Football used to be so easy.You'd drive the ball inside the other team's territory, and you'd score one way or another. You'd either score a touchdown, or you'd settle for a field goal.

And now, I'd love to simply settle for a field goal.

If you're a junior or senior, you were spoiled from 2001 to 2003. Nick Browne held down the fort connecting on 65 field goals in his three years.

He holds 10 school records, including career field goals made, field goals made in a season and field goals made in a single game.

Americans love fast food. I know I do. While I do appreciate the work that goes into, and the quality of a "home-cooked" meal, there is just something about being able to get what I want relatively fast.

In this country, there are restaurants everywhere you look. Some of them are chains like McDonald's and Wendy's, while others are little hole-in-the-wall joints run by mom and pop.

In fact, there are so many restaurants that it is easy to get lost in the sea of fried and greasy goodness.

When receivers coach Jarrett Anderson was asked to describe typical "Coop," he envisioned him "walking into practice with his chest out, with body oil on like he had just been sunbathing somewhere."When the Frogs mention "Coop," they are talking about Ervin Dickerson, a third-year wide receiver from Beeville.

Dickerson's background may be a little different from what most of his teammates have experienced. He was adopted at a young age by a Hispanic family and raised in that environment.

Geraldine Robinson thinks she is just doing her duty to her family.Her family thinks she is a hero.

Since Hurricane Katrina, Robinson, 57, has housed - at least temporarily - about 80 relatives in her 2,800 square-foot house in Grand Prairie.

"It's just something I'm supposed to do," Robinson said. "It's not heroic."

Tell that to Starcylin Williams, Robinson's niece, who evacuated New Orleans.

"I tell her every day I thank God for her," Williams said.

I've got a reputation for being a grammar stickler.Frequently, my friends will e-mail or hand-deliver their term papers to me, asking me to edit them. Most of the time, they ask me to pull no punches and to do my "worst."

And I give them that for which they ask. I let the red ink flow from my pen as blood from an open wound. I slash through words and sentences and, sometimes, entire paragraphs. I catch misspellings, parallel structure mistakes, misuses of predicate nominative and anything else that might impede the overall message of the piece.

Radio-TV-film students are following their "Passions" this semester. "The Young and the Restless" students have learned they have but "One Life to Live," and have come together working at to "The Edge of Night", with six TCU faculty to write, direct, produce and design their very own soap opera.Over the course of the year, under the guidance of the faculty members, students will produce 10 episodes that will begin airing on Tager-TV Channel 40 starting around spring break, professor Richard Allen said.