News & Publications "Quidditch," CBS News' Early Show Sweep into Campus

April 1, 2008 e-News

CBS News’ national morning program, The Early Show, invaded the main quad the morning of March 28 to broadcast live throughout the first-ever Amherst-Middlebury “Quidditch” match. The game, an earthbound version of the sport involving wizards and flying brooms made famous by the author J.K. Rowling in her popular Harry Potter novels, was also covered by the The Boston Globe, The Republican, The Daily Hampshire Gazette (registration required) and CBS 3 Springfield, among others.