By Jakob Brandenburg | Radio InternBaylor head football coach Matt Rhule announced Tuesday afternoon at a press conference that offensive lineman Ishmael Wilson and defensive back Jourdan Blake were no longer a part of the football team. A third player, running back Terence Williams, indicated in a Snapchat post that he was dismissed from the team, however Rhule said the junior rusher is still a member of the squad on the condition that he meets team standards. Rhule didn’t give further details on why Wilson and Blake are no longer with the program, but he stressed they were not dismissed…
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By Thomas Mott, Jakob Brandenburg | Reporter Baylor football held its Pro Day on Wednesday inside the Allison Indoor Practice Facility. Fourteen former Bears took part in measurements and physical testing in front of NFL scouts and personnel. Forty scouts from 29 NFL teams attended the Pro Day in order to evaluate players for the upcoming NFL Draft. In addition, former Baylor and current NFL players Corey Coleman, Spencer Drango, Xavien Howard and Kendall Wright were also in attendance. Baylor head coach Matt Rhule talked about the relationship between Baylor’s program and the NFL. “We’re one of the few schools…
For more than a year, Baylor University has continually been in the news for all the wrong reasons. The fallout from the school’s sexual assault scandal still hovers over our campus in large part because a new negative headline seems to emerge every week. If you are anything like me, you are sick and tired of turning on ESPN or getting on Twitter and seeing that another allegation of rape has come to light, a former player has been arrested or a disgraced former president or football coach has made an unwarranted statement. Unfortunately, I’m here to tell you that…
Video by Meredith Aldis | Broadcast Intern, Article by Jakob Brandenburg | Reporter The Baylor equestrian team won the Big 12 Equestrian Championship this weekend at Baylor’s Willis Family Equestrian Center as they defeated TCU on Friday and Oklahoma State on Saturday. The two-day, round-robin tournament featured the second-and third-ranked teams in the country in Oklahoma State and Baylor, respectively. The Bears edged out the Horned Frogs 10-9 on the first day to set up a winner-take-all matchup with the Cowgirls. Baylor started strong in the contest against OSU on its way to an 11-7 win and the conference championship.…
By Jakob Brandenburg | ReporterThe Baylor men’s basketball team overcame a four-point, second-half deficit to defeat Southern California 82-78 Sunday night to advance to the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA Tournament. The third-seeded Bears denied the 11th-seeded USC Trojans their third, second-half comeback in as many NCAA Tournament games. This will be their fourth appearance in the Sweet Sixteen in the last eight years. Baylor led the game at halftime but trailed by four points with seven and a half minutes left in the game. Baylor junior guard Manu Lecomte then took over and scored eight points in a 45-second…
By Jakob Brandenburg | ReporterThree former Baylor football players participated in the NFL Scouting Combine last week at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.Wide receiver KD Cannon, quarterback Seth Russell and center Kyle Fuller participated in tests, drills and interviews while being evaluated by all 32 NFL teams. The six day event lasted from Feb. 28-March 6.The combine acts as a job interview of sorts, only in addition to meetings with NFL personnel, players have their measurements taken and go through athletic testing and position specific drills.For example, the 40-yard dash is used to measure a player’s speed, while strength is…
By Jakob Brandenburg | ReporterThe No. 3 Baylor Lady Bears basketball team defeated the Texas Tech Lady Raiders 86-48 during a historic Saturday in the Ferrell Center. The win clinched Baylor’s seventh-straight Big 12 regular season championship. The win was also the 500th victory of Coach Kim Mulkey’s career. She is the second-fastest Division I coach to reach that milestone, and all of her wins have come as the head coach of Baylor. Despite her personal achievement, Mulkey focused attention on her players when discussing the program’s success. “It’s because of these kids,” Mulkey said. “They understand when they come…
Although I am in my third year at Baylor, I had never attended All-University Sing until last Thursday. The roughly four-hour runtime made watching the performances a bit of a marathon, but it was well worth it. Sing is one of the finest Baylor traditions and something every Bear should experience. Perhaps the most impressive aspect of Sing is that the vast majority of those performing are amateurs. Students without any dance or stage experience transform into genuine performers as they navigate their way through complex choreography. The choreography itself is notable as well. Hundreds of fraternity and sorority members…
By Jakob Brandenburg | ReporterBaylor men’s basketball is ranked No. 4 in the AP Poll and is off to the best start in program history. However, the Bears have lost three of their last five games. At a time like this, it is important to remember that this team hasn’t accomplished anything yet.The last time a Baylor men’s basketball team won a conference championship of any kind was in 1950. For those of you younger than 67, that was in the old Southwest Conference and occurred 44 years before the Big 12 even existed. Since that last Baylor title, every…
By Jakob Brandenburg | ReporterThe second-ranked Baylor Lady Bears basketball team followed their second loss of the season with a 91-73 win at TCU Sunday afternoon. It was Baylor’s 22nd consecutive victory over TCU in women’s basketball. Baylor had its 54-game home winning streak snapped by No. 11 Texas on Monday. The Lady Bears got back onto the court in Fort Worth and asserted their will against the Horned Frogs. Baylor, the nation’s top rebounding team, dominated TCU on the glass 54 to 30 and scored 29 second chance points. Senior guard Alexis Prince led Baylor in scoring with 19…
By Jakob Brandenburg | ReporterFans in the Baylor-TCU rivalry are accustomed to high scoring performances, but it was Baylor’s defense that spearheaded a dominant 70-52 win over the Horned Frogs Saturday in the Ferrell Center.Baylor held TCU to 37.7 percent shooting and only surrendered 17 first-half points. The Horned Frogs’ offensive struggles are put into perspective by the fact that TCU’s football team scored more in each of its last two trips to Waco than the basketball Horned Frogs managed Saturday. Baylor junior forward Johnathan Motley continued his campaign for end-of-season accolades, putting up 25 points and seven rebounds on…
By Jakob Brandenburg | ReporterBaylor men’s basketball ended its first losing streak of the season with a 72-69 win over Oklahoma State on Wednesday night in Stillwater, Okla. Baylor withstood a late Oklahoma State run, and held the Cowboys 18 points below their season scoring average. In a clash of playing styles, Baylor, which ranked seventh in the country in points allowed, faced an Oklahoma State team that was seventh in the country in scoring and riding a five game winning streak. After losing two close games in a row, Baylor coach Scott Drew acknowledged the importance of the hard…
By Jakob Brandenburg | ReporterWhen Baylor students returned from winter break, there was a new face on the floor for the men’s basketball team. A long-armed, 6-foot-9 forward capable of handling the ball and shooting three-pointers. His name is Nuni Omot. Omot’s road to Baylor was a winding one. Born in Nairobi, Kenya, Anunwa “Nuni” Omot’s family moved to the U.S. when he was just a few months old. Omot played high school basketball at Mahtomedi High School in St. Paul, Minn. A late bloomer, Omot has grown 8 inches since his junior year, rising from 6 foot 1 inch…
By Jakob Brandenburg | ReporterThe first recruiting class of the Matt Rhule era at Baylor is officially in the books. On Wednesday, 27 players signed their National Letters of Intent to enroll and play football at Baylor next season.Perhaps the most impressive thing about this class is that only one player was committed to play for Baylor when Rhule was hired as head coach in December. At Baylor’s National Signing Day press conference, Rhule explained how Baylor, despite recent turmoil, really sold itself to recruits. “It’s still an elite, not a great, an elite education,” Rhule said. “It’s still, everywhere…
By Jakob Brandenburg | ReporterThe Baylor women’s basketball team trailed at the end of the first quarter for only the second time all season on Sunday night. Unfortunately for Oklahoma, facing a deficit only seemed to fuel the number two team in the country. The No. 20-ranked Sooners took advantage of poor Baylor shooting to run up an eight point lead in the first quarter, and were winning 20-15 at the end of the first quarter. Then the floodgates seemingly opened, and the Lady Bears rolled to their third consecutive win over a ranked team, winning 92-58. Senior guard Alexis…
When the United States elects a president, the new commander in chief is given 100 days to make a first impression and set the tone for their four-year term.Here at Baylor, we have our own impression to evaluate. On Dec. 6, 2016, Baylor hired Matt Rhule to be its new head football coach and rebuild a program torn apart by a sexual assault scandal. Rhule had success in his four years as head coach at Temple University, but some wondered if that would translate to Baylor. After his first 47 days here, I am already comfortable saying that Rhule has…