The Jan. 29 honoring of basketball great James Cash was a long time coming.

It is fun to have had a part in James Cash's TCU jersey retirement. When I was a student at TCU from 1972-76, my father was friends with then-head basketball coach Johnny Swaim. One day I asked Coach Swaim if he had any old jerseys around that he would let me have.

He ended up cleaning out the closet of over 50 sets of uniforms from three different uniform styles. I hauled them back to my dorm room in three big trash sacks.

No. 6 San Diego State defeated TCU 60-53 on Saturday, dropping the Frogs to 10-14 on the season and 1-8 in Mountain West Conference play. The Frogs kept the game within reach, cutting the lead to five points with just over a minute remaining in the game, but the Aztecs won their 16th consecutive home game at a sold-out Viejas Arena. San Diego State improved to 22-1 overall and 8-1 in the MWC.

Approximately 60 miles from campus a big cat sanctuary affords interns the opportunity to get up close and personal with lions, tigers, cougars, and leopards.

The Center for Animal Research and Education (CARE) rescues and rehabilitates sick, injured, and abused big cats.

The Center's interns, who live on site, work full time for four to six months and provide all aspects of care for the cats.

TCU students can now grab sushi within walking distance of campus at HammerHead, a new sushi restaurant and bar under The GrandMarc.

HammerHead, which opened Jan. 19, is a semi-casual Japanese-styled sushi bar founded by the same owners of The Aardvark, located on Berry Street.

Owner Danny Weaver could not be reached for comment, but event coordinator and bar manager Joe Ramirez said Weaver is a sushi fan.

"It's probably his favorite food. I remember he said ten years ago "I'm going to open a sushi restaurant', and here it is," Ramirez said.

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If students tuned in to "American Idol" on Thursday, they may have recognized a familiar face.

TCU 2010 graduate Tim Halperin made an appearance as a contestant on the show's tenth season.

In front of millions of viewers, Halperin earned his golden ticket to Hollywood last week. Now he is officially in the running to be the next American Idol, said Chancellor's Associate for External Affairs Ann Louden.

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The Lady Frogs snapped a two-game losing streak Saturday afternoon with a 63-52 win over San Diego State University at Daniel-Meyer Coliseum.

TCU used a 21-2 first half run to jump out to a lead and never looked back in the second half.

The Aztecs had no way of stopping sophomore forward Delisa Gross, who went 7-of-7 from the field and scored a career-high 20 points in the win.

Lady Frogs' head basketball coach Jeff Mittie said, in a press conference, Gross had better aggressiveness and played with balance on the court.

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The Super Bowl brought national attention to the Dallas-Fort Worth area. TCU students have geared up for a weekend of cold excitement and football. The university sent even sent out a crime tips e-mail warning students about pickpockets and drunk driving.

However, there has been no mention or awareness on campus of one of the biggest problems surrounding the Super Bowl.

A pipe in Sid Richardson Hall burst Thursday morning, taking out power to the TCU servers.

University e-mail, phone and most Internet was taken offline, according to a TCU alert sent Thursday afternoon.

University officials said basic services like Internet, e-mail and university phones should be back up within about a day. However more complicated services, like servers, could be offline into next week.