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No. 4 Baylor equestrian earned a 12-8 victory over the No. 7 Oklahoma State Cowgirls on Saturday at the Willis Family Equestrian Center.
The Bears earned a 4-1 victory in flat, while OSU won 4-1 in horsemanship to tie both teams at 5. Baylor sealed the win by finishing with a 4-1 advantage in fences to win the Big 12 competition.
After losing four of the first five Big 12 matches, Baylor volleyball has won two straight to pull its record back up to 11-13 on the year and 3-5 in Big 12 play. Baylor improved its record after a 3-1 win against Texas Tech on Saturday. The Bears won sets 16-25, 25-20, 25-16 and 25-20.
True freshman setter Morgan Reed started her second straight conference match in place of sophomore Amy Rosenbaum. In her second conference start, Reed finished with 41 assists, eight digs, two kills and three blocks in four sets. Reed has had 41 assists in both of her Big 12 starts. Her 10.25 assists per set would rank her third in the Big 12 if she played enough matches to qualify.
Anti-poverty workers from across the nation took on new roles Sunday when they put on hard hats and work boots to help rebuild recently devastated West.
The National Anti-Hunger and Opportunity Corps, an AmeriCorps Volunteers in Service to America program, attended the Hunger Summit at Baylor Thursday and Friday with their sponsor, the New York City Coalition Against Hunger.
U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel struck down one provision of Texas House Bill 2 Monday and limited another provision of it, blocking abortion laws that would have gone into effect today.
House Bill 2 was passed in July in the Texas Legislature, and would have placed various limitations on abortions and abortion clinics. Planned Parenthood and a collective body of other abortion administering clinics challenged this act on Sept. 26, claiming provisions of the bill are unconstitutional.
Whether you’re a twister or a dunker, eating just one Oreo may seem next to impossible. A recent study might hold the clue to this phenomenon.
Research conducted by college students and a professor at Connecticut College has found that “Milk’s favorite cookie” is as addictive as drugs, at least to lab rats.
Long before strapping on a pair of Chacos, boarding an international flight and trekking through a foreign country on a mission trip, volunteers are faced with the sometimes daunting task of raising money to fund the trip. One Baylor student is trying to make the fundraising process easier for volunteers by using a precious 21st century tool — the Internet.
Unlike Baylor’s narrow 35-25 victory against the Kansas State Wildcats on Oct. 12, on Saturday’s visit to the Sunflower State, the No. 6 Baylor Bears left no doubt with a convincing 59-14 win against the Kansas Jayhawks.
The Bears answered any concerns about their ability to perform on the road by delivering a display of overpowering offense and an authoritative defensive effort.
Freshman midfielder Ashley York’s early goal led the Baylor Bears soccer team (9-5-3, 2-4-1) to a 1-0 victory over Oklahoma State (6-4-6, 1-2-3) in the final Big 12 Conference home game of Baylor’s regular season on Friday.
York found the back of the net just after the four-minute mark to give the Bears an early 1-0 lead against the Cowgirls.
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Grammy Award-winning R&B singer Chris Brown was freed from custody Monday after facing a judge on a charge that he punched a man who tried to pose in a photograph with him.
Prosecutors reduced a felony assault charge to a misdemeanor as a District of Columbia judge released Brown, who exited the courthouse to cheers and flashed a peace sign to supporters after more than a day and a half in custody.
YouTube is poised to launch a subscription music service as soon as December, positioning it to compete with Spotify, Rdio and other digital offerings, according to people familiar with the matter.
The Internet’s dominant online video already is the most popular on-demand music offering in the world.
Flying in an airplane these days is a major hassle and relief is not on its way.
Major United States airline companies are removing old, hefty seats in airplane models and replacing them with slimline model seats that will take up less space from front to back.
The conclusion of the shutdown episode has brought a flurry of analysis and harsh criticism of Congress. But there’s something missing in it all. As tempting as it might sound to fire all of our elected leaders, it isn’t just Congress who needs to step up to avoid another government shutdown. It’s our responsibility too.
I truly pity the knots that Baylor coaches have to tie themselves in to recruit elite athletes who are gay or lesbian. As a career sports writer (now retired) I know the school has had several gay or lesbians athletes and the coaches have to worry constantly that someone will out them or that they will out themselves and their scholarships will be immediately in jeopardy because of these contrived morals standards held by both the university and the student government. I’ll leave aside the fact that I know (and so do the women athletes) that female athletes, especially, are slurred by fans as “lesbian” with great regularity and without regard to their actual sexual orientation.
Shelby Leonard’s recent coverage of student senator Trenton Garza’s proposed amendment to the Sexual Misconduct Code exposed a long-ignored issue at Baylor: how the university’s official policies address sexuality. As a former two-term student senator, it is clear to me that Baylor has some well-written codes that affirm its many countercultural views, but no policy so blatantly fails to address reality as does the Sexual Misconduct Code.
After surviving a 35-25 road win over Kansas State earlier in the season, the Baylor Bears set out to win with authority as the away team against the Kansas Jayhawks on Saturday in Lawrence, Kan.
The Bears left no doubt in this road matchup by throttling the Jayhawks 59-14 in a strong showing by the Bears on the road.
Junior goalie Michelle Kloss earned her ninth shutout of the season as the Baylor Bears defeated the Oklahoma State Cowgirls 1-0 in the final home game of the Bears’ regular season.
“It feels great to get a another shootout another win,” Kloss said. “I think the defense was absolutely amazing. They’re the ones who help with the shutout.”
This was Baylor’s first win since Sept. 27 when the squad beat Oklahoma at home 1-0.
No. 19 Oklahoma State (5-1, 2-1) at Iowa State (1-5, 0-3)
Oklahoma State comes into this game with more questions than answers after a 24-10 win over TCU last Saturday. Senior quarterback Clint Chelf was named the starter over sophomore J.W Walsh for the last game, but Walsh still received 18 pass attempts compared to Chelf’s 25. The two quarterbacks combined for 293 yards, zero touchdowns and three interceptions on a 44.2 percent completion percentage. The running game has been virtually nonexistent and ranks 95 in the country. Walsh is the leading rusher on the team. This is not the efficient Oklahoma State offense expected from a Mike Gundy coached team. The saving grace has been the defense, which ranks top 30 in total defense and top 15 in scoring defense.
Baylor (8-5-3, 1-4-1) will play its last regular season home game against Oklahoma State (6-3-6, 1-1-3) at 7 p.m., today at Betty Lou Mays Field.
Coming off of a win for the first time in two weeks, Baylor volleyball looks to continue their success in a road match against in-state rival Texas Tech. Baylor currently sits at 10-13 overall, but only 2-5 in Big 12 play. Tech sits at last place in the conference with a record of 8-15 overall, and a paltry 1-6 record in conference.
While some churches today take issue with children dressing as ghouls and goblins for Halloween, many churches are accepting of the holiday.
Halloween as modern Americans observe it is an American creation that has roots in something called the All Saints Day festival from Europe, said Dr. Rosalie Beck, associate professor of religion.
In the event of a zombie apocalypse, B.J. Parker, an Atlanta doctoral candidate in the religion department, would know how to survive.
If he were in the backyard of his two-story, 100-year-old home in Waco preparing a garden, his slobbering pitbull Petey panting beside him and a peeling cadaver shuffling toward him, he’d know what to do.
It’s midnight on a crisp October evening and you find yourself strolling through the local graveyard, weaving in and out of tombstones with the full moon as your only source of light. There is a slight chill in the air. You can feel the terror coursing through your veins, and your heart pounds in your chest as you hear a rustle in the bushes nearby.
Halloween is the time of year when people love to be scared. Wild imaginations come to life, and superstitions take on a new prominence. A black cat crossing a person’s path, Friday the 13th or breaking a mirror all seem to have more meaning during this time. These common superstitions have been around for a while, and how they came to be a part of our Halloween fears takes us back to ancient times and ancient beliefs.
A glass clinked in the empty kitchen across the Central Texas house. The noise garnered the attention of Becky Nagel, lead investigator for the Central Texas Paranormal Society. The group had been contacted by the parents of twin boys who had been experiencing unexplained incidents.
The Halloween season, to me, is synonymous with monsters, eerie music and a just little bit of blood.
While countless horror fanatics pop in a classic for a good scare, I slowed down to examine why and how horror film changes from decade to decade. In my research, I discovered that the horror culture indirectly reflects the time and society in which it occurs.
