If a player is found to have used performance-enhancing drugs, then that player should not be voted into the Hall of Fame.
About 21 years ago, the Baseball Writers Association of America voted to permanently ban Pete Rose from the Hall of Fame.
His crime? Betting on baseball games.
Football season is over in Waco, but another sport is just around the corner.
The Baylor men’s golf team is just a few weeks away from starting a highly anticipated season.
The Bears look to start the 2013 season the way they finished last season: on top.
Baylor softball finished third in the Big 12 preseason poll.
This is the fourth time in program history that the Bears were chosen third, but the team has high hopes that it can finish better and play competitive ball on the road to go to another world series. Last year, Baylor softball made the post season. The team entered the NCAA regional tournament and ranked No. 23 despite losing its All-American left-handed pitcher Whitney Canion after she suffered a torn ACL. The team continued to fight though the adversity as senior right-handed pitcher Courtney Repka and junior right-handed pitcher Liz Paul filled in the role of pitching. Sophomore outfielder Kaitlyn Thumann also contributed with big hits.
The Baylor women’s soccer team saw its best season last fall with an overall record of 19-1-5 and made the program’s first-ever appearance in the NCAA Sweet Sixteen game against the University of North Carolina.
The No. 1 Baylor Lady Bears (16-1, 6-0 Big 12) have picked up where they left off last year as they continue to roll through their competition on their quest to repeat as national champions.
The Baylor Bears defeated the Oklahoma State Cowboys on Monday, 64-54. The game featured breakout performances from freshman center Isaiah Austin and junior forward Cory Jefferson: both Austin and Jefferson posted double-doubles on the stat sheet. They also clearly impacted the game with their shot blocking and interior defense.
“We just wanted to be aggressive,” Austin said. “We wanted to control the paint and that’s what we did.”
To put it lightly, when Baylor football first went to the Texas Bowl in 2010, it was a big deal. It marked Baylor’s first bowl game appearance since 1994. Baylor nation was happy just to go to a bowl game, never mind actually winning it. But times have changed in Waco. The Bears have won two straight bowl games with the Alamo Bowl against Washington in 2011 and the Holiday Bowl versus UCLA in 2012.
As the NFL season comes to an end after the Super Bowl on Feb. 3, the NFL teams will be looking back on their season trying to figure out what adjustments they need to make for next season.
Student Government set goals to pass more bills this year at their first Senate meeting last Thursday.
Colorado Springs, Colo. sophomore Chaplain Meagan Rowell encouraged Senate members to start the year off with patience. Rowell reminded Senators to listen and be slow to anger using James 1:19 as a guidepost.
Nearly a year after their two children were found living virtually unsupervised in an old school bus in Southeast Texas, the parents regained full custody of their kids Tuesday when a judge dismissed a child welfare case against them.
Abortion opponents marked the 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision Tuesday with workshops, prayers and calls for more limits on the rights established by the Supreme Court in the landmark ruling that still defines one of the nation’s most intractable debates.
Those airport scanners with their all-too revealing body images will soon be going away.
The Transportation Security Administration says the scanners that used a low-dose X-ray will be gone by June because the company that makes them can’t fix the privacy issues. The other airport body scanners, which produce a generic outline instead of a naked image, are staying.
New research from Baylor’s Center for Autism finds chelation, a commonly-used therapy for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders which is known to remove metals from the body is not as effective nor as reliable as was previously thought according to a Baylor professor.
World renowned chemist Dr. John L. Wood will join the Baylor faculty this fall as the new Robert A. Welch Distinguished Professor of Chemistry.
Wood has performed groundbreaking research that has been used to help better understand and treat cancer and other diseases. He specializes in the synthesis of small molecules used in pharmaceutical agents.
Texas public schools could save up to $2 billion annually if the state allows families to use public funding on private schooling, a school vouchers advocate testified Tuesday at the ongoing school finance trial.
Texas voters could decide whether to tax themselves to pay for armed guards or other public school safety measures under a plan outlined Tuesday by three Houston-area state lawmakers.
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A Dallas woman whose 10-year-old stepson died after she denied him water, even as temperatures soared over 100 degrees, was sentenced Tuesday to 85 years in prison.
Tina Marie Alberson did not react as her sentence was announced. She was convicted last week of reckless injury to a child, a second-degree felony, in the July 2011 death of Jonathan James.
A fight between two people erupted in gunfire Tuesday at a Houston-area community college, catching a maintenance man in the crossfire and leaving students and others cowering in classrooms.
Smartphone users and compulsive shoppers might be more similar than once thought.
Dr. James Roberts, professor of marketing and the W.A. Mays professor of entrepreneurship, recently published a study that compared cell phone addiction to compulsive buying.
The Baylor fitness department will host the Health and Fitness Expo from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Feb. 2 in the Barfield Drawing Room of the Bill Daniel Student Center.
Educational sessions spanning a variety of topics from fitness to nutrition will be available to attendees and are taught by Baylor faculty.
Participants can choose to attend four sessions out of 12 offered.
Dr Pepper Hour is officially 60 years old.
Students celebrated the 60th anniversary of Dr Pepper Hour Jan. 15. Students, faculty and staff had the opportunity to gather together under a glowing Dr Pepper Hour banner and share memories of the beloved soft drink.
With construction of the Baylor Stadium under way, fans now have a chance to help piece the stadium together.
Baylor Bricks is a new marketing campaign set up by University Development that allows fans to purchase bricks to be inlaid in the stadium’s walkway.
The brick campaign is one that is evident in other Baylor staples such as the Bill and Eva Williams Bear Habitat and the Dutch Schroeder Athletic Plaza.
When visiting the McLane Student Life Center within the next few months, students may notice a slight change in scenery.
Renovation on the rock wall began over the winter break and is currently in the demolition stage, with construction crews from QuadTex working to strip away the layers of plywood, concrete and mesh that hold the wall together.
When the San Francisco 49ers play their brand of football, they cannot be beaten. In all but one of their losses this year, their opponent jumped out to a quick lead and San Francisco couldn’t regroup and get back into the football game.
In order to commemorate the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., the School of Social Work hosted the annual celebration that included singing, praying and remembering.
Make it a day on not a day off.
This is the idea behind the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service, and the Campus Kitchen at Baylor University took it seriously.
The Baylor Bears defeated the Oklahoma State Cowboys 64-54 on Monday at the Ferrell Center. With the win, Baylor improved to 4-1 within the Big 12 Conference and 13-5 overall. Baylor’s next Big 12 game will be on the road Saturday against TCU.
