Samuel Alito comes to town. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is apparently a fan of college sports. During a trip to Indianapolis last week, Justice Alito visited with NCAA President Myles Brand and toured the Hall of Champions, which has been nominated as one of the top museums in Indianapolis. During the tour, Justice Alito and Dr. Brand paused for a couple of moments to shoot a few baskets in the Hall???s gymnasium. No word about who had the better jumper.

UCF opens stadium. Central Florida has brought football back to its campus with the opening of Bright House Networks Stadium last Saturday. More than 45,000 fans showed up to watch the Knights battle sixth-ranked Texas, and the energy almost carried the home team to victory, but the Longhorns prevailed, 35-32. Myles Brand was present at the historic game and praised the stadium project: ???They've built a fine stadium that's functionally terrific, but it's not lavish. And it makes great sense. We're not seeing that in every institution. Sometimes we're seeing expenditure that's resulting in problems for some institutions in terms of debt load."

No place like home. Think you can beat New Jersey City???s volleyball team in Jersey City? Forget it. The Gothic Knights won their 34th consecutive home match on Tuesday, sweeping Montclair State (30-25, 30-11, 30-23) to improve to 10-1 overall. Senior middle blocker Lizzelle Cintron collected her 91st career double-double with 16 kills and 11 blocks, and moved into 17th place in NCAA history with 2,457 career kills.

A scoring machine. Dallas soccer player Adam Lunger needed just five games into his junior year to score his 100th career point. Lunger connected on the game-winning goal early in the second half of the Crusaders??? 4-0 win over Illinois College on Sunday. With 43 goals and 14 assists during his career, Lunger has already become one of the most prolific scorers in school history. A strong student-athlete, Lunger carries a 3.0 GPA and plans to major in business and pre-medicine.