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Kickball For Adults Rocks! – Las Vegas Hosts the Founders Cup

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Posted August 23rd, 2008 by Christopher - 4 comments

I screwed up last year. I slept on an opportunity to join a kickball team with some friends (some of which have since moved out of Vegas, as people tend to do, sometimes.) This year I didn’t hear anything about the league starting up amongst friends so, naturally, I did nothing.

For some, adults playing kickball might seem like a silly diversion from life in Sin City. Well, pfffft to that shit. Kickball was the second best physical education sport in school, second only to Dodgeball. Now, it’s true that Kickball doesn’t have the genius marketing team of Vince Vaughan and Ben Stiller on their side – “If you can dodge a wrench you can dodge a ball…” – but what Kickball lacks in marketing it makes up for with a decided lack of humiliation in front of your (superior) peers! Hmmm The only suggestion for a kickball slogan I’ve gotten so far is “If you can kick a cat you can kick a ball…” And that was from a vegetarian cabbie. We’re going to need to work on that…

Anyway, Rebecca Silverstein invited us out to cover the action on Labor Day Weekend in Las Vegas for the National Kickball Championship tournament. I’ll let her explain this event below:

More than sixty co-ed teams of adult kickballers from around the nation will be taking over Las Vegas over Labor Day weekend for the eleventh annual Founders Cup World Kickball Championship®.

The World Adult Kickball Association ® (WAKA) is one of the fastest growing community sports in America, with more than 275 divisions in 28 states, comprising over 2,100 teams nationwide. The participating teams are the best in the nation, traveling to Las Vegas from all corners of the country, hailing from 14 states and 39 unique kickball divisions ranging from New York to Los Angeles and everywhere in between. Teams filled the tournament to capacity within a record breaking 12 minutes of registration opening; all of them striving to bring the coveted “Founder’s Cup” back home with them.

I’m almost surprised that I’m not already a member of an organization called WAKA, but that’s probably for the best *snicker* Sorry, Rebecca, I just couldn’t resist :P Seriously, though, if you have nothing going on on Saturday Labor Day Weekend, this is something different to do.. should be fun and good for some laughs. It starts at 3:30pm at Desert Breeze Park, which is located near 8275 Spring Mountain Road. You can also go to their website to register your team for the next season which is at Kickball.com. Maybe next year “While Las Vegas Sleeps…” will get its own motley crew of Las Vegans together to get the benefit of the home field advantage at this thing!

“If you can kick some ass you can kick some balls!” It’s all about the marketing, baby! Now, that leaves me with only one question… Can you bet on it?

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4 Comments

  1. fj rotunda on September 3, 2008 :

    could i have info on the next kickball tournament b/cause we are the san diego champs and out of competition here. thank you

  2. whilevegassleeps on September 3, 2008 :

    I don’t have their schedule, unfortunately.. I’d contact someone at http://www.kickball.com

  3. Mariann on September 8, 2008 :

    My friend and i really want to join a coed fun kickball league, let me know if you hear of anything like that. Thanks.

  4. WAKA Kickball on September 10, 2008 :

    Logon to http://www.kickball.com and check out both NV Lucky and NV Silver, which start soon.

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