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.

An educator and author of 15 books will lecture to an audience of local school administrators and teachers about her ideas on improving education today and Wednesday.Nel Noddings, this year's school of education Green Honors Chair, is a Professor of Education at Stanford University.

During her visit, Noddings will give two lectures, the first of which will be on her book, "Happiness and Education." The lecture will focus on great thinkers of the past and their ideas on happiness, Noddings said.

A star emerged from TCU's Oscar E. Monnig Meteorite Gallery when the director of the gallery appeared on the pilot episode of a new science TV show. Teresa Moss, director of the Monnig Meteorite Gallery, appeared on the first episode of "Wired Science," a PBS series that debuted nationally Jan. 3.

"Wired Science" is "a new show about science, technology, adventure and innovation," according to a PBS press release.

Moss appeared in the "Meteorite Hunters" segment of the show.