On Feb. 19, Tiger Woods broke his three-month silence with a long-awaited 14-minute televised apology. I watched, cringing, as Woods read woodenly from a prepared statement, saying things like he thought since he had "worked so hard" he was "entitled" to "enjoy the temptations" all around him that fame and fortune had brought. He mentioned thinking he didn't have to live within normal marital boundaries, apparently including being faithful. I don't know who wrote this speech, but those things made him sound really arrogant.

Be careful what you wish, TCU faithful, because with conference realignment stewing and brewing, your Horned Frogs' BCS appearances might go from endangered to extinct by 2016.

Scenario 1:

After head coach Gary Patterson received a contract extension through 2016, he stated that he believed TCU could win a national championship without being in a BCS conference.

But that was before real talk surfaced that the Mountain West may be divided and squandered; TCU's Fiesta Bowl debacle may in fact have been its own Custer's Last Stand.

After clinching its 20th victory of the season, the women's basketball team (20-9, 10-3 Mountain West) hopes to maintain its lead in the MWC standings when facing conference opponent Colorado State (13-13, 5-8 MWC) in Fort Collins on Saturday.

Although the team played Tuesday, it entered the game after a seven day lay-off.

"I think that the break has been good for us," head coach Jeff Mittie said. "I think we are really energized right now."

Popular arguments for the moral status of abortion are considered unsound by most philosophers, a University of Colorado philosophy professor said Thursday night in Palko Hall.

The conflict between the embryo's right to life and the woman's right to control what happens inside her own body serves as the underlying issue on the debate on abortion, said Michael Tooley, a philosophy professor from the University of Colorado at Boulder and 2010 Green Honors Chair Professor for the philosophy department.

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Jesus Christ did not live with the ancient people from the settlement near caves in which the Dead Sea Scrolls were found, even though some scholars have argued the contrary, an archaeologist said Thursday...

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Sound like a movie? Jordan Miles certainly wishes that's all it was.

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The Horned Frogs will play the Oregon State Beavers at Cowboys Stadium on Sept. 4 during their 2010 football season, a university official said.

Jack Hesselbrock, associate athletics director for football, said university officials met with Oregon State and Dallas officials Monday. Oregon State has already signed its contract, and TCU is currently reviewing its contract with the university's legal council, he said. The contract will address issues such as ticket allocation and expected attendance. Hesselbrock said the contract would be signed within the next couple of days.

A distinguished philosophy professor will share his views and challenge student and community member opinions with discussions about abortion and the existence of God tonight and Friday afternoon.

Michael Tooley, a philosophy professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, said he hopes to encourage attendees to examine the arguments made by those on both sides of each argument and encourage debate based on logic. He said he wants to challenge students' and community members' views on abortion and what is good and evil.

A world-renowned expert on the background of the Dead Sea Scrolls will be on campus today to discuss the significance of the period in which the scrolls were written and the site in which they were discovered, a Brite Divinity School official said.

Jodi Magness, an endowed biblical archaeology professor from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will give a presentation about the importance of the scrolls, a set of Old Testament manuscripts, and Qumran, their place of origin, said Nancy Ramsay, dean of the Brite Divinity School.