THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2009 SPORTS 9B ANSAN ister INTRAMURALS League depends on interest University says it would offer competition if women signed up BY KRISTINA POLLARD kpollard@kansan.com The University offers three different levels of intramural sports: open, recreational and competitive. The open and recreational skill levels have both men's and women's teams. The competitive skill level, however, offers only flag football and has 223 male competitors. According to Matt Beck, Intramurals Coordinator, there is a struggle to get female teams for any of the leagues offered. Because there is already a shortage of women's teams, breaking up the teams into divisions would make intramurals seasons and playoffs extremely short with very few teams involved. Madeline Curry, Spring Hill freshman, plays intramurals sand volleyball. She said she would be interested in joining a more competitive level, depending on the sports offered. "I think it would be a good thing for women at KU to have," Curry said. She also said she thought part of the reason there is no women's competitive skill level was because men tend to always come first in sports. "I think it just dates back from when women weren't allowed to do all of what men were allowed to do," said Curry. "I don't know why, but I definitely think that should change. I think the matter should be looked into. And if any girls want to be on a competitive team, then I highly encourage them to push for that." Samantha Grinsfelder, Dallas sophomore, said she was surprised the University did not offer a women's competitive skill level. Beck said there has really not been a cry for a female competitive division, but if there ever was they would definitely look into putting it into play. "There should be for at least women's or co-ed flag football if they are going to offer that for the men," she said. In the end, the creation of a women's competitive division relies on the number of women who take the initiative to sign up for it. The more women that sign up, the more likely it is that a competitive skill level will be introduced. But for those men who are involved in the competitive skill level, competition has nothing to do with gender. Dallas Mildfelt, Chanute junior, plays in the flag football competitive league and he said its for men who had a good time playing football in high school and look for the competitive edge in sports. "I wouldn't say it has much to do with the skill level," said Mildfelt. "I just think it's more about there's not many girls who play football, and if they do they would probably rather play against girls and not a bunch of guys." Edited by Abbey Strusz NCAA FOOTBALL ASSOCIATED PRESS Virginia Tech rover Matt Reed (23) celebrates a defensive touchdown at Miami panter Matt Bosher (25) and Tech split end Marc Davis (7), look on during the first half of an NCAA college football game at Lane Stadium in Blacksburg, Va. Saturday 26, Sep 20. Weekend of upset games changes college rankings ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — After a weekend in which four top-10 teams lost, The Associated Press college football poll received a major makeover. No. 1 Florida, No. 2 Texas and No. 3 Alabama held their places in the media poll released Sunday, but 15 teams moved up or down at least three spots. LSU is up to No. 4 after barely avoiding an upset at Mississippi State on Saturday. No. 5 Boise State is in the top five for the first time in the regular season. No. 6 Virginia Tech, No. 7 Southern California and No. 9 Ohio State are back in the top 10. Cincinnati moved up four spots to No. 10, the best ranking in school history. No. 13 Iowa and No. 16 Oregon both jumped back into the rankings after beating top-10 teams. Georgia Tech also moved back into the rankings. Falling out were Florida State, North Carolina and Washington, which followed its upset of USC with a 34-14 loss at Stanford on Saturday. Florida (4-0) had no problem beating Kentucky, but lost quarterback Tim Tebow to a concussion late in the third quarter of its 41-7 victory. Florida is off this week before playing at LSU on Oct. 10. Florida received 55 firstplace votes. For the second consecutive week the Southeastern Conference has three of the top four teams in the country, with LSU replacing Mississippi. The last conference to have three of the top four in the AP poll was the Big Eight in 1971, when Nebraska, Oklahoma and Colorado were Nos. 1, 2 and 3. vote and 1,420 points. Alabama had four first-place votes, one more than last week, and 1,400 points. A volatile weekend for highly ranked teams began Thursday night in South Carolina, when the unranked Gamecocks beat then. No. 4 Mississippi. Ole Miss fell 17 spots to No. 21. Texas received one first-place The Gators, Longhorns and Crimson Tide are the only preseason top-10 teams that have not lost a game. Six times already this season a team ranked in the top 10 has lost to an unranked team. And that was only the second-largest drop by a ranked team this week. After California was routed 42-3 by Oregon on Saturday, the bears fell 18 spots from No. 6 to No. 24. Cal hosts USC on Saturday. Mike Gunnoe/KANSAM Go for the goal The Nuggets went on quite a journey last season as their band of misfits bonded together to reach the conference championships for the first time since 1985. They nearly made their first NBA Finals appearance before bowing out to Los Angeles in six games. Travis Wentworth, Berwick, Maine graduate student, fires a shot during an intramural soccer game at Ambler Student Recreation Fitness Center. There are many different intramural sports that enrolled students may join throughout the school year. NBA Nuggets plan a comeback season That's because they think the nucleus of a championship squad is already in place. ASSOCIATED PRESS DENVER — While the top teams in the Western Conference bolstered their rosters by adding big name free agents, the Denver Nuggets largely staved the course. "We're good," Kenyon Martin said Friday. "I think other teams made moves after looking at where we were." series loss to the Lakers, not the playoff run, propelled Chancey Billups & Co. in the offseason. "I know the reality of it is we had a good year," Billups said. "But I think about the loss and losing to a team that was a great team, but a team like I felt we had a great chance to beat. I don't think we fought to the end like we should have." And that's serving as motivation. Nuggets coach George Karl sees a different mentality with his team as they enter training camp this weekend. They're not satisfied. "Going into camp, we might have talked about winning a championship," Karl said. "I believe this team can win a championship." cult. Some of the elite teams added big pieces to their roster. The road through the West, though, definitely got more diffi "There's a lot of teams that got better." Billups said. So, where do the Nuggets stack up? "Right up at the top," Billups said. Over the offseason, the Nuggets lost defensive stalwart Dahntay Jones through free agency and long-range shooter Linas Kleiza, who took his game to Europe. The team added Arron Afflalo to fill in for Jones and drafted Ty Lawson to help spell Billups in the backcourt. However, Karl thinks the biggest reason his team will be a power in the West is the window of improvement open to players like Nene, Chris "Birdman" Andersen, J.R. 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