🐻 The Official Daily Newsletter For Baylor Athletics

Happy Thursday Bears. Clear the calendars for tonight. You HAVE to be at Betty Lou Mays Stadium tonight. No questions asked.

Why you ask? Well, of course we want to watch our futbol squad take on SMU, but, also….

It’s CORGI RACE NIGHT! I mean, come on, how you can miss that sight at halftime???

Throw on the Green and Gold, cheer on the Bears and watch an awesome race at halftime!

What do we have stirrin’ in today’s Brew? Check it out!

🎙 Inside Baylor Sports: Ketron Jackson Jr. Joins The Guys
🏈 The Dream Continues
⚽️ We’ll See You At Betty Lou
🐻 And much, much more!

🎥 BAYLOR+

Coming off a six-catch, 70-yard Baylor debut this past Saturday, new transfer via Arkansas, Ketron Jackson Jr., joins hosts Justin Hoff and Elliot Coffey to talk about his journey to Baylor and looking ahead to this weekend’s challenge at McLane.

Inside Baylor Sports is the official daily podcast of Baylor Athletics. Hosted by Hoff and a rotating cast of insiders like Coffey and Jerry Hill, this is the one-stop shop for everything fans need to know about the Bears: the biggest stories, exclusive interviews and opinions on the most important news of the day.

Every episode will be ready and waiting for fans first thing each morning.

📈 STOCK UP

🔺 See You At Betty Lou. Last week, our Baylor women’s soccer team played its first home game of 2023 and you all SHOWED OUT!

It was the third largest home crowd in the past three years and we need you back at Betty Lou tonight as the Bears host in-state rival SMU at 7 p.m. It is the 14th meeting all-time between the two schools. Four of those five meetings have also been decided by one goal.

Plus…. it’s CORGI RACE NIGHT!

The Bears are off to their best start since 2019 and have posted three shutouts in the first five games of the year.

Six different players have scored this season as Baylor has used a balanced offensive attack and a stifling defensive effort to pile up a 3-1-1 ledger.

🔺 The Dream Continues. Every little kid playing Pop Warner dreams of playing on Sundays.

This week, 12 former Bears will kick off another year of chasing their dreams as part of active NFL rosters during the opening week of the 2023 season.

Terrel Bernard (Bills), Andrew Billings (Bears), Siaka Ika (Browns), Ben Sims (Packers), Grayland Arnold (Texans), Jalen Pitre (Texans), Jon Weeks (Texans), JaMycal Hasty (Jaguars), Ross Matiscik (Jaguars), JT Woods (Chargers), Xavien Howard (Dolphins), and Xavier Newman (Titans) all are living out their NFL dreams.

Six other Bears are part of practice squads and could be called up on Sundays throughout the season.

🔺 Meet Us at McLane. Of course we’re excited about another opportunity to get back on the field at McLane.

This time, we’re hosting the 14th-ranked team in the country and we need YOU!

Bring the energy, bring the noise, let’s get McLane rocking and welcome the Utes to Waco.

📝: Bears Host #14 Utah - Game Preview
🏈: Three Takeaways

🔺 Mustang Rally. Freshman Kyndal Stowers pounded out 29 kills and added 16 digs for her second double-double in her first four collegiate games, but the Bears dropped a tough road matchup, 3-2, to SMU on Wednesday night in Dallas.
 
BU (1-3) fell to the Mustangs (3-3) after keeping pace throughout the match, errors being the Bears downfall. Baylor fought to a 25-21, 23-25, 21-24, 25-23, 10-15 finish.

🎙: Coach McGuyre on ESPN Radio

🐻 BACK IN THE LAB

While our fall teams are in full swing, our winter and spring squads are hitting the practice courts, fields, tracks and everything in between.

Our Bears are back in the lab preparing for another big time year in Waco.

🤔 SIC ’EM TRIVIA

Grand Company. Sophomore Richard Reese enters this weekend’s game just 14 yards away from becoming the 43rd player in program history to reach 1,000 career rushing yards.

If he reaches that feat this weekend, he’ll achieve the milestone in just 15 career games.

Who was the first ever Bear to reach 1,000 career yards rushing?

Got a guess?

Scroll on down to the bottom of this email for the answer!

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🗓 ON TAP THIS WEEK

Thursday, September 7
⚽ Soccer vs. SMU @ 7 pm | Live Coverage

Friday, September 8
🏐 Volleyball at Colorado State @ 6 pm | Live Coverage

Saturday, September 9
⛳️ Men’s Golf at Valero Texas Collegiate (UTSA) | Live Scoring
🏐 Volleyball vs. Bowling Green (at CSU) @ 11 am | Live Coverage
🏈 Football vs. Utah @ 11am CT on ESPN+ | Tickets

Sunday, September 10
⛳️ Men’s Golf at Valero Texas Collegiate (UTSA) | Live Scoring
🏐 Volleyball vs. Pacific (at CSU) @ 10 am | Live Coverage
⚽ Soccer vs. Abilene Christian @ 7pm | Live Coverage

🎉 TRIVIA ANSWER

Answer: L.G. Dupre.

“Long Gone” Dupre as he was affectionately known, was part of the “Fearsome Foursome” backfield at Baylor in the early-mid 1950s. In 1953, he set at the single-season rushing record at the time with 593 yards.

He went on to pile up 1,423 yards in his three seasons at Baylor and in 1981, he was inducted into Baylor’s Athletic Hall of Fame.

Dupre would go on to play seven seasons in the NFL, five with the Baltimore Colts and two with the Chicago Bears. He was a part of two NFL championship teams with Baltimore in 1958 and 1959.

🐻 Have a great Thursday Baylor Fam!