12B SPORTS
INTRAMURALS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
teams offer opportunity for competition, fun
Weston White / KANSAN
Chelsie Harper, Hugoton senior, defends against a drive to the basket by Stefani Fuhrman, Tulsa, Okla., sophomore, in an intramural game. Intramurals give students the opportunity to play sports such as basketball, foosball and ultimate frisbee.
BY KRISTINA POLLARD
kpollard@kansan.com
Students looking to increase their involvement in campus sports beyond sitting in the stands have a variety of intramural sports to choose from.
That glut of options may pose a problem because it can be difficult for some to decide on what sports they want to play. In addition to offering the more commonly known sports such as basketball, flag football, softball and soccer, KU offers a myriad of other options.
Foosball, wallyball, ultimate frisbee and kickball are just a few of the less-traditional options for those wishing to try something completely new. Intramurals can provide an opportunity to meet new people for freshman as well as upperclassmen.
Kevin Tran, Wichita senior, was on the winning co-ed soccer team in Spring 2009. He played soccer for four years in high school and said he viewed intramurals as "a fun way to stay in shape and hang out with friends." Tran said playing intramurals wasn't all about fierce competition.
"I play mostly for fun." Tran said. "It's co-ed soccer, so it normally doesn't get too competitive. Everyone just becomes friends. The soccer people at KU are just a big community."
Tran, whose team was named The Crushers, still frequently plays pick-up soccer games with people he's met through intramurals, people who were on his team and people his team competed against. Overall Tran said co-ed soccer was a fun way to hang out with people he didn't normally get to hang out
with.
"You don't normally get to play soccer with girls." Tran said. "And it's a good way to
good here. I promise.
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be involved in sports to participate no matter their level of play.
JAMIE VANDERHOFE Mound Valley sophomore
Jamie Vanderhofe, Mound
Valley sophomore, has participated in intramural co-ed basketball and co-ed softball.
Vanderhofe participated in dance and cheerleading in high school, but had never played on a softball team before.
Vanderhole said she did intramurals not only just for fun, but also for a little bit of competition.
"More so to be competitive in softball because we had a really good team," Vanderhofe said. "Basketball more for fun and
Vanderhose's softball team, PiKapp, placed second overall and her basketball team, Scared Hitless, advanced to the first round of playoffs. She says basketball is a fun sport to play because of teamwork, competition and intensity. Vanderhole started intramurals as a freshman, so it was a good way to meet new people as a new student.
exercise."
"I have fun meeting new people and it's not hardcore serious so it's just fun," Vanderhofe said. "And good exercise."
Edited by Tim Burgess
It's a shirt you have probably seen on campus a time or two. It is a simple design, with nothing more than the words "Intramural Champion" to distinguish it from a plain T-shirt. But it's a coveted honor to wear one around campus. When non-scholarship athletes, the everyday college students, wear their "Champion" shirts, they can get just a little taste of what it's like to be a big man on campus. Getting a team together can be an easy way to meet people with similar interests. The University is offering a variety of intramural team sports this fall, including, but not limited to, flag football, sand volleyball, indoor soccer, floor hockey, indoor volleyball and dodgeball. Here's how to get involved.
Pat Eland
1. Visit the official intramurals Web site at http://www.recreationku.edu/programs/intramurals, the official intramurals Web site .
2. Click "current sports" to find the sign-up period and participation fee for each sport.
3. Gather up teammates and register each person at the online registration site. Join a league and set up the team roster.
4. Go out and compete with students for that simple, but elusive, T-shirt.
BASKETBALL NCAA announces teams' penalties for violations
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — The Southeast Missouri State men's and women's basketball teams have been hit with several penalties for NCAA violations. The NCAA announced the penalties Thursday for violations that included impermissible benefits to men's and women's players; the presence of men's coaching staff members during summer strength and conditioning activities; and observation by coaches at offseason pickup games.
The programs were placed on probation through June 17, 2013. The men's team lost one scholarship. The NCAA also ordered the men's team to vacate wins in the 2006-07 and 2007-08 seasons.
Associated Press
OLYMPICS Golf, rugby may be included in Olympics
CHASKA Minn. — Tiger Woods is a step closer to adding another major title to his name: Olympian.
IOC president Jacques Rogge even mentioned Woods by name, calling him a "major icon" and saying golf is an important sport.
WRESTLING
Players and golf officials alike were thrilled at the International Olympic Committee executive board's decision to recommend golf and rugby sevens for inclusion at the 2016 Games. The full 106-member IOC assembly has the final say, voting in Copenhagen in October.
Associated Press
TNA wrestler Angle faces legal issues
ASSOCIATED PRESS
MCKEES ROCKS, Pa. — Prowrestler and Olympic gold medalist Kurt Angle has been arrested on charges of possessing a human growth hormone and violating an order of protection in suburban Pittsburgh.
Angle was arrested about 7:50 a.m. Saturday in a Robinson Township strip mall parking lot. His girlfriend, who said she obtained a protection order about $1\frac{1}{2}$ hours earlier after the two fought Friday night, alleged that he had circled the lot staring at her as she sat in a coffee shop, according to a police affidavit.
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In this July 31, 1996 file photo, Kurt Angle of the United States reacts to his gold medal win in the 100 kg class of freestyle wrestling at the Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta, Police say Angle has been arrested for possessing a human growth hormone in suburban Pittsburgh.
Police said they found the human growth hormone Hygetropin in Angle's car, and the wrestler told them he had a prescription for the drug. He also told officers he had not seen the woman and was looking for a hotel because he was barred from his home.
Angle, 40, was charged with violating the order of protection, harassment, possession of drugs and paraphernalia and driving with a suspended license. He posted bail and is scheduled to appear for a hearing Tuesday on the drug and harassment charges and Wednesday on the charge of violating the protection order, a court clerk said.
Angle, the current heavyweight champion of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, was scheduled to appear in a TNA Wrestling event Sunday night in Orlando, Fla. Steven Godfrey, spokesman for Nashville, Tenn.-based TNA Wrestling, declined comment on the arrest but said the main event between Angle, Sting and "The Blueprint" Matt Morgan would go on as scheduled.
In September, Angle was found not guilty of drunken driving in Moon Township outside Pittsburgh. A motorist told police Angle had cut her off while leaving a bar parking lot.
Godfrey also said TNA has a drug policy in place for staff and performers, but he declined to release the details.
Angle's phone number is unlisted. Message leaves for attorney
Michael Santicola, who has represented him previously, were not immediately returned.
Angle is a two-time NCAA Division 1 wrestling champion at Clarion University in western Pennsylvania. He won the 220-pound championship at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, defeating
Iran's Abbas hadid for the gold medal, and has been a professional wrestler since 1998.
TRACK AND FIELD
Bolt breaks record again at world championships
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He obliterated it, in fact.
BERLIN — Usain Bolt saved the celebration for after the finish line this time and showed that, yes, he can keep breaking that world record.
Bolt ran 100 meters in 9.58 seconds Sunday at world championships, turning his showdown against Tyson Gay into a rout and putting to rest the questions that went unanswered last time he set the record — at his showboating Olympic run of 9.69 seconds.
Jamaica's Usain Bolt celebrates winning the final setting a new 100m World Record during the World Athletics Championships in Berlin on Sunday.
Yes, he can do better when he goes all out the whole way. Yes, he can break 9.6.
"I got a pretty good start," Bolt said. "I was there at 20 meters and that was it."
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It was the biggest change in the record since electronic time was introduced in 1968. It came very close to the 9.55-second time that an American professor said Bolt would have run in Beijing had he run all out in the Olympic 100 finals.
Under ideal conditions and facing the toughest competition possible, Bolt blew away his own world record by .11 seconds on the one-year anniversary of the last world record. Gay, meanwhile, set the American record by finishing in 9.71, a time that would have been a world record 12 months and one day ago, but was an afterthought instead.
Asafa Powell of Jamaica took bronze in 9.84. In Beijing, Bolt was coasting after 70 meters, but on the deep indigo blue track in Berlin, Gay pushed him as far as he could — to no avail.
Gay stayed with him over the first part of the race but once Bolt unfurled that huge stride of his, there was no contest.
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"Awesome." Powell said.
"I'm happy he got it," Gay said.
"I'm happy he ran 9.5 because I knew he could do it, and I know I can do it and I'm happy for him."
In the stands, the fans carried a banner saying "Bolt — Legend."
Once he sensed another gold, Bolt glanced quickly to his right at 90 meters to check on Gay, then left, at the scoreboard, as he crossed the line and then pounded his chest when he saw the record time flash up.
"I put everything into it. But I came in second," Gay said. "I can definitely run faster."
Bolt demonstrated his confidence by play-acting hours ahead of race, and the fact that he never saw Gay ahead of him early on had to give him
Troubled by a nagging groin pain, Gay had to cut practice on his start and it showed. He needed to get out the fastest by far but was never able to shake the Olympic champion.
The crowd of 55,000 at the Olympic Stadium roared at the end of most anticipated race since the Olympics. The record time was hard to believe even with Bolt's knack for the unimaginable. He grabbed a flag, hugged Powell, with whom he had been literally shadowboxing for fun just before the start. They wrapped themselves in the Jamaican flag, and it looked like Beijing all over again.
a bigger boost.
"It just wasn't enough today!"
Gay said. "I ran my best race I could run. I put my all into it. I got through the little groin situation and tried to put it together."
Earlier, the Jamaican and American women had a sprint rivalry of their own. Kerron Stewart ran 10.92 in the 100 for the best time, leading a Jamaican team effort which placed three of their runners in the top four. Carmelita Jeter of the United States was second in 10.94. The final is Monday.