Summer 2013
Video: You sunk my battleship!
A look at the intramural Battleship game in Gibb Pool at WSU.
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Summer 2013
Games everyone can play
“You sunk my battleship!”
A familiar cry from the popular board game, but why is it ringing across Gibb Pool at Washington State University?
Because it is one of the latest offerings in WSU’s long-established and popular intramural sports program, joining perennial favorites flag football, basketball, soccer, and softball.
Battleship—the Gibb Pool version—has teams of four in canoes with buckets and shields. Their goal is simple: To fill their opponents’ canoes with water until they sink, while blocking water from filling their own canoe.
Matt Shaw ’06 MEd, assistant director of competitive programs and youth sports at University Recreation, says the battleship game started … » More …
Spring 2011
Hit or be hit
Hit or be hit. It’s the essence of dodgeball.
“The feeling after hitting somebody,” muses Peter Brown, a senior finance major, after his Delta Upsilon team beat the Sig Ep Slingers on a cold night in November, “that’s like, I’m better than you. Yeah!”
“Dodgeball is a sport of violence, exclusion, and degradation,” explains a narrator in the 2004 movie Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story. Though millions of American school children would probably agree with that description, the popular film helped usher in a new wave of interest for the old schoolyard sport.
In 2005 there was enough interest at … » More …