Strong final-day play helped the men's golf team avoid a last-place finish at its weekend tournament.The team finished tied 14th out of 16 teams and shot 34-over as a team at the Carpet Capital Collegiate in Rocky Face, Ga.

The Bill Montigel-led team finished 29 shots back of tournament co-champions, Alabama and South Carolina.

Sophomore Travis Woolf was the top finisher for the Horned Frogs, shooting even-par during the three-round event and finishing tied for 10th overall.

Junior Robby Ormand shot two-over for the team, good for 22nd place.

The soccer team got a full dose of Big 12 and Pac 10 competition at home this weekend and was able to split the two weekend matches.After pulling out a 2-1 victory against in-state rival Texas Tech on Friday, Arizona State came to Garvey-Rosenthal Stadium and secured a 2-0 shutout Sunday - the first game in which goalkeeper Kelsey Walters has allowed more than one goal.

Walters, a freshman, allowed just her second goal in more than 300 minutes in front of the net against Texas Tech and gave up another two goals Sunday to the Sun Devils.

Perhaps head coach Shawn Winget has a crystal ball because his predictions for last weekend's North Texas Invitational became reality.During a Thursday interview, Winget said he was looking for strong performances out of senior Matt Manly and sophomore Festus Kigen in the men's race.

Kigen came out on top of the men's 8K in his first race at the University of North Texas after being scratched from last season's four-mile competition. His time of 24:41.43 beat Patrick Strong of UNT by more than 30 seconds.

In the United States - a country that praises itself for intellectual freedom -- there are still organizations that try to censor great literary works because of so-called controversial material.The week of Sept. 29 will mark the American Library Association's 26th annual "Banned Books Week" in which the ALA encourages readers to protest this censorship by reading books that have been taken off some shelves.

Eons ago, back in the day when MTV played music videos and Tom Cruise didn't jump on couches, you actually deigned to spend your allowance on CDs. Some of those probably had the dreaded parental advisory sticker on them. Those are the ones you stashed far and deep in your dresser lest your parents find them and pop a blood vessel.

Gone are those days. But lyrics today are as explicit as ever, causing disgruntled Wal-Mart executives and prompting grandmas to pray an extra "Hail, Mary" for our generation's collective soul.

The Interfraternity Council met Sunday for three hours to create a proposal that outlined sanctions against four fraternities involved in an August brawl, but James Parker, assistant dean of Campus Life, said Monday he had yet to see it.Josh Schutts, coordinator of fraternity and sorority life and IFC adviser, said he and Dane Pearson, chief justice of IFC, would present the proposal to Parker but as of Monday evening, Parker said in an e-mail he had not seen it.

A new parking lot is scheduled to open Monday on Greene Avenue across from the GrandMarc apartments. The parking lot will have 51 parking spaces available to anyone with a TCU parking sticker, said Lisa Albert, assistant director of communication. \

"It is a general lot that is geared toward commuters," Albert said. "But faculty, staff and other students with permits will be able to park in the lot."

The president and corporate secretary of Southwest Airlines said Thursday morning that the customer is not always right.Colleen C. Barrett, who is on the Board of Directors of JC Penney, in the Junior Achievement Hall of Fame and was named by Forbes magazine one of the most powerful women in business, spoke to faculty, staff, students and businesspeople Thursday morning during the Tandy Executive Speaker Series.

Short called her a "sergeant mother" and said she takes good care of her employees.

Coming off a quick turnaround following the Inverness Intercollegiate, the No. 17 men's golf team heads to Rocky Face, Ga., for the Carpet Capital Collegiate tournament.SEC teams such as Alabama, Georgia and Auburn, and ACC teams such as Georgia Tech and Clemson will be part of the field, head coach Bill Montigel said.

Montigel said the condition of the course is what keeps the Horned Frogs coming back to The Farm Golf Club year after year.

My sincerest condolences for those of you who started Drew Brees this past week, but keep your collective chin up. At least you didn't draft Brandon Jacobs, right?The unfortunate theme for week one was injuries. The good news is if you do not have a wounded star on your roster, his backup could be available and become your new starter.

But before we get into this week's stuff, here are a couple thoughts for the week:

1. Seriously, what the heck happened to Deion Branch?