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With the defending national champions coming to town this weekend, one would think all the focus would be on Texas A&M and the Aggies would be the team wearing special uniforms.

Focused, passionate and loving. When asked to describe herself in three words, she used these adjectives. And every single one of them is right on target.

No. 6 Baylor men’s basketball will look to bounce back from a deflating loss at home to the Kansas Jayhawks, as it takes on the No. 4 Missouri Tigers at 1:30 p.m. Saturday as they travel to Columbia, Mo.

The No. 7 Kansas Jayhawks beat the No. 6 Bears for the second time this season 68-54.

The weather has cooled off and the wind has picked up. Yes, it’s softball season.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock or you are clearly reading the wrong page, you know the New York Giants defeated the New England Patriots 21-17 in the Super Bowl on Sunday.

The Kansas Jayhawks beat the Baylor Bears for the second time this season, 68-54. The leaders for the Bears were Pierre Jackson and Quincy Acy with 16 and 11 points respectively. Acy also tallied 10 rebounds and recorded his 15th career double-double.

Jeff Withey scored a career-high 25 points and Kansas went ahead to stay during a stretch without Thomas Robinson as the seventh-ranked Jayhawks had another convincing victory over sixth-ranked Baylor, winning 68-54 Wednesday night.

No. 6 Baylor men’s basketball will take on the Kansas Jayhawks at 6 p.m. today at the Ferrell Center. Kansas is currently tied with Baylor for second place in the Big 12 standings. Both teams are currently half of a game behind Missouri.

Once again, Baylor’s track and field athletes proved they can hold their own on a national stage.

Ricky Williams is retiring from the NFL.

Baylor basketball games are becoming a tough ticket to get.

The best offense is a good defense, even with Brittney Griner.

No. 6 men’s basketball won a close game in Stillwater, Okla. on Saturday against the Oklahoma State Cowboys, 64-60. This game had a very different feel than the previous meeting against Oklahoma State that Baylor won 106-65 on Jan. 14 in the Ferrell Center.

Junior Brittney Griner became the first NCAA Division I women’s basketball player to eclipse 2,000 points and 500 blocks in a career as the No. 1 Lady Bears beat Kansas State on Saturday in Manhattan, Kan. Griner had 29 points in the victory.

How unlikely is a safety being the first score of a Super Bowl? One site taking prop bets had it at 60-1.

No. 5 women’s tennis team lost 5-2 against No. 1 Florida on Saturday at the Hurd Tennis Center, ending Baylor’s nine-match winning streak.

Brittney Griner scored 27 points with eight rebounds and eight blocked shots to help top-ranked Baylor remain undefeated with another lopsided victory over Oklahoma, 81-54, on Monday night.

Baylor coach Kim Mulkey has no idea how to stop Brittney Griner. Fortunately for Mulkey, she doesn’t have to come up with a scheme to stop the talented forward.

Quincy Acy kept working, even when a 95 percent foul shooter went to the line late in the game.

The Baylor men’s basketball team will travel to Stillwater, Okla. to take on the Oklahoma State Cowboys at 12:45 on Saturday. While the Cowboys are only a .500 team, the Bears are 0-8 in Gallagher-Iba Arena.

The No. 1 Lady Bears are undefeated this season, beating their opponents by an average of 30 points.

Rules are made to be broken. The same could be said for records.

Head coach Art Briles announced Wednesday that 23 student-athletes have signed their National Letter of Intent to play football at Baylor.

Zone defenses, junk defenses, small ball or walk it up the court: when it comes to opposing teams’ efforts to stop undefeated, top-ranked Baylor, there aren’t many looks coach Kim Mulkey hasn’t encountered this season.

Baylor’s ranked No. 5 women’s tennis team defeated TCU’s Horned Frogs on Wednesday p.m. at the Hurd Tennis Center in Waco.

Texas A&M played so well without two of its starters in a close loss to No. 6 Baylor on Wednesday night that Aggies coach Billy Kennedy might consider his options after they get healthy.

The Baylor men’s basketball team will play the Texas A&M Aggies for the 205th time at 8 p.m. today.

Winning on the road is always tough, even if your opponent is winless in conference play.

The No. 1 Lady Bears had five seconds to inbound the ball under their basket.