Head football coach Gary Patterson credited the natural talent of his players for the recent ESPN The Magazine No. 1 ranking of TCU football for developing top National Football League talent.

"They already have the potential," Patterson said. "All we can do is just make them the best player they can be."

Patterson said he hasn't even figured out what the NFL wants.

Recently, ESPN The Magazine senior writer Bruce Feldman ranked TCU No. 1 nationally for its ability to develop NFL talent.

This year's NCAA Tournament has consisted of some memorable upsets and crazy endings. All of the pandemonium has lead to another Sweet 16 where three No. 1 seeds remain and 13 other teams chase for that...

Potential state budget cuts in public education have resulted in cutbacks in hiring of teachers upon graduation, Dale Young, director of teacher placement in the College of Education, said.

Gov. Rick Perry proposed $10 billion in cuts to the public education system, according to an Associated Press article on March 14. More than a thousand teachers, students and school officials protested the proposed cuts last week in Austin on the Capitol steps.

By simply enjoying a sub sandwich at Jersey Mike's this Friday, TCU students, faculty and staff can help support the Wipe Out Kids' Cancer organization of North Texas.

The program also includes WOKC day on Monday at Jersey Mike's, where customers will receive a free regular sub in exchange for a minimum $1 donation. In addition, the TCU WOKC day on Friday offers the same deal for TCU students and staff only.

A bill allocating funding to the "Compassion and Justice Consultation" with special guest Alice Walker was passed Tuesday night in the House of Student Representatives.

According to the bill, SGA will allocate $10,000 to support the event scheduled from April 28 through May 1 at TCU.

Melanie Harris, professor of religion and advocate for the event, said bringing Alice Walker would further TCU's mission statement to help educate individuals to think and act as ethical leaders in the global community.

Student Government Association's vote to allocate $10,000 to support the "Compassion and Justice Consultation" April 28 through May 1 was more than appropriate 8212; it was a necessary step for SGA to...

More than a week has passed since the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, but TCU alumna Jessica Fleming, who lives in Japan, said there was still inadequate access to food and gasoline.

Fleming, who lives in Shiogama, a city about 10 miles east of the city of Sendai, which was 80 miles from the quake's epicenter, said that compared to the citizens who were homeless and those who were located within the 50-mile radius around the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, she and her fiancé's family were doing "A-OK."

Manpower. Human-power. Salesman. Salesperson. History. Herstory.

Genderless language now has also found its way into the 2011 translation of the New International Version Bible.

According to a March 17 story from the Associated Press, the translation changes phrases such as, "If anyone says, "I love God,' yet hates his brother, he is a liar," 1 John 4:20 (NIV 1984) to "brother or sister."

In the days following the TCU Rose Bowl victory in which declamatory billboards from "little sisters of the poor" popped up across Columbus, Ohio, armchair moralists had to inquire: Is rubbing Horned Frog success in the face of doubters a Christian thing to do?

While hopefully in good fun, the billboards nonetheless caused outside observers to ask after the elusive middle word in the TCU acronym: Christian. The TCU student body ought to ask after the same thing. What is TCU's Christian identity, and why is it steadfastly important?

How would you like to be the first to know when that boy or girl you have been pining for is now "single" 8212; or "it's complicated" or "in an open relationship?" You can be the first to know and the first to swoop in, comforting them 8212; or something like that.

Well, thanks to the new Facebook Breakup Notifier app, now you can. "You like someone. They're in a relationship. Be the first to know when they're out of it," boasts the tagline on the app's website.

After the U.S. News & World Report put TCU in the Top 100 for Masters of Business Administration programs, O. Homer Erekson said he was proud of the work put in by all people involved in the school.

Erekson, the John V. Roach Dean at the Neeley School of Business, said, "Our continual upward performance in the U.S. News ranking of top graduate business schools is a testament to our MBA admissions staff to recruit the best students and our faculty to deliver an outstanding master's program in business."