A TCU alumna and her husband left positions in the corporate world to open The Wine Frog, an importer and distributor of small-label wines.Natalie and Jacques de La Giraudi‚re said they opened The Wine Frog over two years ago because they wanted freedom and independence in a business.

"We were ready to risk everything to have something of our own," Natalie de La Giraudi‚re said.

She said the name Wine Frog is derived from the derogative term "French frog" and is also a "wink to the local mascot."

The Lady Frogs (10-6, 4-1) will look to improve their losing record against ranked teams tonight when they play No. 20 BYU (15-1, 4-0) at Daniel-Meyer Coliseum.TCU, which was outscored 391-282 in its five losses to top 25 teams this season, got its only win over a ranked opponent on Jan. 11 against then-No. 18 New Mexico. That victory marked the first in the four-game winning streak the Lady Frogs will look to extend tonight.

Head coach Jeff Mittie said BYU is not only a complete team, but an efficient one as well.

The City of Fort Worth held a meeting Wednesday to hear citizens' concerns about zoning issues affecting, among others, TCU students. The meeting was conversely heated and reserved at the same time. Reserved in that open discussion of a controversial issue separates American government from, say, Cuban dictatorship.But heated in that we heard reports of flying potatoes launched into residential property by TCU students using PVC-pipe weaponry.

Students and local residents can expect at least another 18 months of construction on and around Berry Street as Fort Worth moves toward an entire reworking of the TCU area.The construction is part of the Berry Street Initiative and a larger effort to transform Berry Street into the "college community fabric," said Fort Worth City Council member Wendy Davis.

The Berry Street Initiative is a group of local residents, volunteers and private investors working to revitalize the Berry Street area, said Kristi Wiseman, council aide to Davis.

Junior wide receiver Cory Rodgers will be forgoing his senior season at TCU and entering the NFL Draft after changing his mind several times in the past two weeks.Rodgers originally told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram on Jan. 10 that he was leaving school for the NFL. On Jan. 17, teammate Eric Buchanan said Rodgers had reconsidered and had already re-enrolled in classes for the Spring 2006 semester. Other team officials were unable to confirm the matter, and Rodgers' most recent decision came later the next day.

Eleven weeks of flawless basketball and then, on one tragic Saturday, it all came screeching to an ugly halt.It's been a long time since every undefeated team in men's college basketball lost on the same...

According to Webster's New World College Dictionary: Fourth Edition, the word eternity is defined as time without beginning or end; a long period of time that seems endless; or the endless time after death. For senior forward Chudi Chinweze, the definition is much more specific: exactly 548,627 minutes.

Since Chinweze suffered a season-ending left knee injury against Kansas on Dec. 9 of last year, the countdown to his return has been anything but quick.

Tony Burgess learned that the smallest things could make the biggest difference in the ecosystem during his 19-year experience with the Biosphere 2 project.Burgess, a professor of professional practice with the TCU Institute of Environmental Studies, spoke about the Biosphere 2 project, which he said was an attempt to see if it was possible for man to create a self-sustaining community of organisms that the physical environment would sustain.