Fifty-one year-old Robert Blackwell, Jr., a Chicagoan via Philadelphia and Kansas, has had his hands in many different industries. He’s worked at IBM and in the diamond business. He’s been an options ...

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- If you've ever wanted to turn off electronics and spend time bonding with your family or co-workers, Killerspin has a new way to UnPlugNPlay. Killerspin's program helps people pick up ...

Found the ceiling to your table tennis game? It could be your equipment. Killerspin's lightning-fast surfaces are the real thing--frequently used in extreme tournaments and endorsed by the sport's ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --Tucked away inside the Bank of America Building in the Loop financial district is a place to let off a little steam and get a little exercise at the same time. "It's a sport and a game ...

Robert Blackwell’s dream is to break down the barriers that keep office tenants within isolated social bubbles. To achieve that goal, he has chosen a rather unorthodox weapon: ping pong. “In an office ...

For golf die-hards, there’s Scotland. For surfers, there’s Waimea Bay. And for table tennis players, one Chicago company hopes they’ll think of Sardinia. Table tennis company Killerspin says it has ...

A few weeks ago, when we first looked at the hybrid iPhone/iPad game Ping Pong Battle, it wasn't quite ready for prime time; one of the marquee features, video-out from the 'table' iPad, wasn't ...

↵Spencer: So, I am the eeeninesiest tired of sports not in the standard canon of American spectator sport attempting to rebrand themselves as being edgy, hard, or "XTREME." Really, what gets people ...

This weekend Ace, the eatertainment sibling of Vesta Dipping Grill and Steuben’s that opened a year ago, threw itself a real party — a ping-pong battle royale. And on Saturday night, anyone who was up ...