The intellectual journey of philosophy is definitely the road less traveled by TCU undergraduate students. Every year, the university awards degrees to a handful of brave souls who have spent nearly half...

After suffering a fractured left foot which kept him inactive for 38 games, all eyes have been on Dallas guard Rodrigue Beaubois since his return to the hardwood Feb. 16.

The 6-foot-2 guard finished with a solid 14 points and six assists in a 127-109 home rout against New York March 10 and tallied 15 points and four assists in a 101-73 rout of Golden State Sunday. Beaubois has averaged 19.5 minutes per game in 16 games this season, but head coach Rick Carlisle is looking to extend minutes for Beaubois.

With 85 women participating in Joe's Run, one of Fort Worth's biggest charity runs and benefitting homeless men and women with HIV/AIDS, Eta Iota Sigma sorority will have the second biggest team in Saturday's race.

HIS Vice President Katie McGee said she thought Joe's Run is a good way to do philanthropy and get involved. McGee, a junior strategic communication and film-television-digital media double major, said it is the sorority's third year to be involved in the run.

Renowned Los Angeles jazz trombonist Alex Iles will be the guest artist at the 34th annual TCU Jazz Festival, which debuts Friday, Director of Jazz Studies and Professor of Music Curt Wilson said.

Iles, who works as a musician and has performed with such names and acts as Joe Cocker, Hans Zimmer and Prince, said that when he plays at festivals like these he often makes some new friends while bumping into some old ones.

"It has a real familial feel to the whole thing, so it's really more of a celebration of the music than anything," he said.

Head baseball coach Jim Schlossnagle said he never doubted his teams attitude or effort, but a win over the Texas State Bobcats Tuesday evening may have taken some of the steam out of his doubts regarding No. 14 TCU's situational intelligence and execution going into TCU's weekend series.

The Horned Frogs (13-7) will face the University of Houston Cougars (11-11) in a three-game series beginning Friday at 6:30 p.m.

The Horned Frogs will put their all-time undefeated record versus The University of Texas at Arlington to the test Wednesday.

TCU is currently on a two-match winning streak, with their last victory taking place at Rice. The Frogs came back to win that match 4-3 after falling behind early 3-0.

The Frogs are 13-0 against the Mavericks. The teams met every year from 1995 to 2007 before a four-year hiatus leading up to the match this year.