For Mary Lou Retton, the first "door of opportunity" came when famed gymnastics coach Bela Karolyi wanted her to move to Houston to train at his gym.

Everyone knows about ketchup.

And so it begins.

Wally Richardson stood under center, waiting for the snap. Matt Schmitt loomed over the line of scrimmage, ready to block defenders. Larry Johnson, Sr. paced the sidelines, carefully watching the play unfold.

Mark Fagerstein did not feel any added pressure when he took the mound in the top of the fifth inning Wednesday evening. At that point he had held Bucknell to no hits during four innings of work

The Penn State softball team's bats have been very quiet in the Big Ten.

Credit check: Transferring courses will be less of a guessing game

My Opinion: Scott Troyan

• Public SRTEs will lead to more grade inflation
• Spanier hasn't been clear on Phillips case
• USG Senate fulfilled some goals this year
• If Saddam had a weapon he would have used it

It's easier than you think.

Pete. Pete. Pete ... what are you doing?

A 160-pound person is equal in weight to 853.3 typical packages of ramen noodles. If you ate one package per day, you could eat your weight in ramen noodles in 2.34 years.

Dave Buznik is probably the first Adam Sandler character in recent memory who actually doesn't need anger management therapy. Jack Nicholson, whose stardom has lasted so long precisely because of his buoyant charisma, has never played a character as utterly obnoxious as anger management therapist Dr. Buddy Rydell. These ironies at the center of Anger Management are not springboards for constant hilarity; rather, they make the audience angry at such careless miscasting.

Cave In is often classified as "alternative metal," an unfair label for a band that owes more to complicated progressive rock than cheesy, wailing guitars.

If the worlds of industrial goth and garage rock collided, the splitting atom would be the sound of the Raveonettes.