It's easy to praise an athletic director when times are good. Chris Del Conte arrived at TCU just a couple months before the football team went to its first BCS bowl, and about a month after that the baseball team began a season that ended in Omaha.

Times were good.

And now, about 13 months after Del Conte's arrival, times have legitimately never looked better for TCU athletics. And Del Conte is to thank for that.

Who needs to man up this week? The Miami Heat.

The Heat have gotten off to a slow start this year and have lost four of their last six games. This is a team that had huge expectations coming into the season after adding two superstars, LeBron James and Chris Bosh, to compliment Dwayne Wade.

So who is to blame for this unexplainable start? Sure you can blame their head coach, Erik Spoelstra, but if you have three superstars playing on the same team, it shouldn't matter who the coach is.

Coming off of their third loss on the road this season, the women's basketball team will return home to the Daniel-Meyer Coliseum to face the University of Houston Thursday at 6:30 p.m.

The TCU women's basketball team currently has a 3-3 record and have won both home games this season.

The University of Houston women's basketball team has won three consecutive games on the road this season leaving with a 4-0 record.

"Call of Duty: Black Ops" is a game that, living up to the "Call of Duty" name, will draw you in for hours at a time. If you've ever played a "Call of Duty" game before, you'll know that as the series...

The Magic Pill?

They're called "smart drugs," "study drugs," or "brain steroids," drugs like Adderall and Ritalin that are prescribed for treatment of attention-deficit disorder. ADD is a legitimate disorder, but the drugs are increasingly being used illegally by college students to try and help them gain an edge in school.

Some undergraduate students at TCU admit to using the medications to stay up all night, increase their focus, and gain an academic edge.

The distribution and sale of caffeinated alcoholic beverages, including Four Loko and Joose, are no longer permitted in the state of Texas, according to a Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission press release....

For Nikola Cerina, basketball isn't just a pastime. The 6-foot-9-inch sophomore power-forward for the TCU men's basketball team used his talent to transcend the war and violence that raged around him for most of his young life.

Cerina's hometown, more than 5,800 miles away in Topola Oplenac, Serbia, has experienced one conflict after another since declaring independence from Yugoslavia in 1991.

"Growing up in Serbia, there were a lot of bad things going on," Cerina said. "I've been through two wars so it wasn't fun, but I managed to find some escape in basketball."