DISC-ussion

11/18/09 1:06 AM

by Trevor Janis and Jack Mazur Ultimate Frisbee Players   Jack: Our long road trips, like the one we had last weekend to Missouri really give us a chance to get to know our teammates. Trevor: There’s something about being trapped in the rental mini-vans for eight hours that really brings out the honesty in people. J: We learned about you and some of your wacky antics. T: Oh, you mean how I once kidnapped a friend and drove him eight hours to the Mall of America just for the day? We got there at 10 p.m., spent the night in a hotel, spent an hour in the mall the next morning and then drove home. J: Sounds like a pointless trip. T: It’s almost as good as the time I spent 48 hours in the cold outside a Best Buy waiting for the Wii to come out. J:...

DISC-ussion - Take two

11/11/09 2:42 AM

Trevor: It’s hard to write a blog when you have so many opinions. Jack: It’s hard to write a blog people might actually care about. T: It’s hard to write a blog people care about when you play a sport nobody but us cares about. J: So how could we make people care about Ultimate? T: It may come as a surprise to you, but not everyone knows we actually have a team … that actually plays in tournaments.  People knowing we exist could help. J: Really?  I’m totally shocked.  I just assumed we were right up there in popularity with basketball. T: We are … J: Haha, not quite. T: So maybe if people got to know us, they’d care? J: I don’t know about that. The guy I’ve lived with for two years still makes fun of me for...

No Wisconsequences Tournament/Set-up for Disc-ussion

10/21/09 2:06 AM

Loyola University’s Ultimate Frisbee team gets little recognition.  There is a general notion in the public that Ultimate is a hobby for hippies, a lazy man’s way to spend the day: a game. Darkwing — the men’s Ultimate team here at Loyola — knows there’s much more to the game than most people see. We went to a tournament in Wisconsin with over 50 other teams this weekend, and competition was fierce.  It may be hard to recognize Ultimate as a sport without experiencing it, but almost every college in the U.S. has a team, and the No Wisconsequences tournament hosted a good number of them on Oct. 16.  As a club team with no space at Loyola, we have to travel to our tournaments by rental van and stay crammed into hotel rooms by the dozen,...