Deadspin: dodgeball

Dodgeball Lawsuit Makes Me Fear For The Manliness Of Our Youth

Barry Petchesky — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:30:00 EST

A kid got nailed in the face during a dodgeball game at his school, and now he might sue the city. Maybe he needs to sue evolution for not giving him the reflexes to survive in middle school gym class.

Holy shit, was there any greater moment in your school days than seeing a kid get hit full-on upside the head? Just recalling the sound of that red rubber sphere bouncing off a human skull gives me a semi-chubby. But 12-year-old Shane Reese doesn't find it so nostalgic. Last year he was sitting in the bleachers during gym class due to some recent dental surgery, when a stray ball smashed up his bridgework.

Yup, he wasn't even in the game, and he still got owned. God I love dodgeball.

Soccer balls were flying all over the place," said Shane's lawyer Mark Weinberger. "There was an issue of lack of supervision."

Yup, that's dodgeball.

New York City has offered Reese's parents a $20,000 settlement to make it all go away. But is $20,000 enough to make up for the shame of being the kid who ruined gym class forever? Not to mention the shame of not being very good at dodgeball.

Injured Kid Hits School In Dim Gym Lawsuit After Dodgeball Accident [NY Daily News]

Mother Nature Does not Appreciate Your Ironic Sports

yonibrenner — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:30:30 EDT

The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.A sad day in the annals of hipster athletics, as a 23 year old Brooklynite was unceremoniously pancaked by a falling tree limb during a game of dodgeball. Time to start thinking of the perfect post-modern tattoo to commemorate.

I vote for a weeping Ent.

Tree branch clocks Brooklyn man playing dodgeball (NY Daily News)

Redskins QBs Prepare for Rugged NFC East With Dodgeball

Clay Travis — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:30:00 EDT

Yeah, dodgeball it's awesome. Let me just say it now, when one of the Redskins quarterbacks inevitably tears his rotator cuff trying to spike another quarterback this will be the dumbest idea in the history of football. Which is really saying something. So enjoy the honeymoon if it exists, Jim Zorn.

In other news, as you can clearly see from the picture, Colt Brennan has much bigger balls than Jason Campbell.

Zorn breaks out his bag of toys [Mister Irrelevant]

Real Men Have Rubber Balls

Rick Chandler — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:30:12 EDT

Just saw this over on Dave Barry's blog and had to share. From CNN:

A youth minister was charged with assault for allegedly knocking down a 16-year-old boy and kicking him in the groin after taking a head shot from the teen in a dodgeball game.

Our thoughts go in several directions:

• We're pretty sure this also happened in a deleted scene on the Napoleon Dynamite DVD.
• "No one makes me bleed my own blood!"
• When the cameras are off, we can totally imagine Bobby Knight doing the exact same thing.
• "Authorities said the teen missed Boudreaux with one throw but then knocked the youth minister's glasses off with the next." Ha.
• Sign out front reads: "Life Kicking You In The Groin? Let The Church Help."

Dodgeball Assault [CNN]