After paying $16 to file a one-page claim to an empty, $340,000 home in an upscale Dallas suburb, Kenneth Robinson moved in furniture, hung a “No Trespassing” sign in the front window and invited television cameras inside for a tour.
Month: February 2012
No. 6 men’s basketball won a close game in Stillwater, Okla. on Saturday against the Oklahoma State Cowboys, 64-60. This game had a very different feel than the previous meeting against Oklahoma State that Baylor won 106-65 on Jan. 14 in the Ferrell Center.
Four down, one to go. So far, four of the artists signed to Uproar Records have finished recording with the duo of Paul Whitney and Colin Laflin, who jointly own Transient Workshop in Austin.
Junior Brittney Griner became the first NCAA Division I women’s basketball player to eclipse 2,000 points and 500 blocks in a career as the No. 1 Lady Bears beat Kansas State on Saturday in Manhattan, Kan. Griner had 29 points in the victory.
How unlikely is a safety being the first score of a Super Bowl? One site taking prop bets had it at 60-1.
No. 5 women’s tennis team lost 5-2 against No. 1 Florida on Saturday at the Hurd Tennis Center, ending Baylor’s nine-match winning streak.
A federal judge in Austin said Monday that he couldn’t block a Texas law requiring women to have a sonogram before having an abortion any longer because an appeals court had ordered it to take effect.
Univision and Disney are in talks to create a 24-hour news channel for Latinos in English, two sources close to the negotiations said Monday.
“Quiet! A commercial is about to come on,” are words rarely spoken by television viewers, but every year thousands tune in to the Super Bowl, sometimes exclusively to watch ads.
Last Wednesday more than 73 people died in a riot during a soccer game in Port Said, Egypt. This tragedy has been dubbed one of the bloodiest game riots since a similar event in Guatemala in 1996.
Chalk Talk will feature men’s and women’s basketball from 12:30 to 1 p.m. today in the Bill Daniel Student Center.
Dr. Philip Jenkins will hold a lecture on his latest book “Laying Down the Sword” from 3:30 to 5 p.m.…
Admit it, you’re a geek. You let loose a giggle of superiority and slide your thickly rimmed glasses from the tip of your nose up to your eyes every time you see the noob attempting his first file backup on an external hard drive. It’s all right; he’ll get it eventually.
A robbery was reported on 18th Street on Monday night. According to the caller, the suspect fled in an older-model…
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Who: Lynne Gackle When: Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. Where: Jones Concert Hall What: Lynne Gackle will be conducting a wind…
Brittney Griner scored 27 points with eight rebounds and eight blocked shots to help top-ranked Baylor remain undefeated with another lopsided victory over Oklahoma, 81-54, on Monday night.
In what could be the Jayhawks’ final game at Missouri, the No. 4 Tigers scored the final 11 points in the last 2:05 to come from behind and beat their archrivals 74-71 on Saturday night for only the second time in the last 12 meetings.
Baylor coach Kim Mulkey has no idea how to stop Brittney Griner. Fortunately for Mulkey, she doesn’t have to come up with a scheme to stop the talented forward.
Quincy Acy kept working, even when a 95 percent foul shooter went to the line late in the game.
Gatorade interviews RG3.
The Hughes-Dillard Alumni Center is missing from a model of the proposed football stadium, the third such rendering depicting the north end of campus without the home of the Baylor Alumni Association.
Baylor Information Technology Services has launched a new way to report problems with AirBear using a cartoon character named NATE.
Baylor will host Waco’s 2012 Muscular Dystrophy Association Muscle Walk at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Baylor Allison Indoor Football Practice Facility, part of the Dorothy Highers Athletic Complex on University Parks Dr.
The Baylor men’s basketball team will travel to Stillwater, Okla. to take on the Oklahoma State Cowboys at 12:45 on Saturday. While the Cowboys are only a .500 team, the Bears are 0-8 in Gallagher-Iba Arena.
The Super Bowl and its commercials have become a significant cultural event in the United States. Many people watch the game for the football, but others watch it more for the spectacle or, as many corporations hope, the advertisements that play during breaks in the action.
O, “GoldenEye 007,” the delight of my youth. This game brought infinite enjoyment to an innumerable number of gamers from 7 -years-old — as I was when it was released — to 30-plus years old — as it was for my uncles with whom I played the game — and probably even further.