When you hear the words "college athletics," chances are you conjure up an image of a hundred-thousand-seat Big-Ten football stadium packed to the gills on a beautiful Saturday afternoon in the fall, or of Cameron Indoor Stadium with a sea of Cameron
Crazies blowing the roof off the place as Duke battles North Carolina in the ACC tournament. And in fact, college football and college basketball are a huge part of the campus experience at many colleges and universities. But they are only two facets of the image of "varsity sports" on these campuses . . . and the image of "college athletics" is much broader still.

Athletics on the college campus takes many forms"not just the high-visibility sports but also the lesser-known "club" sports and intramural competitions in everything from soccer to inner-tube water polo, which can be as much about the exercise and social experience as they are about the actual "competition." And of course, the broadest idea of college athletics also encompasses your hastily organized running, cycling, or rock-climbing club, daily blading trips along the river, and your Saturday morning pickup hoops game.

In short, there is a place in college athletics for everyone on campus, as a participant and as a spectator. Let's take a quick spin through your options to get you thinking.