Now is the time for all sports fans to rejoice.There is just so much going on in the world of sports right now that even the most diehard sports fans in the world struggle to keep up with everything.

The biggest sport at the moment has got to be football, since we are two days away from finding out who will be playing in the biggest sporting spectacle in the United States, the Super Bowl.

Even if you are a Cowboys fan, things are interesting right now. Who knows if Terrell Owens or Bill Parcells will be back next season?

Undergraduate students can now receive grants for projects supporting community service, thanks to a growing service-learning program at TCU.Mark Dunleavy, a junior physics major, received $500 this semester to fund a physics olympics program for local high schools.

The olympics, in its second year, is coordinated by TCU's Society of Physics Students and will expose high school students to experiments and presentations in the sciences.

At a bar in Kansas City, I ran into an ex-boyfriend who asked me if I was single. It made me sad to answer no - and not just because he's cute.Even though I'm currently in a relationship, more or less, in my last year of college, I have always been someone who has loved being single and free - and for good reason.

I barely have time for a boyfriend my senior year of college; it amazes me how people have made time for relationships their freshman year, a time of transition into an entirely different environment.

Much like a sherpa guides climbers up a mountain, an executive coach helps employees with leadership skills for the workplace. That was the idea authors Brenda Corbett and Judith Colemon had when they wrote "The Sherpa Guide: The Process-Driven Executive Coaching," said Deb Baker, director of executive development for Tandy Hall.

The authors of the book developed a course that teaches consultants, executives and human resource professionals how to become better leaders, Baker said.

Music-lovers braved the winter weather and ventured downtown to Fort Worth's Bass Performance Hall on Jan. 13 for an evening of music by the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra.The performance was directed by...

"Progress" is the message the men's tennis head coach is preaching to his team heading into the Met Collegiate Indoor Invitational this weekend in Houston.Head coach Dave Borelli said he wants the team, which has a preseason national ranking of No. 36, according to the Intercollegiate Tennis Association, to put more of an emphasis on progress instead of just winning.

"Sometimes, winning doesn't come all the time, but those experiences will help you later down the line," Borelli said.

A sociology professor said he is using purple bicycles to preserve the world for future generations. The Purple Bike Program, which creator Keith Whitworth, sociology professor, said has become nationally...

It has always amazed me that some of the world's greatest discoveries were accidentally made by people looking for something else. Alexander Fleming, for instance, discovered the antibiotic penicillin in 1928 when his neglected bacteria culture got moldy.

In the 1940s, four teenage boys stumbled upon some of the world's oldest cave paintings in Lascaux, France, when they followed their dog into a hole in the ground.

Even Christopher Columbus was just trying to find a faster way to India when he sailed into the Americas.

Soon, 18 women will have the coveted parts in a play about their coveted parts.The women's studies department is holding auditions for "The Vagina Monologues" on Monday. There will be two performances on Feb. 9- - "V-Day" - that will raise money for awareness of violence against women.

"V-Day" is a global movement to end violence against women. The "V" stands for victory, valentine and vagina.

"The Vagina Monologues" performances serve as the center of an entire week of events known as "V-Week" that aims to raise awareness about sexual abuse.

The soap opera "Southern Comforts," created by TCU students, will be shown in its entirety by Tager TV, the campus cable system. Students can catch the show on channel 47 of on-campus televisions. Though an ending date has not been determined for the broadcast, all episodes of the first season are airing back-to-back continuously, said Deana Muirheid, manager of media production support services.

Muirheid said it is great to be able to showcase student-produced programming, such as "Southern Comforts," on the campus channels.

A change in Student Government Association's constitution may leave Programming Council scrambling for funds, but the group's directors are not discouraged yet. In years past, PC, one of the four branches that form SGA, has collected a fixed rate of 50 percent of the student government fee that appears on student tuition bills each semester, said Kristen Chapman, Programming Council chair.

With the passage of new SGA legislation, however, that sum may change, said Nate Arnold, SGA treasurer.