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Lawsuit: Baylor Football Players Committed 52 Rapes In Four Years Under Art Briles
Baylor football players committed 52 rapes in four years, the majority at off-campus parties hosted by football players, including five gang rapes; the university paid off one woman who said she was raped by giving her free tuition; and football staff arranged for women to have sex with recruits on ...

Another Title IX Official At Baylor Says She Quit Because Working There Was Hell
A second woman whose job at Baylor was to investigate reports of rape has spoken to ESPN’s Outside the Lines. Like Patty Crawford, the previous Title IX official who talked after leaving Baylor, Gabrielle Lyons describes a bleak situation, one that made her so paranoid she dreamed about rape. Lyons ...

Texas Defends Hiring Ex-Baylor Assistant Casey Horny Despite His Support For Art Briles
Last week, Texas hired Baylor assistant Casey Horny to work as a special teams assistant under incoming coach Tom Herman. Horny is a Texas alum and spent three years as a graduate assistant in Austin, but he worked at Baylor for nine years before coming back to Texas. Horny was part of the group of...

Baylor's First Ever Spell As The Nation's Top-Ranked Team Kicks Off With Blowout Loss
Then-undefeated Baylor became the #1 team in the nation for the first time in school history on Monday. A day later, the Bears got blown out by West Virginia, and I hope they enjoyed their lone day in the number one spot, because it’s almost assuredly gone after this week....

Art Briles Sues Baylor Officials For Defamation And Conspiracy
Former Baylor head coach Art Briles has filed a lawsuit against three Baylor University regents and a school vice president. The suit claims that Baylor committed libel and slander by falsely claiming that Briles knew about but failed to report alleged rapes committed by his football players. The su...

Baylor Hires Temple's Matt Rhule As New Head Coach
After reports trickled in all morning, Baylor made the announcement of their new football head coach official. God speed, Matt Rhule....

Houston Denies ESPN Report, <em></em>Wants Nothing To Do With Former Baylor Coach Art Briles
Less than a week after one of the Baylor officials directly involved in the sexual assault scandal landed a job, another seemed primed to possibly snag one of his own—until the school in question said “fuck that.”...

Baylor Regent: Getting A Full Report Would Have Cost Us Money
Members of the Baylor University Board of Regents have avoided discussing why they never commissioned, received, nor released a full, detailed written report from outside investigators at Pepper Hamilton on how their institution made life a living hell for women who reported they were raped (especia...

Liberty Hires Ex-Baylor Athletic Director Ian McCaw
Liberty University announced Monday that Baylor’s former athletic director Ian McCaw has been hired as the school’s new AD. McCaw will assume the spot left open by Jeff Barber’s Nov. 17 resignation. McCaw is the first of the major three ex-Baylor officials publicly disgraced for their role in the sc...

Two Women Who Reported Gang Rapes By Baylor Football Players Settle With University
Two women who reported being gang raped by multiple Baylor football players in 2012 have settled with the university, according to ESPN. The financial settlement was announced Tuesday, and the exact terms were not disclosed. The women didn’t file a lawsuit and no details—including the names of the p...
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Report: Baylor AD In Charge Of Public Image Charged With Assaulting Reporter [Update]
Update, 2/15/2017, 4:15 p.m. EST: A grand jury declined to indict Nielsen this morning. KSTX reports that footage from in-stadium cameras played a large part in the decision. ...

Baylor Confirms Art Briles Knew About Alleged Gang Rape And Chose Not To Report It
Former Baylor head football coach Art Briles and former athletic director Ian McCaw knew about an alleged group sexual assault and chose not to report it, according to a statement issued yesterday by the university. This confirmation also indicates that the assistant coaches who spoke out last week ...

Paul Finebaum Renews Call To Suspend Baylor's Season; Says Stadium Built With "Blood Money"
An emotional Paul Finebaum appeared on College GameDay this morning to renew his call for the Big 12 to suspend Baylor’s season due to that university’s tone-deaf response to the ongoing sexual assault scandal within its football team....

Report: Baylor Also Involved In Run-Of-The-Mill Recruiting Scandal
Baylor has spent the past year embroiled in a huge sexual assault scandal, but according to a report from ESPN, they’re also facing possible infractions over recruiting violations. Offensive coordinator Kendal Briles (son of deposed former head coach Art) went to the NCAA’s Indianapolis headquarters...

Report: NCAA To Skip Penn State-Level Sanctions Against Baylor
Baylor’s interim president, football coaches, fans, board of regents, and current players and students all have an opinion on who should be blamed for the school’s inability to report and address sexual assault. In surprising news, the NCAA does not seem to have an opinion....

Baylor's Sexual Assault Scandal: Still No Report, Still Few Answers
Baylor’s board of regents is sharing details of the university’s sexual assault scandal with select media outlets after months of staying publicly silent. A group of regents spoke anonymously with the Wall Street Journal last week, and two days ago an interview with four regents—Ron Murff, James Gra...

Baylor Players Deny Report Their Black Uniforms Are In Protest Of Art Briles's Firing
Individual Baylor football players have stood up for ex-Bears head coach Art Briles in the months since he was fired for his role in the school’s sexual assault scandal; now, according to ESPN’s Brett McMurphy, the entire team will join the ill-fated movement....

Former Baylor AD Reportedly Asked For Immunity For Football Players Under Investigation
Since turning down a $1.5 million settlement from Baylor, Patty Crawford has been on quite the media tour. She rejected the money because it would have prevented her from speaking publicly about what happened at Baylor over the past two years, and since she left the school less than a month ago, she...

New Report Details How Baylor Suppressed Reports Of Sexual Assault<em></em>
A report tonight from Showtime’s 60 Minutes Sports revealed a series of new details about Baylor’s failures to handle reports of sexual assault, especially (although not exclusively) those involving football players. The package, reported by Armen Keteyian, details how Waco police kept details of re...

On Eve Of 60 Minutes Sports Report, Baylor Starts Website Called "The Truth"
This afternoon, the URL www.baylor.edu/thetruth went live; no, the URL and website names are not the worst part....