Brittney Griner scored the first six points of the game and third-ranked Baylor had the first 17, extending its home winning streak to 45 in a row with a 76-53 victory over 10th-ranked Tennessee on Tuesday night.
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With 5:11 remaining in the final game at Floyd Casey Stadium and a seven-point Baylor lead, sophomore Lache Seastrunk broke through the line of scrimmage at the Baylor 24-yard line and saw the light of the Promised Land.
Halfway to the end zone, Seastrunk caught a cramp in his left hamstring. At this point, he had two options: he could fall down in pain or believe that he could finish and take the rock to the house.
The spread offense is commonly associated with accurate quarterbacks and athletic wide receivers, but this year’s Baylor football team is showing that great running backs can thrive in a five-wide set.
When he was coming out of Midway High School in nearby Hewitt, Baylor junior nickel back Ahmad Dixon could have chosen to go to pretty much any school in the nation. He was ranked as the No. 15 national recruit by ESPNU 150 and had scholarship offers from Alabama, Texas, USC and pretty much everywhere else in between. Instead of bolting for a glamorous, prestigious program, Dixon decided to stay home and head to Baylor, who was just coming off of a 4-8 season.
Baylor football can finally say it beat the Oklahoma State Cowboys, 41-34.
“Last year, we had a great season, outstanding season, Heisman trophy winner and all that kind of stuff, but I wouldn’t trade this season for the world,” sophomore nickel back Ahmad Dixon said. “These seniors and these other guys that are here with me, we have grown tremendously, speaking for myself not just as a football player but as a young man. These guys, in our down times have taught me so much. Looking to these guys when I needed them, I wouldn’t trade it for anything.”
This semester, Baylor counseling services faced a high demand for counseling with a short-staffed office.
With seven full-time counselors and one full-time psychiatrist, counseling services does not meet the minimum counselor to student ratio according to the International Association of Counseling Services’ standard.
The association encourages each institution, depending on the size, to maintain one full-time equivalent professional staff member to every 1,500 students. Baylor enrolled 15,364 students this semester, so the standard is 10 full-time counselors. Baylor counseling services is short by two.
The United Nations voted overwhelmingly Thursday to recognize a Palestinian state, a victory decades in the making for the Palestinians after years of occupation and war. It was a sharp rebuke for Israel and the United States.
A Palestinian flag was quickly unfurled on the floor of the General Assembly, behind the Palestinian delegation, as the final vote was cast.
Don’t be fooled by the Baylor Bubble.
A woman in Waco can disappear in moments and become a victim of sex trafficking, an umbrella term that covers the recruitment or transportation of people for the purpose of subjecting them to involuntary service in the sex industry.
Grab your passports and prepare for an adventure with the Baylor student government. Destination: Waco, Texas.
Starting next semester, students will once again be able to participate in a program from student government called Passport Waco. Late last semester, former external vice president Angela Oliver began the program with positive reception, but did not have the chance to develop it due to a lack of time.
Waco is the center of the hustle and bustle of three higher education establishments: Baylor University, McLennan Community College and Texas State Technical College.
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Along with the sudden rush of winter weather and the accompanying flood of Ugg boots and North Face jackets, Baylor’s annual Christmas on 5th Street celebration will help usher in the holiday season from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m today.
Location affects advertising experience, or so one Baylor professor hopes to prove through his research.
Dr. Kirk Wakefield, professor & holder of the Edwin W. Streetman Professorship in Retail Management at Baylor, conducted a study to examine how fans attending a live event react to sports advertising. Wakefield will take the results, which he is still receiving, from the study and compare them to the national average of fans that watched the event on TV and viewed advertisements during the broadcast. The study was conducted from Nov. 16 -18, during the last NASCAR race of the season, at the Homestead-Miami Speedway in Homestead, Fla.
Young voters helped pass laws legalizing marijuana in Washington and Colorado, but many still won’t be able to light up.
Most universities have codes of conduct banning marijuana use, and they get millions of dollars in funding from the federal government, which still considers pot illegal.
Two Army veterans and their wives on Wednesday sued the railroad company whose train hit a truck carrying veterans and their spouses during a parade in Midland.
Mark Carlson, senior creative director of U.S. McDonald’s Marketing, will discuss the ins and outs of marketing at 2:30 p.m. Friday in Bennett Auditorium.
Carlson’s lecture will encompass a summary of McDonald’s advertising from its small beginnings to its current global reach.
“He will talk about the challenges of marketing for the world’s most iconic brand and how that brand has evolved over all these years,” Cynthia Jackson, president of the Waco chapter of the American Advertising Federation, said.
U.S. Department of Defense’s Office of Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs awarded Baylor two research grants to assist with research on Gulf War Illness.
The grants, which total nearly $1.6 million, bring the total amount Baylor has acquired for research on the illness to $2.3 million.
The illness, which affects an estimated one in four of the 700,000 military personnel who served in the Gulf War from 1990-1991, is a medical condition that seems symptom-specific to those soldiers.
Symptoms include chronic headache, widespread pain, memory and concentration difficulties and digestive abnormalities, according to an article published by Bio-Medicine.
Students at Baylor are speaking for the dead and, no, they’re not psychics.
Anthropology students at Baylor traveled with Dr. Lori Baker, associate professor of anthropology, to Del Rio over the summer as part of her Reuniting Families program.
The program identifies the bodies of deceased immigrants along the Texas-Mexico border and reunites their remains with their families.
Cultural differences won’t get in the way of celebrating the holidays.
The Baylor University Multicultural Leadership Cabinet will host “Holidays Around the World,” a free event open to all students from 7 to 9 p.m. today in the Bobo Spiritual Life Center.
Houston sophomore Margaret Odunze, the vice president of programming for the Multicultural Leadership Cabinet and the co-chair of the event, said it was created this year with the holidays in mind.
“We wanted to do something for Christmas, but not like Christmas on Fifth,” she said.
Workers have raised the first section of a colossal arch-shaped structure that eventually will cover the exploded nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl power station.
Project officials on Tuesday hailed the raising as a significant step in a complex effort to clean up the consequences of the 1986 explosion, the world’s worst nuclear accident. Upon completion, the shelter will be moved on tracks over the building containing the destroyed reactor, allowing work to begin on dismantling the reactor and disposing of radioactive waste.
A group of U.S. senators will ask President Barack Obama for an emergency declaration in an effort to keep barges moving on the drought-riddled Mississippi River, a spokesman for Sen. Claire McCaskill told The Associated Press Tuesday.
Senators from Mississippi River states are seeking an emergency directive that would increase the flow of water from an upper Missouri River dam and expedite removal of rock formations in the middle Mississippi River that impede barge traffic during periods of low water. McCaskill spokesman Drew Pusateri did not yet have a complete list of senators involved in the request.
Baylor football clinched a historic third consecutive bowl bid this season by defeating Texas Tech in overtime 52-45 on Saturday.
The Bears are on a hot streak with three wins in the past four games. When it counts the most, Baylor is playing its best football late in the season.
In November and December of the past two seasons, Baylor is nearly perfect with a 9-1 record.
Baylor and “Beauty and the Beast” have a history, but not in the way many have heard.
A 1979 Baylor alum, Jim Hillin, who was the Computer Generated Imagery Supervisor of the 1991 animated feature, helped design the famous ballroom scene of Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast.”
“I was looking for a new gig,” he said. “I got a call from Disney, from producer Don Hahn.”
Students at Baylor have all walked by the Sadie Jo Black Gardens located on Founders Mall and noticed vibrant plants and flowers that add a hint of aesthetic beauty amid the hustle and bustle of undergraduates scrambling to class.
With the university’s newest award, it seems there are others who have taken note as well.
The Professional Grounds Management Society awarded the University the 2012 Green Star Award last month.
States will receive more than $9 in federal money for every $1 they spend to cover low-income residents under President Barack Obama’s health care law, according to a nonpartisan analysis released Monday.
Expanding Medicaid to cover about 20 million more low-income people will cost more than $1 trillion nationally from 2013 to 2022, said the joint report from the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Urban Institute. But the analysis found that states will pay just $76 billion of that, a combined share of roughly 7 percent. The feds will pay the other $952 billion.
Republican governors have resisted the Medicaid expansion, saying it adds an unacceptable burden to already strained budgets. And the Supreme Court handed the governors a victory this summer, ruling that states are free to reject the Medicaid deal.
The Baylor Bears are writing history, becoming the first team in program history to advance to three consecutive bowl games, after becoming eligible with a 52-45 overtime victory over Texas Tech.
A series of firsts were recorded for Baylor: junior linebacker Eddie Lackey’s first game with a pair of interceptions, one returned for a touchdown and a fumble recovery.
A former Baylor basketball player has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for trying to extort $1 million from Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III.
Baylor rocked college football and stunned the nation with its 52-24 demolition of the No. 1 team in the nation Saturday evening. The Bears, however, weren’t all that surprised.
“All week we believed we were going to beat them, and we weren’t going to be surprised when it happened,” senior quarterback Nick Florence said.
Belief was the key word for Baylor under the lights, filling the gaps for a football team that has been lack luster all season.
This time last season, Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III had his “Heisman moment” with the 34-yard touchdown pass to defeat No. 5 Oklahoma 45-38.
