Poleish Sports Goes From College Game to New Business Venture

A game involving ski poles, beer bottles and Frisbees--of course a college student invented it. However, Bryan Biederman of Plymouth turned the game he invented in college in 2007 into a start-up business in the growing outdoor games industry

Called Poleish, the game involves two aluminum poles placed 40 feet apart and each topped with a plastic bottle. Teams of two try to knock down each other's bottle. "We started playing it with just ski poles and beer bottles," Biederman says. "People loved it. That was when I called John...