Team Trivia player on Jeopardy!!
When I arrived at Aces & Eights UES on Tuesday for Trivia Playoffs, I made sure to come extra early to watch Jeopardy. Amy from the #1 ranked team in the league (including both Team Trivia divisions), Not Smarter Than A 5th Grader, was on! As a reigning champion, no less!
She taped the episode in December…and it just happened to be airing the night of the playoffs. We stood around the bar, cheering her on (although she already knew the outcome). It was her second day on the show, but she lost to some jerk documentarian. No offense to him.
Some of the teams started to feel a little worried about a Jeopardy champ on the #1 team as the Quiz began. But as luck would have it, 5th Grader didn’t place…
Read more about the night and check out some pics after the jump!
Last Friday I, like many New Yorkers, looked out my window at the white landscape and moaned, “Not again!” Yes, the snow had returned and with it a sense of isolation and cabin fever as I sat in my living room and watched yet another episode of “The Dog Whisperer”.
As players walked off the ice at Wollman Rink in Prospect Park this past Tuesday evening, you could sense something in the air. Maybe it was just the fact that Phil Collins was hammering out a mean drum solo on my i-pod, but there was a feel of magic that surrounded this final night of Social Broomball for the Winter Season. This tight-knit group of ice-warriors had endured yet another season together, and though some teeth had gone missing, and a few bones had been rather misplaced, it was a victory for everyone involved.
It’s hard to tell by looking around now, but we had quite the blizzard on our hands last weekend. In fact, we had so much snow that we decided to postpone games for our Saturday Football League, and take advantage of the opportunity to have one massive Snow Day. Remember that feeling of elation you had as a kid, when you awoke to piles of snow and the news that school was canceled? How you couldn’t wait for that first “Crrrunch” under your feet, the snowmen, and snowball fights? 
Emotions ran high as dodgeballers threw, blocked, and, of course, dodged in front of a packed house at St. Patrick’s Youth Center on February 24.
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