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Horned Frogs rack up watch lists and honors

Published Aug 9, 2010

A total of seven Frog football players have received preseason All-America honors from various organizations, with six Horned Frogs appearing on watch lists for national awards; Head coach Gary Patterson is also up for an honor.

Included below is an updated TCU preseason honor roll, as of Aug. 12:



Gary Patterson, Head Coach


*Preseason Coach of the Year, Playboy



Marcus Cannon, OT


*Outland Trophy Watch List


*Rotary Lombardi Award Watch List


*Preseason All-American, Playboy

Media Day Q&A

Published Aug 2, 2010

The Horned Frogs' preseason camp opened alongside Media Day. Head coach Gary Patterson and various football players answered questions from the media.Included below are excerpts from Horned Frog coach...

Defensive back Johnson added to Thorpe watch list

Published Aug 2, 2010

Senior Tejay Johnson, a preseason All-America safety, has been added to the 2010 Jim Thorpe Award watch list, an award which is presented to the nation's best defensive back.

The Jim Thorpe Award is named after arguably history's greatest all-around athlete. Recognized in the Pro Football Hall of Fame simply as "The Legend," Thorpe also played professional baseball and won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon.

The Skiff View - Science and math essential for strengthening education system

The Skiff View – Science and math essential for strengthening education system

Published Jul 26, 2010

The Starpoint School's victory at a regional robotics competition inspires confidence in the education program's commitment to promoting math and science education.

The sixth grade team - the Starpoint Pavers - won top honors after beating 63 teams in the North Texas-Oklahoma regional competition sponsored by the FIRST LEGO League International program.

In a January speech, President Barack Obama pointed out an assessment that ranked American teenagers at No. 21 in science and No. 25 in math compared to their peers around the world.

TCU/ISP to broadcast live from MWC Media Day

Published Jul 26, 2010

The TCU/ISP Sports Network will have a live broadcast from the 2010 Mountain West Conference Football Media Day on Tuesday from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. CT at the Red Rock Resort in Las Vegas.The 2010 Mountain...

Columnist - Tax policies should be the next reform

Columnist – Tax policies should be the next reform

Published Jul 26, 2010

Yesterday was April 15, and people rushed, pushed and honked many horns to get their taxes into the post office.

Despite what you hear from both conservatives and liberals, a libertarian, like me, is not against government and taxes. That's what we call an anarchist. However, I do have my complaints about the tax system and believe there could be some wealth-producing changes.

Our system is way too complicated. It's so complicated, in fact, that many people hire someone to do their taxes.

Assistant coach added to baseball staff

Published Jul 19, 2010

Tony Vitello has been announced as the an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator to the TCU baseball team, head coach Jim Schlossnagle announced Monday.Vitello comes to TCU after spending the last...

Ebony Shaw added to women’s basketball staff

Published Jul 19, 2010

Former four-year letterwinner for the Lady Frog's basketball team

Women’s tennis receives new head coach

Published Jul 19, 2010

Dave Borelli, previously head coach for the men's tennis team, has been named the new head coach of the women's program, a university official announced Wendnesday.

Chris Del Conte, Director of Intercollegiate Athletics, said that Borelli, who spent the last four seasons as coach of the TCU men's team, will move back to exclusively coaching the Frog women, a role he previously held for four years from 2002 through 2006.

Women’s golfer checks out for the amateurs

Published Jul 19, 2010

Junior golfer Brooke Beeler has qualified for the 2010 U.S. Amateur Championship held Aug. 9-15 in Charlotte, N.C.Beeler shot a 71 and finished second out of 44 amateurs at the sectional in Crete, Ill....

On The Range

On The Range

Published Jul 15, 2010

They wear cowboy hats. They rope outside of the Winthrop Rockefeller Building. But ranch management students are more than just cowboys. They are all-around Southern businessmen with a dress code, a code of conduct and a sound knowledge of all the ins and outs of the ranching industry.

Jeffrey Geider, Director of the Institute of Ranch Management, said, "They learn how to manage the entire resource. They're really business people learning business practices and principles as it applies to agricultural management."

LEED-ing the way?

LEED-ing the way?

Published Jul 15, 2010

Despite the fact that TCU has
invested millions in environmentally
friendly buildings, the
university is still receiving below
mediocre marks from the College
Sustainability Report Card.

The overall grade of a C- is
based on an average score from
various aspects of a sustainable
university, such as administrative
policies, energy consumption,
food and recycling, green
building, student involvement
and transportation as well as investment
priorities and endowment
transparency.