The men's basketball team will have to follow the weekend's 35-point road loss with a game against one of the conference's hottest - and maybe most complete - basketball teams.The Horned Frogs will host the University of Nevada at Las Vegas (11-8, 5-2) Wednesday when the Rebels come to Daniel-Meyer Coliseum in an attempt to not only continue their strong Mountain West Conference play, but send TCU to its third consecutive loss.

Head coach Neil Dougherty said UNLV's recent success has generated momentum for a team that plays like just that - a team.

Tasty treats provide cool reliefCurly's Frozen Custard

4017 Camp Bowie Blvd.

Curly's Frozen Custard is one of those places I always mean to go to. It's right there on Camp Bowie Boulevard, it's colorful, and, in the middle of a Texas drought, it just looks so good.

Finally, I went for it.

Sure, it's the supposed middle-of-winter, but with the weather as mild as ever, now is as good a time as any to try some frozen custard.

The women's tennis team heads to Wisconsin Thursday for one of TCU's most competitive tournaments of the year.The USTA/ITA National Team Indoor Championships event, which lasts through Sunday, is an invitational event that grants automatic bids to last season's top 12 teams. The final four spots are allotted by an Intercollegiate Tennis Association committee.

Head coach Dave Borelli said the invitation is a testament to the team's recent successes.

"We're pretty honored," Borelli said. "We'll play some real good teams. It's a chance to go out and make our mark."

English is an excellent language. It's changeable and flexible, full of slang, obscure words, foreign words and synonyms, all of which make it easier to express extremely precise shades of meaning.But there are areas where English is lacking.

For instance, how do you answer a question asked in the negative?

This can be very important. Answering your girlfriend's "I'm not fat, am I?" with a simple "yes" or "no" could get you in trouble. You might mean "Yes, you're not fat," or "No, you're not fat," but that's not necessarily how she'll take it.

The American who oversaw Iraq's first steps toward democracy told about 500 students, faculty and citizens at Ed Landreth Auditorium that he thinks he'll see a stable Iraq in his lifetime.Paul Bremer, who served as presidential envoy to Iraq from May 2003 to June 2004, said Friday that the most important result of the war in Iraq was getting the Iraqis on a path to democracy.

"We did a really noble thing in liberating 27 million Iraqis from one of the most brutal dictatorships anywhere in the world at the end of the 20th century," Bremer said.

After her initial singles arrived with little to no success, Nancy Sinatra wasn't expected to enjoy a career like her father Frank's. Then at 26, Sinatra hit pay dirt in 1966 with the single "These Boots are Made for Walkin'".Written by Lee Hazlewood, a successful country producer, "Boots" breathed life into Sinatra's listless career. The song itself is simple and easy to understand, but its placement in time represented something larger.

In the 1960s, women around the country fought just as hard as blacks for equal rights and a better place in society.

His fledgling career has already been lime-lighted by greatness.We've watched him on SportsCenter for over two years now, and he has consistently amazed us. He has made the extraordinary seem ordinary, the impossible simply routine. His numbers -- which are out of this world - already rival some of basketball's all-time greats.

But what LeBron James did Sunday actually made me laugh out loud at the absurdity of how easily he can take over a game.

Ask Judy Gillette, librarian at Meadowbrook Elementary School, "¨C¢mo est  usted hoy?" (How are you doing today?), and you will probably receive a blank face. Ask her again after she completes the 12-hour Command Spanish program and you might hear, "Muy bien gracias. ¨Y t£?" (Very well, thank you. And you?).The Extended Education department is offering 260 Fort Worth Independent School District employees the opportunity to take free Spanish lessons.

According to the FWISD Web site, 42,964 students are of Hispanic descent, nearly 55 percent of the student body.