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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Bear Woods and Westin Johnson play some Atlanta Falcons shuffleboard...

We found this cool little photo online of NFL Footballers Bear Woods (playing) and Westin Johnson getting their shuffle on with a very nice Atlanta Falcons-customised table at the team’s facility. Neither Woods nor Johnson are playing for the Falcons now, but we’re sure they’re still hitting the shuffleboard tables in their respective new home-towns…

LivingSocial, a daily-deals website with over 46 million members in 25 countries, is growing fast in a brand-new industry. The company (which is financially backed by Amazon) has close to 5,000 employees worldwide and around 900 in its new Washington DC headquarters, designed by OTJ Architects.

Thirty-year-old CEO Tim O’Shaughnessy wanted an office sap that expressed the company’s energetic vision, mirrored its urban setting, encouraged team collaboration and attracted Washington DC’s best experts. An easy task? They must have done something right, because Inc. Magazine awarded LivingSocial with its “World’s Coolest Office” accolade in its December 2011 issue.

Complete with colourful meeting rooms, skeeball games, a ball pit, plenty of desk space and a prestige shuffleboard table, employees are kept very busy and very happy…

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Foursquare – the location based social networking website that currently allows over 15 million users to “check-in” around the world at venues on their mobile phones – has moved into a huge new office space in New York City, USA.

The company (which launched in 2009) now employs over 100 people and they’ve decked out their two-floor, 56,000ft office with everything cool a young company should have.

From idea walls and mystery meeting rooms to cafeterias and a prized shuffleboard table…
If you’re looking for a new job, take a look at these pics and lick your lips!

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Kings of Leon singer Caleb Followill and gorgeous Victoria’s Secret model Lily Aldridge set up a shuffleboard table at their wedding reception to entertain family and friends on the day…
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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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It’s been a week of exciting news here at Southern Cross Shuffleboards and one of the coolest announcements we’re proud to make is that we’ve just sorted Facebook with a customised shuffleboard table for the company’s all-new Australian headquarters in Sydney…

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Rolling Stone has exposed Kings of Leon frontman Caleb Followill and his brothers as avid shuffleboard players with some serious skills in their most recent issue, publishing that 29-year-old Caleb is a table regular at Losers Bar in the magazine’s “Nashville: Best Music Scene” article.

Losers is Followill’s local drinking hole (just a short stumble down the road from his apartment) when he’s at home in Nashville. As journalist Paul Crone reports in an earlier article for Mirror.co.uk,  Caleb calls the Winners enclosure (where the shuffleboard table is) at Losers his second home, regularly “taking on allcomers at the popular pub game shuffleboard [and] chasing beers with Tequila shots.”

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Robocop, Transformers, R2D2, Bender, The Terminator and now S.H.U.F.F.L.E.B.O.T!

Robots aren’t taking over the world just yet, but they did begin taking over our shuffleboard tables last week, when a group of Oregon State University students showcased some shuffleboard playing robots at a technology exhibition in the USA.

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The further we dig, the more versions of Survivor Shuffleboard we find… This episode of Survivor Shuffle on the Survivor Tocantins Series (set in the Brazilian Highlands) features a 3D table made to look like the location the castaways are stuck on…

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