Brews You Can Use II

Bowlers will have something to say about its claim to be the sport of drunks, but Mrs. Scheske has played Whirlyball and says it's a blast. Link. Excerpt:

WhirlyBall can be called a sport in the same tenuous way an El Camino can be called a truck. If horse racing is the sport of kings, this is the sport of drunks.

Think of it as lacrosse, only played with plastic sticks. There are five players to a side, whose goal is to toss a hard rubber ball through hoops mounted at each end of the court. Two points for a basket. Three if you can hit from half-court.

But here's the wild card: It's played on 300-pound bumper cars with no steering wheels. Navigation happens mostly by accident, by twisting a lever that sits between the player's legs. . .

It's easier to steer when you're drunk, which explains the bar five feet from the court entrance.