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Brenda Tracy, Alleged Sexual Assault Victim, Says Baylor Coach Told Her "Nothing Happened" And There Was A "Conspiracy" Against Football<em></em>

Brenda Tracy, who says four men—including two Oregon State football players—gang raped her, spoke to Baylor’s football team about sexual violence in July at the request of current interim head coach Jim Grobe. Tracy has spoken on that topic with other teams since she went public about her alleged as...

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Ken Starr Believes Art Briles Is The True Victim In Baylor's Sexual Assault Scandal

Former Baylor chancellor Ken Starr (yes, that Ken Starr) praised the character of ousted head football coach Art Briles, saying he felt Briles had been the object of a “grave injustice,” in a Saturday interview with the Texas Tribune....

Jim Grobe Says Shawn Oakman Comments Taken Out Of Context, Is Full Of Shit

When asked Monday whether he knew Shawn Oakman—the former Baylor defensive end indicted for sexual assault—had entered his team’s locker room, Baylor coach Jim Grobe said he didn’t know who Oakman was. Now, he’s saying those comments were taken out of context (they weren’t) and the media did a poor ...

Ex-Baylor Player Indicted For Sexual Assault Allowed Into Team Locker Room [Updated]

Art Briles and Shawn Oakman were in attendance for Baylor’s 38-10 win over Rice on Friday, a surprise, considering the former head coach is in the early stages of his faux-apology tour and the former defensive end is awaiting his day in court after being indicted for sexual assault....

Rice MOB Performs Baylor Scandal-Themed Halftime Show

The Rice University Marching Owl Band performed a “tribute” to Baylor’s sexual assault scandal by forming a “IX” in front of the visiting team’s seating section:...

The Art Briles Apology Tour Is Awful

Former Baylor football coach Art Briles offered ambiguous, vaguely apology-like sentiments for “bad things” in excerpts of an interview aired Saturday during ESPN’s College GameDay. The segments that aired, nearly five minutes in length, were mostly an act of Briles avoiding things he did not want t...

ESPN Feeds Audio Of People Laughing And Joking During <i>GameDay</i> Segment On Art Briles & Baylor Rapes [Updates]

ESPN’s College GameDay broadcast fell victim to technical difficulties as random voices invaded the panel’s discussion of an Art Briles exclusive, in which the former Baylor head coach attempted to defend himself to the network after being sent packing due to that university’s sexual assault scandal...

Baylor Receiver Suspended Three Games For Beating Dog With Belt

Ishmael Zamora, the Baylor receiver caught on film whipping and stomping his Rottweiler, has been suspended three games by the university for animal abuse. ...

Art Briles: "I’ve Never Done Anything Illegal, Immoral, Unethical"

Former Baylor head football coach Art Briles, who was fired in May after an investigation into a massive sexual assault scandal involving the program, has visited a couple of NFL teams’ training camps this summer. Today, he showed up at the Houston Texans’ facility and talked to reporters. While tal...

Report: Baylor Lineman Arrested For Alleged Stalking Was Previously Accused Of Sexual Assault

Baylor offensive lineman Rami Hammad was arrested on Monday after he allegedly stalked his ex-girlfriend on the university’s campus. According to Outside the Lines, Hammad was accused of sexually assaulting a different woman last fall, and was later accused of violating a no-contact order that was m...

Baylor Offensive Lineman Arrested For Allegedly Stalking Ex-Girlfriend

Baylor offensive lineman Rami Hammad was arrested yesterday on a third-degree felony stalking charge, three weeks after a Baylor professor called 911 because he allegedly wouldn’t leave his ex-girlfriend alone, according to the Waco Tribune....

Two assistant DAs who successfully prosecuted the Sam Ukwuachu rape case write about how Baylor and Boise State attempted to stymie their efforts....

Report: Baylor Coerced Rape Victims Into Silence By Threatening To Punish Them For Drinking

Baylor rape victims say the university told women who attempted to report their assaults that their parents would be informed of their alcohol or drug use under the student conduct code and in some circumstances were themselves charged with code violations, according to the Associated Press....

Court Petition From Fired Baylor Employee Seeks Full Pepper Hamilton Report

In the aftermath of the Baylor sexual assault scandal, the closest thing to concrete information on the university’s institutional failures came in the form of a 13-page, specificity-free summary of Pepper Hamilton’s findings. Baylor has long insisted that’s all the documentation that exists. A cour...

Former Baylor DE Shawn Oakman Indicted On Sexual Assault Charges

According to the Waco Tribune, Shawn Oakman, a former Baylor defensive end, was indicted on the charge of second-degree sexual assault Wednesday morning....

Jim Grobe Doesn't Think Baylor Has A Culture Problem<em></em>

Given the Baylor sexual assault scandal and its subsequent fallout, Big 12 media days were always going to be the most interesting and anticipated event leading up the college football season. Unfortunately, things have more or less played out exactly how one could and should have expected, with new...

New Baylor AD Says He Will Fix Program Because He Has Daughters, Just Like The Last One

The introduction today of Baylor’s incoming athletics director, Mack Rhoades, included the expected platitudes about change and doing things the right way—less than two months after Baylor admitted it willfully made life hell for students who reported they had been sexually assaulted, especially (th...

Big 12 Commissioner On College Sexual Assault: Teens Will Be Teens

Last week, SEC media days gave us the gift of Dan Mullen’s bullshit family. Today, at the Big 12 media day, league commissioner Bob Bowlsby took it upon himself to say something awful....

Baylor Has Figured Out How To Bury Its Scandal

It remains a stunning display of arrogance, of cynicism, of self-preservation, and of downright evil. Baylor’s conscious decision to not produce a report on its failure to handle multiple sexual assault cases was made with one goal in mind: to protect Baylor. It is not possible to remind yourself to...