End of the Season Party @ Therapy

The end of the season party is on Thursday, May 27th. Mark your calendars. Read more

And the winner is C-IN2

Thanks to everyone for a great season and a great tournament.

Congratulations C-IN2!

Pride March 2010 Sign-Up List

Big Apple Dodgeball is participating in the Pride March this year (Sunday, June 27). It’s an all-day affair, so mark your calendars now! Read more

Team Photos – Take 2

Hey there league! It turns out, it’s against the rules to take photos in the gym. We’re very sorry we all figured that out together at 6:30pm last Monday. That’s on us. Anyway, let’s try again, shall we? And this time, we’ve got permission! Read more

3 weeks, 3 parties left

We’re in the home stretch now: we’ve got two more weeks left of regular season play, then the tournament, then the End of the Season Party at Therapy.

Here’s the schedule of after parties for the next two weeks:

Week 10 – 5/10:

Where: UC Lounge
Drink specials: 2-4-1 till 10pm, $3 Stella and Becks from 10-2am, $5 Cazadores shots from 10-2am

Week 11 – 5/17:

Where: Boxers NYC
Drink specials: 2-4-1 on all drinks all night and $4 person pizzas!

And then of course the coup de grace:

End of the Season Party

Where: Therapy
Drink specials: 2-4-1 well drinks till 8pm. $2 off everything that is not a well drink till 8pm. $4 draft beer all night.

1500 People, 600 Dodgeballs

1 Dodgeball World Record!

Sign up on their facebook page (and everyone please wear your BAD! uniform).

The mother of all dodgeball games is coming to Manhattan, and you can be a part of the action. Obliterate records as balls are chucked through the air at break-neck speeds. It’s going to be epic.
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NEXT Magazine Scene + Heard: Actor Scott Evans Dodges Auction Fears For Dodgeball At Times Square Social

Hosted by funny gay men Frank DeCaro and Jim David, last night’s Times Square Social and bachelor auction at Dave & Buster’s brought out some of the city’s hottest available men, who threw themselves on the auction block for a variety of charitable causes and queer sports leagues (see full list below). Representing Big Apple Dodgeball was former One Life To Live heartthrob Scott Evans, who has played for the league since graduating college. “My best friend and I Googled ‘dodgeball’ and we found this league. It was a newer thing when we joined in and we’ve been a part of it ever since. Besides being the fat kid in grammar school—never getting picked [first] and always getting out—I had never played before.” said the studly soap star as he prepped for his slot as the final bachelor. “Dodgeball has been a constant in my life.”
 
This wasn’t Evans first time at the rodeo, er, auction—he’d put himself under the gavel at a similar event for the New York Gay Football League. “I went for about $800—and the date never even happened! I had a huge crush on the guy that won me but he ended up having a boyfriend so we didn’t [go out]. Bummer!”  With that traumatic experience, it took som coaxing to get him back on the block. “Steve Moreau texted me when I was good and drunk, asking me to do it. I replied, ‘Yeah, totally… I’ll get back to you.’ The next thing I knew my picture was on the website and I was in it.” Evans explained, adding “How could I turn down such a wonderful organization?” His fears seem to have been unfounded this time: the out actor went for a whopping $1,050. And we’re fairly sure the winner will be squiring away with the chunky-to-hunky baller. –Christopher Dilley
 
Times Square Social Bachelor Auction Results:

Scott Evans, (One Life to Live)
$1,050 for Big Apple Dodgeball

Joey Dudding (The Big Gay Musical)
$600 for Broadway in South Africa

Ari Gold, singer
$300 for Marriage Equality NY

Jason O’Neill
$402 for Metropolitan Community Churches

Ryan Hallett
$150 Roundabout Theatre Company

Robb Reidel
$400 for New York City Gay Hockey Association

Adam Shehab
$300 for New York City Gay Basketball Association

Aaron Ayala
$200 for Gotham Knights Rugby

Josh Berresford (Dante’s Cove)
$200 for Gayfest NYC

Wilson Villafana
$200 for Cheer New York

Bridging The Great Gay and Lesbian Divide

Michael Corrente and Vanessa Villanova, our Commissioner, were featured in NEXT MAGAZINE in an article about gays and lesbians in NYC written by league member David Jeffries. Check out the excerpt that features BAD!

… Outside of the bars, Corrente and other heterosocial pals know that, whether gay or lesbian, they can meet up on the court or on the fields on some of New York’s gay sports leagues. Among the leagues Corrente belongs to that claim an open atmosphere is Big Apple Dodgeball (BAD). BAD’s mission is to “create an all-gay dodgeball league of balanced numbers,” according to the league’s commissioner, Vanessa Villanova.
 
The goal of the league is to sponsor teams through local LGBTQI-friendly businesses in order to encourage LGBTQI (I is for “intersex”) individuals to play dodgeball in a competitive and fun atmosphere.
 
Slowly but surely, the league has been recruiting an increasing number of women, balancing out the league’s 100 gay men.
 
“The men in our league are absolutely astounding, because they all get it,” says Villanova of the close rapport between gay and lesbian teammates. “They love the girls. They go out of their way to make the girls feel welcome. That’s something that I’m so proud of, because there are not that many spaces where you can throw a bunch of lesbians into the mix and get such a warm reception.”
 
Villanova predicts that with a league like BAD, starting with 60 people and now pushing 18 different teams of 200, equal numbers of gay men and lesbians can be achieved. If that happens, Big Apple Dodgeball would be the first league in New York to achieve a balanced number of gay men and lesbians all playing together on each other’s teams. “We are constantly changing but always attracting the same type of people, and that’s what we want to maintain,” she says. Not surprisingly, both Gym Sportsbar and Cubbyhole are sponsors of BAD.

Read the whole article here.

Spring 2010 Tournament is coming

There are only thee weeks of regular season play left.
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