A student committee begins raising money today for a national Martin Luther King Jr. memorial to be in Washington, D.C., said the committee's adviser.Deanne Chandler, the program coordinator for Inclusiveness and Intercultural Services, launched the committee and will take the first steps by selling "Build the Dream" wristbands at all Martin Luther King Jr. Day events planned at TCU.

The memorial will be built between the Lincoln and Jefferson memorials, according to the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Foundation Web site.

TCU athletics director Danny Morrison continued to say Monday that he's not surprised head football coach Gary Patterson's name keeps cropping up as head coaching jobs open. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported Friday that Patterson was in talks with officials from the University of Minnesota for the head coaching job. According to a Dec. 6 ESPN article, Patterson has also been considered for other head coaching positions.

Patterson's name was mentioned as a possible replacement at the University of Miami, a position that has since been filled.

The Bowl Championship Series is a hallowed time of the winter holidays when football fans can gather together to complain about which team they feel deserves to be No. 1.Is it the Boise State Broncos who...

Improving to 3-0 in Mountain West Conference play this season, the Lady Frogs reversed a 0-3 start of the season to top the conference standings.En route to breaking into the NCAA top 25 ranks, they have won 13 of their last 14 games, six of them by 20 points or more, according to espn.com.

In their Mountain West Conference opener Jan. 3 at Daniel-Meyer Coliseum against the UNLV Rebels, the Lady Frogs had a 63.9 percent shooting average in the first half, and an 18 point lead at the intermission. The women finished out the game beating the Rebels by 25 points.

"This is the true story of seven strangers picked to live in a house and have their lives taped." This is "The Real World." But this definition of the notoriously feared chapter of our lives only works for those seven people. What is the real world for the rest of us? Because, aside from potluck dorm assignments, it is unlikely that any of us will live with strangers, let alone have our encounters filmed.

The first home swimming and diving competition of 2007 gave the H20 Frogs confidence with the conference meet just six weeks away, the head coach said."This was a great win for our guys," head coach Richard Sybesma said. "Last season, Utah defeated us in the dual meet and conference meet, so this was a huge upset for us."

Last season the Utes swept the H20 Frogs men's team on two occasions, but this time around, TCU won 15 of 16 events.

Between being a full-time nurse, showing miniature horses, making a 22-year marriage last, watching her high school daughter march in the band and supporting Texas A&M University football for her freshman Aggie, Carla Crider finds time to go to school by taking online classes.Crider graduated from Tarleton State University and went to teach for one year at an East Texas public high school in 1982. It was a less than pleasant experience, Crider said. After working in a number of jobs she didn't like, she decided she would be a nurse and has been for 11 years.