2013 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election
Results of the 2013 election by the BBWAA were announced on January 9, live on the MLB Network and streamed on the Hall's website. A total of 569 ballots were cast, with 427 votes required for election. A total of 3,756 individual votes were cast, an average of 6.6 per ballot- the highest per-ballot average since 2003 (also 6.6), and the first average of over six per ballot since 2007 (6.58). The 24 first-time candidates () last played during the 2007 major league season. Eighteen received less than 5% support (*) and were thus eliminated from BBWAA consideration; six newcomers scored 5% support or more, the largest number since 1994.


2013 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election
No player received the 75% support needed for election, the first such shutout since 1996 and only the eighth in history.


2013 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election
Dale Murphy was on the ballot for the 15th and final time.


2013 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election
The newly eligible candidates included 29 All-Stars, seven of whom were not on the ballot, representing a total of 104 All-Star selections, a record, and over three times the number of 2012's class (33 All-Star selections among newly eligible candidates); until this year, only the class of 2007 had ever breached 100 selections (103).


2013 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election
Among the candidates were 14-time All-Star, 7-time MVP and holder of both the single-season (73) and career (762) home run records Barry Bonds; 12-time All-Star Mike Piazza; 11-time All-Star and 7-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens; 7-time All-Stars Craig Biggio and Sammy Sosa; and 6-time All-Stars Sandy Alomar, Jr., Kenny Lofton and Curt Schilling. The field included two Rookies of the Year, both catchers (Alomar and Piazza), three MVPs (in addition to Bonds' seven, Clemens and Sosa each won one apiece) and a Cy Young Award winner (Clemens).


2013 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election
Bonds and Clemens, with seven apiece, hold the records for MVPs and Cy Young Awards won, respectively. The field included two candidates with at least five Gold Glove Awards: Bonds (seven in left field) and Steve Finley (five in center). It also included five candidates with at least five Silver Slugger Awards: Bonds (twelve in left field), Piazza (ten at catcher), Sosa (six in right field), Biggio (five total- four at second base and one at catcher) and Julio Franco (five total- four at second base and one at DH). Bonds holds the record for Silver Sluggers in the outfield, while Piazza holds the record at catcher.


2013 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election
As in recent years, the controversy over use of performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) dominated the elections. ESPN.com columnist Jim Caple noted in the days before the announcement of the 2012 results that the PED issue, combined with the BBWAA's limit of 10 votes per ballot, was likely to result in a major backlog in upcoming elections:


2013 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election
Due to the steroid issue and a general lack of consensus, the following players will probably be on the ballot in three years: Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Pedro Martínez, Randy Johnson, Sammy Sosa, Jeff Bagwell, John Smoltz, Edgar Martínez, Mark McGwire, Mike Mussina, Jeff Kent, Larry Walker, Alan Trammell, Fred McGriff, Rafael Palmeiro, Lee Smith, Tim Raines, Gary Sheffield, Mike Piazza, Curt Schilling and, of course, Bernie [Williams]. That's 21 players who warrant serious consideration. And that's not counting Barry Larkin, who might be [Ed.


2013 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election
– and was] elected this year, and also assuming Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, Craig Biggio and Frank Thomas make it their first years on the ballot. Finding room for Bonds, Clemens, Pedro, Johnson and others means I'll have to dump more good players from my ballot than the Marlins dumped after winning the 1997 World Series.


2013 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election
Another ESPN.com writer, Tim Kurkjian, added that the 2013 ballot would include several new candidates who either tested positive or were strongly linked to PEDs:


2013 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election
The next Hall of Fame ballot will include Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Sammy Sosa, Mike Piazza, Curt Schilling, Craig Biggio, and Kenny Lofton. They all have Hall of Fame numbers, some stronger than others, but Bonds, Clemens, Sosa and Piazza certainly are not going to be elected on the first ballot — and in the case of Bonds, Clemens and Sosa, they might not make it to Cooperstown for many, many years to come.


2013 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election
Several other players returning from the 2012 ballot with otherwise strong Hall credentials have been linked to PEDs, among them Mark McGwire (who admitted to long-term steroid use in 2010), Jeff Bagwell (who never tested positive, but was the subject of PED rumors during his career), and Rafael Palmeiro (who tested positive for stanozolol shortly after publicly denying that he had ever used steroids).


2013 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election
Players who were eligible for the first time who were not included on the ballot were: Antonio Alfonseca, Tony Batista, Mark Bellhorn, Hector Carrasco, Alberto Castillo, Rheal Cormier, Juan Encarnación, Robert Fick, Steve Kline, Ricky Ledée, Mike Lieberthal, John Mabry, Tom Martin, Damian Miller, Doug Mirabelli, Mike Myers, Orlando Palmeiro, Neifi Pérez, Desi Relaford, Paul Shuey, Scott Spiezio, Kelly Stinnett, John Thomson, José Valentín, John Wasdin, Rick White, Bob Wickman, Preston Wilson, Jay Witasick, and Jaret Wright.


2013 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Pre-integration Committee
In keeping with the new voting procedure by eras, the BBWAA-appointed Historical Overview Committee, made up of 11 BBWAA members, identified ten Pre-Integration candidates who were judged to have made their greatest contributions prior to 1947. Along with the era, these rules defined the consideration set:


2013 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Pre-integration Committee
However, due to the passage of time, the only listed criteria that materially restricted the field from which the candidates were selected were years of service and presence on baseball's ineligible list.


2013 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Pre-integration Committee
The eleven BBWAA-appointed Historical Overview Committee members were Dave Van Dyck (Chicago Tribune); Bob Elliott (Toronto Sun); Rick Hummel (St. Louis Post-Dispatch); Steve Hirdt (Elias Sports Bureau); Bill Madden (New York Daily News); Ken Nigro (formerly The Baltimore Sun); Jack O'Connell (BBWAA secretary/treasurer); Tracy Ringolsby (Root Sports Rocky Mountain/MLB.com); Glenn Schwarz (formerly San Francisco Chronicle); Claire Smith (ESPN); and Mark Whicker (Orange County Register).


2013 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Pre-integration Committee
The Pre-Integration ballot for election by the Pre-integration Committee was released on November 1, 2012, and the Hall of Fame announced the results on December 3.


2013 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Pre-integration Committee
The Pre-Integration Committee's 16-member voting electorate, appointed by the Hall of Fame's Board of Directors, was announced at the same time as the ballot of 10 candidates:


2013 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Pre-integration Committee
The Pre-Integration Committee which elected three candidates to the Hall of Fame at the 2012 winter meetings in Nashville on December 2–3, with 75% or 12 of 16 votes required for election, convened at the July 28, 2013 induction. Ruppert, O'Day and White were elected. Dahlen received 10 of 16 votes, the highest total of anyone not elected; no one else received more than three votes.


2013 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, J. G. Taylor Spink Award
The J. G. Taylor Spink Award has been presented by the BBWAA at the annual summer induction ceremonies since 1962. Through 2010, it was awarded during the main induction ceremony, but is now given the previous day at the Hall of Fame Awards Presentation. It recognizes a sportswriter "for meritorious contributions to baseball writing". The recipients are not members of the Hall of Fame but are featured in a permanent exhibit at the National Baseball Museum.


2013 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, J. G. Taylor Spink Award
The three nominees for the 2013 award were selected by a BBWAA committee and announced on July 10, 2012, at the BBWAA's annual All-Star Game meeting. They were Paul Hagen of MLB.com; Jim Hawkins, formerly of the Detroit Free Press; and Russell Schneider, formerly of The Plain Dealer of Cleveland. It was the second consecutive nomination for both Hagen and Schneider.


2013 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, J. G. Taylor Spink Award
Following the announcement of the nominees, the entire BBWAA membership voted in fall 2012 to determine the recipient. Under BBWAA rules, the winner was to be announced either during the 2012 World Series or at the 2012 winter meetings; in keeping with the practice of recent years, the announcement was made at the winter meetings.


2013 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, J. G. Taylor Spink Award
On December 4, Hagen was announced as the recipient, having received 269 of the 421 possible votes (including five blank ballots). Hawkins received 87 votes and Schneider 60. Hagen began his career in 1974 with the San Bernardino Sun, covering the Los Angeles Dodgers. He moved in 1977 to Dallas–Fort Worth, covering the Texas Rangers first for the Dallas Times Herald and later the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. From there, he moved to Philadelphia in 1987, covering the Phillies for the Philadelphia Daily News before becoming that paper's national baseball columnist in 2002. After a 25-year career at the Daily News, he joined MLB.com in 2012.


2013 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Ford C. Frick Award
The Ford C. Frick Award, honoring excellence in baseball broadcasting, has been presented at the induction ceremonies since 1978. Through 2010, it had been presented at the main induction ceremony, but is now awarded at the Awards Presentation. Recipients are not members of the Hall of Fame but are permanently recognized in an exhibit at the museum. To be eligible, an active or retired broadcaster must have a minimum of 10 years of continuous major league broadcast service with a ball club, a network, or a combination of the two.


2013 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Ford C. Frick Award
The honor is based on four criteria: longevity; continuity with a club; honors, including national assignments such as the World Series and All-Star Games; and popularity with fans. The recipient was announced on during the 2012 winter meetings, following a vote by the same committee that selected seven of the finalists (below).


2013 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Ford C. Frick Award
Ten finalists were announced on October 9, 2012. In accord with guidelines established in 2003, seven were chosen by a committee composed of the living recipients along with broadcasting historians and columnists. Three were selected from a list of candidates by fan voting at the Hall's Facebook page from August 20 to September 7.


2013 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Ford C. Frick Award
Six candidates were living when the ballot was announced—the active Doucet, Nadel, Ortega, Shannon, and Staats; and the retired Gordon.


2013 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Ford C. Frick Award
On December 5, Cheek, the lead radio play-by-play announcer for the Toronto Blue Jays from the team's establishment in 1977 until his retirement in 2004, was named the recipient. During this tenure he had a 27-year streak of 4,306 consecutive games plus 41 post-season games called, which lasted from the first ever Blue Jays game on April 7, 1977, to June 3, 2004, when he traveled to Salinas, California, for his father's funeral. Cheek was forced to retire shortly after the funeral when he discovered he had a brain tumor, and he died in 2005. The 2013 balloting marked the ninth consecutive year that Cheek had been named among the 10 finalists for the award.


2013 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Ford C. Frick Award
Cheek became the second Frick Award recipient to have worked primarily for a Canadian team, after 2011 honoree Dave Van Horne; the award was his third for broadcasting excellence from a sports hall of fame. In 2001, while active with the Blue Jays, he received the Jack Graney Award, given irregularly for excellence in either writing or broadcasting, from the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame. Just before his death in 2005, Canada's Sports Hall of Fame created the Tom Cheek Media Leadership Award, with Cheek as its first recipient.


2013 Basilicata regional election
The Basilicata regional election of 2013 took place on 17–18 November 2013.


2013 Basilicata regional election
A snap election was called upon the resignation of the incumbent President, Vito De Filippo of the Democratic Party (PD), on 24 April 2013 and the subsequent dissolution of the Regional Council. Several regional ministers and councillors had been involved in an expenses scandal (and one minister and two councillors had been arrested).


2013 Basilicata regional election
Basilicata is a traditional stronghold of the PD, thus Marcello Pittella (a former Socialist and brother of Gianni Pittella, Vice President of the European Parliament) was elected President by a landslide 59.6% of the vote. Its main opponent, Tito Di Maggio of Civic Choice (supported by the whole centre-right, comprising The People of Freedom and the Union of the Centre), gained a mere 19.4%. The PD was the most voted party with 24.8%, followed by Pittella's personal list with 16.0%.


2013 Basra governorate election
The Basra governorate election of 2013 was held on 20 April 2013 alongside elections for all other governorates outside Iraqi Kurdistan, Kirkuk, Anbar, and Nineveh.


2013 Basra governorate election, Local government formation
On 13 June 2013 Majid al-Nasrawi of the Citizen's Alliance was elected as the new Governor of Basra. Khalaf Abdul Samad, of the State of Law Coalition, was elected as Chairman of the Basra Provincial Council.


2013 Bat Yam bus bombing
On 22 December 2013, at approximately 2:30 pm, a pressure cooker bomb exploded on a public bus in Bat Yam, Israel. All casualties were averted because a few minutes earlier, a passenger on the bus had examined the contents of an unattended bag, and saw what looked like a bomb inside, which led all passengers and the driver to exit the vehicle. The bombing shattered or blew out all windows on the bus, and significantly damaged the interior.


2013 Bat Yam bus bombing
On 2 January 2014, the Shin Bet announced it had arrested four Palestinian Islamic Jihad operatives for the bombing, including one individual who was a Palestinian Authority police officer. The Islamic Jihad cell had reportedly been planning a larger bombing in Tel Aviv as well.


2013 Bat Yam bus bombing
It was the first terrorist bombing in Israel since the November 21, 2012 bus bombing in Tel Aviv.


2013 Bat Yam bus bombing, Bombing
In the early afternoon of 22 December 2013, a young boy on public bus Dan No. 240 in Bat Yam remarked aloud that there was an unattended bag sitting near him. Passenger David Papo, who overheard the boy, alerted bus driver Michael Yoger, who asked the passengers whose bag it was, but received no affirmative answer. Papo then opened the large, black bag and found "what he said looked like a pressure cooker with a red wire coming out of it." He told people to get off the bus, and when the driver stopped the vehicle at the corner of Mivtza Sinai st. and Katznelson st. in Bat Yam, all the passengers and the driver exited.


2013 Bat Yam bus bombing, Bombing
The Israeli police received a call at 2:20pm about a bomb on a bus in Bat Yam. The device then detonated, three minutes after the last passengers had been evacuated. All the windows on the bus "were either blown out or shattered" by the explosion and "seats were mangled." It was the first terrorist bombing in Israel since a November 21, 2012 bus bombing in Tel Aviv.


2013 Bat Yam bus bombing, Bombing
According to Israel's internal security service Shin Bet, the bomb "consisted of two kilograms of improvised explosives surrounded by nails and screws and stuffed into a pressure cooker."


2013 Bat Yam bus bombing, Bombing
The Jerusalem Post commented, "Like in many past bombings in Israel, tragedy was prevented by the actions of everyday citizens, who helped clear other passengers away from the blast."


2013 Bat Yam bus bombing, Capture of suspects
After a news blackout was lifted late on 2 January 2014, Israel's Shin Bet announced it had arrested "four Islamic Jihad operatives from Bethlehem and 10 other people," including a Bedouin citizen of Israel. The four operatives "were named as Yusef Salamah, 22, Shehada Ta’amri, 24, Hamdi Ta’amri, 21 and Sami Harimi, 20." Shehada and Hamdi are brothers. At the time of the bombing, Hamdi was serving as "a Palestinian Authority police officer and "was in the middle of officer's candidate school in Jericho."


2013 Bat Yam bus bombing, Capture of suspects
According to the Shin Bet, the bomb was built by Salamah and the two brothers. On the morning of 22 December, Harimi traveled south from Bethlehem, carrying the bomb in a black bag. In the southern Hebron hills, Harimi crossed into Israel through a hole in the Israeli West Bank barrier along with a group of Palestinian workers.


2013 Bat Yam bus bombing, Capture of suspects
Once in Israel, Harimi received a ride to Jaffa from "a Bedouin citizen of Israel, who earned money transporting illegals into Israel to work." Before the bombing, Harimi had illegally worked at the Abulafia Bakery in Jaffa. Once in Jaffa, according to the Shin Bet, Harimi first prayed in a mosque and then boarded the 420 bus. He left the bag with the bomb in the center of the vehicle and then got off the bus. A few minutes later, around 2:30 pm, Harimi called the cellular device attached to the bomb and it detonated.


2013 Bat Yam bus bombing, Capture of suspects
According to The Times of Israel, the bomb design was similar to that used in the Boston Marathon bombings earlier that year.


2013 Bat Yam bus bombing, Capture of suspects
During his interrogation, Harimi said that the cell was planning a larger bombing in Tel Aviv. 25 kilograms of explosive material were confiscated when the cell was arrested.


2013 Batangas local elections
Local elections was held in the Province of Batangas on May 13, 2013 as part of the 2013 general election. Voters will select candidates for all local positions: a town mayor, vice mayor and town councilors, as well as members of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan, the vice-governor, governor and representatives for the four districts of Batangas.


2013 Batangas local elections, Provincial elections
The candidates for governor and vice governor with the highest number of votes wins the seat; they are voted separately, therefore, they may be of different parties when elected.


2013 Batangas local elections, Congressional elections
Each of Batangas's four legislative districts will elect each representative to the House of Representatives.


2013 Batangas local elections, Congressional elections, 1st District
Tomas Apacible is the incumbent. He will be facing off against Reynaldo Albajera, former representative Eileen Ermita-Buhain and Dr. Luisito L. Ruiz.


2013 Batangas local elections, Congressional elections, 2nd District
Incumbent Hermilando Mandanas, who had earlier resigned from the Liberal Party is term limited. The Liberals nominated actor and incumbent board member Christopher de Leon, with the United Nationalist Alliance nominating former Board Member Godofredo Berberabe. Berberabe died on March 4, 2013; he was substituted by his brother, Danilo Berberabe.


2013 Batangas local elections, Congressional elections, 3rd District
Sonny Collantes is the incumbent. He will be facing-off against former congresswoman Victoria Hernandez-Reyes, Tanauan City Mayor Sonia Aquino and Nicomedes Hernandez.


2013 Batangas local elections, Congressional elections, 4th District
Mark L. Mendoza is the incumbent. He will be facing off against Bernadette Sabili, wife of Lipa City Mayor Meynardo Sabili (Liberal), running as independent


2013 Batangas local elections, Sangguniang Panlalawigan elections
All 4 Districts of Batangas will elect Sangguniang Panlalawigan or provincial board members.


2013 Batangas local elections, City and municipal elections
All municipalities of Batangas, Batangas City, Lipa City and Tanauan City will elect mayor and vice-mayor this election. The candidates for mayor and vice mayor with the highest number of votes wins the seat; they are voted separately, therefore, they may be of different parties when elected. Below is the list of mayoralty and vice-mayoralty candidates of each city and municipalities per district


2013 Batangas local elections, City and municipal elections, 1st District, Balayan
Incumbent Mayor Emmanuel Fronda is running for reelection and incumbent Vice Mayor Romel Castelo is not running for re-election.


2013 Batangas local elections, City and municipal elections, 1st District, Calaca
Incumbent Mayor Sofronio Ona, Jr. and vice mayor Larry Atienza are term limited. Atienza is running for mayor.


2013 Batangas local elections, City and municipal elections, 1st District, Calatagan
Incumbent Mayor Sophia Palacio is running for reelection. Incumbent Vice Mayor Lenie Pantoja is running for mayor. All women will be eyeing the mayoral seat.


2013 Batangas local elections, City and municipal elections, 1st District, Lemery
Incumbent mayor Eulalio Alilio is considered term limited because his first term started in 2006 after winning his electoral protest. Incumbent Vice Mayor Honorlito Solis is running for reelection.


2013 Batangas local elections, City and municipal elections, 1st District, Lian
Incumbent mayor Osita Vergara is term limited. Incumbent vice mayor Benito Magbago is running for reelection.


2013 Batangas local elections, City and municipal elections, 1st District, Nasugbu
Incumbent vice mayor Apolo Villafania is term limited and is running for Mayor.


2013 Batangas local elections, City and municipal elections, 1st District, Taal
Incumbent mayor Michael Montenegro and vice mayor Fulgencio Mercado is running for reelection


2013 Batangas local elections, City and municipal elections, 1st District, Tuy
Incumbent Mayor Jose Jecerell Cerrado is running for reeelection. Incumbent vice mayor Emmanuel Calingasan is not running


2013 Batangas local elections, City and municipal elections, 2nd District, Batangas City
Incumbent Mayor Vilma Dimacuha is not running for reelection. His husband, Eduardo Dimacuha is running for Mayor.


2013 Bauer Watertechnology Cup
The 2013 Bauer Watertechnology Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on carpet courts. It was the 17th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2013 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Eckental, Germany between October 28 and November 3, 2013.


2013 Bauer Watertechnology Cup, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2013 Bauer Watertechnology Cup – Doubles
James Cerretani and Adil Shamasdin were the defending champions but lost in the first round to German Wildcards Kevin Krawietz and Hannes Wagner. The title went to the 2nd seeded Germans Dustin Brown and Philipp Marx defeating Poles Piotr Gadomski and Mateusz Kowalczyk 7–6(7–4), 6–2.


2013 Bauer Watertechnology Cup – Singles
Daniel Brands was the defending champion, but chose not to compete. Top seed Benjamin Becker won title defeating Ruben Bemelmans 2–6, 7–6(7–3), 6–4.


2013 Bavarian state election
The 2013 Bavarian state election was held on 15 September 2013 to elect the 180 members of the 17th Landtag of Bavaria. It was held one week before the 2013 German federal election. The CSU regained the absolute majority it had lost in 2008, while the Free Democratic Party (FDP), a member of the outgoing governing coalition, fell below the 5% electoral threshold and lost all its seats. Minister-President Horst Seehofer continued in office.


2013 Bavarian state election
As of 2021, this is the latest state or federal election in which a party managed to get an absolute majority. The CSU previously held an absolute majority, and therefore governed alone, from 1966 to 2008 and again from 2013 to 2018. Previously, even in the late 1990s, it was common that either the CDU/CSU or the SPD got an absolute majority in a state election. For example, this happened in Brandenburg in 1994, 1998 in Lower Saxony and 1999 in Saxony.


2013 Bavarian state election, Parties
The table below lists parties represented in the 16th Landtag of Bavaria.


2013 Bavarian state election, Election result
The CSU regained an absolute majority of the seats, which they had lost in the 2008 election after 50 years of single-party government. The FDP, which had governed with the CSU since 2008, fell below the 5% threshold and lost all its seats. SPD, the Greens and Free Voters remained in opposition. A record number of 14.1% of the votes cast went unrepresented in the Landtag because of the 5% threshold.


2013 Bayern–Rundfahrt
The 2013 Bayern–Rundfahrt was the 34th edition of the Bayern–Rundfahrt, an annual cycling road race. Departing from on 22 May, it concluded on 26 May. The stage race was part of the 2013 UCI Europe Tour, and was rated as a 2.HC event.


2013 Bayern–Rundfahrt, Stages, Stage 1
22 May 2013 – Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm to Mühldorf, 193.1 km (120.0 mi)


2013 Bayern–Rundfahrt, Stages, Stage 2
23 May 2013 – Mühldorf to Viechtach, 192.6 km (119.7 mi)


2013 Bayern–Rundfahrt, Stages, Stage 3
24 May 2013 – Viechtach to Kelheim, 196.8 km (122.3 mi)


2013 Bayern–Rundfahrt, Stages, Stage 4
25 May 2013 – Schierling, 31.2 km (19.4 mi) individual time trial (ITT)


2013 Bayern–Rundfahrt, Stages, Stage 5
26 May 2013 – Kelheim to Nuremberg, 169.8 km (105.5 mi)


2013 Baylor Bears football team
The 2013 Baylor Bears football team represented Baylor University in the 2013 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Bears, coached by Art Briles, were playing their 115th football season; this year was the team's 64th and final season at Floyd Casey Stadium in Waco, Texas. The Bears were members of the Big 12 Conference. The conference slate began with a home game against the West Virginia Mountaineers, and concluded at home against the Texas Longhorns.


2013 Baylor Bears football team
The 2013 season was arguably the best in Baylor's history. After being ranked as high as third in the nation, the Bears went on to a school-record 11 wins and their first Big 12 title—their first outright conference title since winning their last outright Southwest Conference title in 1980. They represented the Big 12 in the 2014 Fiesta Bowl—their first appearance in the Bowl Championship Series, and their first major bowl game since the 1981 Cotton Bowl Classic. It was also their fourth straight bowl appearance, a school record.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, Wofford
Baylor opened its final season in Floyd Casey Stadium at home against the Wofford Terriers, a late addition to the 2013 schedule after SMU canceled their 2013 matchup against the Bears. In keeping with the Bears' fast-paced reputation, Baylor dashed out to a 28–0 lead in the first quarter with touchdown rushes by Lache Seastrunk and Glasco Martin IV, an Antwan Goodley touchdown reception from Bryce Petty, and an interception returned for a score by defensive lineman Chris McAllister. Seastrunk would add a second touchdown rush in the second quarter and finished the night with 111 rushing yards.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, Wofford
Petty also added another passing touchdown, this time to Tevin Reese, and finished with 290 passing yards in his first career start. In backup duty, running back Shock Linwood rushed for a 19-yard score, and quarterback Seth Russell accounted for two more touchdowns, one passing and one rushing. Baylor's defense shut down the Terrier's triple-option attack, limiting Wofford to 173 rushing yards on the night, forcing three turnovers, allowing no touchdowns, and giving up only a field goal in the 3rd quarter.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, Wofford
Baylor's 69 points surpassed the school's modern-era single-game scoring record, a 68–13 victory over Northwestern State in 2009, and were the most points scored since an 88–0 victory in 1929 over Stephen F. Austin.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, Buffalo
One week after playing creditably against #2 Ohio State in Columbus, the Buffalo Bulls traveled to Waco to take on the #23 Baylor Bears. Buffalo drew first blood, capitalizing on a 54-yard completion from Joe Licata to Alex Neutz on the first play from scrimmage and subsequently scoring on a 1-yard Branden Oliver rush. Later in the 1st quarter, Buffalo would score once more, while Baylor would score 4 touchdowns in 4 drives, the lengthiest of which took 1:16 of gametime.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, Buffalo
The Baylor defense would not allow another Buffalo score the rest of the game, forcing two turnovers and accounting for 7 of Baylor's 56 first-half points when linebacker Bryce Hager returned a fumble 91 yards for a touchdown. Lache Seastrunk added to his resume with 150 rushing yards and 3 rushing touchdowns, while Bryce Petty rushed for a touchdown and passed for 338 yards and 2 touchdowns to Tevin Reese and Antwan Goodley. The barrage of Baylor points subsided in the 2nd half: in the 3rd quarter Shock Linwood posted his second rushing touchdown of the day, and in backup duty Seth Russell completed a touchdown pass to Jay Lee in the 4th quarter.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, Buffalo
After having set a modern-era school scoring record the previous week against Wofford, the Bears topped that record by 1 point, scoring 70 against the Buffalo Bulls. The game also saw Baylor post a school-record 781 total yards of offense and score a modern-era school-record 56 points in the first half. The Bears have not posted less than 400 yards of offense in a game since the 2011 season and have scored 40+ points in 16 of their last 19 games. Individually, Lache Seastrunk extended his streak of consecutive games with 100+ rushing yards to 6, both a school record and the nation's longest active streak.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, Louisiana-Monroe
Baylor continued its torrid offensive pace against Louisiana-Monroe. After winning a hard-fought game in Monroe the year before, the Bears put the game out of reach quickly, racking up 21 offensive and 14 defensive points (interceptions returned by cornerback Joe Williams and safety Terrell Burt) in the first quarter to become the first FBS or FCS team in the BCS era to score 28+ points in the first quarters of three consecutive games.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, Louisiana-Monroe
Bryce Petty contributed to all of the offensive points in the 1st quarter with two touchdown passes (to Antwan Goodley and Tevin Reese) and a 2-yard touchdown rush. Goodley would catch his second touchdown pass of the day from Petty in the 2nd quarter before ULM scored their only points of the day, a 9-yard touchdown pass from Kolton Browning that made the score 42–7.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, Louisiana-Monroe
Thereafter the scoreboard belonged to the Bears: Clay Fuller caught Petty's 4th touchdown pass of the day late in the 2nd quarter, and early in the 3rd Lache Seastrunk picked up 75 of his 156 rushing yards on the day with a touchdown rush. Shock Linwood added a 10-yard rushing touchdown, and backup quarterback Seth Russell found Levi Norwood for a 65-yard touchdown midway through the 3rd for the final points of the game.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, Louisiana-Monroe
With the win, Baylor became the first team since LSU in 1930 to score 60+ points in its first three games of the season. After breaking school records for points scored and yards gained in their previous game against Buffalo, the Bears matched those records exactly with another 70 points and 781 total offensive yards. The victory extended Baylor's streak of games with more than 400 yards of total offense to 30, the longest current streak in the nation.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, Louisiana-Monroe
Individually, Bryce Petty finished with a career-high 351 yards passing and has thrown for 300+ yards and at least 2 touchdowns in all three career starts. Before Petty exited in the 3rd quarter with the game well in hand, the Bears scored touchdowns on 7 of 10 offensive drives; those scoring drives combined took a total of 6 minutes. Lache Seastrunk extended his streak of games with 100+ rushing yards to 7, the nation's current longest streak.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, West Virginia
One year after the high-scoring first meeting of the two programs in Morgantown, the Bears and Mountaineers renewed their incipient rivalry in Waco. The superlative performance of the Baylor offense continued in record-setting fashion as the Bears yet again scored 28 points in the first quarter and then added another 4 touchdowns in the second. QB Bryce Petty accounted for 3 of the 1st quarter touchdowns, 2 passing (to Antwan Goodley and Tevin Reese) and 1 rushing; Lache Seastrunk posted the other touchdown of the 1st quarter on an 80-yard rush.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, West Virginia
All four Baylor touchdowns in the 2nd quarter came on the ground: Seastrunk added a second touchdown on a 19-yard rush, Shock Linwood added a scoring rush to his season totals, and Glasco Martin IV returned from an ankle injury in fine fashion, punching in two scores from the 2 yard line. In the first half Baylor's defense allowed only one WVU touchdown, a Clint Trickett pass to Kevin White; WVU's other touchdown of the first half came when the Mountaineers recovered a muffed punt in the endzone.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, West Virginia
In the second half Baylor went to its backups on offense and defense, with RB Devin Chafin and QB Seth Russell posting rushing touchdowns and Aaron Jones kicking a field goal to bring the final Baylor score to 73. The Mountaineers scored one touchdown early in the 3rd quarter on a rush by RB Charles Sims, West Virginia QB Paul Millard passed for two touchdowns in the 4th quarter, and the WVU defense accounted for one final touchdown, returning one of Russell's two interceptions on the day for a score.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, West Virginia
In advancing to 4–0 for the first time since 1991, Baylor finished the day with 864 yards of total offense, breaking the Big 12 record (807 yards) held by WVU (set by the Mountaineers against the Bears in their previous meeting). Of that yardage, 369 came in the first quarter, and 617 came in the first half; both totals represent the most by a team in a single quarter and in a first half, respectively, in the last decade.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, West Virginia
The 73 points scored by Baylor set a Big 12 record for a head-to-head Big 12 matchup and again broke the school's modern-era scoring record. Baylor became the only team to score at least 66 points in 4 consecutive games based on data kept since 1980 and posted at least 28 points in the first quarter of their fourth straight game; no FBS or FCS team had scored 28 points or more in the first quarter of three consecutive games since 1996. With their 4th consecutive game of 60+ points, the Bears closed to within 1 game of the streak set by Oklahoma in 2008 of five such consecutive games.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, West Virginia
Individually, Bryce Petty completed 17 of 25 attempts for 347 yards, 2 touchdowns, and 1 interception. Petty has thrown for at least 300 yards and 2 touchdowns in all four of his career starts, and he added 23 rushing yards and a rushing touchdown to finish with 370 total yards and 3 touchdowns. Lache Seastrunk assured his 8th consecutive game of more than 100 yards rushing in the first quarter; he finished with 172 yards on 15 carries. Through the first 4 games of the season, Seastrunk has averaged 11.1 yards per carry. Tevin Reese's 61 yard touchdown reception represented his 18th 40+ yard touchdown reception, the most in the BCS era for an FBS receiver.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, @ Kansas State
In their first road game of the season, the Baylor Bears traveled to Manhattan, KS to take on the Kansas State Wildcats. Prior to the game, Baylor had never won at Kansas State, and once again Kansas State proved a tough test for the Bears, holding Baylor to its lowest offensive output of the season.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, @ Kansas State
Baylor received the ball to open the game and scored on a 12-play, 59 yard drive that was kept alive by a crucial penalty on KSU defender Randall Evans, who hit QB Bryce Petty out of bounds on a 3rd and 11 play. The Wildcats drove deep into Baylor territory on their ensuing drive but turned the ball over on downs inside the Bears' 10-yard line. After then forcing a Baylor punt, Kansas State embarked upon a drive that left them on the Baylor 1 yard line at the close of the 1st quarter.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, @ Kansas State
Wildcat QB Daniel Sams then punched the ball in for a touchdown on the first play of the 2nd quarter to tie the game at 7–7. After the next Baylor and KSU possessions stalled, the Wildcats pinned Baylor on the Bears' 5 yard line with a Mark Krause punt. Two plays later Bryce Petty found Tevin Reese for a 93-yard touchdown reception to put the Bears back in the lead. After Kansas State settled for a field goal on their next possession, Petty hit Antwan Goodley for a 72-yard touchdown and the teams entered the half with Baylor leading 21–10.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, @ Kansas State
Kansas State, under the guidance of veteran coach Bill Snyder, refused to panic in the 2nd half. The Wildcats received the ball to open the half and drove to set up a field goal to cut Baylor's lead to 8; during this drive Kansas State used two of their three second-half timeouts. On the subsequent Baylor drive, Kansas State forced a punt which the Wildcats then blocked to set up a 19-yard touchdown drive; Daniel Sams again rushed in for the touchdown.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, @ Kansas State
KSU attempted a 2-point conversion which failed; crucially, Sams was forced to use Kansas State's third and final timeout prior to the 2-point attempt at 6:54 in the 3rd quarter. Two plays into the ensuing Baylor possession Bryce Petty was sacked and fumbled. The Wildcats recovered the ball and Daniel Sams once more shouldered the load, rushing in for another score to give KSU the lead 25–21. Again Kansas State went for two, and again the Wildcats failed to convert.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, @ Kansas State
Trailing in the 2nd half for the first time all season, Baylor answered with a 5 play, 71-yard touchdown drive highlighted by Tevin Reese's second TD catch of the day, this time a 54-yard reception from Petty. Two possessions later, with Baylor still leading 28–25, the Wildcats drove into Baylor territory again; however, the drive stalled and KSU kicker Jack Cantele missed a 41-yard field goal which would have tied the game. After Baylor's subsequent drive ended in a punt, Kansas State took possession at their own 20 yard line.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, @ Kansas State
Daniel Sams rushed for an 8-yard gain on 1st down, but Bears safety Ahmad Dixon intercepted Sams on the next play to set up a 39-yard Baylor scoring drive. RB Glasco Martin IV picked up all 39 of those yards on 5 rushing attempts. With 1:16 left in the game and no timeouts remaining, the Wildcats drove into Baylor territory on their final possession, but Bears lineman Chris McAllister sacked KSU QB Jake Waters on the penultimate play of the game, and the Baylor defense forced an incomplete pass as time expired to preserve a 35–25 victory.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, @ Kansas State
With the victory, Baylor moved to 5–0 for the first time since 1991. Following the game, the Bears moved to #12 in the AP Poll, their highest ranking in the Art Briles era and their highest ranking in that poll since October 1991, when Baylor was ranked #8. In the Coaches' Poll, Baylor was also ranked #12, tying the Bears' high mark in that poll set at the end of the 2011 season. With Oklahoma being upset in the Red River Shootout by the Texas Longhorns on the same weekend, Baylor also became the highest ranking Big 12 team in both polls for the first time in league history.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, @ Kansas State
Bryce Petty finished the day with 342 passing yards, 3 passing touchdowns, and a rushing touchdown. Tevin Reese added two more 40+ yard touchdown receptions to bring his career total to 20 such touchdowns, and Reese finished as the Bears' leading receiver with 184 yards on the day. On an uncharacteristically quiet day for the Baylor offense, Lache Seastrunk saw his streak of consecutive 100+ rushing yards games snapped; he finished with 54 yards on the ground. Glasco Martin IV finished as Baylor's top rusher with 70 yards and a touchdown. Defensively, Ahmad Dixon tallied his 4th career interception, Chris McAllister had his 11th career sack, and linebacker Bryce Hager recorded a career-high 18 tackles with 1 sack.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, Iowa State
Back in Waco after their first road game of the season, the Baylor Bears hosted Iowa State as part of the nation's oldest Homecoming celebration. Baylor received the ball to open the game and the Cyclones forced an uncharacteristic punt from the Bears on the opening drive.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, Iowa State
The Bears would, however, shortly resume their offensive fireworks, scoring on each of their next eight drives: during that eight drive stretch Lache Seastrunk provided two rushing touchdowns, Bryce Petty rushed for one touchdown, Antwan Goodley received two touchdown passes from Petty, and Aaron Jones kicked three field goals, including a 51-yarder to end the first half.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, Iowa State
Baylor would ultimately score 64 unanswered points behind a scoring punt return from Levi Norwood, a 40-yard rushing touchdown from backup QB Seth Russell, and a 21-yard rushing touchdown from backup RB Devin Chafin before Iowa State found the endzone with 47 seconds left in the game. The Bears would immediately answer, as Corey Coleman returned the ensuing kickoff 97 yards for a touchdown to give Baylor its 4th game of the season with 70 or more points scored.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, Iowa State
Individually, Bryce Petty continued his streak of games with 300 or more passing yards and two or more passing touchdowns; he finished with 342 yards passing, two passing touchdowns, and one rushing touchdown. After having his streak of consecutive games with 100+ rushing yards broken against Kansas State, Lache Seastrunk posted 112 rushing yards and two rushing touchdowns. Kicker Aaron Jones successfully converted his 155th consecutive point-after attempt, a school record. Defensively, Sam Holl and Joe Williams recorded interceptions and Chris McAllister posted his 12th and 13th career sacks.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, Iowa State
As a team Baylor recorded 714 yards of total offense, its 4th 700+ yard game of the season and 33rd consecutive game with more than 400 offensive yards dating back to the Bears' Alamo Bowl appearance in 2011. On the other side of the ball, the Bears' defense held Iowa State to only 174 yards of total offense. The 64-point margin of victory was the Bears' largest ever in conference play, including Baylor's stint in the Southwest Conference.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, Iowa State
The win represented Baylor's 10th consecutive win, which tied a school record set over the 1936–37 seasons; at the time, this streak was tied with Alabama for the nation's 2nd longest win streak. The undefeated start to the season marked the first time since the Bears' conference-winning season of 1980 that Baylor was 6–0, and the Bears advanced to 3–0 in conference play for the first time since the formation of the Big 12. With the win, the Bears became bowl eligible for the 4th consecutive year for the first time in school history.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, Iowa State
During the weekend, half of the teams ranked above #12 Baylor in the AP and Coaches' polls suffered losses, including #11 South Carolina (to Tennessee), #9 UCLA (to #13 Stanford), #8 Louisville (to UCF), #7 Texas A&M (to #24 Auburn), #6 LSU (to Ole Miss), and #3 Clemson (to #5 Florida State). Following the weekend's games, Baylor rose to #6 in the AP poll and #5 in the Harris and Coaches' polls. In the first edition of the season's BCS standings released that week, Baylor was ranked #8, the program's highest BCS ranking ever (the previous high mark was set in the final BCS standings of 2011, when the Bears were ranked #12 prior to their Alamo Bowl victory).


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, @ Kansas
In Kansas for the second time in three weekends, Baylor took on the Kansas Jayhawks in their first game after receiving a top 10 ranking. After Kansas forced punts on the Bears' first two offensive possessions, Baylor went on to score on 7 of their 9 subsequent drives. The Bears racked up 500 yards of offense and took at 38–0 lead into the half behind two touchdown receptions by Tevin Reese from Bryce Petty; three touchdown rushes, one each by Petty, Lache Seastrunk, and Glasco Martin IV; and a field goal from Aaron Jones.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, @ Kansas
Petty would add a third touchdown pass to Corey Coleman in the 3rd quarter before Baylor began pulling its starters. In backup duty, Shock Linwood provided the final two Baylor touchdowns of the day with rushes of 4 and 68 yards for scores. The defense shut out the Jayhawk offense in the first half; Kansas would eventually get on the scoreboard with a 22-yard rush off an option pitch in the 3rd quarter and would add a passing touchdown in the 4th.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, @ Kansas
Bryce Petty finished the day with 430 yards passing, 3 passing touchdowns, and a rushing touchdown. Seastrunk again rushed for more than 100 yards, finishing with 109 yards and a touchdown. Tevin Reese's touchdown receptions moved him to 3rd most in Baylor history with 24; he had averaged 50.6 yards per touchdown reception over his career to date. Defensive end Chris McAllister recorded his 14th career sack to move into a tie for 2nd most all-time for Baylor, 1 short of the record held by Daryl Gardner.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, @ Kansas
With their 11th consecutive win, the Bears set a new school record, breaking the 76-year-old record of 10 consecutive wins set over the 1936–37 seasons. The streak represented the 3rd longest in the nation at the time, behind Ohio State (19) and Alabama (12). The 7–0 start is only the second such start in Baylor history, the previous coming during the Bears' 1980 SWC championship season. Following the win, Baylor moved to #5 in the AP Poll, the Bears' highest ranking in that poll since being ranked #3 during the 1953 season. Baylor remained at #5 in the Coaches' Poll, moved to #6 in the BCS rankings, and remained the highest-ranked Big 12 team in the polls.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, No. 12 Oklahoma
Featuring two BCS top-10 match-ups (No. 3 Oregon at No. 5 Stanford and No. 10 Oklahoma at No. 6 Baylor), the night of November 7 was tabbed by some in the media as the biggest Thursday night in college football history. The first quarter and a half of the Baylor–Oklahoma ballgame proved to be a low-scoring, defensive struggle. Baylor won the coin toss and elected to receive; the Bears' first offensive possession ended in a punt.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, No. 12 Oklahoma
Baylor's defense subsequently forced a 3-and-out, and Aaron Jones put the Bears ahead with a 29-yard field goal on Baylor's second possession of the game. The Bears again forced a Sooners 3-and-out on Oklahoma's next possession, but Baylor's ensuing drive was stopped by the Oklahoma defense. Following a Spencer Roth punt, the Sooners took possession at their own 29 yard line.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, No. 12 Oklahoma
Although Oklahoma could not pick up a first down against the Baylor defense, the Sooners nonetheless found themselves with first down and goal from the Baylor 7-yard line following 53 penalty yards against Baylor; 38 of those yards came on a single play in which KJ Morton was flagged for targeting and Ahmad Dixon was hit with two flags for unsportsmanlike conduct. Baylor's defense subsequently turned in a goal-line stand, resisting two Blake Bell rushes from inside the Bears' 2-yard line.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, No. 12 Oklahoma
KJ Morton (whose targeting ejection had been overturned on review) brought Bell down on fourth and goal to force the turnover on downs. However, after Baylor's offense took possession under the shadow of their own goalposts, the Sooner defense put up Oklahoma's first points of the game two plays later, sacking QB Bryce Petty in the endzone for a safety.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, No. 12 Oklahoma
Jalen Saunders returned the ensuing Baylor free kick to the Bears' 12 yard line, but the Baylor defense again stood firm, forcing a 3-and-out and holding the Sooners to a field goal that gave Oklahoma its first lead of the game. Both teams would end their next possessions with missed field goals before Baylor scored the first touchdown of the night on a 5-yard Bryce Petty rush. Oklahoma would be forced to punt on their next possession and the ensuing 93-yard Baylor drive would end with a second rushing touchdown from Petty. On the Sooners' next play from scrimmage, linebacker Eddie Lackey picked off Blake Bell to set up a touchdown pass from Petty to Antwan Goodley with 13 seconds remaining in the 2nd quarter. The teams entered the half with Baylor leading 24–5.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, No. 12 Oklahoma
Oklahoma received the ball to start the second half; the Sooners' first two possessions of the second half ended in punts, as did Baylor's first. Petty then found Levi Norwood in the end zone for a 17-yard touchdown pass to put Baylor ahead 31–5 before Oklahoma scored its only touchdown of the game on a 10-yard pass from Bell to Roy Finch. On the next Baylor possession, Aaron Jones kicked his second field goal of the night to extend the Bears' lead to 34–12, and the Baylor defense forced another turnover on downs on the Sooners' next possession. Two offensive series later, Petty again hit Antwan Goodley for a touchdown, this time a 25-yard reception. The Bears' defense subsequently halted Oklahoma's final two offensive drives, intercepting Bell once more and preserving the 41–12 victory.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, No. 12 Oklahoma
Baylor's victory came despite multiple injuries, most significantly a dislocated wrist suffered by WR Tevin Reese, which forced him to miss the rest of the regular season. Guard Cyril Richardson exited the game briefly in the third quarter. RBs Glasco Martin IV and Lache Seastrunk suffered knee and groin injuries, respectively, which caused them to miss much of the game. Filling in for the injured RBs, Shock Linwood shouldered the load of Baylor's ground game, racking up 182 rushing yards.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, No. 12 Oklahoma
Bryce Petty was held to under 300 passing yards for the first time all season, finishing with 204 yards through the air; however, he accounted for all five of Baylor's touchdowns, rushing for two scores and throwing three TD passes to Antwan Goodley and Levi Norwood. Defensively, Eddie Lackey and Demetri Goodson recorded their 5th and third career interceptions, respectively.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, No. 12 Oklahoma
Baylor recorded 459 yards of total offense, extending their streak of games with 400 or more offensive yards to 35, the longest in the nation at that time. The Bears' defense limited Oklahoma to 87 rushing yards on the night and forced 6 three-and-outs against Oklahoma; coming into the game, the Baylor defense averaged 7 three-and-outs forced per game, good for first in the nation. With Stanford defeating Oregon later on Thursday night, Baylor moved to No. 4 in the AP and Coaches' polls and attained a No. 5 BCS ranking.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, vs. Texas Tech
A week after the program's second-ever win over Oklahoma, undefeated Baylor faced Texas Tech in Cowboys Stadium in the 5th neutral-site game of their rivalry. Playing inspired football, the Red Raiders received the ball first and quickly attained a 14-point lead behind a pair of touchdown passes to TE Jace Amaro (the first from RB Kenny Williams, and the second from QB Baker Mayfield) on their opening offensive possessions.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, vs. Texas Tech
Baylor's offense cut the deficit to 7 on its second possession when QB Bryce Petty hit WR Levi Norwood for a 40-yard touchdown pass, but Texas Tech immediately went back up 20–7 when Mayfield found WR Eric Ward in the end zone for a 5-yard touchdown reception. However, Red Raider kicker Ryan Bustin missed the PAT, and the Texas Tech lead remained at 13.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, vs. Texas Tech
The Bears' offense stalled on their subsequent possession, but the Baylor defense forced a three-and-out on the Red Raiders' ensuing drive and Levi Norwood returned a Ryan Erxleben punt 48 yards for a touchdown to pull Baylor to within 6. The next Texas Tech possession was cut short by an athletic interception at the line of scrimmage by blitzing cornerback KJ Morton, setting up a 1-play Baylor scoring drive when Petty hit WR Antwan Goodley for a 31-yard touchdown. The next Texas Tech and Baylor possessions would end in a punt and a missed field goal, respectively.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, vs. Texas Tech
Following Aaron Jones' missed field goal, Baker Mayfield was sacked on the Red Raiders' first play from scrimmage and fumbled the ball; S Ahmad Dixon recovered the fumble to set up a 43-yard Baylor scoring drive capped by a 3-yard Devin Chafin touchdown rush. Texas Tech's subsequent drive ended in a punt, but the Red Raiders forced a Bryce Petty fumble at the Baylor 13 yard line and scored on a 3rd Mayfield touchdown pass to make the score 28–27 in favor of the Bears. Baylor again answered with a big play, this time a 58-yard touchdown reception by Norwood from Petty, and the teams entered the half with Baylor leading 35–27.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, vs. Texas Tech
Baylor received the ball to open the 2nd half and extended its lead on a Bryce Petty keeper on a read option from the 6 yard line. After Texas Tech turned the ball over on downs on its ensuing drive, the Bears went ahead 49–27 on Devin Chafin's second TD rush of the night, this time a 47-yard scoring run. Two possessions later, Mayfield would throw his 4th touchdown pass of the night, this time to Reginald Davis, to make the score 49–34. That would prove to be the Red Raiders' final points of the night, however; Petty and RB Shock Linwood would each add rushing touchdowns for the Bears to make the final score 63–34.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, vs. Texas Tech
Petty finished the night with 335 passing yards, 3 passing touchdowns, and two rushing touchdowns. With starting RBs Martin and Seastrunk out, Shock Linwood posted 187 yards and a touchdown on 29 carries. Devin Chafin rushed for 100 yards and 2 touchdowns, marking the third game of the season that Baylor had multiple 100-yard rushers in one game. Kicker Aaron Jones broke the NCAA record of career PATs made (253), finishing the night with 260; he ended the evening with 419 career points, further extending his school record. Levi Norwood became the first Baylor player to record 2 punt returns for TD and finished with 156 receiving yards and an additional two receiving touchdowns. CB KJ Morton recorded his 6th career interception to go with a forced fumble, a sack, and 9 tackles including 3 tackles-for-loss.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, vs. Texas Tech
The victory extended Baylor's school-record streak of 13 consecutive wins and took the Bears to 9–0 on the season for the first time in school history. In amassing 675 total offensive yards, Baylor also extended its streak of consecutive games with more than 400 total offensive yards to 36, the longest in the nation at the time. Following the win, Baylor leapfrogged unbeaten Ohio State in the AP Poll to attain a #3 ranking, matching the program's highest-ever ranking in that poll (1953), and remained at #4 in the Coaches' Poll. Baylor also advanced in the BCS rankings to #4, displacing Stanford after the Cardinal suffered their second loss of the season at unranked Southern Cal.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, @ #11 Oklahoma State
Baylor's winning streak came to an end at the hands of Oklahoma State on a frigid night in Stillwater, OK.   After both teams' opening drives stalled, the Bears drove deep into Oklahoma State territory behind a Bryce Petty run which saw him stumble at the OSU 1-yard line. That stumble would prove fatal when the Cowboys forced a fumble at the goalline from Shock Linwood two plays later. Oklahoma State subsequently put together a 99-yard scoring drive to go ahead 7–0, which score would hold until midway through the second quarter when the Cowboys tacked on a second touchdown. Baylor put together a drive at the end of the first half to set up an Aaron Jones field goal as time expired, and the teams went into the half with the Cowboys leading 14–3.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, @ #11 Oklahoma State
Oklahoma State opened the second half with a 76-yard touchdown drive to increase their lead to 21–3; the Cowboys would force a Baylor turnover on downs and immediately score again to hand the Bears a 25-point deficit with just over 10 minutes remaining in the 3rd quarter. The high-flying Baylor offense continued to struggle on its ensuing drives, fumbling once more and turning the ball over on downs twice before Oklahoma State would again strike to make the score 35–3 at the end of the 3rd quarter.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, @ #11 Oklahoma State
Baylor would finally put together a scoring drive to open the 4th when Petty found Antwan Goodley for a 24-yard touchdown pass, and the Bears' offense looked to cut the Oklahoma State lead even further on their next drive, taking the ball to the Oklahoma State 2-yard line. However, a botched snap was recovered by Cowboy CB Tyler Patmon and returned 78 yards for a touchdown. Both teams would add a passing touchdown late in the 4th quarter, and Oklahoma State ran out the final two minutes of the game on their final possession to drop the Bears to 9–1 on the season with a 49–17 loss.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, @ #11 Oklahoma State
The loss snapped Baylor's school record 13-game winning streak, including a school record 9-game Big 12 conference game winning streak. Despite the uncharacteristically poor showing of the Bears' offense, Baylor amassed 453 yards of total offense in the game to continue their 37-game streak of 400+ total offensive yard games. With 359 passing yards and 2 passing touchdowns, Bryce Petty had thrown for 200+ yards and 2+ touchdowns in all 10 career starts. Antwan Goodley finished the night with 118 receiving yards to move to 3rd place all-time in the school single-season receiving list. Defensively, Chris McAllister recorded his 15th career sack to move into a tie for the school record for career sacks.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, @ #11 Oklahoma State
With the defeat, the Bears lost control of their destiny in the Big 12, needing victories in their last two games and an Oklahoma State loss in Bedlam (the Cowboys' only remaining game of the regular season) to clinch an outright Big 12 title and automatic BCS bowl berth. Following the loss, Baylor dropped to #9 in the BCS and AP Poll rankings and to #8 in the Coaches' Poll.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, @ TCU
Looking to rebound from their first loss of the season, the 9th ranked Bears traveled to Fort Worth to face one of their most-played rivals, the TCU Horned Frogs. Baylor received the ball to open the game and drove to set up an Aaron Jones field goal to take the lead 3–0. TCU would tie the game at three before the Bears scored the first touchdown of the day, a diving 18-yard reception by Clay Fuller from Bryce Petty.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, @ TCU
After forcing a TCU punt, Aaron Jones would kick his second field goal of the day to give the Bears a 13–3 lead at the start of the second quarter. TCU would respond with 14 unanswered points to take a 17–13 lead with just over 6 minutes remaining in the first half.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, @ TCU
With the Baylor offense stymied by a stout TCU defense, the Bears defense rose to the challenge: a BJ Catalon fumble was recovered by DT Beau Blackshear at the TCU 1-yard line to set up a Petty rushing touchdown, and S Orion Stewart returned a Casey Pachall interception 82 yards for a touchdown. The Bears entered the half leading TCU 27–17.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, @ TCU
The Baylor defense would continue its opportunistic play as LB Eddie Lackey intercepted Pachall on TCU's opening possession of the second half and returned the interception 54 yards for another Baylor defensive score. The Horned Frogs would immediately respond, however, again scoring 14 unanswered points to pull to within 3 of Baylor. Bryce Petty subsequently hit Levi Norwood for a 33-yard touchdown pass late in the 3rd quarter to make the Baylor lead 41–31.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, @ TCU
On the next Baylor possession, Petty threw only his second interception of the season to set up a Horned Frog touchdown on the opening play of the 4th quarter. The remainder of the game became a defensive struggle as neither offense proved able to successfully drive for a score.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, @ TCU
On their final possession with under two minutes remaining in the game, the Horned Frogs put together a 50-yard drive that brought them to first down at the Baylor 23 yard line, in range for a game-tying field goal and with time for multiple strikes to the end zone to score a game-winning touchdown. However, with 11 seconds remaining in the game, Pachall threw a pass to the end zone that was tipped by LB Sam Holl and intercepted by S Terrell Burt to seal the Baylor victory.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, @ TCU
QB Bryce Petty again topped 200 passing yards and 2 passing touchdowns, finishing the day with 209 yards passing. Prior to throwing the 3rd quarter interception, Petty had attempted 229 passes without an interception, breaking Robert Griffin III's previous mark of 209 attempts. RB Lache Seastrunk, seeing his first action since the Oklahoma game, posted 94 yards rushing on 24 attempts. RB Shock Linwood had one carry for 7 yards, bringing his total yardage on the season to 848, breaking the Baylor freshman rushing record also formerly held by Robert Griffin III (843 yards in 2008). Defensively, S Orion Stewart, S Terrell Burt, and LB Eddie Lackey recorded their first, second, and sixth career interceptions, respectively.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, @ TCU
The win moved Baylor to 10–1 on the season, marking only the second time in school history that the program had recorded a 10-win regular season (1980). The win in the 109th meeting of Baylor and TCU tied the programs' all-time record against each other at 51–51–7. The 609 points scored and 82 touchdowns scored on the season broke previous school records set in 2011. Following the victory, Baylor remained at #9 in the AP Poll and BCS rankings and advanced to #7 in the Coaches' Poll.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, #23 Texas
In a clash of top 25 teams, the Baylor Bears and the Texas Longhorns faced off in the final game in the 64-season history of Floyd Casey Stadium. As both teams entered the game having only lost in conference play to Oklahoma State, the winner of the matchup was assured at least a share of the Big 12 championship. Shortly before kickoff, the announcement of the Oklahoma Sooners' 33–24 victory over Oklahoma State elicited cheers from both Baylor and Texas partisans, as Oklahoma's victory elevated the Baylor–Texas matchup to the de facto Big 12 championship game.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, #23 Texas
With temperatures at 24 degrees Fahrenheit at kickoff and hovering well below freezing for the entire game, both offenses sputtered in the first half. On their first possession, the Bears managed to drive to within the range of K Aaron Jones, who put the Bears ahead 3–0 with a 22-yard field goal. The Longhorns would do the same on their subsequent drive, but K Anthony Fera's 44-yard field goal attempt was blocked by DE Shawn Oakman.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, #23 Texas
Baylor and Texas both turned the ball over on downs on their next possessions; Baylor would then miss a field goal and a Texas drive into Baylor territory would be turned away by a KJ Morton interception of a Case McCoy pass at the Baylor 10 yard line. In the second quarter, the teams would trade punts before Aaron Jones missed a second field goal attempt; the teams would again trade punts before Anthony Fera would post the final score of the first half, tying the game at 3–3 with a 42-yard field goal with 4:31 remaining in the half.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, #23 Texas
Baylor received the ball to open the second half and promptly put together a deliberate 14-play, 77-yard drive capped by an 11-yard, one-handed touchdown reception by WR Antwan Goodley from QB Bryce Petty. With S Ahmad Dixon eligible to play (Dixon was serving a one-half suspension for a targeting penalty committed during the third quarter of the TCU game), the Baylor defense forced a Longhorn punt, and the Bears again marched down the field for a second touchdown, the score this time coming on a 6-yard pass from Petty to WR Levi Norwood.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, #23 Texas
The Baylor defense would again force a Texas punt, and the Bears offense would score for a third time on their third possession of the second half when Aaron Jones converted a 42-yard field goal. The score would remain 20–3 until early in the 4th quarter, when McCoy, scrambling in the backfield on a broken play, found RB Malcolm Brown in the back of the end zone for a 2-yard touchdown pass. The Bears would respond on their next drive with another field goal to make the score 23–10 in favor of Baylor.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, #23 Texas
Both teams' ensuing drives would stall before Texas took possession with just over 5 minutes remaining, still down 13. The Longhorns drove into Baylor territory, but McCoy was again intercepted by CB KJ Morton, who returned the interception for an apparent touchdown. However, the score was overturned due to a penalty and Baylor took possession inside the red zone. On the next play from scrimmage, RB Glasco Martin IV broke free for an 18-yard touchdown rush to put the Bears ahead 30–10. That touchdown would prove to be the final scoring play in the history of Floyd Casey Stadium: the Baylor defense forced a Longhorn punt on Texas' final possession, and the Bears' offense ran out the clock to spark a celebration at midfield.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, #23 Texas
In his first regular season as the Bears' starting quarterback, Bryce Petty topped 200 yards passing and 2+ passing touchdowns in all 12 games. Petty finished the season 3rd in school single-season passing yards (3,844), 3rd in school single-season passing TDs (30), and 3rd in school single-season total offense (4,036). Glasco Martin finished the day with 102 yards on the ground and added a crucial 25-yard reception on a 3rd-and-11 play, his first reception of the year. His rushing touchdown was the 24th of his career, tying him for 5th on the school all-time rushing TD list.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, #23 Texas
Antwan Goodley's touchdown reception was his 12th of the season, good for 2nd on the school single-season touchdown reception list behind Kendall Wright's 14 touchdown receptions in 2011. Aaron Jones set a single-season consecutive PAT conversion record with his 78th conversion of the season; Jones had made 185 consecutive PATs and moved to 2nd on the all-time NCAA career kicking points list with 447. KJ Morton's two interceptions were the 7th and 8th of his career.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, #23 Texas
The victory gave Baylor its first 11-win season in program history and guaranteed the Bears a share of the Big 12 championship; due to the Oklahoma State loss, Baylor ended the season as outright conference champions for the first time since winning the Southwest Conference in 1980. As sole Big 12 champion, Baylor also received its first BCS berth (to the Fiesta Bowl) and its first major bowl berth since the 1981 Cotton Bowl.


2013 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, #23 Texas
Baylor closed its final season in Floyd Casey Stadium with a crowd of 51,728 to set an all-time Floyd Casey Stadium single-game record; records for total season attendance (321,639) and season average attendance (45,948) were also set during the 2013 campaign. The Bears posted a perfect 7–0 record at home during the 2013 season to bring the program's all-time record at Floyd Casey Stadium to 191–146–5.


2013 Beach Soccer Intercontinental Cup
The 2013 Beach Soccer Intercontinental Cup was the third edition of the tournament, Beach Soccer Intercontinental Cup. It took place at Jumeirah Beach in Dubai, United Arab Emirates from 19 to 23 November 2013. Eight teams participated in the competition.


2013 Beach Soccer Intercontinental Cup, Rule change
There was a new rule change made known during this tournament. It was made known that if a match goes to penalties after extra time, it is no longer sudden-death. It is now the best of three penalty kicks per side. It is only sudden death if each side is level after the three PK rounds.


2013 Beach Soccer Intercontinental Cup, Rule change
This rule change was instituted after the completion of the 2013 Mundialito de Clubes tournament and will apparently be permanent for all BSWW-sanctioned tournaments.


2013 Beach Soccer Intercontinental Cup, Group stage
The draw to divide the eight teams into two groups of four was conducted on 10 October 2013. The subsequent schedule was released on 29 October 2013.


2013 Beach Soccer Intercontinental Cup, Group stage
All matches are listed as local time in Dubai, (UTC+4).


2013 Beach Volleyball World Championships
The 2013 FIVB Beach Volleyball Swatch World Championships was a beach volleyball double-gender event, held from 1 to 7 July 2013 in Stare Jabłonki, Poland. The FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships are organized every two years, and Poland hosted the event for the first time. 48 teams per gender entered the competition making 96 total.


2013 Beach Volleyball World Championships, Men's event, Round Robin, Ranking of third-placed teams
The eight best third-placed teams advanced to the round of 32.


2013 Beach Volleyball World Championships, Women's event, Round Robin, Ranking of third-placed teams
The eight best third-placed teams advanced to the round of 32.


2013 Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl
The 2013 Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl was an American college football bowl game that was played on December 23, 2013 at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida. Sponsored by the Beef 'O' Brady's restaurant franchise, it was the sixth edition of the game formerly known as the St. Petersburg Bowl. It featured the Ohio Bobcats of the Mid-American Conference against the East Carolina Pirates of Conference USA. It was one of the 2013–14 bowl games that concluded the 2013 FBS football season. The game began at 2:00 p.m. EST and aired on ESPN. East Carolina defeated Ohio, 37–20, by scoring 20 points in the fourth quarter.


2013 Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl, Teams
This was the first Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl for both Ohio and East Carolina. It was the third meeting between the two schools, both of the previous of which East Carolina won, the most recent of which occurred in 1998. It was the last time a team from the Mid-American Conference went to the game, as the third tie-in will go to the Atlantic Coast Conference from 2014 until at least 2019.


2013 Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl, Pregame buildup
East Carolina was heavily favored to win the game, including predictions from all six CBS Sports panelists, ESPN writers, Bleacher Report, and Dr. Saturday, a feature from Yahoo Sports,  as Ohio had fallen apart in the latter half of the season, and ECU's offense was very explosive offensively. One Yahoo Sports preview commented that it was a strength on strength game: "It's a game of strength vs. strength. East Carolina's passing attack is ranked 11th in the country at 331 yards per game. Ohio has given up 212 passing yards per game. The Bobcats are much worse against the run, but East Carolina runs the ball poorly. The Pirates are 101st in the nation in rushing offense ... I like ECU's strength much more than I like Ohio's strength."


2013 Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl, Pregame buildup, Ohio
The Bobcats continued their recent winning ways, finishing 7–5 overall and 4–4 in-conference (tied with the Akron Zips for third place in the MAC East Division). After their season, bowl director Brett Dulaney extended an invitation to play in the game. After starting their season 4–1 (the loss in the opener to number nine Louisville), the Bobcats lost a close game against Central Michigan, and then won two more games before losing three consecutive games, including being shut out 49–0 against Bowling Green, before resoundingly defeating UMass in their season's final game. In addition to being the Ohio's first Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl and their fifth consecutive bowl game.


2013 Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl, Pregame buildup, Ohio, Offense
Coordinated by Tim Albin, Ohio's offense, which averaged 238.5 passing yards per game (58th in FBS), 136.3 rushing yards per game (96th in FBS), and 28.0 points per game (72nd in FBS), relied heavily on senior quarterback Tyler Tettleton – in games during which he threw for more than 200 yards, Ohio was 6–1, but when he did not, they were just 1–4. His up-and-down season totaled 2623 passing yards, 20 touchdowns, and 9 interceptions. Sophomore Derrius Vick also contributed, predominantly as a rushing quarterback, totaling 28 rushes for 68 yards and 1 touchdown.


2013 Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl, Pregame buildup, Ohio, Offense
Leading the Bobcats' rushing attack, however, was senior Beau Blankenship, who "trudged through a letdown of a season" after entering the season with significant hype; he ultimately totaled 844 rushing yards and 5 touchdowns, eclipsing 100 yards in a game just twice. The backup was fellow senior Ryan Boykin, who rushed for 399 yards and a team-leading 7 rushing touchdowns. Sophomore Daz'mond Patterson was also a contributor in both the rushing and receiving games.


2013 Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl, Pregame buildup, Ohio, Offense
The Bobcats' leading receiver was second team all-conference honoree Donte Foster, who caught 63 passes for 858 yards and 6 touchdowns. Upperclassmen wide receivers Chase Cochran and Matt Waters were second and third respectively in receiving yards, recording 656 and 446 respectively. At tight end, senior Troy Hill caught 19 passes for 253 yards and 2 touchdowns.


2013 Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl, Pregame buildup, Ohio, Offense
Walk-on sophomore Josiah Yazdani took over the kicking duties a few games into the season, and was a perfect 12 of 12 on his field goal tries (with a long of 49 yards), one of only four FBS kickers to be perfect, and 28 of 28 on his extra point attempts; he achieved second team all-conference honors. Ohio's offensive line was anchored by fifth-year seniors Jon Lechner, a right guard, and Ryan McGrath, a right tackle.


2013 Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl, Pregame buildup, East Carolina
The Pirates continued their recent success, finishing 9–3 overall and 6–2 in-conference, but their "devastating" 59–28 loss to the Marshall Thundering Herd kept them from the 2013 Conference USA Football Championship Game, and dampened their overall season success. At season's end, bowl director Brett Dulaney extended an invitation to play in the game. In addition to being the East Carolina's first Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl, it was also the Pirates' final game as a member of Conference USA before moving to the American Athletic Conference as part of the 2010–13 Big East Conference realignment.


2013 Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl, Game summary, Broadcast
Broadcast on ESPN, Beth Mowins handled the play-by-play duties, Joey Galloway was the analyst, and Paul Carcaterra was the sideline reporter. On ESPN Radio, the game's broadcasters were Eamon McAnaney (play-by-play), Anthony Becht (analyst), and Ian Fitzsimmons (sideline).


2013 Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl, Game summary, First quarter
East Carolina (ECU) got the ball to start the game, and promptly went three-and-out, ultimately punting. Ohio achieved a few first downs, however quarterback Tyler Tettleton threw an interception to Michael Dobson, setting ECU up with good field position around midfield. On the ensuing possession, ECU drove down the field on 5 plays for 55 yards, with the drive culminating in a 5-yard pass from Shane Carden to Cam Worthy, taking a 7–0 lead. Ohio failed to respond, and punted on their next drive.


2013 Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl, Game summary, First quarter
When ECU regained possession of the ball, they embarked on a drive that was highlighted by a 39-yard rush by Vintavious Cooper, as well as a 15-yard pass to Justin Hardy on which he broke the career receiving yard record, but failed to score when Ohio stopped ECU on a fourth down conversion attempt in the red zone. Ohio could not capitalize, and ultimately punted. ECU subsequently embarked on an 11-play drive that covered 76-yards and took up 3:40, and culminated with a 2-yard run by Breon Allen for a touchdown. Ohio's offense finally came to life on their next drive, which culminated in the second quarter.


2013 Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl, Game summary, Second quarter
At the end of the first quarter, Ohio embarked on a drive during which they gained 26 yards on a flea flicker pass from Tettleton to Daz'mond Patterson, gained 15 more thanks to a personal foul on ECU, and then scored on a 17-yard swing pass from Tettleton to Patterson, making the score 14–7 ECU. ECU's offense took the field and used predominantly a no huddle offense that once caused an illegal substitution penalty on Ohio, however they committed a delay of game penalty when there was confusion on a play call.


2013 Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl, Game summary, Second quarter
On that drive, they stalled around midfield and punted for a touchback. Ohio's subsequent drive lasted only one play – an 80-yard touchdown pass from Derrius Vick, Ohio's second quarterback, whom they previously used predominantly for running, to Donte Foster that tied the game at 14. As happened in the first quarter, ECU stalled in the red zone on their ensuing drive, failing to convert a fourth down, but Ohio went three-and-out, thus negating their momentum.


2013 Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl, Game summary, Second quarter
ECU, relying predominantly on their running game (seven of nine plays) again approached scoring territory, but when faced with a 3rd down and 15, failed to convert the first down, and settled for a field goal try for Warren Harvey, who made a 41-yard attempt, taking the lead for the Pirates, 17–14.


2013 Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl, Game summary, Third quarter
Ohio received the opening second half kickoff, but failed to avenge the first half time of possession deficit (ECU possessed the ball for more than 20 of the 30 minutes in the first half), and quickly punted the ball to ECU, but the Pirates also punted after an ineffective series. On Ohio's ensuing drive, Tettleton took off running on one play, and exited the game with an apparent ankle injury; Vick subsequently entered the game for one play before Tettleton's return.


2013 Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl, Game summary, Third quarter
Later on the drive, Ohio converted a fourth down to advance into the red zone; Josiah Yazdani subsequently attempted a 29-yard field goal, which he made, tying the game, to culminate a 16-play, 60-yard drive. After exchanging punts, ECU advanced into Ohio territory on a drive highlighted by a 37-yard pass from Carden to Worthy, but that was decimated once deep in Ohio's territory by a chop block penalty, ultimately forcing the Pirates to settle for a 29-yard field goal attempt that Harvey missed wide right. At the end of the quarter, the game was tied at 17.


2013 Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl, Game summary, Fourth quarter
Early in the quarter, Ohio took its first lead of the game when Yazdani made a 28-yard field goal that culminated a 6-play, 69-yard drive. They surprised ECU on the ensuing kickoff, by attempting an onside kick, which they recovered around midfield. On their subsequent drive, Ohio drove down the field, but stalled around the 30-yard line, and settled for a 45-yard field goal attempt for Yazdani, which he missed, his first miss of the season.


2013 Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl, Game summary, Fourth quarter
On the ensuing drive, ECU took advantage of two 15-yard penalties on Ohio (a personal foul and a pass interference), and Cooper rushed for a touchdown, putting ECU back on top, 24–20. Ohio failed to move the ball on their next drive, and their punt was fair caught in their own territory, setting ECU up with excellent field position, from which they embarked on a drive that culminated when, on a trick play, Carden caught a 14-yard touchdown pass from Worthy, putting ECU up 31–20.


2013 Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl, Game summary, Fourth quarter
Tettleton threw an interception on Ohio's ensuing drive that again set up ECU in Ohio's territory, however this time, they did not convert a third down when at their 38-yard line, after which they took a delay of game penalty to give ECU five more yards' room to pin Ohio deep on the punt, but only managed to pin them at their own 16-yard line.


2013 Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl, Game summary, Fourth quarter
On Ohio's next drive, Tettleton rushed for 17 yards on 3rd and 16 to convert for a first down, however on the following series, Tettleton threw another interception; on the return, Ohio committed a personal foul, giving ECU another drive to start in Ohio's territory. Cooper subsequently rushed for a 22-yard touchdown, giving him 198 rushing yards on the day, a career-best. The extra point was blocked, and as such, the game's final score was 37–20.


2013 Beersheba shooting
The 2013 Beersheba shooting was a mass shooting that occurred in a Bank Hapoalim branch located in Beersheba, Israel. Itamar Alon, an Israeli citizen, entered into the bank and opened fire, killing four and wounding five. He then took a woman hostage and killed himself when police arrived.


2013 Beersheba shooting, Background
The shooter, Itamar Alon, was a 39 year old Beersheba resident. He had done his mandatory military service in the Israel Defense Forces in the Combat Engineering Corps, and he rose to become an officer. He later transferred to the Israel Border Police, and participated in joint patrols with Palestinian police in the Tulkarm area. After completing his active service, he began working as a security guard for educational institutions and the Beersheba municipality, and served as a platoon commander in a reserve battalion.


2013 Beersheba shooting, Background
In 2002, he was caught in a shooting attack by two Palestinian militants in which two Israeli soldiers were killed, and killed one of the militants with his pistol. He was awarded a medal by Beersheba mayor Yaakov Turner. That same year, he was fired by the municipality at the end of his trial period of employment due to poor relations with co-workers. He was also transferred from his position as a reserve platoon commander to command a rearguard battalion in the IDF Home Front Command due to aggressive behavior and poor judgement.


2013 Beersheba shooting, Background
In 2011, the Israel Police requested that Alon be stripped of his private gun license after he had been involved in a dispute with his neighbors and suspicions over him committing violence against his parents had emerged. After a court hearing, Alon was allowed to keep his gun license.


2013 Beersheba shooting, Background
In May 2013, Alon's credit card was cancelled after he had accumulated a debt of about NIS 6,000, and the card was swallowed by an ATM when he tried to use it. On May 23, 2013, he visited the Bank Hapoalim branch in the Neve Ze'ev neighborhood of Beersheba requesting a debt settlement, and was refused. A few hours later, he returned to commit the shooting.


2013 Beersheba shooting, The shooting
At around 1:00 p.m., Alon returned to the Bank Hapoalim branch armed with a .45-caliber Glock 21 semiautomatic pistol and sat down together with other people waiting for services. He then got up and opened fire. The branch's manager, Avner Cohen and his deputy Meir Zeitun were killed, as were two customers, Idan Sabri and Anat Even-Haim. According to eyewitness accounts, Alon shot the two bank employees who were shot multiple times to ensure that they were dead. Five other people were wounded.


2013 Beersheba shooting, The shooting
Alon then took a woman, Miri Cohen, an employee of the bank, as a hostage, and barricaded himself with her in a bathroom. Within three minutes of the start of the shooting, the police arrived, with one policeman shooting a flowerpot as a deterrent as officers entered, and began searching for the shooter. One of the wounded victims was temporarily handcuffed after being mistaken for the shooter by police. After it became known that the shooter was in a bathroom together with a hostage, a police officer fired a single shot into the bathroom. The police negotiated with Alon until he shot himself. He was taken to Soroka Medical Center, where he died. Police officials stated that there was no security guard at the bank at the time of the incident.


2013 Beersheba shooting, Reactions
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the shooting "a terrible tragedy". He said he does not remember such an event and that it is a phenomenon that is not common in Israel. During meeting with officials, Avigdor Lieberman said that the event is a terrorist attack by all means and that "there is no doubt it affects everything, and makes it clear what the right priorities are"


2013 Beijing Capital International Airport bombing
The 2013 Beijing Capital International Airport bombing occurred at 6:24 pm on Saturday, July 20, 2013, near the Exit B at the second floor of Terminal 3 in Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, China. The blast only injured the bomber Ji Zhongxing (Chinese: 冀中星) himself. No flights were affected, according to airport officials.


2013 Beijing Capital International Airport bombing, Attack
The bomb exploded near the Exit B at the second floor of Terminal 3 in Beijing Capital Airport. Ji was distributing flyers and was then stopped from doing so by the police; after, he detonated the device. Witness exclaimed to have seen a man in wheelchair warning them to step back before the explosion. The man then took the bomb out of a bag with him and set it off, although the police were trying to stop him.


2013 Beijing Capital International Airport bombing, Attack
The explosion only injured the bomber himself, who was taken to a hospital soon after, but shocked travelers and sent authorities scrambling. The exit was then closed temporarily. Less than two hours after the explosion, airport officials said operations are back to normal and no flights were affected. At the hospital, doctors amputated his left hand and has since been formally charged.


2013 Beijing Capital International Airport bombing, Investigation
The bomber was later identified as Ji Zhongxing (Chinese: 冀中星) by the police, was born in 1979 and from the city of Heze in Shandong province. Police said Zhongxing is a petitioner, a citizen with a grievance against government officials or police. He exclaimed that he was beaten by the security officers in Dongguan, Guangdong in 2005, breaking his back and paralyzing him from waist down. He began his petition after losing the lawsuits against local government while confined to his home with his father. Officials in Dongguan claimed that he was compensated with 100,000 RMB but has been contradicted by Ji's personal blog. The Department of Public Security of Guangdong has already required the government of Dongguan to investigate the concerning case.


2013 Beijing Capital International Airport bombing, Sentencing
On October 15, 2013, Ji Zhongxing was sentenced to six years in prison. On March 22, 2018, Ji Zhongxing was released from prison.


2013 Beijing Guoan F.C. season
The  2013 Beijing Guoan F.C. season  was their 10th consecutive season in the Chinese Super League, established  in the 2004 season, and 23rd consecutive season in the top flight of Chinese football. They competed at the Chinese Super League, AFC Champions League and Chinese FA Cup.


2013 Beijing Guoan F.C. season, First team
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2013 Beijing International Challenger
The 2013 Beijing International Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the fourth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2013 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2013 ITF Women's Circuit, both offering a total of $75,000 in prize money. It took place in Beijing, China, on 8–14 July 2013.


2013 Beijing International Challenger, ATP entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2013 Beijing International Challenger, WTA entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2013 Beijing International Challenger, WTA entrants, Other entrants
The following players received entry into the singles main draw as Lucky Losers:


2013 Beijing International Challenger – Men's Doubles
Sanchai Ratiwatana  and Sonchat Ratiwatana are the defending champions, but decided not to participate.


2013 Beijing International Challenger – Men's Doubles
Toshihide Matsui and Danai Udomchoke defeated the Chinese pairing of Gong Maoxin and Zhang Ze 4–6, 7–6(8–6), [10–8].


2013 Beijing International Challenger – Men's Singles
Grega Žemlja was the defending champion, but chose not to compete. Top seeded Lu Yen-Hsun beat Go Soeda 6–2, 6–4, to claim the title.


2013 Beijing International Challenger – Women's Doubles
Liu Wanting and Sun Shengnan were the defending champions, having won the event in 2012. Liu partnered up with Yang Zhaoxuan, but lost in the quarterfinals; Sun partnered up with Chan Chin-wei, but they lost in the semifinals.


2013 Beijing International Challenger – Women's Doubles
Liu Chang and Zhou Yimiao won the title, defeating Misaki Doi and Miki Miyamura in the final, 7–6(7–1), 6–4.


2013 Beijing International Challenger – Women's Singles
Wang Qiang was the defending champion, having won the event in 2012, but she lost in the first round to Zhang Ling.


2013 Beijing International Challenger – Women's Singles
Zhang Shuai won the title, defeating Zhou Yimiao in the final, 6–2, 6–1.


2013 Belarusian First League
The 2013 Belarusian First League is the 23rd season of 2nd level football in Belarus. It started in April and finished in November 2013.


2013 Belarusian First League, Team changes from 2012 season
The winners of last season (Dnepr Mogilev) were promoted to Belarusian Premier League. No teams relegated directly from the Premier League as it was expanded from 11 to 12 teams.


2013 Belarusian First League, Team changes from 2012 season
The runners-up of last season (Gorodeya) lost the promotion/relegation play-off to Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino (11th-placed Premier League team) and both clubs stayed in their respective leagues.


2013 Belarusian First League, Team changes from 2012 season
One team that finished at the bottom of 2012 season table (Rudensk) relegated to the Second League. To compensate for Premier League and First League club withdrawals from last year, they were replaced by three best teams of 2012 Second League (Smolevichi-STI, Slonim and Isloch Minsk Raion) and the league was expanded from 15 to 16 clubs.


2013 Belarusian First League, Team changes from 2012 season
DSK Gomel withdrew from the league and disbanded due to lack of financing. They were replaced by Minsk-2, who finished 5th in last year's Second League. Gomelzheldortrans, Second League 4th team, declined invitation due to insufficient financing.


2013 Belarusian First League, League table, Promotion play-offs
The 11th placed team of 2013 Premier League Dnepr Mogilev played a two-legged relegation play-off against the runners-up of 2013 Belarusian First League Gorodeya for one spot in the 2014 Premier League and won the series 3–1 on aggregate.


2013 Belarusian Premier League
The 2013 Belarusian Premier League was the 23rd season of top-tier football in Belarus. It began in April 2013 and ended in November 2013. BATE Borisov are the defending champions, having won their 9th league title the previous year.


2013 Belarusian Premier League, Format change
Starting with this season, the league will be played in two phases. The first phase will consist of a regular double-round robin tournament between 12 teams. The best six teams will qualify for the championship round, which will determine the champions and the participants for the 2014–15 European competitions. The remaining six teams play in the relegation group, where the top four teams will secure places in the 2014 competition, the fifth team (11th overall) will play a two-legged relegation play-off against the runners-up of the First League, and the sixth team (12th overall) will be automatically relegated. All points collected during the first phase will count for the second phase as well.


2013 Belarusian Premier League, Teams
No teams were relegated to the First League after the 2012 season since the number of teams was shortened from 12 to 11 at the last moment in early 2012. Dnepr Mogilev, the champions of 2012 First League, were promoted to the Premier League after 1 season's absence.


2013 Belarusian Premier League, Teams
Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino, as the 11th-placed team in the 2012 Premier League, had to compete in the relegation/promotion playoffs against First League runners-up Gorodeya. Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino won the playoff, 4–1 on aggregate, and both teams retained positions in their respective leagues.


2013 Belarusian Premier League, Teams
Brest reverted their name back to Dinamo Brest a week before the start of the season.


2013 Belarusian Premier League, First phase, Results
Each team will play twice against every other team for a total of 22 matches.


2013 Belarusian Premier League, Championship round, Results
The best six teams of the first phase will play twice against every other team for a total of 10 matches.


2013 Belarusian Premier League, Relegation group, Results
The last six teams of the first phase will play twice against every other team for a total of 10 matches.


2013 Belarusian Premier League, Relegation playoffs
The 11th place finisher of this competition will play a two-legged relegation play-off against the runners-up of the 2013 Belarusian First League for one spot in the 2014 Premier League.


2013 Belarusian Premier League, Relegation playoffs
Dnepr Mogilev won 3–1 on aggregate and remain in this division for next season.


2013 Belarusian Super Cup
The 2013 Belarusian Super Cup was held on 17 March 2013 between the 2012 Belarusian Premier League champions winners BATE Borisov and the 2011–12 Belarusian Cup winners Naftan Novopolotsk. BATE won the match 1–0 and won the trophy for the third time.


2013 Belfast riots
This article covers rioting in July and August. For riots linked to the City Hall protests, see Belfast City Hall flag protests.


2013 Belfast riots
The 2013 Belfast riots was a series of riots taking place in Belfast in Northern Ireland. They came months after the Belfast City Hall flag protests ignited rioting.


2013 Belfast riots, July riots
Rioting broke out following the 12 July Orange Order parade, when local Orangemen were barred from returning via their traditional route via the Catholic-populated Ardoyne in north Belfast, which ignited protests from loyalists. Trouble also spread to south and east Belfast.


2013 Belfast riots, July riots
The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) fired about 20 plastic baton rounds at rioters and used two mobile water cannons. For several hours they dealt with loyalists and nationalists exchanging missiles across the police line, and at one point a group of loyalists used ceremonial swords to attack the police lines. Nigel Dodds, the unionist MP for Belfast North, was injured and hospitalised when struck in the head by a missile when he was trying to negotiate with police officers in Woodvale Avenue. 32 officers were hurt.


2013 Belfast riots, July riots
The PSNI Chief Constable called 400 extra police officers from England, Scotland and Wales to deal with the situation - more than 600 from the British mainland were already supporting the PSNI beforehand. It was an unprecedented move - in the past, and during the Troubles, the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) never called in extra police but used the British Army soldiers, who withdrew from Northern Ireland in 2007. By the end of August, 106 arrests were made and 77 were charged.