Today Dawson, 42, has played at every level of the sport, experiences that reflect the spectrum of broomball in Minnesota and its wild, sustained popularity — from rec teams that scream “beer ...

But at the end of the game, everybody shakes hands and let’s go have a beer,” he says. Clarke no longer plays, but he remains a key figure in the sport, serving as president of Broomball ...

Bela Fischer/Daily. Buy this photo. Broomball is a game similar to hockey, but without ice, in which players attempt to score goals with a rubber ball and a broom-shaped stick. At Winterfest, teams of ...

Despite the unseasonable warmth Saturday, Schulte and around a dozen other people took to the ice for the first broomball game of the season. The warmth created an unusually wet arena for the ...

Grant Dawson’s introduction to broomball happened young. And it left a mark. Gym class might never have been as fun as when he slipped and slid across a frozen tennis-court-turned-rink at his ...