The projected top-five NBA Draft pick showed out for the Bahamas during the Olympic Qualifying Tournament this summer.
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Baylor will tie a school record of seven participating athletes set during the 2020 Tokyo Games and look to win a gold medal for the eighth time in the past nine Olympic Games.
Griner will make her first return to Waco at 3 p.m. on Sunday for No. 21 Baylor women’s basketball’s conference game against Texas Tech in the Foster Pavilion.
While nationalism among civilians and athletes often encourages division, those who live in the countries hosting the games are unfortunately brought closer together by the economic and residential despair they are forced to endure.
Head coach Michael Ford will welcome back Michael Johnson, Jeremy Wariner and Skylar White as the Legends of the Meet
By Meghan Mitchell Former track and field athlete Trayvon Bromell continues to impress in the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro,…
Thursday night Two Olympic athletes inspired students with stories of endurance and teamwork. Deloitte, one of the world’s largest professional service firms that assists both companies and individuals with tax audits, brought the two Olympians to Baylor as part of a recruiting event.
Violent drug cartels have been a deep and visible scar on the political and social landscapes of Central and South America for decades, but a social “clean-up” program by the Brazilian government may finally offer a viable solution to the age-old problem.
Although the 2014 Winter Olympics have come to a close, the fascination with sports that have found a home in frigid temperatures has not.
Baylor’s own Courtney Lyons, the assistant director of student success and a lecturer of religion, spends her days in the academic world Monday through Friday, but when Saturday rolls around, she takes her place on a pair of blades fit for the Sochi games.
The winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia has been creating a lot of buzz lately – seemingly about anything but the Olympic events. From terrorist threats and government spending to the Sochi Problems Twitter account, the amount of media coverage on the Olympics can be confusing. Assistant professor for the political science department in the school of arts and sciences, Dr. Sergiy Kudelia teaches a class on terrorism and will teach a government and politics of Russia class in the fall.
Protesters in cities around the world targeted major Olympic sponsors Wednesday, just ahead of the Winter Games in Sochi, urging them to speak out against Russia’s law restricting gay-rights activities. Two more sponsors of the U.S. Olympic team condemned the law, but leading global sponsors did not join them.
