This weekend proved to be a weekend of fun-filled sports and rivalry. I found this out the hard way when I walked out to the Quad Lot on Saturday morning to find that my car had been tagged. presumably by SMU students.

My back window now proclaimed that "I 'heart' SMU Mustangs" and my side windows had been filled in completely with red shoe paint. A majority of the other cars in the lot had similar markings.

I soon found out that several rows of cars in the Stadium Lot had the same messages spelled out on them.

As many as 40 cars parked overnight Friday in the heart of campus bore shoe polish graffiti Saturday morning that suggests an SMU prank, and TCU Police officers said they saw no one suspicious entering the parking lot.The vehicles, which were parked in the Quad Lotadjacent to Frog Fountain, had messages saying, "I 'heart' SMU." Windows at the University Recreation Center were also vandalized, TCU Police said.

On Saturday, TCU played SMU in the Iron Skillet rivalry match.

Senior marketing major Matt Looloian said he saw the vandalized cars at 8:15 a.m. Saturday.

The offense sputtered, the defense gave ground and the kicking game failed the Frogs in their 21-10 loss to Metroplex rival SMU on Saturday night in Dallas, giving the Iron Skillet back to the Mustangs for the first time since 1998. Quarterback Tye Gunn faced pressure, missed targets and threw three interceptions on his way to a 16 for 36, 134-yard performance that characterized a futile Frog offense that managed only three points.

Head coach Gary Patterson had trouble explaining the ineffectiveness of Gunn and the Frog offense.

A determined TCU soccer team fell to Boston University 1-0, but rebounded with a 1-0, double-overtime win against Northwestern State as part of the Horned Frog Invitational at Garvey-Rosenthal Stadium over the weekend.After the Frogs' loss, a frustrated head coach Dan Abdalla commented on the outcome of the game.

"We really should have won," Abdalla said. "We have the talent, and we have the potential. All we need is someone who will step up and take charge of the team. If there is anything we lack, it is a leader."

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"The future of TCU lies in the connection to our past," Chancellor Victor Boschini said Wednesday at University Convocation.Students, staff, trustees and members of the Fort Worth community attended Convoation that kicked off the beginning of a new academic year.

TCU's Vision In Action plan was the theme of Boschini's speech.

"Our Vision In Action planning phase is over," Boschini said. "We are on to the next level now."