Quiddich is gaining traction as a sport, which is pretty amazing considering that its origins came from the mind of an English woman working in a coffee house on the best-selling series of books in our day. The game has just turned a corner of sorts, as the University of Florida now has a quidditch organization recognized by the school.

Quidditch, a game from the Harry Potter books [Editor's note: No sh;t], involves flying around on broomsticks, but the UF students haven’t mastered that yet, so they run around with PVC between their legs as they fight over four half-deflated balls.

It’s a very physical game, despite being coed. But unlike basketball, bloody players don’t have to leave the field.

–St. Pete Times, via ShareBro Spencer.

Most clubs at American universities–athletic or not–can petition their respective schools and wind up with some money. But this? Somebody should have beaten this to death with one of those PVC pipes those idiots are using. Those aren’t even brooms! But to be fair, those are some pretty nice cans.

A German university is undertaking a research project that will have 20 undergraduates screaming “Ich bin ein Spartacus!” The University of Regensburg, operating under a private grant, will oversee 20 students living and training as Roman gladiators, which sounds both totally awesome and a little bit gay.

The student warriors, who are all studying various disciplines at the university, won’t be eating pizza, hamburgers or steaks during their training. Instead they’ll have berries and white beans on their plates as the ancient Roman doctor Galen recommended in his texts.

They will also learn to fight wearing bronze helmets that weigh almost five kilogrammes [~ 11 pounds] at a camp that won’t allow girlfriends, showers, or washing machines. [The] gladiators are already training together four days a week.–The Local.

I’m all in favor for anything that potentially injures Germans. Oh, and the grant? It’s about $26,000 US. That’s a lot of dimp for dressing up in skirts and hitting each other with swords. It sounds like some kind of gay prom, but with more blacksmithing.

So the guys at Steady Burn dug up this video of people that dressed up as zombies and, with those people apparently not entirely familiar with zombie canon, decided to play a game of kickball. And apparently, none of them had seen Dawn Of The Dead, because these zombies can’t run a lick. Clearly, this outfit of zombies needs a fresh helping of BRAAAIIINS! Or at least a better script supervisor.