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CBS Early Show to feature college Quidditch
The CBS Early Show will be doing a piece on the growing sport of Quidditch on college campuses across the country this Friday morning. As previously reported in USA Today, Quidditch is becoming a very popular sport among college students and now the school that began it all, Middlebury College, is going on an eight-school tour during their spring break recess.Starting tomorrow, they will be at Amherst College in Amherst, MA and that is where the CBS Early Show will be broadcasting from.
All the merchandise seen in the piece, including broomsticks, house ties and scarves, was provided by our partner Alivan's.
UPDATE: CBS News has posted video from today's earlier broadcast, which'll show you how to play. Check it out here! Thanks to everyone who e-mailed with the tip.
Posted by Micah on Mar 27th |
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I can't believe people are actually playing quidditch! (yay first to comment1)
Wow that is so cool. Hopefully I catch the story on tv ^_^.
That's so coool! I can't belive they're actually doing that though! Top 5!
4th comment :D i love that. i want to play soo bad!
How exactly would they play quidditch? I wonder how it works? I want to learn how to play!
What about the Snitch? Is it a golden coin thrown somewhere or something? It would really be cool to play!!!
I know! I really want to know how they play! (Hey Bridget are you there?)
Bridget where are you? We have to collaberate on how to get a quidditch team together!
Where the who hey are you Bridget? You said you'd be on!
thats cool people are really playing quidditch...i would like to try playing it it sounds like a blast!!
That is sooooooooo amazing!!!!!
How awesome would it be to actually play Quidditch?!!! I really want to know how they do it!
hey kels, im FINA::Y here! it took forever to log in. sorry
BBBBBBBRRRRRRRIIIIIIIDDDD DDDDDGGGGGGGGEEEEEETTTTTT TT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHERE ARE YOU!!!!!!!!! I NEED YOU!!!!!!!!!!
Wow, that's awesome! I really wanna see it being played!! Hopefully there'll be a clip of it online soon! =)
hey, it's me bridget!!!!!!
Oh hey there you are Bridget!!! We should totally figure out how to play quidditch and start our own team! (hehe!)
omg....i want to play quidditch....i should hop on a train over to amherst and join in on all the fun!
go to http://www.ehow.com/how_2 067087_play-muggle-quiddi tch.html and they explain muggle quiddich
Seriously!!!????? Thats so cool! How you'd find that? I'm going to check it out now!
i just google how to play muggle quidditch and there were a whole bunch of article. now you me and hannah know how to start our own team
They use a member of the cross country team who gets dressed up all in yellow as the "Snitch". They run around the campus but they have to come back once every 10 minutes or something like that so the game doesn't go on for some insane amount of time. Or at least that's what they do at Middlebury... I dunno about elsewhere
Sweet we should totally do that! We would have so much fun!!!!!!!
i know, what would you play?
go to http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=860rHN4k42s&featu re=related to see a vid of people playing
If it wasn't raining I'd call my friends up and try to have a Quidditch match... but the weather really sucks and I'm supposed to study...and most of my friends would likely tell me I'm insane and hung up on me =D, and you can't have a Quidditch match if there are only 4 players!
OMG, I go to college in the same town!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I TOTALLY don't want to know what the Beater uses for a club.
Hehe I go to this college and have played quidditch. :) We had a quidditch world cup.
Hey Bridget here I am, sorry I left , my internet crashed. It has random mood swings like that. If we played quidditch, I think I would be a chaser. I have really good reflexs because of softball and strong arms from swmming, so I'd be able to throw the quaffle really good. What would you play?
whatever no one else was playing, prob chaser or keeper, or BEATER or i could just comentate, but din't you wish we still had resess so we could play then?
the Middlebury quidditch team was actually at Vassar yesterday since we have a quidditch team, too. the games were awesome!
It sounds weird to be playing it but it looks like alot of fun. I want to know how the game is going to be played and what **** they would be using in the game??
I dunno.....what's quidditch without the flying brooms??:-) It sounds cool though.
I watched this one video a long time ago about people playing it. The snitch would be in a bag in one person's hand, who would run around avoiding the seekers. The seekers would run after the person with the "snitch" and whoever gets the bag & opens it wins the snitch. That's what I saw! =) And the chasers do the regular thing. Anyway, I can't wait to watch this! :]
We tried to get quidditch intramurals started at my school last year (and maybe this year, too, but I never heard about it), but I guess it never got off the ground or something, because it never started. (I go to a relatively small school, so there just might not have been enough people to get together enough teams.) I would have loved to join, though!! Who wouldn't want to play a muggle-version of quidditch?!
Seriously, Emerson, you should get on this. Notre Dame is full of HP fans (look at the turnout for the Wizard Rock concert) and former high school athletes (something like 90%) who want to have fun. Maybe they could book the stadium for the finals!
omg! no way. I want to play quidditch that would be so awesome!!!
They have Quidditch in some colleges now?? Aw man that's so weird! I've tried playing "Quidditch" before, but it never turns out very good...I wonder how thet do it...?
Hey Bridget, I don't know if youre there or not, but it would be totally HILARIOUS if you commentated! You would be just like Luna! I can totally see you getting distracted by shapes the clouds are forming and stuff like that...you would be so funny! I wish we were still at St.Pats so we could play quidditch! Think of how goofy we would look! But we would have so much fun!
oh man that is soo cool!!!! i would really love to play!!!!!......i wish we'd play quidditch in my gym class.......the juniors get a little agressive.
I think I saw this on 60min. a few weeks ago. I think it is kewl. THEY NEED TO PUT IT ON ESPN ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! this is harry potter : #~8-) lol
hi...are there any cheesecakians here?
FIRST! AND THIS IS COOL! (I'M FINALLY FIRST!!!!)
I am recording it on DVR, apperently it starts at four. Anyone know more details? Off to go search for vids of it on Youtube... I SO WANNA PLAY QUIDDITCH!
Aweshum. I want to play. -grabs a broom- :3
that's cool! although I think it would be way more fun if people could FLY and had a little golden ball and two Bludgers zooming around (or maybe we could just omit the bludgers....:)
Hey, JaySlytherinGirl, I'm a Cheesecakian!...but you're probably not there, right?
JaySlytherinGirl, if you want to contact the cheesecakians you can go to our site at: robandalex@googlepages.co m/home or you can email me at adheule@frontiernet.net. -----NO spaces. cheers
that is SOOO cool lol I want to play!! it seems a bit hard trying to run around and hold a big broom at the same time, but still very COOL!!
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