The Year of the Bear rolled on into the 2012 NBA Draft last night, as three Baylor men’s basketball players were selected, a program record. Combined with the NFL and MLB drafts, a school-record 14 Bears were picked across the three leagues this spring, shattering the previous mark of 11 set in 1983. Last night, it […]
Robert Griffin III, Brittney Griner, Kim Mulkey and the Lady Bear basketball team are all among those nominated for the 2012 ESPY Awards, ESPN announced on Wednesday. The school-record six ESPY nominations covered categories from best team (Lady Bears), best female athlete (Griner) and best female college athlete (Griner again) to best breakthrough athlete (RG3), best […]
Many Baylor graduates can point to one particular class that shaped their future careers. For May 2012 graduate Austin Barnes, BBA ’12, it was a unique offering he took a year ago in the Hankamer School of Business called “Sales for Social Impact.” Funded by a generous grant from 3M and taught by faculty in […]
Forty years ago this month, the United States Congress passed legislation that came to be known as “Title IX.” In effect, it guaranteed women equal opportunities in college athletics; at the time, barely 30,000 female athletics participated at the college level. Today, nearly 200,000 women each year play NCAA sports. Baylor’s Brittney Griner was named […]
The Year of the Bear is now in the books, and what a year it was. First, the big picture: Two national championships. Two national players of the year, including the Heisman Trophy winner. NCAA records for combined wins in the Big Three and Big Four sports. Three Big 12 titles. All 19 varsity sports […]
Two narrow losses to Arkansas in the NCAA Super Regional last weekend kept Baylor baseball from returning to Omaha, but a look back at the 2012 season shows that the year deserves to be remembered among the best in program history. In the past five months, Baylor baseball: Claimed its third Big 12 championship; Finished […]
What a night for Baylor alum Elizabeth A. Davis… If you were among the millions watching the Tony Awards Sunday evening on CBS, then you saw Davis performing live with the cast of “Once” and heard her thanked by the show’s producers when “Once” was named the 2012 Tony Award winner for Best Musical. You […]
Kevin Reynolds, BA ’74, JD ’76, has had a lot of success working with Kevin Costner. In 1985, Reynolds wrote and directed Costner’s first starring role in Fandango, and the pair re-teamed as director and star for Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves in 1991 and Waterworld in 1995. In their first pairing in almost 20 […]
Legendary science fiction writer Ray Bradbury, author of such classics as Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles, passed away Tuesday at age 91. Bradbury often wrote of visiting other worlds; now, two Baylor graduates are working together to find the physics and engineering necessary that would make that idea a reality, allowing for true interstellar […]
When Baylor’s Board of Regents next convenes in mid-July, the group will include a new chair, four newly elected Regents and — for the first time in memory — direct representatives of the faculty and student body. Last month, the Board voted to appoint a member of the faculty and student body to one-year terms […]
