Last September, when he was running for office, President Barack Obama made a promise that families making under $250,000 wouldn't see a tax increase of any kind.

Now Congress and the White House are using a new tax on cigarettes and tobacco products to balance federal spending, but even in spite of the good intentions of the tax to dissuade users from smoking, the timing puts unnecessary financial pressure on those who can't kick the habit.

Carrying on the tradition of using their talents to give back to the community, Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma teamed up to play a benefit concert for the family of a sick child in Birdville this month.

The concert was the culmination of a week-long fundraising campaign to benefit Angel, the 3-year-old son of Francisco Menjivar, a janitor at Birdville High School.

Angel was born with an esophageal hernia that required an operation to repair. The surgery, completed in November, was successful, but left the family with a financial hardship.

The women's soccer team closed out its spring schedule in exciting fashion with a 4-4 tie against the Texas Tech University Red Raiders at Garvey-Rosenthal Soccer Stadium on Saturday night.

The Horned Frogs jumped out to a 2-0 lead with a pair of goals from freshman forward Jordan Calhoun and freshman defender Kaitlyn Shelledy.

After a sluggish start, Texas Tech responded with three unanswered goals, including one with a minute remaining in the first half. The Red Raiders led 3-2 with just under 20 minutes left to play in the game.

Bumper stickers are a wildly popular form of expression in America, but I view them as a drive-by offering of an unasked-for opinion.

See, a dynamic debate is sort of like a one-on-one fist fight for opinions, whereas bumper stickers are more like punching someone in the face and then zooming away in a golf cart.

Having strong convictions is great, but handing them out without a chance for dispute is both spineless and annoying.

The Horned Frog hitters ate their Wheaties Sunday morning.

Five sluggers belted home runs, including two grand slams in the fifth inning, in a 19-3 rout of New Mexico with the wind blowing straight out at Lupton Stadium on Sunday afternoon. TCU (19-9, 6-3 MWC) completed a weekend sweep of the Lobos (25-8, 5-4 MWC) to leapfrog New Mexico and move into a tie for first with San Diego State atop the conference standings.

Mostly donning sweaters and jackets, about 600 children raced on Sadler Lawn on Sunday to collect sweet treats during the 15th Annual TCU Easter Egg Hunt sponsored by the TCU Young Alumni Chapter.

For the second game in the row, drama in the eighth inning and a late TCU rally helped push the No. 22 Horned Frogs past the 18th-ranked New Mexico Lobos Friday night at Lupton stadium.

Sophomore RHP Steven Maxwell got the start for TCU, pitching five innings and allowing two earned runs on four hits. Tyler Lockwood got the win in relief, throwing 52 pitches in four inning and allowing only one earned run.

The No. 28-ranked women's tennis team returns home this weekend to play three matches against conference opponents, with the expectation to win all three, the team's coach said.

"Based on the rankings, we're favored to win all three," head coach Jefferson Hammond said. "Our expectation is to do that, but we have to get out there and earn it."

The team plays the No. 49-ranked University of Utah on Friday, No. 57-ranked Brigham Young University on Saturday and the University of New Mexico on Sunday, all at the Bayard H. Friedman Tennis Center.

This is the longest week ever.Longer than the week before Christmas, your birthday or Easter if you have been good this Lent.It's the final few days before the beginning of Major League Baseball's regular...