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Baylor student Daniel Jones never finished Bearathon last year; he collapsed before the finish line. But his Kappa Omega Tau fraternity brothers are running on Saturday to honor his memory at this year’s annual race.

Baylor baseball takes on conference rival No. 20 Oklahoma State in a three-game series at Baylor Ballpark during the Bears’ special weekend honoring the armed forces with camouflage-themed uniforms.

The No. 5 Lady Bears start their NCAA Tournament campaign against Western Kentucky at 5:30 p.m. Saturday with homecourt advantage at the Ferrell Center. The game will also be televised on ESPN2.

A rare and more serious ITS outage was detected Wednesday night when storage space in Baylor’s data center was experiencing technical issues.
Bob Hartland, associate vice-president for IT Infrastructure, said the reason this incident was more complicated than usual outages is because it impacted several on-campus systems, including Blackboard, the Baylor identification system, Astra scheduling system and Baylor Web pages. Despite the severity of the outage, all campus applications are back up and running with all data safe and intact.

The city of Waco is pursuing legal action to force the improvement of three publicly unsafe buildings on 17th and 18th streets. The three buildings have been deemed unsafe for years, one dating back to 2007.

“OK, this time I’m not going to cry. I promise, promise, promise!” So goes my spiel each time the movie “Marley and Me” is popped into the DVD player. From 2008 to the present day, I have yet to watch the dog-book-turned-movie without ending up a blubbering mess of tears, tangled hair and snot on the floor.

In the March 20th column “Let the students move down,” Anja Rosales argues that Baylor Athletics should allow students to sit courtside rather than the alumni and donors who pay to sit there. She says that the atmosphere would be better and more students would come to the games.

Freshman Brian Hafferkamp focuses as he climbs the rock wall in the Student Life Center. Hafferkamp, along with five other Baylor students, participated in Outdoor Adventure’s Intro to Sports Climbing course. The participants learned how to safely climb in an outdoor environment and help other climbers.

Baylor football held its annual NFL Pro Day on Wednesday at the Simpson Athletic Complex and Allison Indoor Practice Facility. The football program hosted 36 representatives from 30 NFL teams.

Baylor women’s tennis fell 4-1 to former conference rival No. 7 Texas A&M Wednesday afternoon at Hurd Tennis Center on a windy, open sky day.

Good Friday will mark the 11th year Emily Mills has been ministering to an unsuspecting industry. She figured out exotic dancing isn’t just for men; it’s for showing the love of Jesus too.

Hey, Baylor Nation, let’s fill the Alamo City with green and gold! Oh, wait. We have class.
Friday’s NCAA first-round game against No. 11 Nebraska marks No. 6 Baylor’s fourth tournament appearance in seven years.

March Madness is about to be in full swing. With the performance the men’s team displayed throughout the final stretch of regular season play and the conference tournament, the No. 6 seed has Baylor Nation hyped up for the big dance.

Greg DeVries and Daniel Hill give you their picks for March Madness and discuss which teams are likely to rise above the rest.
Also on the podcast, a recap of the Big 12 Tournament and analysis of Baylor’s draw in the big dance. How will the Bears hold up in the West region?
Follow our hosts on Twitter @GregDeVries3000 and @D_Hill80 and follow the show @DFTBPodcast.

Meteor showers, terrorism, pilot suicide, alien invasion — countless theories have surfaced surrounding the Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 that lost contact with air traffic controllers on March 8. The unexplained disappearance of this Boeing 777 aircraft, which was headed to Beijing, has dumbfounded both airline officials and the rest of the world.