For more information, call (760) 602-4690.”
I read about […]

Has anybody ever played or witnessed a game called “Guts”, referred to as “a sort of Frisbee dodgeball in which teams fire the disc at each other from digit-threatening distances” ???
I read about it in an article about Walter Frederick Morrison, the man credited with inventing the Frisbee.
Sounds like good practice if you’re outside with […]

The National Amateur Dodgeball Association is hosting its 8th Annual Dodgeball Days, Outdoor National Championships. Here is a snippet from the email I got with more information:
“Friday, July 20th (youth divisions) and Saturday, July 21st (adult divisions) in Schaumburg, IL. This is traditionally the largest event of the 2006-2007 NADA Season attracting over 200 teams!”
For […]

So I’ve been hanging out on MySpace lately (you can view my SixDegreesOfDodgeball MySpace profile here) and wow, there is quite the dodgeball community out there! I’ve made “friends” with a lot of dodgeball communities in the states, such as Nashville Dodgeball, Arizona Dodgeball, the Los Angeles Dodgeball Society, Tucson Dodgeball, Buffalo Dodgeball, Desoto Dodgeball […]

I noticed that somebody found my blog yesterday by searching “how did dodgeball become a sport” in a search engine. I thought that was a great question, so I am looking for the answer.
So far I’ve only found a weak Wikipedia entry for “dodgeball” that it started in 1922, with no citation.
There are some hilarious […]