Wednesday, January 31, 2001
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The University Daily Kansan
Section B · Page 3
Intramural basketball begins
By Steve Laurenzo sports@kansan.com Kansan sportswriter
The intramural basketball season began Monday night at Robinson Center with 16 men's games and one co-recreational game.
Pickup players cleared the court around 6:30 p.m., making way for an organized warm-up session for the first six teams.
As usual, many teams took time to think of a creative name. Some used their moniker to intimidate opponents — such as the Midwest Manglers — while comedy was the theme for other teams like Mulletia.
Mulletia is a combination of the words mullet and militia. Mullet refers to the popular 80's haircut, while a militia is a group of specialized military service persons.
Each of the first three games provided consistent action for the crowd, mostly composed of other teams, and play remained fast and fair throughout the two 20-minute halves.
Teams were well-staffed and maintained consistent and equitable substitution despite varying talent levels among team members.
The field was filled with both rookie and veteran intramural participants.
Jay Falley, Topeka junior, is entering his third consecutive spring basketball season and is representing the second team from the Sigma Nu fraternity house. Although his team has not fared particularly well in the last two years, he said the competition and exercise kept him coming back.
"Every now and then there is a little animosity, but people are really just out to have a good time." Falley said. "The referees do a fair job of keeping everyone relaxed."
Meanwhile, Ryan Greene, Vernon Hills, Ill., freshman, played in his first intramural game, representing the Wet Bandits squad. Green, a resident of Oliver Hall, said the game was fun and clean, but his team's victory against Mulletia was not its biggest game.
Delta Chi's Team 3 member Jared Coffin (left), Stamford, Conn., junior, tries to score Monday night during the first evening of intramural basketball play. The games will continue until mid-March. Photo by Melissa Carr/KANSAN
"I'm waiting to play the other guys on my floor, the Six Double N," he said.
For some, intramural basketball provides games and employment.
Timothy Bell, Liberal junior, plays on a co-recreational and a men's team, and began his duties as a referee on Monday. Several other students spent the evening scorekeeping.
Games take place every Sunday through Thursday in Robinson, and the season will extend to mid-March.
- Edited by Sydney Wallace
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Ravens celebrate 'Super' victory
BALTIMORE — Even Art Modell got jiggy with Ray Lewis. The 75-year-old Baltimore Ravens' owner and the Super Bowl MVP linebacker delighted thousands of screaming fans yesterday as Modell imitated Lewis' trademark footwork at City Hall.
About 200,000 fans lined downtown streets despite a steady rain to celebrate the team's 34-7 victory Sunday against the New York Giants.
The all-volunteer Baltimore's Marching Ravens band and the team's three mascots, Edgar, Allan and Poe — named for the 19th-century writer of the macabre poem from which the team derived its name — led the players and coaches in a parade through the Inner Harbor near Camden Yards to the waiting throngs at Memorial Plaza in front of City Hall.
Baltimore mayor Martin O'Malley introduced each player in turn. Some threw personal items into the crowd, including a football, hats, jerseys and even umbrellas.
"I can't tell you how proud I am to bring you your Super Bowl trophy," team president David Modell told the crowd.
Art Modell accepted the keys to the city and thanked the crowd, which responded by chanting, "Thank you. Thank you. Thank you."
Loudspeakers blared Aretha Franklin's "Respect" as Lewis joined Modell on stage and the owner tried to imitate the movements Lewis has danced all season just before going onto the field to face opponents.
The Super Bowl victory and
a double murder after last year's Super Bowl in Atlanta. Although the murder charges against him were dropped, he spent the week before the Super Bowl deflecting questions about the case.
The fans went ballistic as Lewis did his slide while holding the Super Bowl trophy and then led the crowd in the team's traditional pregame chant.
Baltimore coach Brian Billick followed, telling the crowd,
"This team taught me that the word team is really just an extension of the word family, and you all are a part of that family.
"Believe me when I tell you it's you people that brought Art Modell and this organization here, and you all are the reason that I am here."
The crowd also was entertained by the Baha Men, who performed their hit single, "Who Let the Dogs Out?," which the team adopted as its unofficial
season theme.
Earlier, the younger Modelle held the Vince Lombardi Trophy as he walked the parade route, his father rode behind in a limousine and players followed in a convoy of Humvees.
Fans perched in trees and on rooftops of surrounding office buildings along the 13-block parade route. Many danced to a nonstop hip-hop soundtrack and hammed for the players, who carried video cameras to personally record the event.
Wes Henson of Waldorf, who said he had never missed a home game in the team's five seasons in Baltimore, was decked head to toe in a purple "Captain Defense" costume, complete with a stuffed raven perched on his arm.
Wearing a purple tie, Stephan Moylan, a public defender and lifelong Baltimore resident, said the only people working on Tuesday were displaced New Yorkers.
"They're all eating crow today. They're all answering the phones because everybody else is here." Moylan said. "This is a tremendous day for Baltimore."
He said the Super Bowl victory did more to unite the city than any other single event in his lifetime.
"Baltimore has always been a segregated, divided city. Now, you see anybody on the street — black, white, green or red — all the color is purple," Moylan said, referring to the team's signature hue.
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