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The football stadium at Texas Christian University (TCU), which swells in the fall with the purple-and-white clad students and fans who are better known as the Horned Frogs, soon will be sharing space with natural gas drillers.

Locked into a 30-year naming rights agreement that Houston baseball fans feared would have led to a plethora of “strike out” jokes this year, Enron Corp. on Wednesday announced a settlement agreement that voids its contract with the Houston Astros Baseball Club and will remove the Enron logo from the city’s plush downtown stadium. The logo has been on the stadium since it was completed two years ago.

Far from the opening federal settlement hearing in Washington, DC, on potential electricity refunds, California’s Gov. Gray Davis used the bully pulpit of orchestrated media events Monday in Sacramento to drive home his contention that his state’s consumers have been “ripped off,” and they have up to $9 billion in refunds coming to them.

Dallas Cowboy fans are not alone. It has been a tough month ofSundays for natural gas bear traders as they have been forced towatch Friday’s downward price momentum gradually lose steam duringSunday evening Access trading, setting the stage for a pricerecovery when the regular open-outcry session re-opens Monday.