Article: the daily buzz; Beer Pong: The definition of independent studies.(SPORTS)

Byline: Michael Rand; Staff Writer

COMPILED BY MICHAEL RAND

Tom Schmidt and Matt Brady have a vision. They see a day when bars and basements across the United States are filled not just with dart boards or pool tables but a slightly different option: a beer pong table.

They're serious - enough so that the pair convinced a bank to give them a loan in 2004 to start pursuing the dream. Together, they started Bing Bong Inc., which sells beer pong equipment through bingbongtables.com.

"The more we thought about it," Schmidt said, "the more we decided it was an idea whose time had come."

The two had been playing beer pong since ...

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