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After a down year in 2022, senior defensive lineman Gabe Hall and fifth-year senior defensive lineman TJ Franklin look to get the Bears back on track.

As ambitious as it may sound, Baylor football seventh-year senior Bryson Jackson has found a sense of newness for the 2023 season with a position swap.

After a season in which Baylor football fell short of expectations, redshirt junior quarterback Blake Shapen said he had to self-reflect and take film study to another level.

Baylor’s football season is rapidly approaching. With a program-record eight home games, this season is appropriately appointed with the slogan “This is Bear Country.” The Baylor Athletics mantra is being reintroduced to promote unity among students, alumni and local fans.

The wait is still on for Baylor Athletics to open its home season, but the Bears have already been competing on the road. With the first week of classes in the rearview mirror, here’s a quick glance at everything you may have missed.

As someone who loves sports cards, I understand the hype and joy of being a collector in 2023. There are hyped-up prospects, big chases and products for everyone. However, the current model of the sports card industry has lost the frame of reality by overvaluing young players while undervaluing generational superstars.

By Claire-Marie Scott | LTVN Sports Reporter Baylor Athletics is launching a service to give fans the opportunity to get…

It feels cliche to say, “You can’t appreciate what you have until it’s gone,” but that’s the only way to describe this situation. Ohtani will not pitch for the rest of the year, creating a pivotal moment for fans to learn how to appreciate the greatness present in all sports.

No. 15 Baylor volleyball is set to take on Big Ten stalwarts No. 2 University of Wisconsin and No. 7 University of Minnesota for the third year in a row as part of the Big Ten/Big 12 Challenge. This fall’s installment of the annual duel will take place in the Maturi Pavilion in Minneapolis.

With Baylor students settling in during the first week of class, some might be wondering what to get involved in. Intramural sports present a ripe opportunity for anyone who feels like there isn’t much going on.

After one of the best season-long showings in Baylor men’s golf history, Keefer was named the Big 12 Men’s Golf Scholar-Athlete of the Year for the second year in a row, becoming the first men’s golfer in Big 12 history to win the award in back-to-back seasons. But he’s not done collecting the accolades just yet.

College football’s obsession with the almighty dollar is severing the best part of the sport.

Baylor women’s golf head coach Jay Goble only has two seniors on his roster this season, but they’re no strangers to one another.

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Here is a brief rundown on everything you may have missed while Baylor Athletics has quietly been on the road.

Read from the Lariat Sports Desk, as it ranks the top three on-campus fall sports.

The Baylor women’s basketball team will welcome four transfers and one freshman for the 2023-24 season.

The Bears enter the 2023 season with less experience than previous years, but a plethora of returning talent looks to offset the challenge.

It’s hard to find a word that perfectly epitomizes what the last 17 months have been like for Brittney Griner, but “hectic” might be a good place to start.

With a full season under her belt and a pair of exhibition wins to start the 2023 campaign, Baylor soccer head coach Michelle Lenard is ready to continue her efforts to build a strong culture.

Daily Northwestern student journalists followed hazing allegations and uncovered claims against Northwestern head football coach all summer long. It’s been a hectic but impressive run for these part-student, part-workers, and it serves as a reminder to take all student reporters seriously.

Head coach Dave Aranda expressed his enthusiasm for the way his team competed over the summer, sharing the athletes’ excitement in early fall.

From familiar foes to new faces, the 2023-24 Big 12 season will be filled with first times and last times, meaning the Baylor Bears are in for potentially one of the most hyped seasons of all time.

From upsets over top-ranked teams to protecting home turf against conference foes, Baylor athletics has had another strong year. Even though both golf teams, softball, baseball and track and field are still competing as part of the 2022-2023 season, here’s a compilation of the best sports moments of the past year.

Baylor has a long way to go coming off a disappointing 6-7 season that followed a program-best 12-2 season in 2021. Here are five things Baylor needs in order to have a bounce-back campaign.

Less than two weeks removed from losing a conference series to the Cyclones, Baylor came up short once again. The fourth-seeded Bears fell by a score of 8-1 to Iowa State in the first round of the Phillips 66 Big 12 Softball Championship.

The Bears won’t get Waco weather in Pullman, Wash., when they take part in the NCAA Pullman Regional from Monday to Wednesday.

Entering the 2023 Baylor baseball season, a storyline to spot was the development of the Caley twins, and seeing the unspoken bond between the two. Now nearing the end of the season, each has been able to spend an ample amount of time together in one of the only direct tandem roles in baseball.

Despite being regarded as a legend, I would say Tim Duncan’s become underrated because very few people talk about how he stacks up with the all-time greats in every category.

The green and gold will head into finals week on a strong note. Baylor baseball broke a five-game losing streak after hitting three home runs to take down Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi, 12-6, on Wednesday at Baylor Ballpark.