Weather permitting, Lubbock skywatchers will gather outside the Texas Tech Museum, Fourth Street and Indiana Avenue, for what amounts to a once-in-lifetime event — the transit of the planet Venus across the sun. The South Plains Astronomy Club is hosting a viewing of the transit, which won’t happen again until the year 2117. The event starts at 5 p.m. Tuesday and ends at sunset. If the sky is cloudy, Smith said, the club will use an Internet connection to stream video of the event as it’s observed elsewhere in the country.

Lubbock’s Best Buy location won’t be among 50 stores the Minneapolis-based big box electronics retailer will close as part of a reorganization aimed at cutting some $800 million in costs by fiscal 2015, according to a Texas Tech business faculty member who is a former director of the company. “The Lubbock store is a jewel for Best Buy,” said Jim Wetherbe, associate dean of research at Tech’s Rawls College of Business.

Lindsay Sears is a world champion again. The former Texas Tech standout won her second barrel-racing world title in four years Saturday night in the National Finals Rodeo at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nev. The second-place money Sears earned in Saturday’s round 10 boosted her final total for the year to $238,864, more than $40,000 ahead of second-place finisher Brittany Pozzi. Sears also took the 10-round NFR aggregate title, good for $45,865, with 10 runs in 139.50 seconods. Sears and her mare, Martha, went 13.75 seconds in the final round.