Photos by Kusum Desai/The Daily Cougar

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Bat this:

Above:Cougar newcomer junior third baseman Chris Klosterman, left, and redshirt freshman shortstop Keith Ahrens groom the sand as the UH baseball team prepares and protects the infield Sunday during its second weekend of practice.

Below: Afternoon showers later forced the team to re-cover the field. 

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George W. Bush became the 43rd president of the United States Saturday in a ceremony that was particularly notable after the most bitterly contested election in more than a century.
 

In response to Brandon Moeller's column "Persian Gulf War: play it again Sam," (Opinion, Jan. 18) I feel it is my duty (and, of course, my privilege) to convey the silent majority's position; or, for all you Hillary Clinton fans, the position of the "vast right-wing conspiracy."

Anne DeSalvois The Amati Girls is an intimate story of four women and their widowed mother who begin to question their roles in life.

Sometimes in long, seemingly fruitless seasons, moral victories can be just as important as bona fide wins.

The Cougar men's basketball team will take anything it can get at this point.