Yesterday, Binghamton University sent its women's volleyball team on a three-and-a-half hour bus ride to State College. When the players left at 6:30 a.m., it marked 37 hours until they dance with a team, town and tournament they've never seen.

Brianne O'Rourke grew up in Pittsburgh, and while she devoutly follows the Steelers, the Pittsburgh Panthers did not draw near the attention as the Steel Curtain.

When the Penn State men's basketball team takes the court tonight in the Reed Center at Texas A&M, there will be no cameras, no announcers and no jeering Aggies fans. That's because the game isn't until 4 p.m. tomorrow.

She never knows it, but her former coach and mentor still watches her, admiring her transformation from a young girl into perhaps the most successful young coach in the history of women's soccer.

With the new ACHA rankings coming out today, the No. 4 Penn State ACHA Division I Icers are starting to make a case for a return to a more familiar ranking -- at the top of the league.

After starting the season with one of more brutal schedules in the country, the Penn State wrestling team now gets a break -- sort of.

Every team has one or two games during its season that tend to define the year. A major victory or a heartbreaking loss could ultimately determine a team's destiny.

The fair thing to say is that every opponent should be attacked the same way. The truthful thing to say is that there are those opponents that you just want to beat more than others.

This weekend Penn State women's soccer will attempt to win its first national title.

The storied Penn State fencing program begins its quest for another national title this weekend at the White Building against five other schools.

Sports in brief

Sports in brief

IFC tours step toward bridging gap between community, fraternities

My Opinion: Allison Busacca

My Opinion: Erin James

What do you think of Target allowing pharmacists to refuse to fill Plan B prescriptions?

• Affirmative action helps minorities to succeed
• Death sentence fails to decrease crime rate
• Costs of death penalty outweigh all benefits
• Link obvious between death penalty and race
• Target Plan B policy within law's confines
• Target policy legal, not rights violation
• Students find home when away at PSU
• Loyalty more than tents, camping out
• Tours help residents, IFC come together
• Delta Sigma banning hurts Thon children

As is the trend these days, at the culmination of a music legend's career, someone decides to make a movie about the legend's life and show how the star "truly" lived.

Great things -- rather magical things -- only come around once every so often.

Move over metrosexuals, there's a new social group entering mainstream America -- beware of the female chauvinist pigs.

Go ahead and make fun of the past two John Mayer albums. God knows I have. The fluffy jazz-pop he's been known for -- that your mother and father listened to in their minivan, all while driving a safe 45 miles an hour -- has been a Top 40 radio staple. Forget about all that for just a minute.

Two questions. Did you ever go to a concert where the band skipped over your favorite song? And, is "Muzzle of Bees" anybody's favorite Wilco song? Why do I ask, you ask? Because Wilco, once one of the finer bands still in action, has a new live album on which it only does three songs total from its two best albums and nearly every track from its worst (and most recent), A Ghost is Born.

The students in Penn State's Orchesis Dance Company said they are excited about their showcase performance this weekend.

Arts in brief

Allen Street Grill, 100 W. College Ave., will feature Bill Filer (231-4745).

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