Awards and speeches, not hits and stolen bases, began the 2009 baseball season.

The Horned Frogs attended the sixth annual First Pitch Banquet Friday night at Ridglea Country Club in the presence of a four-time World Series champion.

The team was proud to welcome Bobby Brown, four-time World Series winner and former American League president, as the keynote speaker for the evening.

There are many things college campuses could do without. One of them is gossip.

College gossip Web site JuicyCampus.com shut down citing the economic downturn, which left the site without sufficient resources to support its "exponential growth."

Advertising companies involved with JuicyCampus soon realized the harmful nature of the Web site and decided to pull their ads. Google and AdBrite pulled their ad platforms from the Web site, bringing some bad press for JuicyCampus.

A study abroad program that will include field trips, hiking to waterfalls, traveling to historic sites and studying at a West African university is in the works, a university professor said.

Komla Aggor, professor of Spanish and program director of the trip, said he knew when he came to the university two years ago that he wanted to establish a study abroad program in Ghana to expose students to culture that are often misunderstood or misrepresented.

You know you picked the right sport when playing it involves walking along the ocean in Puerto Rico, which is exactly where the women's golf team will begin its spring season Sunday.

The Lady Puerto Rico Classic, hosted by Purdue University, will be the Horned Frogs' first tournament since the Las Vegas Collegiate Showdown in October.

The Puerto Rico tournament will be held at the Coco Beach Golf and Country Club in Rio Grande and is scheduled to last Sunday through Tuesday.

Women's basketball team begins second half of conference play.

The Lady Frogs will host Colorado State University (7-14, 2-6 MWC) on Saturday in the first of two straight home games.

The team returns to its home court after a 73-63 road loss to the University of Utah, undefeated in the Mountain West Conference.

With the loss, the team now sits in a tie for third place in the Mountain West with a 5-3 conference record. The Lady Frogs' overall record fell to 13-8.

Business students competed in a case study involving ways to improve coffee conglomerate Starbucks as part of the Neeley School of Business' Leadership Week.Greg Hamre, competition participant and junior...

The track and field team has high expectations this year, the team's head coach said.

But right now, the team is just trying to get everyone healthy and back into the swing of things, he said.

"So far it's kind of been a work in progress; it always is this time of year," head coach Darryl Anderson said. "We train up until Dec. 1, and then they're off for five weeks. We come back and we're scampering to find a groove and a rhythm."