When the equestrian team's season begins Friday, there will be a tough task at hand - defending a national championship.

However, head coach Gary Reynolds likes his team's chances.

"We're very fortunate to have a strong team with depth this year," Reynolds said.

The team will travel to Lubbock for its first action of the season in a scrimmage with Texas Tech University and West Texas A&M University.

TCU Police got an upgrade. Now, instead of just cruising in police cars, golf carts and on bikes, officers can now be seen riding down the sidewalks on their new scooters.The T3 Motion vehicles are powered...

More than 1,000 students struggling to adjust to the new meal plan joined a Facebook petition in its first week of existence, giving some students hope that changes will be made, the creator of the petition said.

Sophomore prebusiness major Albert Rayle, creator of the Facebook group "Petition against TCU's new meal plan," said the quick response the group received is proof that opposition to the new meal plans is widespread.

When the news broke last month that Senator John McCain selected Alaskan governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, controversy erupted when the media quickly found out Palin's teenage daughter, Bristol, was pregnant. Some Americans wondered why this was even a controversy and some were complaining the news media was showing a liberal bias. Could the real story behind the controversy be that Palin backed abstinence-only education when she ran for governor in 2006?

Rivalry games are among the most emotional of the season for players and fans, and head football coach Gary Patterson said Saturday's game against Southern Methodist University will be no different.

"They're emotional ball games because these kids know each other," Patterson said. "They played each other in high school, they played in all-star games together; they know each other."

TCU has started the season with three wins, while SMU has started with one win and two losses.

The university will include a debating chamber in the construction of Scharbauer Hall at the site of the former student center, a university official said.The chamber will allow faculty and students to...

Volleyball

The Horned Frog volleyball team pushed its win streak to nine games Friday with wins over Texas Tech and New Orleans before having it snapped by Oklahoma the following day.

The Friday match proved to be a historic one as the team matched its longest winning streak in school history, and senior setter Nirelle Hampton placed her name in the school record books in the second match as the all-time career assists leader. She had 50 against Texas Tech and 47 against New Orleans.

TCU withstood Stanford's physicality and delivered some of its own in a 31-14 win Saturday.

A big stop by the Horned Frog defense on a fourth-and-inches play in the fourth quarter helped to thwart a late comeback attempt by the Cardinal when senior linebacker Robert Henson and company stood up runningback Toby Gerhart at the line of scrimmage.

Freshman Ross Evans tacked on a 23-yard field goal on the ensuing possession to make it a two-score game with 2:24 remaining.

Middle line needed in drug legalizationRegarding Matthew Rosson's thoughtful Sep. 11 column, there is a middle ground between drug prohibition and blanket legalization. Switzerland's heroin maintenance...