In case you missed it, several Baylor athletics teams helped keep the university in the national spotlight throughout last week.

After a day set aside to show thanks and count blessings, thousands make their way to the stores to grab that shiny, new item they must have at all costs, all in the name of savings.

The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles voted 8-0 last Thursday to reject personalized license plates featuring the Confederate flag.

I’m going to do something I haven’t done since elementary school, maybe junior high at the latest.

Moral clarity is one of the most seductive traits of social conservatism. Those of us outside that ideology may struggle to untie the Gordian knot of complex moral issues, wrestle over consciences in hopes of compromise and construct arguments in tenuous terms of, “If this, then that, but if the other thing, then …”

Last weekend, Penn State University played its first football game in 46 years without Joe Paterno serving as head coach. Paterno was fired after a child sex abuse investigation involving one of his assistant coaches, Jerry Sandusky, began last week.