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Texas A&M University-Commerce junior center Christian Macauley has been named the Lone Star Conference's Defensive Player of the Week, announced Tuesday by league officials. It marks the first weekly honor for Macauley and the first for the Lion men's basketball team during the 2013-14 season.

Senior setter Jordan Neal added to her list of accolades Tuesday by being named to the Daktronics South-Central Second Team for the 2013 season. This comes on the heels of Neal being named the LSC Setter of the Year and earning First Team All-LSC Honors. Neal is one of five other LSC players to be named to the first or second team.

The women's basketball team of Texas A&M University-Commerce will try to get their first win in 2013'-14 in a matchup against the team that they last beat in Abilene Christian. The win was in last season's Lone Star Conference Tournament Quaterfinal in Allen with the Lions winning, 80-79. The Lions have a two week break after this game for the end of the fall semester and pick back up on Dec. 17 versus Henderson State at The Field House.  Lions on the Web

Texas A&M University-Commerce continues its four-game road swing, traveling into the Metroplex for a meeting with Northwood on Tuesday, Dec. 3 at 7 p.m. at Trinity Christian Academy in Cedar Hill. The Lions will try to improve to 9-0 on the year, which would move the 2013-14 squad into sole possession of the second-longest winning streak to start a season.

The A&M-Commerce women's and men's basketball season continues tonight, when the Lions women tip off at Abilene Christian. Join Charlie Chitwood on the call at 5:30 p.m. 

Both teams continue their non-conference schedule through the end of December and then begin this season's Lone Star Conference schedule with a Jan. 2 twinbill at The Field House in Commerce against Midwestern State.

Here are the remaining regular-season games that will be heard on KETR:

Dec. 3              (W)             @ Abilene Christian                     5:30 p.m.

Attorney General Greg Abbott will spend most of the next month talking about education, signaling that he won’t cede any ground on the issue to state Sen. Wendy Davis, who is making her support of public schools a calling card in the governor’s race. 

Gov. Rick Perry doesn't appear to be in a hurry to address the confusion swirling around Texas’ border with Oklahoma. 

He has missed a legislative deadline to assemble a commission tasked with solving the problem, though there is still time make appointments ahead of a deadline for the commission’s first meeting. 

“I’ve been told construction is imminent,” said Jim Weir with The Retail Connection, brokers who have lined up several major tenants for the development. “It could be tomorrow, it could be two weeks from now.”

Weir seems to believe that the actual dirt work on the center will begin sometime in early 2014 and he is confident that it will get underway.

“The tenants are all done,” Weir said, noting the leases have all been signed for a center which will, when finished, look drastically different than it does now.

With the Dow Jones average over 16,000, it seems that good times are back on Wall Street.  But A&M-Commerce economics professor and the interim dean of the College of Business and Entrepreneurship Dr. Dale Funderburk says the "quantitative easing" of the Federal Reserve, injecting large sums of money into the economy, may be artificially pumping up the market.

The men's basketball team of Texas A&M University-Commerce took a three-day weekend trip through Arkansas Friday through Sunday, matching up with two Great American Conference opponents. The Lions finished the weekend series well, winning both games and improving to 8-0 on the season. What follows are the summaries from each game.

A&M-Commerce 96, Southern Arkansas 78
W.T. Watson Center – Magnolia, Ark. – Friday, Nov. 29 – 7 p.m.
Records: A&M-Commerce (7-0); Southern Arkansas (2-4)