Spring Sports Begin!

Spring action in 4 on 4 Flag Football, 2 on 2 Sand Volleyball, Softball, and Hockey are all underway this week in the busiest time in Intramural Sports History.

Team Captains, please make sure to review the Captain's guide again to ensure your team has the best experience possible.

Also... Rec Fest is coming! The top prize this year will be free roundtrip airline tickets to the winning team to anywhere that Jet Blue flies in the country.

If you haven't already signed up, we don't know how else to convince you!

Dodgeball Starts Friday... Some reminders:

1. If the ball hits you, you're out. Most of the time, nobody can tell if the ball hits you because it's traveling so fast. Imagine a baseball umpire trying to watch 3 batters at a time to see if they get hit by a pitch. It's not easy, so go with the call.

2. If you're called out, there's no arguing. Dodgeball is a sport that we use a dictatorship for. If you argue the call, you will get a technical foul and you'll sit out the next game. We have less tolerance than David Stern.

3. New curtains have been installed to protect fans. You can see through them, but you cannot touch or move them. Officials will call you out for doing so.

Fall of Champions:

Now that the fall semester has ended (good luck on Finals everyone), here's a review of all the champions from the fall semester.

http://picasaweb.google.com/ucfimsports/ChampionPhotos20062007

Happy Thanksgiving from Intramural Sports

Congrats to John Boyle ($200) and Michael Marcus ($100) for coming away with some cash during Intramural Deal or no Deal last week!

To enter in the $500 give-away, please attend the Women's Final on Wednesday, 11/8 to register starting at 7:15 PM. Students will need to sign in with their ID and fill out a registration form. The Deal or No Deal drawing will take place during the Women's Final and the "Game show" will take place at some point during the Women's or Rec Final!

Win $500

Come to the Intramural Basketball Finals at the RWC on Wednesday night and someone might win $500 courtesy of AMSCOT playing "INTRAMURAL DEAL OR NO DEAL". Students in attendance (Must be a currently enrolled UCF Student) will draw for a chance to play.

Stay tuned as we will announce when the drawing will take place here on the blog

Comments

Comments were turned on for the blog, however due to some immature activity they were turned off and now only restricted to registered users. If you'd like to comment on a blog post, you must register with your full first and last name. If not, it will be deleted until everyone realizes they are in college and not middle school.

Use someone else's ID card? Find yourself (and them) in hot water. So far this semester, 8 students have been ejected from Intramural Games for trying to use someone else's ID. This is not like sneaking into a club where you're simply turned away. The ID is confiscated and reported as stolen to the office of student conduct. Students are ejected and in some cases have cost their teams from playing in the tournament. Be wise, make sure nobody on your team is trying to sneak into a game because they WILL get caught.

Game winning Shot by Fabulous Fellas over ATO in the Comp Basketball Tournament.

Raining? Don't worry, as long is there is no lightning all games on Turf fields will be played. Unfortunately, baseball and tennis aren't as lucky and those games are sometimes cancelled due to rain. If you are ever in question, always assume that your game is on as scheduled until you hear otherwise by calling the IM hotline:

407-823-0999

Homecoming, Playoffs, Halloween, all in the same week! Let the madness begin. Basketball playoffs are entering the second round in some leagues, while all football playoffs begin Monday.

Here's one rule change for the Flag Football playoffs. If you end a game in a tie, overtime is used unlike in the regular season.

Both teams receive 4 plays for the 10 yard line. It is not sudden death, so each team will have an opportunity each overtime period.

If tied, teams will continue to alternate possessions. There is never a requirement to go for 2 like in the NCAA.

Good luck!

Swamp Bowl Update

Congratulations to Touchdown Here for finishing 2nd in the Swamp Bowl this past weekend. They fell 27-13 in the title game to a team from UF. Showstoppers and ATO didn't do as well on the Men's side, however Showstoppers tied Southern University 20-20 in pool play, and Southern went on to win the championship.

Also, UCF's officials did very well as Robert Smyth was named one of the top 2 officials and will advance to the national flag football tournament. Rob officiated the Men's Championship game with David Decandis, while James Abarquez and TK McRory officiated the Women's Championship game.

This just in from the Swamp Bowl at UF. "Touchdown Here", one of the top women's teams at UCF defeated former national champion Southern University 18-12 in the semifinals to advance to the championship game. They are 3-1-1 on the weekend.

Both Mens entries did not fair as well, as ATO and the Showstoppers did not advance to the quarterfinals in a loaded bracket.

Full results can be found at http://www.recsports.ufl.edu/intramurals/Fall_06_Swamp_Bowl_2006.html

PLAYOFFS?!?!?
Some housekeeping reminders as flag football and baseball playoffs near:

• You may not add players to your postseason roster that were not on your regular season roster. If a player was on your original roster and did not sign in to a game for your team or any other team, you must contact the league coordinator for your sport to ensure they are eligible for your postseason roster.
• Tournament games cannot be defaulted. If you played every monday at 7, you may have a tournament game on Friday at 5, or Wednesday at 10. That's the nature of the the playoffs. Failure to show to a playoff game is a forfeit.
• If your team had a player ejected in the regular season, and you have another player ejected in the postseason, your team will immediately forfeit that game
• Teams that win Comp A, Co-Rec, and Womens divisions will be offered paid entry fee, and a travel/hotel stipend for the National Flag Football Tournament. Those tournaments are open to any teams, not just champion teams... however only champion teams in those divisions receive paid support from UCF/SGA. (Sorry Comp B and Rec, you're playing just for fun!)

A message from past Sports Trivia Champion Victor Anderson

"After many years of being the dominant force in Sports Trivia here at UCF, I feel that it would be in the best interest to all involved to step away from this competition. Having said that, I am offically announcing my retirement from active competition in Sports Trivia. However, per the request of one Gary Cahen and various collegues, I will have an active part in this Friday's Individual Sports Trivia competition. What my role will be shall be announced at the event. All I will say is this; if you want to be the champion this year, you'll have to earn this one. See you guys on Friday."

NBA official Eli Roe worked along side Intramural Officials Steve Anderson and Chris Morello on Tuesday night during the SAE-Sig Ep game. Fans in attendance disagreed with a few calls, once again proving that nobody will ever be happy. Eli is a volunteer instructor for the UCF basketball officiating class, and worked the game as part of the training provided to UCF students. Sig Ep won the game going away, 55-40. Below is a photo of a game last year in which Eli ejected Sam Cassell, who obviously deserved it.

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PARIS -- The French parliament on Tuesday passed a law to give greater protection to referees in all sports from acts of violence.

Under the new law, causing injuries to a referee resulting in a work stoppage of over eight days will be punishable by up to five years in jail and a fine of 75,000 euros.

Violence against referees has increased in France in recent months. A referee needed 10 stitches in his head and suffered a partial loss of his eyesight after being hit by stones during an amateur soccer game in southern France in May last year.

"This is an appropriate answer to the concerns expressed by French referees as well as by all sports federations," French Sports Minister Jean-Francois Lamour said of the new law.

Congratulations to Ryan Christopher Patten as his name was drawn out of a UCF Floppy hat by the accounting firm of Brigati and Associates. Ryan is the winner of a free round of golf for 2.

Attention loyal blog readers! Thanks to one of our sponsors, Wedgefield Golf Club, we're offering a free round of golf for a two-some thats good until December 31st at Wedgefield.

Send us an email at imsports@mail.ucf.edu and we'll enter you into the random drawing. We'll notify the winner via e-mail.

Reminder... No Intramural Flag Football, Basketball, and Baseball Games on Wednesday (10/4). The Wednesday league started a week early to allow this bye, as well as the fact that UCF plays Marshall tonight on ESPN2. Go Knights!

Here is Chris Morello modeling the back of the new Intramural Champion Shirt for fall 2006.




For you Marlins fans, here is the SI Cover that the inspiration for the design came from. Shirts are once again, courtesy of Cingular. Cingular, fits you best.

Extramural Flag Football Tournament Deadline coming up!

The Swamp Bowl at UF, one of the nations most competitive Flag Football tournaments, takes place the weekend of October 20th. The earlybird deadline is October 5th, with final deadlines on October 16th. For $200, see how your team stacks up with the top teams in the country. Contact Gary Cahen for more information at gcahen@mail.ucf.edu

DONT FORGET TO SIGN UP FOR MIDNIGHT BOWLING! All you need are 4 players, and enjoy a free night of bowling with some of your friends at Intramural Sports. Greasy fries not included.

Are you having trouble getting greek letters to display on our website because you (wisely) use Mozilla Firefox as your web browser? Here is a way for you to get your browser to display greek letters:

1. Open this file from your Firefox installation directory with notepad:

res/fonts/fontEncoding.properties.

(If you installed to the default directory the path will be C:/Program Files/Mozilla Firefox/res/fonts/fontEncoding.properties.)

2. Find the following lines of text:
# Symbol font
encoding.symbol.ttf = Adobe-Symbol-Encoding

3. Replace thoese lines with the following:
# Symbol font
## encoding.symbol.ttf = Adobe-Symbol-Encoding
# Symbol font
#encoding.symbol.ttf = Adobe-Symbol-Encoding
#– fixing by hand — Enabling Symbol font for Mozilla on Windows
#– file://C:Program FilesMozilla Firefox/res/fonts/fontEncoding.properties
encoding.symbol.ttf = windows-1252
encoding.wingdings.ttf = windows-1252
encoding.wingdings2.ttf = windows-1252
encoding.wingdings3.ttf = windows-1252
encoding.webdings.ttf = windows-1252

You should be all set!

Two links to tonights monday night football game in New Orleans to the IM program. The turf that was installed at the Superdome is Sportexe Momentum Turf, the same exact turf at RWC Park. Also, the Head Linesman on Ed Hochuli's crew, Tom Symonette, was the 2005 guest speaker at the Intramural Sports officials banquet.

As of Friday, 9/22 the following players are not eligible to participate in Intramural Sports. They must be reinstated before participation. These are the players that have been ejected Since fall 2004 and have been suspeneded indefinitely. Do not allow them to play on your team or you will forfeit if they have not been reinstated.

Bacon, Christopher

Gell, Brian

Ubben, Christopher

Pearson, Kevin

Weiss, Andrew

Sambito, Chad

Barrasso, Michael

Binns, Robert

Blossom, John

Cherkin, Adam

Cherkin, Adam

Crews, Ryan

Diaz, Henry

Duryea, Ron

Frost, Kevin

Garid, Shawn

Gellers, Brett

Govern, Mike

Guidice, Matt

Hafza, Tareq

Himanshi, Suri

Houck, Ryan

Hyman, Michael

Jackson, Ivan

Laioyve, Christopher

Lopez, Matt

Maser, John

Matas, Ryan

Mattson, Michael

Nabors, Turner

Novogroski, Benjamin

O'Quinn, James

Peterson, Curt

Petit, Josh

Rappaport, Michael

Rashawan, Islam

Roberts, Steven

Round, Aaron

Rudman, Brian

Spencer, Larry

Vazquez, Daniel

West, Nick

Boilard, Josh

Bradley, David

Caplan, Jason

Dillon, Jon

Dubois, Evan

Elliot, Dan

Flinn, Ryan

Gaedy, Ben

Hartnett, Terry

Izquiero, Nelson

Lawrence, Andrew

Loriston, Fritznel

Malagon, Alex

Marshall, Brad

Martin, Ephraim

McCarthy, Matthew

Morgan, James

O'Quinn, James

Pinkerton, Jeremy

Saldarrage, Jaime

Seagraves, Logan

Sharpe, Eric

Stamp, Joseph

Styron, Jason

Suarez, Luis

Valentine, Jason

Woodling, Eric

2 Intramural basketball teams forfeited this week because they had ineligible players. A player played on one team, then played on a different team without going through the team change process as was discussed in the captain's meeting. Remember, whatever team you play on FIRST is your official team of record. To change teams, both captains must approve and the Grad Assistant for that sport must also approve. When in doubt, check with us.

What a comeback! Frank Reich would be proud tonight, as ATO trailed Sig Ep by 22 points in the opener of Fraternity Gold League basketball and the score was 50-31 with seven minutes left. Some clutch shooting brought ATO within 1 with less than a minute to play, and they hit 2 free throws to take the lead. Sig Ep had a chance to tie at the line but airballed the front end of a 1-an-1 to seal their fate.

One of the byproducts of living in florida is lightning. We're the lightning capital of the country, which is why to protect our students we installed the Thorguard lightning detection system. On the roof of the RWC, thorguard will sound if lightning is imminent.

This affects IM games, as all outdoor activities are suspended and students must seek shelter. Your car, a building, anywhere inside is considered shelter. A tree, a tent, an umbrella are not good enough.

When it's all clear, 3 horns will blast. If your game has been delayed it may resume. It may also be cancelled. Your job as a captain will be to call 407-823-0999 from your shelter to see what the status of your game is. If early games are cancelled, late games may be on as scheduled. We'll keep the phone message current to help avoid confusion.