Dave Harper will assume the role of executive senior associate athletic director after a decade at Duquesne, where he served as athletics director and vice president of athletics.

Dawson Pendergrass is back on the field for Baylor after missing all of 2025 with a season-ending foot injury. Five practices into spring ball, the redshirt junior is returning to a new-look backfield and a role he said still must be earned.

Criticisms directed at TPUSA accuse the organization of “provocation” or creating a “spectacle.” These claims are reinforced by short viral clips rather than engagement with the organization’s actual ideologies. When judgements form this way, people risk oversimplifying complex viewpoints and reducing TPUSA and its supporters to an out-of-context viral clip.

Baylor University will host a stop on the campus tour of Turning Point USA, a national political organization that is known for staging confrontational political events at universities. While supporters say these events at universities promote free speech and bring conservative ideas onto campus, but Baylor students should be asking a deeper question: are these tours actually to foster dialogue, or are they designed to turn universities into a stage for political theatre?