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By Lindsey Miner Sports Reporter The Baylor men’s tennis team will play nine opponents ranked in the top 25 of…

Defense wins championships. The cliché has been around awhile.

It’s what coaches tell their players from the days of halftime snacks all the way up to the professional level.

NCAA.com ranks the Baylor women’s soccer team No. 25 in the country, and defense has been one of the keys to its success.

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The Baylor Bears were swept 3-0 (19-25, 22-25, 22-25) in their match against the North Texas Mean Green in Denton on Tuesday night.

With the loss, Baylor volleyball’s record falls to 13-2, and the Bears’ nine-game win-streak was snapped.

“North Texas played great, and our blocking and defense was bad,” head coach Jim Barnes said. “We had a bad night, and you can’t hit that many errors and expect to win.”

New York Giants head coach Tom Coughlin had his panties in a bunch after the Tampa Bay Buccaneers actually decided to play football on the final play of the game.

With New York up by only seven points, the Giants were convinced that the Buccaneers would just lay down for them and let the Giants run out the clock and the Buccaneers would quietly accept defeat.

Greg Schiano, what have you done? The game was over. All the Giants were doing was making their win official, but you decided to be a sore loser.

Football is a game of possession. The Giants had the ball with a 7-point lead and five seconds to go. That means the Giants have earned the victory, barring a serious error in judgment.

No matter what you say, it is pure fact that last season’s football team was solely dependent on Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III and his ability to make plays either with his feet or his arm.

In the first quarter of the Bears’ 48-23 win over Sam Houston State, Baylor kicker Aaron Jones made program history.

With 13:00 minutes to play in the first quarter, Jones hit a 33-yard field goal to give Baylor a 3-0 lead.

By Daniel Hill Sports Writer Why is Lache Seastrunk stuck on the bench? Coming out of Temple High School, Lache…

The Baylor women’s soccer team moved to 8-1-1 with a 2-1 overtime victory over the SMU Mustangs Friday night and a 5-0 victory over Houston Baptist on Sunday night.

While the Baylor football team was offensively dependent last year with Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III, this year’s team is co-dependent on offense and defense.

“When you have a team around you and it’s not all about you, you can do a lot of things,” senior quarterback Nick Florence said.

On Saturday, the Bears will take on the Sam Houston State Bearkats, but it’s been a week since Baylor defeated SMU by a score of 59-24 in their rocky season opener.

“We didn’t feel like we were completely clean against SMU and we worked on correcting things,” said head coach Art Briles.

The Baylor soccer team will take on two Texas teams this weekend. The first game will be 7 p.m. today at home against the SMU Mustangs.

The Bears are 6-1-1 on the season and are receiving votes in the polls.

After Baylor defeated SMU on Sept. 2, former Bears wide receiver and current Cleveland Browns player Josh Gordon took to Twitter to explain Baylor football’s secret weapon. He said that Baylor’s “secret weapon” is the strength and conditioning program of Kaz Kazadi.

Hydration is key before, during and after workouts, especially in the Texas heat.

Vigorous physical activity in a warm environment is one of the biggest physical stresses the human body can encounter.

Now, more than ever, we follow the saying, “You’ve got to see it to believe it.”

Remember that one time when Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III led the Washington Redskins to a 40-32 victory over the New Orleans Saints on the road?

Plus, his stat line was out of control, completing 19-of-26 passes for 320 yards with a pair of touchdowns and no interceptions.

The Baylor men’s golf team will kick off the 2012-13 season today with the Topy Cup. They will compete against four Japanese teams as well as Oregon State, San Diego and Pacific. The tournament, which will run through Thursday, will be held at the Tanagura Country Club in Tanagura, Japan.

The Baylor women’s soccer team returned from its road trip with a win and a draw.

The first game was a 0-0 draw against the North Texas Mean Green. North Texas is undefeated on the season, so the Bears expected a tough game.

Against Arkansas State on Friday night, the Bears dropped their first set to the Red Wolves before winning the next three sets to take the match. While this tournament is used as a bit of a tune-up before Big 12 competition starts, head coach Jim Barnes still wants to see the team start stronger in the future.

Baylor beat SMU 59-24. Senior quarterback Nick Florence led the Bears with 341 yards and four touchdowns. BU is off for the week.

The Baylor volleyball team has been busy traveling lately.

After being in Hawaii last weekend, the team is now in Louisiana for four games in two days in the Big Daddy’s Invitational.

The Baylor women’s soccer team will travel to Denton and San Antonio this weekend on their second road trip of the season.

The Bears protected their house last weekend against Nebraska and McNeese State, and they will look to do the same against the University of North Texas and The University of Texas at San Antonio.

North Texas started the season 6-0, though it has yet to play a team ranked in the top 25.

Robert Griffin III is preparing to face the New Orleans Saints in the Redskins’ season opener Sunday, but the key to upgrading his training efforts may be back at Baylor.

“He practices a lot and can’t have the whole defense out there every time,” said Dr. Michael Korpi, professor of film and digital media. “His dream was that he could go into the practice facilities, even without a receiver, and practice against a defense and be able to tell if the pass was completed or not.”

Last year, Baylor’s RG3-led offense was historic. Points came in bunches at a rate of more than 45 per game. The defense, however, was a different story.

Baylor’s defense in 2011 gave up more than 37 points per game.

Barrel racers from around the state of Texas made their way to the 23rd annual American Novice Horse Association ShootOut barrel race at the Extraco Events Center Pavilion in Waco this past weekend.

The Baylor football team made its statement with a 59-24 victory over the SMU Mustangs Sunday evening.

“We felt like we had to come out and see what we were,” Baylor head coach Art Briles said. “Just like everybody else, we weren’t sure. We felt like we knew what we had. We felt like we knew we had a determined, eager, anxious football team that wanted to prove themselves.”

The Baylor volleyball team swept Texas State 3-0 Tuesday night at the Ferrell Center.

Baylor started out the first set by quickly jumping out to an 8-4 advantage, forcing Texas State to call an early timeout.

Following the timeout, the Bobcats came out refocused and won the next two points, battling to even the set at 10 apiece.

Senior Alyssa Dibbern spiked the ball for a Baylor point.

After defeating Nebraska and McNeese State over the weekend, the Baylor soccer team moved to 5-1 on the season.

The women allowed just three shots in the two games and did not give up a goal.

The Baylor cross-country team opened the season this past Friday night, Aug. 31, at the Bear Twilight Invitational in Waco.

The women claimed a first-place victory, and the men earned second.

Baylor Nation may miss Heisman trophy winner Robert Griffin III, but not much as the Bears defeated the SMU Mustangs 59-24.