Well, it's been a while.

And I never delivered that bowl recap I promised. That'll be going up soon, but for now, let me just say that it was exhausting, exhilarating and fantastic.

Baylor Sports Recap du jour:

• We are now 37-0 in "money making" sports since the beginning of November. This is the Baylor that everyone wanted out of the Big 12? 
• Baylor Men's Basketball won a heartstopping game last night, 75-73 over Kansas State. Oklahoma State is next, then another hard test in Kansas. 
• Baylor Lady Bears play OSU tonight (7:00 PM CT, Ferrell Center). This should be an interesting, and emotional, game. 
• Robert Griffin III is going to the NFL. I wish him all the best as he leaves Baylor. (No, I'm not wiping a tear away from my eye, why do you ask? Okay, maybe I am.) I'll be doing a seperate link aggregate post over this, so look out for that.

On tap for this week: Bowl game recap, Lady Bears "fast five", what exactly all this winning means to a fan who's used to losing, and more!

Sunday Sports News Aggregate-12/11/12

Did you know that Robert Griffin III won the Heisman? Just checking.

• First up, the official AP story.
  
• Baylor's athletics are entering a golden age, says the Fort Worth Star Telegram's Marc Engel.
  
• Dallas Morning News Wire Reports has a story on whether RG3 could take Andrew Luck's spot as the projected number 1 NFL draft pick, if he doesn't decide to stay another year.
  
• In non-Heisman news, Brittney Griner and the Lady Bears defeated St. John in the Maggie Dixon Classic (NY, NY) after cheering on RG3 before the Heisman ceremony.
  
• WacoTrib has a video of students reacting...enthusiastically to the announcement. It's worth watching just for the pure joy, and for the guy who starts the RG3 chant.
  
• David Ubben of ESPN's Big 12 blog says that RG3 defied odds and redefined the Heisman. Me, I'm not so sure about the defying odds part.
  
• New York Times writer Mark Viera remarks on the remarkable prediction that Art Briles made when RG3 came to Waco. 

And that's all for now, folks. 

Robert Griffin III: Baylor's Greatest Player or Baylor's Greatest Player?

It's about 10 minutes from the time that we learned that Baylor University had its first Heisman trophy winner. I keep trying to start this post, but for once, I'm having difficulty finding words. What this means to us is simply indescribable. This legitimates a program that has known its own potential for 2 years. This proves to the world that Baylor is more than a cult from years ago and the perennial favourite for other school's Homecomings. It's something that means more than I can articulate-I can only describe the shaking nerves that filled me right before the announcement, and the screams of joy that erupted from the tiny front room of this collegiate apartment and all over campus. The tower of Pat Neff will be green tonight and Robert Griffin the Third, Heisman Winner, will come back to a hero's welcome.

While we here are all shaking with joy, there is also the slightest undercurrent of sadness. RG3 won, so he's unlikely to come back and play as a Baylor Bear again. One does get the terribly sad feeling that this might have been a once in a lifetime thing, something that we lucky few (the undergraduate classes of 2012-2015) will tell our grandchildren in wistful voices of when "Baylor was good and Robert Griffin was the Heisman winner." Maybe it won't be. Maybe this is that pessimism that comes as second nature to us members of this no-longer second rate school.

I'm sure that tomorrow I'll be able to wrap all this up in a much more concise and appropriate way, but right now, the only thing I can think of is:

RG3 is Superman.