In this section of the IM Home Page, we'll try to address the most frequently asked questions (thus the term "FAQ") regarding the web site.

1.  Can I go to the IM Home Page to check schedules and standings?

Definitely YES.  The web page will provide all the necessary information on our program.  You may download your entry for and the Rules of the sport you are going to participate in.  You may check our policy manual on team eligibility, forfeits, and player discipline.  All schedules and play-off information are on our web page.

2.  Do the polls, predictions, rankings and postseason awards (All-U teams, Heisman balloting, etc.) have any effect on the way that games are played or officiated?

Absolutely not.  The predictions in no way represent the Intramural Sports Department's opinion on "who should win the game".  Players are not given preferential treatment based on their status as featured candidates and teams are not in anyway aided by their positions in polls or the daily predictions.

It is important to understand that the analysis of matchups, the predictions of games, and the features on certain players or teams are simply for entertainment purposes and done to enrich the Intramural Sports experience for all of our participants.  In other words, the ideas put out on the web page cannot detrimentally affect a team on the court or field.  You may be upset that your team wasn't voted #1 or picked by the correspondent to win a game, but you can always know that said statements have no concrete effect on the outcome of that game.

It should also be mentioned that the polls can be considered to be highly unscientific.

3.  Who maintains the Intramural Sports Home Page?

Intramural Sports Supervisor Nathan Novak created the web page in mid-October of 1999 and performed the fundamental maintenance of the site, updating things like scores, standings, calendars, staff, and information pages. The actual journalistic aspects of the web site were performed by the senior IM News correspondent Iggy, who wrote a column, "Iggy's Outlook" as well as most of the front page headline articles. After the Spring of 2002 Iggy felt he had taken the site as far as it could go and elected to take a lucrative East-coast job offer and pass the site onto fresh hands. After sitting dormant for a few months IM Supervisors Pete Romanovsky and Josh Ripp managed to Jay-Dawg to move from the warm weather of California to the streets of North O before the 02' Flag Football tournament began. After two years of verbal derision and mockery at the hands of angry IM participants J-Dawg was run out of town and the mysterious duo known only as Tenacious T and Mr. Miyagi took over. Now it's back to just being ran by the student supervisors of Creighton intramurals commonly known as "The Sups." Keep in mind that if facts are being presented, the Intramural Sports staff probably put them on the website.  If opinions are being stated, they are probably just those of "The Sups."

4.  Alright already, he's gone now. Who was Iggy?

Nice try.  Iggy is, and always will be, an enigma wrapped in a riddle.

5. Well in that case, can you at least tell me who Jay-Dawg is?

Wish we could, but as you'll see throughout the site, we hardly even know how to spell his/her name.

6.  Can I get involved with the Intramural Home Page?

Absolutely.  If you would like to write a player's perspective style column or another feature column on either a one-time or a more regular basis, please contact us.

We also encourage you to vote in our ever-changing polls.

In summary...

...we'd like everyone to take much of the material here with a grain of salt.  If The Sups say that a team is weak or likely to get blasted in tonight's contest, it isn't because The Sups don't like them.  It just means he doesn't think they're going to win.  S/he isn't right all the time, either.

The real purpose of the website is to give Intramural Sports a big-time feel for those participants who wish IM to be that way.   Many players love to get media attention (of sorts, at least) in their IM games, and this website is a unique way to do that.  Intramural Sports Departments at other colleges rarely have a website that reports in a journalistic manner.  Many universities have informational pages, but few try to report sports news on a daily basis.   If you like reading the page, we're thrilled and we hope you'll keep visiting.   If you think this isn't worth anything, then don't read it.  There's no penalty.  You won't get fouled out of your basketball game because you don't visit The Archive or because you didn't vote for Adam Cho for the All-U Team.

When you play IM Sports, it's a great way to "Get Fit".  When you visit the IM Website, we feel that you're more likely to fulfill the second prong of the Campus Recreation Department's goal: "Have Fun".