If you’ve been to a Baylor football, basketball, baseball, softball or volleyball game since 2002, you’ve seen the work of BaylorVision — Baylor’s in-house video production group — on the video boards at Floyd Casey Stadium, the Ferrell Center, Baylor Ballpark and Getterman Stadium. It’s impressive stuff. The team intros and starting lineups might be […]
After eight years of having President George W. Bush often vacationing in nearby Crawford, it’s a little odd to think that the annual media spotlight on Central Texas is coming to an end now as Barack Obama takes the reins of the presidency. During President Bush’s last days in office, Waco news anchor Julie Hays […]
You might remember our stories this spring about Kristin Elliott, at the time a high school senior preparing to enroll at Baylor. Kristin was named ABC World News Tonight’s Person of the Week back in May after the network learned of her battle with cancer and her work to start an AIDS orphans house in […]
We’re off for Christmas, but from our den to yours, we hope you have a Beary Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
When the first Baylor Homecoming parade was held in 1909 — long before most other universities were even holding Homecoming celebrations — no one had even dreamed of television, much less the Internet. For that matter, even commercial radio stations would not be launched for about another decade. But today, the University tries to take […]
Congrats to KWBU-TV on their recent Lone Star Emmy nomination winning a 2008 Lone Star Emmy! The station, which has been housed at Baylor since 1994, last fall produced a companion piece to Ken Burns’ PBS documentary “The War” called “The War: Central Texas Remembers WWII.” The 30-minute special featured interviews with six Central Texans […]
Head coach Art Briles picked up his first Big 12 Conference win with style Saturday as the Bears swept past Iowa State, 38-10. True freshman quarterback Robert Griffin continued to impress, completing 21-of-24 pass attempts for 278 yards and two touchdowns, but Griffin shared the Parents Weekend spotlight with fellow freshman Kendall Wright. (Those two […]
The most recent issue of Baylor Magazine included a feature on Baylor’s Louise Herrington School of Nursing that examined the people who, on the cusp of the school’s 100th anniversary, make the LHSON such a special place. The subjects ranged from faculty to students, alumni in local hospitals to alumni on the mission field, to […]
Those who know me know well that I’m almost as big a fan of the Houston Astros as I am of Baylor, so it gave me great pleasure to read yesterday that former Baylor baseball letterman Mark Saccomanno had been called up to the big leagues. When I saw during last night’s game that Saccomanno […]
It’s Gameday! Baylor football kicks off the 2008 season tonight at 7 p.m. CT against 23rd-ranked Wake Forest. Join us at Floyd Casey Stadium, tune in to Fox Sports Net’s national broadcast, or follow the progress on BaylorBears.com’s GameTracker live stats and new Live In-Game Blog. One more video to get your Baylor spirit revved […]
