Actor Sam Worthington enjoys a beer & plays shuffleboard on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

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American TV celebrity and comedian Jimmy Fallon loves playing table shuffleboard. The host of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (which airs on NBC in the USA and on Pay TV’s Comedy Channel here in Australia) is making the game a regular on his show, this week inviting actor Sam Worthington to share a beer and a shuffle to promote the Aussie’s new film Wrath of the Titans

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Jerry O’Connell plays shuffleboard on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

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American TV celebrity and comedian Jimmy Fallon – who hosts Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (which airs on NBC in the USA and on Pay TV’s Comedy Channel here in Australia) – celebrated the Christmas holidays with a cheeky bar game segment on December 22 show late last year.

Fallon, who also starred in the films Almost Famous and Taxi, poured a beer for fellow actor Jerry O’Connell, star of Tomcats, Scream 2 and Australian film Kangaroo Jack, and challenged him to a game of table shuffleboard on air…

O’Connell, who declares during the segment that he was born on a shuffleboard table, starts the game well, but Fallon comes back strong in the second end. Who wins? Watch the video to find out…

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Featured Blog Post: By Billy BeerSlugger

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We’re continually searching the web for new, interesting, funny and/or informative blog posts about shuffleboard and we continue to dig up random gold. From here on out we’re going to re-post some of them and throw shout-outs when due. Check out the following rant from Billy Beerslugger, who posted this blog on beerslugger.com…

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5 x places to play shuffleboard… In Chicago, Illinois

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Michael Jordan is arguably the greatest and most famous athlete in the history of sport and hence the city of Chicago, where he dominated the Bulls basketball court for most of his career, is almost as well known across the globe.

Southern Cross Shuffleboards is a huge supporter of basketball and big fan of the Chicago Bulls (including this year’s MVP, guard Derrick Rose), but we are most impressed right now to hear that the Windy City has a thriving shuffleboard scene!

Check out these five hot-spots for playing table shuffleboard in Chicago…

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VIP at the Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach

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Celebrity chef Shannon Bennett & friend get their shuffle on.

Where did you spend your Easter Holidays? Southern Cross Shuffleboards spent the week in the VIP Bar of the Rip Curl Pro at Bells Beach, celebrating the event’s 50-year anniversary with the world’s best surfers and celebrities alike…

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Funny Ad: Andes Teletransporter

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We like a good beer ad here at Southern Cross Shuffleboards HQ and we think Argentina beer brand Andes has done a pretty decent job with their Andes Teletransporter campaign. What is it? Watch and learn…

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Shuffleboard steals the show at recent Home Expo in the USA

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The recent Mid-Missouri Home & Lifestyle Expo in the USA featured over 125 unique booths and displays, but much of the event hype was generated by the introduction of a “Man Cave” exhibition…

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Puma salutes the After Hours Athlete & After Hours Sports

Puma Social salutes the After Hours Athlete

We’re big fans of the creative marketing campaigns the likes of Nike, Reebok, Adidas and Puma put out on TV and online every year, but a new project titled “Puma Social” especially caught our eye this week. “Puma Social” honours the After Hours Athlete and the After Hour Sports they play, and their new video ad gave us goosebumps….

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5 x places to play shuffleboard… In Austin, Texas! (Part 1)

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Everything is big in Texas. The amount of LOVE for table shuffleboard is VERY BIG in Texas. The bars love it, the locals love it, the holiday-makers love it, and we love that…

The number of shuffleboard tables in bars, clubs and homes around the state is crazy, so it was tough to pick the right place to start our town-by-town reviews. We’ve gone with Austin first, simply because it’s the home of The University of Texas… The school has over 48,000 students and you can’t argue with those numbers…

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Our Australia Day Shuffle

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You’ve gotta love Australia Day…  No work, beers with breakfast, cheeky surf, BBQ with mates, Triple J Hottest 100 and plenty of shenanigans!

Australia Day 2011 was a great one for us and on top of all the above mentioned activities, we devoted a very healthy slice of the evening to table games and partying. We fired up the shuffleboard and ping pong tables, then finished the night with some very boozy beer pong…

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