Dr. Mark Adickes’ career has taken him from the o-line to the O.R. (operating room), and now the 1984 Baylor business graduate — whose resume also includes both a Super Bowl ring and a Harvard medical degree — has found a fitting new home. Last month, he joined Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) as chief of the […]
When the 2016 NFL season kicks off tonight in Denver and this weekend across the country, 10 Baylor alumni will be on active rosters. Here’s who to watch for: * Matt Bryant, BSED ’98, Atlanta Falcons (kicker) — The 15-year veteran ranks among the top 15 in NFL history in field goal percentage and is […]
Over Labor Day weekend, the Baylor softball and baseball teams spent Labor Day weekend in Louisiana — but not for competition, practice, or even team-building. No, the coaches and student-athletes were in Louisiana with one purpose in mind: to serve by doing whatever work was needed. After unprecedented flooding hit Louisiana last month, Baylor women’s basketball […]
One week from today, Baylor football will kick off the 2016 season by hosting Northwestern State at McLane Stadium. The game on the field will feature a lot of firsts — most notably, the first game for the Bears under head coach Jim Grobe and the first game back from injury for senior quarterback Seth […]
When Trayvon Bromell (track and field), Brittney Griner (women’s basketball) and John Peers (tennis) compete this month at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, they’ll become the latest in a long line of Baylor athletes who have represented the green and gold on the world stage, symbolically receiving the torch from Baylor Olympians who came before […]
Get ready — tickets for #BaylorHomecoming and #BaylorFamily Weekend events go on sale at 10 a.m. this Tuesday, Aug. 9. Returning to Waco for Homecoming (Oct. 13-15)? Visit www.baylor.edu/homecoming/buy to get your tickets for the football game against Kansas, Pigskin Revue and the Class Reunion Gatherings, hosted by the Baylor Alumni Network for those who graduated in 1971, 1976, 1981, […]
For more than 100 years now — through coaching changes, wins, losses, scorching heat, downpours, everything — football games have often served as our Baylor family gatherings. (Homecoming, anyone?) We run the Line together as freshmen down on the field, and then in the years that follow, we celebrate from the stands the next class to run. As […]
Former Baylor golfer Jimmy Walker has ranked among the top 15 or so players on the PGA Tour for three years running, but until last week, winning one of golf’s four majors — the Masters, U.S. Open, Open Championship, and PGA Championship — had eluded him. Not anymore. Walker made national headlines Sunday as he won the PGA Championship in dramatic […]
Many Baylor fans remember Chelsea Whitaker, BA ’05, as the gutsy point guard for the 2005 Lady Bears team that won the program’s first national championship. After playing overseas for a couple of years, today Whitaker is a detective and a nine-year veteran of the Dallas Police Department (DPD) — one of the many officers who […]
Baylor named Mack Rhoades as the Bears’ new Director of Athletics on Wednesday, and will introduce him formally during a press conference on Monday. So what should Baylor fans know about the man now tasked with overseeing Baylor athletics? 1. Rhoades comes to Baylor after successful stints as AD at Akron, Houston and Missouri. During his four years at Akron, the […]
