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Graduate student Kevin Hennessy throws a weight down the shuffleboard at could this earthly paradise
Horseshoe Lounge on South Lamar
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in my favorite movie, “Billy six-foot-tall penguin. But this
Madison”: “It’s too *$#%@! much is true: thanks to the
hot for a penguin to be walk- second law of thermal energy:
ing around here.” And sure eating foods with protein pro-
enough, the penguin is hold- duces heat; drinking water will
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Monday, October 10,2005 HEALTH & FITNESS „pza
If you can’t commit to one of little more your speed. Offering
fan, cable has sadly become because of team loyalty. of inches, the object here to
an unavoidable necessity. But that’s the spirit of slide a weight down a smooth,
Gone are the days when the competition, isn’t it sports polished and sanded piece of
major networks carried all of fans? Indeed, I never actively wood some 15 feet long. The
the best games, when anyone seek violence. When the player must get his or her
with $35 could buy a small spirit of competition heats weights on a specific spot at
TV from the pawnshop and up whether I’m watching a the end of the board desig-
enjoy the best of the world of game in person or on TV—I nated by a system of points,
sports. No, ESPN has sadly seek my own action, prefer- The first to 15 wins, either
.erased those days from our ably on the hardwood of a by expertly sliding the weight
conscious memory. shuffleboard table. into a near-perfect position
After I buy a Coors Lite at The beauty of bar games— or by bumping the opponent’s
my favorite neighborhood bar, and here I refer to what I weight off of the board.
The Horse Lounge on South believe used to be known as So simple—yet so amaz-
Lamar, I forget my seething parlor games—like shuffle- ingly complex—this is per-
rage for the corporate powers board, darts, cards, pool, bil- haps why shuffleboard is so
at Disney who are, through liards, snooker, etc., is that addictive. Though pool is
their ownership and poor pretty much anyone can play, truly the king of bar games,
management of ESPN, slowly regardless of skill. Bar games shuffleboard has to be the
ruining the sporting land- are about equality, and while crack cocaine, because every-
scape for both the average fan some may be more skilled one I know that has played
The bar, at the most basic and myself. than others, there is no great has become instantly hooked,
level, is nothing more than a And before you say, advantage of youth or reliance I recommend everyone
place to go. In every town or “Disney is the best—I just on pure athletic ability. get out and try it—that is,
city across the United States, love Thumper and Bambi— Pool—the king of all if you’re of legal age. If not,
there are men and women they’re so cute,” I will simply bar games—is relegated to just wait, and you’ll also one
seeking comfort in a glass of remind you of the Mighty also-ran status by many who day enjoy the finer side of the
bourbon or a bottle of beer, Ducks—the movie and the simply shoot some stick while Sporting Life.
some following the powerful actual NHL team. waiting their turn for shuffle-
spirit of adventure and others While I have my own board. The competition is Razook is a graduate student
fighting a terrible loneliness. teams to hoot and holler for fierce, as intense as anything pursuing a Master’s in Liberal
I go because the bar has to the point of losing my happening in, say, the world Arts. He is originally from
cable. voice, I have, as of yet, never of NASCAR. Oklahoma and hopes to graduate
For the modern sports been physically attacked Shuffleboard is a game in seven years.
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refridgerator on any given across campus, can raise our
hot, Texas day I forget exactly internal body temperature,
why she would steal it, but By sipping an ice-cold cup of
something I haven’t forgotten water, your body can combat
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