{"id":315,"date":"2008-02-22T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T15:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/02\/22\/big-weekend-for-baylor-athletics\/"},"modified":"2008-02-22T09:00:34","modified_gmt":"2008-02-22T15:00:34","slug":"big-weekend-for-baylor-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/02\/big-weekend-for-baylor-athletics\/","title":{"rendered":"Big weekend for Baylor athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/bu-baseball-natl-anthem-feb08.jpg\" alt=\"Baylor baseball\" align=\"right\" \/>This weekend holds all kinds of drama for Baylor sports fans. It starts tonight at 6:30 p.m. as <a href=\"http:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/sports\/m-basebl\/spec-rel\/022108aaa.html\" target=\"_blank\">Baylor baseball kicks off its 2008 season<\/a> against Purdue at Baylor Ballpark&#8211;a season that holds great promise for Bear fans. Head coach Steve Smith was quoted in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wacotrib.com\/sports\/content\/sports\/college\/2008\/02\/22\/02222008wacbaylorbase.html\" target=\"_blank\">today&#8217;s Waco Tribune-Herald<\/a> as saying, &#8220;This team is capable of going to the College World Series for sure. From an ability and talent standpoint, this is as good of a team as we\u2019ve had here.&#8221;  That series continues Saturday at 3 p.m. and Sunday at noon.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, <a href=\"http:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/sports\/m-baskbl\/spec-rel\/022208aac.html\" target=\"_blank\">the men&#8217;s basketball team hosts No. 24 Kansas State<\/a> and national player of the year candidate Michael Beasley. For the Bears to keep their NCAA Tournament hopes alive, this one is pretty much a must-win. Tip-off is at 7 p.m.; the game will be televised in Texas on Fox Sports Net. Tickets for both this game and the baseball series <a href=\"http:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/tickets\/bay-tickets.html\" target=\"_blank\">are available online now<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Baylor women&#8217;s basketball team and reigning <a href=\"http:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/sports\/w-baskbl\/spec-rel\/021808aaa.html\" target=\"_blank\">Big 12 Player of the Week Jessica Morrow<\/a> is headed to Ames, Iowa, for <a href=\"http:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/sports\/w-baskbl\/spec-rel\/022108aaa.html\" target=\"_blank\">an 11 a.m. meeting Saturday against Iowa State<\/a>. The No. 9 Lady Bears can claim their second Big 12 Conference title in four years if they can win out over their final four games. Saturday&#8217;s game will be televised nationally on Fox Sports Net.<\/p>\n<p>If that&#8217;s not enough, there&#8217;s plenty more sports in action this weekend, as well. Led by <a href=\"http:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/sports\/w-softbl\/spec-rel\/021908aaa.html\" target=\"_blank\">Big 12 Player of the Week Jordan Daniels<\/a>, the No. 10 Baylor softball team looks to continue its hot start to the season <a href=\"http:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/sports\/w-softbl\/spec-rel\/022008aad.htmlhttp:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/sports\/w-softbl\/spec-rel\/022008aad.html\" target=\"_blank\">at a tournament in California<\/a> this weekend. <a href=\"http:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/sports\/w-equest\/spec-rel\/022108aaa.html\" target=\"_blank\">Baylor equestrian<\/a> hosts Kansas State today and Fresno State tomorrow at the Willis Family Equestrian Center. The <a href=\"http:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/sports\/w-tennis\/spec-rel\/021908aaa.html\" target=\"_blank\">No. 10 women&#8217;s tennis team<\/a> hosts No. 16 William &amp; Mary Saturday at 1 p.m., while the 11th-ranked men host Kentucky Sunday at 2 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Baylor athletics!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend holds all kinds of drama for Baylor sports fans. It starts tonight at 6:30 p.m. as Baylor baseball kicks off its 2008 season against Purdue at Baylor Ballpark&#8211;a season that holds great promise for Bear fans. Head coach Steve Smith was quoted in today&#8217;s Waco Tribune-Herald as saying, &#8220;This team is capable of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}