Normally, the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas is when retailers cheer. Stocking up on their goods like packrats, they prepare for the onslaught of shoppers.In good economic times, retailers are...

The men's and women's swimming and diving squads faced off against the University of Utah in a conference meet Friday night in the University Recreation Center.

The men's team walked away with a 145-92 victory while the women ended their evening in a tie with the Utes at 121.5 points each.

The men's decisive victory gave the team its first Mountain West Conference win of the season. The team's conference record now stands at 1-4 while its overall record was pushed to 2-5 with the win.

The stretch run and fantasy playoffs are upon us, which, coincidently and unfortunately, means this is my last column of the season.

Your roster should be almost completely set at this point. You know who you can count on and who you can't from week to week, but it's the fringe players who will end up making the difference. Watch the injury reports and churn the bottom of your roster looking for matchups.

The men's basketball team topped the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Runnin' Rebels 80-73 in Daniel-Meyer Coliseum on Saturday.

The game was each team's second in Mountain West Conference play this season.

The loss puts the Rebels' overall record at 13-3 with a 1-1 mark in conference play. The team came into the match having won its previous eight games and held an 11-1 all-time record against the Horned Frogs before entering Saturday's matchup.

The semester is almost over, meaning fall sports are pretty much done and now is the time to congratulate some people for having great seasons.TCU Athletics Fall MVP: Junior defensive end Jerry Hughes.Hughes...

My junior year at TCU, the TV series "Heroes" premiered. In the beginning, before the self-indulgence and convolutions, it was a pretty darn good show.

The "hero" who I immediately fell in love with, like many other of the show's viewers, was the appropriately-named Hiro, a Japanese office drone who discovered he had the power to teleport through space and time just by squinting his eyes.

Unlike a lot of the other characters, who complained about what a horrible burden having awesome superpowers was, Hiro relished his teleporting abilities. And who wouldn't?

Two experts on criminal justice from across the country will address how to improve the justice system in Tarrant County in a conference today at the Brown-Lupton University Union ballroom.

The two guest speakers will give advice on improving community issues by gathering community leaders to work together.

Julius Lang, director of technical assistance for the nonprofit Center for Court Innovation in New York, will speak on community justice. The nonprofit works with criminal justice agencies to implement problem-solving initiatives.

Residential Services is asking graduate students living in 15 townhouses on McCart Avenue to move out and allow undergraduate students to take their place, a university official said.

Craig Allen, director of Residential Services, said that 16 townhouses housing 32 people on Sandage Avenue were converted from graduate to undergraduate housing last year. Juniors and seniors occupy those townhouses now, he said.

"Our first and foremost priority is undergraduate student housing," Allen said.