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Brittney Griner named national, Big 12 Player of the Week

comments ()Much like Pierre Jackson on the men’s side, Brittney Griner won the Big 12′s Player of the Week. She also nabbed the ESPNNW’s National Player of the Week. In the two wins over ranked...

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Tonight’s game against Texas Tech will be full of history for Brittney Griner

comments ()Brittney Griner has been the biggest women’s college basketball icon since Candace Parker played for Tennessee. You could even argue that Griner has been a bigger hit on and off the court...

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Brittney Griner looks to shake past woes of playing UConn

Associated Press Brittney Griner vividly remembers her last trip to Connecticut in two simple words: free throws. As a sophomore, Griner had a miserable time at the line, missing eight foul shots _...

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Brittney Griner achieves 3,000 point milestone in win over UConn

Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. — The story was similar to last season: UConn jumped out to a double-digit lead on Baylor, but couldn’t hold on. Too much Brittney Griner. Griner scored 21 of her 25...

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Brittney Griner drops a Big 12 record 50 points in win over Kansas State

Brittney Griner can now add a 50-point game to her lengthy list of accomplishments while at Baylor. The senior forward made 21 of her 28 shots tonight while leading the Bears to a 90-68 win over...

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Iowa State coach says awkward post game bump with Baylor’s Kim Mulkey...

In the women’s Big 12 championship game, the Baylor Bears defeated Iowa State 75-47, making it the third time the Bears have taken down the Cyclones this year. At the conclusion of the game, the...

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Animated cartoon shows Baylor Bear Brittney Griner’s dominance

Numbers Never Lie, an ESPN show dedicated to finding statistical patterns and anomalies in sports numbers, recently looked at Baylor’s Brittney Griner and her dominance on the court. ESPN analyst...

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Should Brittney Griner be disciplined for halftime tweet in final home game?

In Brittney Griner’s final home game, George W. Bush was in attendance, she dunked three times and her team easily won 85-47 over Florida State. But one tweet sent by Griner is drawing some...

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Writer: Society ‘disparages female athletes,’ says Brittney Griner has ‘taken...

In the four years that Brittney Griner has been a Baylor Bear, she led her team to nearly a perfect home record (72-1 in Waco), won defensive player of the year all four years and most notably, led...

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Baylor Bears upset by Louisville, Brittney Griner’s college career ends

Brittney Griner’s career with the Baylor Bears has ended with a 82-81 loss to Louisville. The Bears led the game for about 7 seconds after Odyssey Sims hit two free throws to put the Bears up 81-80....

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Brittney Griner named unanimous AP All-American for third time in career

The Associated Press just released its All-American team and there are two Baylor Bears on it. Brittney Griner and Odyssey Sims were two of the five selected for the honor. This marks the third time...

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NBA player says there will be a female NBA player in the future, could that...

With all of the talk circulating about Baylor’s Brittney Griner making it in the NBA, one NBA player predicted that the association will eventually have a female player. Miami Heat forward Shane...

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Former NBA scout dissects Baylor Bears Brittney Griner’s game, says she’d...

ESPN’s  Amin Elhassan  recently wrote an article on if Brittney Griner could make it in the NBA. Being a former NBA scout, he’s offered some different, insider opinions. Here are some of the more...

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Baylor’s Brittney Griner talks about being bullied, playing in the NBA, and...

ESPN sat down with Baylor’s Brittney Griner to talk about bullying and the possibility of her playing in the NBA. Here are two small quotes from a short video. On bullying: ‘I was picked on and I...

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Ex-Baylor Bear Brittney Griner taken first overall in WNBA draft

Associated Press BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) — Brittney Griner left an indelible mark on women’s college basketball. Now she’s ready to take on the pros. The Phoenix Mercury took Baylor’s star center with the...

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Ex-Baylor Bear Brittney Griner already has a street in Phoenix named after her

With all the hoopla about Brittney Griner going to the NBA circulating, fans of the Phoenix Mercury, the WNBA team that drafted the Baylor superstar No. 1 overall last night, are already expecting...

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Writer: How does Baylor change its stance on gay athletes after Brittney...

Other than Robert Griffin III, Brittney Griner may be the most popular Baylor athlete in recent memory. After coming out in a Sports Illustrated article discussing athletes and sexuality, grumblings...

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Writer: Some are out to ‘undermine Baylor University’s longstanding tradition...

Brittney Grimes of examiner.com wrote that certain people are out to ‘undermine Baylor University’s longstanding tradition and education’ after former Baylor superstar Brittney Griner came out in a...

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Ex-Baylor Bear Brittney Griner tweets she’s glad she isn’t ‘alone’ after...

In Sports Illustrated issues spanning nearly two weeks apart, both Brittney Griner and Jason Collins made their sexuality public by coming out. After Collins story was published a few days ago, Griner...

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Brittney Griner: ‘Just as basketball doesn’t define who I am, neither does...

In response to Jason Collins’ announcement last week, ex-Baylor Bear Brittney Griner chronicled her journey to coming out in a New York Times opinion piece. In that piece, she said she told her mom...

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