Dodgeball in San Diego

“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 this here.

Cops vs. Methodists! Tourney this Friday.

A unique tournament this Friday in New Jersey will pit teams of state troopers and local church members against each other. How cool is that? I wonder if they will have donuts and church-basement sandwiches…

The tourney will raise money for the Pastor’s son for a soccer trip to Brazil this July.

Click here to read more.

Tennessee dodgeball tournament, June 2

“An indoor dodgeball open tournament that’s coming June 2 to Rossview High School will serve as a warm-up to the Dodgeball World Finals that Clarksville is hosting Aug. 3-5…”

Read more by clicking here.

Cute dodgeball cartoon

I found this on YouTube:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=4pUhjm_Wd2Q

“Guts”; Frisbee dodgeball?

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 your mates and don’t have a dodgeball handy.  Might hurt on the head shots, though… Ouch!!!

8th Annual Dodgeball Days, Outdoor National Championships

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 more information, click here.

Dodgeball on MySpace

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’m from Canada – I don’t even know where Desoto is), Iowa Dodgeball, DC Dodgeball and the list goes on.   (You can find more dodgeball related MySpace profiles on my MySpace page – first link in this post.)

So if you’re looking for dodgeball in your area, check out MySpace and search “dodgeball”. There are more dodgeball profiles out there than I imagined!

The History of 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 theories on the Uncyclopedia site found here.

 And I found some other theories on this site, such as Africa 600 years ago, in Germany, China using human heads and Akron, Ohio, which sounds the most believable.

Who knew finding out the history of dodgeball was like playing Balderdash?  Does anybody have any other theories?