As a true freshman, Aaron Brown rushed for 163 yards on 17 carries in a nationally televised game against the University of Utah Utes, officially bursting into the Horned Frog scene.Two years later, Brown, now a junior, will begin his second year as TCU's featured running back, and is no longer in need of an introduction.

Last season, Brown led the team in rushing with 801 yards and finished first in the Mountain West Conference with nine rushing touchdowns. He also averaged an impressive 5.2 yards per carry.

Losing a starting quarterback is bad. Losing a starting quarterback who helped lead a team to a 19-2 record during his tenure as a starter is worse.Head coach Gary Patterson saw this situation develop with the graduation of Jeff Ballard.

After an open competition that spanned from spring practices up until a couple of weeks ago, Patterson named redshirt freshman Andy Dalton as the starter for Saturday's season opener against Baylor University. The thought of Dalton not having taken a snap at the college level isn't forcing Patterson to lose sleep, he said.

Game days releasedAs the schedule was released for the 2007-2008 men's basketball season, non-conference games against three Big 12 opponents highlight this year's string of games.

Perhaps the year's most notable game comes Jan. 2 when the team travels to Austin for a 7 p.m. game with the University of Texas Longhorns.

The team will also have back-to-back meetings with the Texas Tech University Red Raiders and the Oklahoma University Sooners.

The wait is almost over. The NFL regular season is six days away, so prepare your speed dials for that Tuesday morning post-game smack talk.Last week, we looked at quarterbacks and running backs - the bread and butter of most fantasy teams. With passing games gaining consistency around the league, wide receivers are becoming as pivotal as ever in fantasy football.

Ask anyone who had the good fortune to take advantage of Marques Colston as a tight end last year how important having a break out tight end can be to title hopes.

A mostly empty stadium watched the football team, drenched from the sweltering day's work, finish their mock game Saturday then gathered with hands raised in true Horned Frog tradition for the school song.At the song's conclusion, someone in the crowd vehemently yelled, "Go Baylor!"

The adversarial screech underscored how few TCU faithful came out to support the team during "Meet the Frogs."

The attendance is only an epilogue to the fact that outside of last year's game against Texas Tech, TCU hasn't had a sell-out crowd at Amon Carter Stadium since 1984.

Rewarding upperclassmen for their dedication is important in maintaining goodwill across campus and opportunities like tickets to the University of Texas football game are the icing on a four-year cake for seniors. With that being said, the guidelines, or lack thereof, enforced in the lottery to decide who would receive the 800 allotted student tickets show the officials in charge of organizing ticket distribution copped out. Plain and simple.

How old is your body?A new addition to the University Recreation Center, the Polar Body Age System, can answer that question and improve TCU's overall health and fitness, said Stacy Cintron, assistant director of campus recreation fitness and wellness. She introduced this system to help students and faculty practice healthy, active lifestyles. The system uses various tools to calculate an actual age of how old you are and devise personal exercise plans to reach your desired fitness level.

Caliper

Eat your vegetables or no dessert. This is a phrase no child wants to hear. Kids basically have no control over what they eat. Parents buy and prepare the food, and the children have to gulp down whatever appears on their plate. If they do not like what it is, they squirm in their chairs praying that somehow that disgusting pile of green will magically disappear. TCU's nutrition counselor Stephanie Dickerson said, "students are like kids in a candy store," once they get into college, they embrace their newfound freedom and make poor eating choices, she said.

An Interfraternity Council tradition spanning more than 50 years continued Wednesday night as 282 men crossed over the TCU seal in Sadler Hall. After going through three rounds of IFC Men's Recruitment, 318 men gathered in the Brown-Lupton Student Center Ballroom at 6 p.m. to receive their bid cards.

Josh Schutts, coordinator of fraternity and sorority life and IFC adviser, said recruitment started last Saturday with an information session. The first round started with 336 men visiting all the IFC houses.