Beer Pong or Beirut or whatever the kids are calling it these days has surged into the lead as America’s top drinking game. There’s a Beer Pong Movie, two different Beer Pong games for Nintendo Wii, a $50,000 tournament, and black people are playing. The game’s official.

American Equistock Racing is hoping to ride the success of the drinking game by naming one of their racehorses Beer Pong. BP was the sixth horse in the fourth race at Saratoga on Friday.

American Equistock has a horse named Clemens in their stable too. To my knowledge the horse has never used steroids or performance enhancing drugs. Hopefully Beer Pong the game won’t suffer the shame, humiliation, and fall from grace that Roger Clemens is experiencing.

As far as Beer Pong goes.. He placed second in the race and paying some good change.

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If you like to drink competitively without having to set-up some cups on a table you can play Beer Pong on the Nintendo Wii. Game Party was released last year and features a game called “Ping Cup”. The guys at JV Games Inc. think they’ve raised the bar.

Featuring two distinct competitive games, Frat Party Games™ – Beer Pong will offer a traditional tournament-style game of Beer Pong for one to four players and Speed Pong, during which two to three players compete at the same time, each trying to be the first to eliminate all of his or her cups.

At the rate that Beer Pong is growing it won’t be long before BP highlights are shown on ESPN and the game is recognized by the Olympics. The sport is getting so big that bars are adding Beer Pong setups, tournaments are held for big money, and there’s a documentary about the World Series of Beer Pong. There’s also a Frat Party Beer Pong website and myspace page. The game is only available via WiiWare, but if the XBox and Playstation people are smart, they’re developing a Beer Pong game right now. They don’t wanna miss out on the chance to give lazy college students an easier way to get drunk.

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