How Brittney Griner, Baylor and the City of Waco are still reaching an agreement

Texas: Humans sometimes call the University Baptist Church "soft church" because the atmosphere is denim

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and guitars instead of fire and brimstone, and the congregation is allowed to munch on donuts during the service

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which begins a few minutes after 10. : forty-five in the morning to accommodate the stragglers.

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Robert Griffin III helped out during his 2011 Heisman Trophy season at Baylor

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Brittney Griner, an equally iconic Baylor alumnus, was no longer attending church while she was in college

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but she was at the forefront of the thoughts of Sharyl West Loeung

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who walked over and grabbed a microphone one Sunday morning in mid-December. . .

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"As much as Brittney Griner is on Texas soil today," she said.

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