On Senior Day, two seniors led the volleyball team to a sweep (25-17, 25-18, 25-20) over Wyoming in Utah's last home match of the season Saturday.

Universities are homes to secret societies8212;Yale's Skull and Bones, Dickinson's Raven's Claw, Cornell's Quill and Dagger8212;but between the sneakers, sweat and slam dunks, the U's hasn't become so infamous.

The Utah Museum of Natural History hosted a lecture Thursday called "Dinosaurs of the Lost Continent" at Judge Memorial High School in Salt Lake City, featuring Sampson, a U paleontologist and rising star in the dinosaur field.

In a state where God, Jerry Hughes and football are one and the same, the defending Mountain West Conference champion Utes were handed their first conference loss of the season. TCU's plan for keeping its undefeated season alive against the Utes was clear from the beginning: There would be no mercy, there would be no exceptions.

With their slim hopes of repeating as Mountain West Conference champions fading, the Utah volleyball team was unable to hold onto a fourth-set lead and fell to Colorado State 3-1 (20-25, 21-25, 25-19, 23-25) at Crimson Court on Thursday night.

This weekend's showdown between Mountain West Conference powerhouses Utah and TCU will strongly resemble that of 2008 in more ways than one.

The U department of physics and astronomy held the "first light" symposium Wednesday, celebrating the first photographs taken by the department's new telescope.

As if facing 14th-ranked Utah with an undefeated season on the line wasn't enough, add new uniforms, a sell-out crowd and ESPN College GameDay to the mix, and TCU head coach Gary Patterson has a lot on his plate this week.

Last week, many Utah fans wondered whether the Utes would be able to keep their focus on the task at hand as they welcomed a winless New Mexico team into Rice-Eccles Stadium. The Utes took on their last opponent before heading to Fort Worth to meet the team at the other end of the winning spectrum.

Tiffany Benton, a senior in international studies, is one of the five finalists for Hershey's "I'm a Big Fan" contest to find America's biggest college football fanatic.