Edgar Crespo has been in the United States for less than a year, and it shows.

Frantically searching to find the right verb conjugation, he will sometimes try three forms of a word on for size before he finds one that fits.

Were ... is ... was. There it is.

The noticeable thing about the Olympian from Panama is the look of determination on his face when he goes through this process. Eyebrows sloped downward. Lips slightly pursed. An invisible fire burning in his brown eyes.

After a long road trip, the men's tennis team will return to the courts Wednesday to play their cross-town rivals, Southern Methodist University.

Currently 2-7, the match against SMU will be a welcome relief to a team that played seven of its first nine matches on the road.

Early in the year, head coach Dave Borelli said that he anticipated a tough start to the season due to the number of away games and highly-ranked opponents. At the time, Borelli said he hoped the quality competition would help his young team mature.

Many Democrats and even some prominent Republicans are calling for the federal government to nationalize major U.S. banks in order to control the current economic tailspin. Nothing scares bankers or shareholders...

When Taryn Davis found out her husband lost his life in the Iraq war in 2007, she was a 21-year-old student at the University of Texas at Austin, and her life's dreams had been shattered.

Davis founded The American Widow Project in the wake of her husband's death just a few months after he was killed. The AWP is coming to the university this week to speak to students and generate a teddy bear drive for children who have lost their fathers in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Six years ago, five high school students recorded an album in a Fort Worth church basement. Lots of local support and a major record deal later, Green River Ordinance has released its label debut, "Out Of My Hands."

Lead singer Josh Jenkins said the album is a testimony to the band's work over the past year. Signed by Virgin Records in 2007, the band was ecstatic, but at the same time Jenkins said they understood the weight of the new responsibility.

A billionaire energy tycoon told about 800 people Monday afternoon in the Brown-Lupton University Union Ballroom that if the country does not begin using its own resources, the current crisis will only get worse.

T. Boone Pickens, chairman of hedge fund BP Capital Management and author of "The First Billion is the Hardest," said that in two years the United States could be paying $200 to $300 a barrel for foreign oil if it doesn't cut foreign oil dependency.