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When analyzing the statistics, the strength of the Horned Frogs' baseball lineup for the 2011 season resides in the outfield.

Junior right fielder Brance Rivera said the team is focused on playing the game the same way it always has.

Rivera appeared in 60 games and made 48 starts during the 2010 season. He finished the season with a batting average of .342 and an overall fielding percentage of .989.

When Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler came out of the NFC Championship Game in the third quarter last Sunday against the Green Bay Packers after a putrid first half because of a sprained knee, the reaction among active NFL players, as well as members in the media, was universally negative. Maurice Jones-Drew, a star running back for the Jacksonville Jaguars, tweeted during the game, "the urban meyer rule is in effect right now... When the going gets tough........QUIT."

Streets in downtown Fort Worth will be closed during "Super Week," a string of planned events from Jan. 31 to Feb. 6 leading up to Super Bowl XLV.

According to information on Fort Worth's official website, sections of 4th, 12th, 14th and 15th streets will be temporarily closed, as well as parts of Houston Street and Main Street.

Sagar Bathija, a senior finance and accounting major, works downtown at Q Investments. The street closures near his workplace will make his commute to work more stressful, he said.

The TCU Board of Trustees approved the addition of three new fraternities to the Interfraternity Council within the next three years, Keith Becklin, an IFC adviser, said.

IFC made the decision to add more organizations after noticing about 400 men were without a fraternity to join at the end of the recruitment process, he said.

Becklin said that once IFC received information from interested fraternities, it will begin discussing which fraternities should be added to the campus.

The TCU band will perform at Sundance Square Monday for ESPN's Mike and Mike in the Morning radio program.

The performance was set after Ed Bass called the athletic office wanting the band to participate in the show, associate director of bands Brian Youngblood, said.

"The group will be staged and possibly get on national TV and be heard nationally on the radio," Youngblood said.

Men's tennis

vs. Texas A&M-Corpus Christi

Men's tennis will play Texas A&M-Corpus Christi at home on Saturday after the Frogs defeated both the University of Texas at Arlington and University of Texas-Pan American 6-1 last weekend. The Islanders dropped their last match at New Mexico 7-0. The Islanders will face Baylor in Waco on Friday before arriving in Fort Worth to play TCU Saturday.

WHEN: 10 a.m. Saturday

WHERE: Bayard H. Friedman Tennis Center

Women's basketball at Air Force

Head men's basketball coach Jim Christian's goal at the beginning of the season was to get 17 wins.

But after losing 71-46 to New Mexico on the road Wednesday, that goal might be unrealistic, and Christian knows it.

"At this point I can't [look at 17 wins as a goal]. At this point, it's what can I do to get through to guys as individuals to get them to play better as a team, and as a whole, to win the game that night. That's what it's really about now," Christian said.

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