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The Battalion
U LX I MATE
Fast-paced sport gaining
momentum in Aggieland
By Claudia Zavaleta
The Battalion
When you think of Frisbee,
memories of calm, relaxing after
noons at the beach or park may
come to mind. But the TAMU Ul
timate Frisbee Team doesn’t agree
— they like their Frisbee-throwing
fast and furious.
The game is called Ultimate, a
fast-paced hybrid of Frisbee, foot
ball, basketball and soccer. It was
created in the ‘70s by high school
students in New Jersey; it then
spread to the West Coast and even
tually took root in the South.
John Kirk, captain of the TAMU
Ultimate team said the game is be
coming more popular here and all
over the world because everyone
can play.
“In most sports you have to
have a certain build,” Kirk said.
“In Ultimate, you just have to be
able to throw a disc and run. It
opens the game to everyone.”
The game is played with seven
players on each team. They set up
offenses, defenses and scoring like
in football; they pass and block
like in basketball and run the field
like in soccer.
But ask any Ultimate player, and
he or she will tell you the most
important rule is “The Spirit of the
Game.” This means, unlike its
parent sports, Ultimate is played
with no referees or line judges,
forcing the players to call their
own fouls.
Even the Ultimate Players Asso
ciation, formed in 1979 to pro
mote the sport, said the game is
characterized by “its high regard
for mutual respect among players
and an absence of referees. ’
“With ‘The Spirit of the
Game,’” Kirk said, ‘your word is
the rule. It is an important con
cept and it’s there even in the na
tional level. It’s one of the things
that makes Ultimate stand out.”
But the absence of referees has
not kept Ultimate from becoming
a well-organized collegiate sport,
Kirk said.
“When you get to high level
tournaments,” he said, “people get
very competitive and sometimes
irate, but you will never see a fight
on the field. If you are defending
someone and they make a good
catch against ^ou, you congratulate
them anyway. ’
Chad Cunningham, a senior
business analysis major from Bay
City, is relatively new to the sport.
He said it’s the camaraderie that
makes the sport less intimidating.
“It’s not so intensely competi
tive that people will get turned off
by it,” Cunningham said. “This is
the best sport to get together and
make friends.”
Like Cunningham, most of the
20 TAMU team members are new
comers and are still learning.
Made up of both men and women,
college and non-college students,
the team hopes to recruit more ex
perienced students than before.
Louie Liendo, a sophomore
wildlife and fisheries sciences ma
jor from Brownsville, said older
graduates act as coaches to the
younger team members.
“We get experience scrimmag
ing against the old guys,” Liendo
said. ‘They have great endurance
and they usually kick our butts.”
Matt Beringer, Class of '86, has
played Ultimate at A&M since
1984. He said A&M has had an
Ultimate club for a decade. They
have always competed in open
tournaments, he said, and this year
the team finally has enough col
lege students to compete in the
UFA collegiate tournament.
“Right now, we’ve had a lot of
people staying around to play,”
Beringer said, ‘at least enough to
have a collegiate team again.”
Tom Blinn, also an A&M gradu
ate, said he wants to see more Ul
timate played at the high school
level. This would mean a more
experienced collegiate team, he
said.
“It’s generally true that open
teams are better teams because
they have older, more experienced
players,” Blinn said. "One of the
things that makes this sport differ
ent is that when people start play
ing for other A&M teams, they al
ready know how to play the game.
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is getting good, they graduate and
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By Margaret Oaughton
The Battalion
“The Paper”
Starring Michael Keaton,
Robert Duvall, Glenn
Close and Marisa Tomei
Directed by Ron Howard
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Marisa Tomei and Michael Keaton star as Marty and Henry Hackett
in Ron Howard's comedy-drama "The Paper."
After viewing “The Paper,” I left
the theater with my head spinning,
my heart pounding and a nice case
of the warm fuzzies. Whether it
plays on your heartstrings or makes
you mad as hell, this film taps al
most every one of your emotions.
The all-star cast is definitely the
key to this film, the latest of Ron
Howard’s successes. Michael
Keaton, Glenn Close, Randy Qitaid,
Marisa Tomei and Robert Duvall take
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each role with person,i! sincerity.[
Michael Keaton plays Henivi
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easy to relate to
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touching as he struggles between^
passion for his work and his love!
his wife. His incessant drive to?
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kept my pulse racing throughout tl
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Glenn Close also cpntributectj
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fact that, at 40 something, shest|
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felt I could identify with her,
I’ve never been in her position, during 1
Quaid is also a credit to the fill ■
He plays his classic degenerative
tough-guy part as Keaton’s assist;
editor and cohort. Most of tit
comedic moments in this film;/
solely due to Quaid, whose faciil
expressions and ad-lib comments is
perfectly timed.
Duvall adds his authentic chain
playing the aging editor in
Barney. Barney is paying the du6
for choosing his career over his fait
ily as a young journalist. His regret
coupled with his health problems
really tugged at my emotion)!
sleeve.
The film has the “a day-in-tlitj
lives” type plot. The audienceisin
vited to watch as each of thecharat
ters fights his or her personal battle
The film is a very active 24 hoin'
for the individuals involved. Keatot
and Close butt heads over the mob
of journalism, Tomei fights will
herself, and Duvall battles withb
long-lost daughter; all while amajo
story is breaking. This film is onec
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rounded I’ve seen. It touches of
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without being abrasive and withon 1
forgetting the perks of living. It's 1 !
refreshing reminder that life is
all-sided adventure with really h
highs and really low lows, but it a']
evens out in the end.