The men's basketball team opened up its 2007-2008 home conference schedule Saturday with an 83-56 win against the Wyoming Cowboys.

Wyoming entered Saturday's game averaging 73.6 points per game, ranking fourth in the Mountain West Conference, but the Horned Frogs' defense kept the Cowboys from hitting that mark.

In spring 2006, the TCU bookstore went down in flames. In February 2007, TCU officials announced the new bookstore would be complete a year later.

Concrete was poured for the 34,000 square foot building Aug. 16, and TCU's bookstore opened about six months later, which is a pleasing foreshadow on how the rest of the campus construction will turn out.

Although the old bookstore was a sight for sore eyes and seemed to be on campus forever, the long lines and fights for parking were worth the two-year wait.

In addition to offseason preparation that includes player recruiting and game planning, football head coach Gary Patterson now has the task of filling a coaching vacancy.

Mark Cohen, athletics media relations director, confirmed Friday that TCU cornerbacks coach Charles McMillian has taken a position with Texas A&M.

McMillian, who has been TCU's cornerbacks coach since 2004, will be A&M's defensive backs coach.

Cohen said the team is already looking for a replacement and has several prospects.

Don't hate the rapper. Hate the game.Here's the way Grandmaster Flash figured rap: "Let's keep it underground. Nobody outside the Bronx would like this stuff anyway."

He was one of hip-hop's most notorious artists, and he was dead wrong.

Rap music, originally just one element in the wider genre of hip-hop, now has evolved into its own style with several sub-categories.

It has become a multi-billion dollar industry spanning fashion wear, movies, television, food and even automobiles.

When alumnus Adam Blake started buying rental properties around TCU his freshman year, he had no idea his business would make more than a million dollars a year when he was a junior.Blake, 22, is the founder and owner of Blake Venture Corp., a real estate investment and development company in Fort Worth. Entrepreneur Magazine reported in August that his company is projected to generate $2.4 million in sales for 2007. Although he does not disclose this information anymore, he said his actual revenues exceed the numbers from the article.