We’re three quarters into Big 12 conference play, and what we know is… that we know nothing. In fact, we may know less now than we did before conference play started. To try and make sense of this crazy season, we ranked the teams in the conference and predicted their NCAA tournament seed. Oklahoma State (10-16, […]
Matt Price was larger than life, a staggering six feet and four inches of hard work, somewhat inappropriate jokes, and the God-given gift of connecting with almost anyone. He first met my dad when we moved to Austin in 2006, bonding over a shared alma mater that soon manifested into his constant, lively presence at
One hundred years ago, a 150-pound freshman named John Tanner III enlisted to play football for the Baylor Bears. The move was somewhat comfortable for Tanner, a student who had lived his first year of life in the attic of Burleson Hall as the infant son of religion professor John Tanner II. He was also
Warning: Please, Do NOT continue reading if you are currently a head coach in the Big 12 Basketball conference. The Baylor Bears have had great success in the Big 12 thus far, tied for third in the conference after a rocky start to their season. Despite the loss of arguably their best player Tristan
If you ask native Texans Shawn and Gary Bridges what inspires them, they have a quick and simple answer: the beauty that surrounds them at their home in Cuchara, Colorado. The Baylor graduates (Class of 1968) now call the small village just north of the New Mexico border home, where Shawn is an artist, and
The year is 1959 in Waco, Texas. A seven-year-old boy approaches a massive stadium to watch his first ever college football game. Walking to his seat, he absorbs a breathtaking scene. The crowd hollers. The band blares their age-old rendition of “That Good Old Baylor Line”. For the first time in his life, the boy
This article was written by Sherry Castello and published in the Fall 1993 issue of The Baylor Line. No longer just a dream, the Truett Seminary soon will be training a new generation of servant leaders to proclaim the message of Christ. Preaching from pulpits within four years will be pastors who are graduates of
At the whiteboard, Jon is demanding answers. Six months ago, he came up with an idea: to tell the untold stories of Baylor, using a podcast. In the time that followed, Jonathon Platt, currently a journalism graduate student at Baylor, developed a team for this pursuit. I joined Behind The Bear in February 2017 as
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Back in the Big Hair 80’s, I was a proud Baylor Bear who thought she had life all figured out by the time she was old enough to call herself a college student. Like Mary Tyler Moore joyously flinging her beret skyward, I had made it, after all. Welcome to a dormitory world full of
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Betty Doyen Dilday, who graduated Baylor in 1952 along with her husband, Russell H. Dilday, died Aug. 9 at 87. At a memorial service Aug. 14, her three children — Robert H. Dilday (’78), Nancy Dilday Duck (’80), and Ellen Garrett (’81) — each reflected on her life. This is a condensed version of their
