After snapping a two-game skid, the women's basketball team welcomes an opponent Sunday that holds a lot of tradition, the head coach said. Following an impressive performance from senior guard Adrianne Ross, the Lady Frogs will go head-to-head with state rival Texas A&M on Sunday at Daniel-Meyer Coliseum... (0) comments
It may be impossible to argue with the women's basketball team's decade of success or men's basketball's early-season prosperity, but it is evident the programs have been recruiting outside traditional avenues to strengthen their teams. The two programs have a combined 10 players - five on the women's team and five on the men's team - on scholarships this season that have either transferred from another Division I program or have come from a junior college... (1) comment
The outcry over viewership of NFL games reached its crescendo last night when this year's two NFC powerhouses met up in Dallas on the NFL Network. It was the first matchup of 10-1 teams since the 90s and involved two of the most beloved franchises in all of sports, yet 2/3 of the... (0) comments
Female athletes suffer more concussions than male athletes playing the same sports at both the college and high school levels, according to an upcoming study in the Journal of Athletic Training. TCU team physician Dr. Sam Haraldson defined concussion as "a complex patho-physiological process affecting the brain induced by traumatic biomechanical forces. (0) comments
They come from Division I schools as big as Cal and Nebraska and junior colleges as small as Frank Phillips Junior College in Borger and Colby Community College in Colby, Kan., but they are all donning the purple and white this season. And the roads traveled to get to Fort Worth for a couple of smooth-shooting, left-handed players were as different as the schools they went to before TCU. (0) comments
We all get tired. And I am not talking about the kind of tired you get the morning after a long night of responsible - or careless - partying, or the level of tired you might be after pulling an all-nighter in the library for an 8 a.m. final. No, I am definitely not talking about the mornings that ask yourself, "Why did I order that last drink?" "Why did I order that second taquito at Whataburger?" or "Has it really been three days since my last shower?" It is the tired you get when you are frustrated or disappointed... (0) comments
TCU football has a player graduation rate 12 percent higher than the national average, a study found. According to a recent NCAA study on graduation rates, TCU is graduating an average of 78 percent of its senior football players, while the national average is 66 percent. The Horned Frogs also ranked in the top five for graduation success rates... (0) comments
Five studio art majors are displaying their artwork before a TCU audience for the last time before their December graduations. The Bachelor of Fine Arts Studio Art Senior Exhibition ends today after a week of showcasing a variety of projects. Jennifer Dawson, a senior studio art major, said she was surprised by how many people came to the show... (0) comments