Big 12 Power Rankings

We’re just past the halfway point in the College Football season. Let’s take a look at how things are shaking out in the Big 12.   Kansas (3-5 Overall, 1-4 in Big 12) Kansas is a basketball school, and that’s alright. Finding themselves at the bottom of the pile once again, Kansas is simply not […]

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The Last Continent: Exploring Antarctica on the 100th Anniversary of Shackleton’s Endurance Voyage

The ship’s horn blew. The anchors lifted. And we set sail from the southernmost tip of Argentina—the port town of Ushuaia, which explorers long ago deemed the end of the world. “You think we’ll make it through the Drake?” I asked the Irishman standing next to me on the ship’s bow. We both eyed the

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Leave What’s Lost Behind: Colony House fans hungry for new album

I just want Mickey D’s.  Brothers-turned-bandmates Caleb and Will Chapman aren’t exempt from feeling “hangry” – even if they are onstage in front of a packed audience at Common Grounds. Nashville-based indie/rock band Colony House has come a long way since their first show outside Tennessee. Caleb and Will reminisce when half a decade ago,

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More Than Stripes: Student Foundation Celebrates Golden Anniversary

Baylor didn’t need 400,000 roaring fans. It just needed 13 students. A few things happened in 1969. Apollo 11 sent Neil Armstrong to the moon. Almost half a million concert groupies sang their hearts out at Woodstock in New York. And more relevantly, Kent State University students rioted the Vietnam War, resulting in unrest on

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