Off the Wal-Mart

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Enterprising college students have found a new way to utilize the vast expanses of their local Wal-Mart: to play games. According to a story that ran in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal (if you have a sub, you can click here to read it), college kids from Arizona to Indiana to Pennsylvania have invented games that involve use of Wal-Mart’s aisles, shopping carts and merchandise. A spokesperson for the company said she was unaware of the use of Wal-Marts as sporting venues.

According to the story, at Northern

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