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Beer pong is not just the drinking game of choice for this century's twentysomething thinkers; it's a cottage industry and quasi sport with mass-market 8-ft. aluminum beer-pong tables for sale, a national tournament offering a $50,000 grand prize and a forthcoming documentary called Last Cup: Road to the World Series of Beer Pong. Top players have been known to rake in tens of thousands of dollars a year from competitions. Who says America's college grads lack marketable skills...
Beer-pong diehards and the bars that serve them have responded to the criticism by instituting some safety standards. The Hangout has separate bartenders and security guards to monitor pong participants, who have to wear special wristbands. The bar also dyes tournament beer green. "We can see who is consuming what and at what time," says Riebenack. But should players manage to get too many regular drinks in between matches, the bar helps arrange free rides home. At the World Series in Las Vegas, each team plays with 10 cups, four with water in them and six with beer...
...tournament is being staged at a fairground near the national airport, and entrants from some 20 French-speaking countries hope to break Senegal's grip on the global game. In the main hall, hundreds of contestants play French style: All use the same board that is projected on a giant screen. Whoever gets the highest score can add to the snake of letters on the central board. Absolute silence is enforced by uniformed guards...
FREED. GUNTER PARCHE, 39, assailant of tennis star Monica Seles; by a judge; in Hamburg, Germany. Almost more shocking than the courtside stabbing of Seles during an April tournament was the decision handed down in the case by Judge Elke Bosse -- a suspended sentence. Bosse cited Parche's psychological problems and his expressions of remorse for the attack, which Parche claims was motivated by a desire to boost the prospects of Seles' rival Steffi Graf. The 19-year-old Seles was appalled by the sentence. ''What kind of message does this send to the world?'' she asked...
...President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado wrote in an advertising supplement, ''(the World Cup) will give us a chance of showing the world the reality of Mexico.'' So, alas, it has. When the President stepped forward before 300 million TV viewers around the globe to open the quadrennial soccer tournament three weeks ago, his speech was drowned out by an almost unprecedented chorus of boos. A few days later, Mexico City's huge Aztec Stadium, unfilled even during a major game, ran out of water. At one point its official clock broke down; at another, the sound system went dead...