But sheer dedication alone does not win championships. They are also good athletes. For instance, Weitzel made Sue-Ling famous by bestowing the nickname "Death" on him. The idea is that when he shows up, it's Death for the other team.

It's not much of an exaggeration. Sue-Ling's muscular build belies his lightning quickness, which becomes evident as he flags down ball after ball in centerfield during softball games.

Sue-Ling is not alone. Weitzel coined names for other IM stars as well. Algra is "The Money Store" because he's so clutch; Cho is "The Sparkplug;" Sanchez is Herman "The House" Sanchez; Dosios is "The Greek Wonderchild;" Nicholson is "The General;" and Reid is "The Interior Muscle," for his rebounding skill.

All of this has created the sense of an IM culture at Cabot. Weitzel makes posters every week to put in front of the dining hall, and all the stars have gained fame in Cabot.

As a result, more and more people came out to events. Soon, it spiraled out of control.

"The point of IMs isn't just to win, but to get people to play," says Susie Phillips, who was Cabot's sole IM tutor this year and will join Weitzel in that duty next year.

And Cabot sure does play. In A-league football this year, for instance, Cabot's teams went 6-0, 5-1 and 5-1 during the regular season, with the 6-0 team winning five of its games by forfeit. Some houses are lucky to field one team.

"The fact that any house has three teams [in a sport] is great," Phillips adds. "The fact that Kirkland House had six [crew boats] was great. It's the combination of those two things, of winning and getting people out."

This spirit is summed up best for many by the Night of the Apocalypse. One evening, two winters ago, Cabot House won championships in squash, women's basketball, B-league basketball and A-league basketball. In truth, it was an apocalypse for the other teams.

"During the B-league game we made a human pyramid of the A-league players," Cho recalls. "The A-league won by two points against Mather, and B-league won in double-overtime against Leverett. The pyramid had Billy at the top."

That wasn't the only strange thing intramural have made Cabot residents do. After winning A-league football this year, the team drove back to Cabot in Cho's jeep playing the theme song from "Top Gun" (the power guitar song). Cho then proceeded to take a few victory laps around the Quad.

(This is the same team that Weitzel sells chances to play against at house auctions. If the Cabot team loses, then Weitzel has promised to pay $200 of his own money to the challengers. He hasn't had to pay up yet.)

All this contributes to the idea that Cabot intramurals is a little...crazy. Well, it's sort of true.

Two Sundays ago in Cho and Sue-Ling's common room, Nicholson was remembering what sports Cabot had won sophomore year, coming up with A-league and coed basketball, hockey and softball.

Then, out of the blue, Cho slapped his armchair and yelled, "Damn! Basketball!"