Daily Bears Reports 12/8/2017 - Player Sports Stories

Acrobatics & Tumbling

Hope Bravo Helps USA Tumbling Team Finish 4th at World Championships - Baylor University Official Athletic Site, Competing in the World Trampoline and Tumbling Championships for the first time, Hope Bravo considered it a win that she didn't cry.

Track & Field

Football

Baylor football: Reflecting on Year 1 of Matt Rhule, HeartlandCollegeSports, It's been exactly one year to the day that Matt Rhule was introduced as the next head coach of the Baylor Bears, and we look back on his first year in Waco.

SicEmSports.com - Robinson could be the Nor'easter Baylor needs for 2018, The unique thing about Daevon Robinson is that a team can put him in a spot on the field and be successful.

Baylor isn't sure where where it wants to put the 3-star recruit from Medford, N.J. But that's a decision that doesn't have to be made yet.

What the program does know is that Robinson is taking his official visit to Waco this coming weekend. Robinson is expected to arrive Thursday evening. This is his first ever trip to Texas.

"Baylor is one of my top schools,'' Robinson said. "I want them to show me around show me that Baylor is a great place and prove that what other people say about Baylor is wrong.''

Rivals.com - 3-Star OL Jackson Kimble anxious to get started at Baylor, Rivals, Baylor head coach Matt Rhule can’t deny that he hasn’t taken his lumps in his first season leading the Bears football team, but few should be surprised.

Three-star offensive tackle and Baylor commit Jackson Kimble and his Southlake Carroll team are in the state playoff quarterfinals after a win against Arlington on Saturday night, but his senior year hasn’t been without its own moments of adversity.

“The regular season didn’t really go the way that we wanted it to,” he said. “We haven’t trailed at the half in any game this season and we had three losses. We finished third in district, so that’s not what we wanted, but we took what we learned from those losses and put them into what we’re doing now.”

Legends

Catching Up with ... Derrel Luce, Colts linebacker-turned-lawyer - Baltimore Sun, The former Baylor All-American began his legal studies during NFL offseasons in the mid-to-late 1970s.

Exclusive: Baylor's Johnathan Motley Gets Call-Up To Dallas Mavericks - 'It's Been A Long Time Coming', DalasBasketball, Exclusive: Baylor's Johnathan Motley Gets Call-Up To Dallas Mavericks - 'It's Been A Long Time Coming'

Dallas Mavericks: After acing the G-League test, ex-Baylor star Johnathan Motley gets chance to prove himself to the Mavs | SportsDay, Take it from someone who has been there. When you are a young player and you spend time in the G-League, formerly known as the NBA...

Lady Bears Basketball

Natalie Chou on Basketball and the Baylor Women's Team, Time Magazine, Natalie Chou describes changing the perception of Asian-American basketball players and being part of the Baylor women's basketball team.

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Soccer

The Coeur d'Alene Press - Sports, ELLIOTT: Lake City grad right back at home with Baylor, After a season that ended just a match away from the Final Four in the NCAA women’s soccer championship, Lake

Man Bears Basketball

Baylor Mens Basketball, Finding Their Way | CenTexProud, The Baylor men's basketball team has four non-conference games remaining to get ready for Conference play which begins on December 29th.

UMHB Football

Brockport to play Mary-Hardin Baylor in NCAA football semifinal, Democrat & Chronicle, The College at Brockport football team is in the semifinals for the first time in program history and will face defending DIII champ Mary-Hardin Baylor,