By Lindsey Miner Sports Reporter The Baylor men’s tennis team will play nine opponents ranked…

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.

The Baylor Lariat sports desk makes their picks for NFL games this week and discusses…

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.