Coming soon... Slamball!

It's not often you hear about a brand new sport, so stand by your isotonic drinks canisters and get set for... Slamball! It's the first "action team sport", apparently, a "full contact competition played on a combination of surfaces and including elements of football, hockey, soccer and gymnastics". No Tiddlywinks then, but you can't have everything. Why is Monkey writing about this? Because IMG, the world's "premier sports, entertainment and media company" has got behind it, along with a chap called Mike Tollin, founder of Tollin Productions. Which probably means you will probably be able to see it on a digital TV channel somewhere near you soon. Do you want to know more? Of course you do. "Slamball features two teams (playing four on four) engaged in a high intensity, 20-minute game. The playing surface is approximately the size of a regulation basketball court, with four springbeds (tramps) built into the court around each basket. The remainder of the court is fully shock absorbent and surrounded by 12ft plexiglass walls that keep the ball in play at all times." It could be the new Korfball. Or the new Dodgeball. Or the nearest thing yet to Rollerball. Or just a load of balls.