The Horned Frogs got off to a fast start in the 2011 baseball season opener at Lupton Stadium.

The Frogs scored five runs in the first inning and went on to beat the Kansas Jayhawks 8-2.

Frogs' sophomore starting pitcher Matt Purke had a strong outing, throwing four shutout innings on a limited pitch count.

It was predetermined that Purke was going to throw around 60 pitches in tonight's start, head coach Jim Schlossnagle said.

Schlossnagle will keep Purke fresh to start the season. Purke didn't throw all summer or during the fall.

A total of 111 candidates applied to replace Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Don Mills after he announced he would step down to join the faculty of the College of Education May 31.

A committee has now narrowed that field down to five or six candidates, Provost Nowell Donovan said.

William Spelman Executive Search, the company who conducted the initial search for a replacement, advertised the position and then narrowed the candidates down to 15 based on criteria such as salary and job duties, Donovan said.

The World Wide Web is running out of Web, but TCU should be spared from any future problems the change might bring.

Currently, every device connected to the Internet has its own unique code called an IP version 4 number, according to encyclopedia.com. The IPv4 numbers are scheduled to run out in the near future 8212; similar to a situation where a city would run out of phone numbers, according to a wallstreetjournal.com article.

Some news sources reported IPv4 addresses will run out in as little as six months, and others say it could be as long as 18 months.

With Brigham Young University's departure from the Mountain West Conference this season in a bid to go independent in football, it turns out the Frogs will still have a chance to play the Cougars before the Frogs depart to the Big East Conference in 2012.

The Frogs will play BYU next season at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington on Oct. 28 8212; this time BYU will fill a nonconference void Texas Tech left in the Frogs' schedule after the Red Raiders backed out of their game with TCU for the second straight year.

The largest applying class to date of 310 students will begin interviews for entrance into the Neeley School of Business on Saturday, Lynn Cole, assistant dean of undergraduate academics, said.

Cole said the school will look for well-rounded students with great academic qualities. Students usually apply as a sophomore to declare a business major and take upper level courses, according to the Neeley School website.

TCU (10-17, 1-11 MWC) will face No. 7 Brigham Young (24-2, 10-1 MWC) 3:30 p.m. on Saturday in Daniel-Meyer Coliseum in front of what is expected to be a capacity crowd.

The game will be a rematch of a Jan. 18 matchup when BYU beat the Horned Frogs 83-67 at the Marriott Center in Provo, Utah.

All tickets to Saturday's game have been sold out and according to an e-mail sent out by the TCU Athletic Department Wednesday morning, the deadline for students to redeem a ticket with their student IDs was 5 p.m. Thursday.

TCU's Saturday home matchup against nationally ranked Brigham Young University has officially been declared a sellout.

As fans and students wait to fill the stands in Daniel-Meyer Coliseum, the Horned Frogs will have to accept the competition the Cougars have to offer.

Does the 10-17 TCU team, with only a single win in conference play (11 losses) really have a shot to prevail against 24-2 BYU, who conversely has a single loss in conference play? Anything can happen any given night, but the Frogs are the underdogs in this matchup.

"Guitar Hero" will be no more, according to an announcement by Activision Blizzard on Feb. 9. It came following Viacom's decision to sell its own unit that created the "Rock Band" video games.

The game, created by RedOctane in collaboration with Harmonix Music Systems, Inc. studio, made its world debut in 2005.

It quickly gained popularity, and it's not hard to guess why. Ordinary people could feel like they were masters of guitar. Those of us who are tone deaf could actually play music that sounded like music.