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Backgammon At Universities

Posted By: Phil Simborg
Date: Wednesday, 11 November 2009, at 4:53 p.m.

As I announced a couple of weeks ago, Backgammon will be a college course at Georgia Southern University. We are forming a committee of people interested in expanding backgammon as a course and/or club at colleges all over the country. We are especially interested in getting the names of backgammon players who are affiliated with colleges that might help us start this program, as well as students who might spearhead the starting of clubs.

Once we get a formal committee set, we offer startup kits and advice, free lessons, and hopefully, even help with discounts and sponsorship to provide equipment.

For now, I am looking for contact names and email addresses to get on the list. There is NO QUESTION this is a great way to grow the popularity of backgammon, but we are also helping students learn about probability, statistics, and dealing with luck, competition, and crazy people like us.

Please shoot me an email with any names or suggestions: psimborg@sbcglobal.net.

Thanks,