WACO, Texas -- The distractions might be getting to Baylor.On the eve of the Bears latest football game, assistant football coaches disputed claims by school regents that former coach Art Briles knew of a gang rape involving former players. Then, as the 17th-ranked Bears got ready to play TCU on Saturday, black T-shirts supporting the popular former coach were being sold outside the stadium.Baylor then went out and suffered its worst home loss since 2005, as it fell 62-22 to the Horned Frogs. It was Baylors second loss in a row after a 6-0 start.A lot of distractions dont help, acting head coach Jim Grobe said. This is a game you really got to spend all your focus on for 12 games during the season to play well, and if you dont, this is what happens.During a meeting Thursday with the Dallas Morning News editorial board, Baylor regent David Harper said he knew of at least one instance in which Briles was told of an allegation of gang rape and didnt report it to proper authorities.He was made aware of one of the allegations of a gang rape, Harper told the Morning News. At least one of them. I cant tell you if he knew or didnt know about the others.On Friday night, Baylors assistant coaches, including Briles son, Kendal, son-in-law, Jeff Lebby, and several staff members disputed Harpers claims in a statement on Twitter. In the statement, the assistant coaches claimed the alleged victim reported [the incident] to her head sport coach, and the coach reported to his superior (former athletic director Ian McCaw).According to the assistant football coaches statement, McCaw instructed the head coach to report the incident to Baylors office of judicial affairs, which the coach did. The assistant coaches claimed Briles wasnt made aware of the incident involving football players and the alleged victim until nine months after the alleged incident occurred.According to the statement, the alleged victims coach informed Briles that he reported the incident to McCaw and judicial affairs. The statement said Briles told [the victims coach] to report it to the police and prosecute the players if there was any wrongdoing.The Baylor assistant coaches claimed in the statement that the victims coach later said, I think Coach Briles handled the matter honorably and with the serious attention it deserved. The statement claims that the womans coach also stated that Briles followed up and was informed that the alleged victim did not want to report the incident to police. The assistant coaches also claimed that Briles never had contact with the woman.Grobe said he didnt know about the tweeted statement in advance but said he wouldnt step in the way when the coaches wanted their perspective known.During Saturdays game, about 400 shirts displaying #CAB, which stands for Coach Art Briles, were sold outside the stadium. A banner with those letters was flown from a luxury suite inside the stadium during the game.Its tough. You dont ever see anybody going through what were kind of going through, but we cant use that as an excuse, Bears quarterback Seth Russell said. We cant let those outside things influence us in one way or another.Information from ESPNs Mark Schlabach and The Associated Press was used in this report. Salomon Shoes Sale Clearance . 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Fans who packed bars to watch the games on television near Wrigley Field -- neither of which existed back in 1908 -- erupted in cheers before swarming onto the streets just before midnight Wednesday to celebrate in the shadows of the statues of Cubs greats Ernie Banks, Billy Williams, Ron Santo and legendary announcer Harry Caray.As the game ended, the roar from inside the bars and the throng of fans on the streets was deafening. The crowds inside and out sang go Cubs go at the top of their lungs.As the celebration progressed, thousands of fans poured into the streets leading away from Wrigley, many of them singing We Are The Champions.Fans hugged each other, many of them crying. They took each others picture and pictures of themselves, and took turns writing their names and words of congratulations in chalk on Wrigleys brick walls. Some got on friends shoulders to find spots high up on the walls that were not yet covered with names.An hour after the game ended there were still thousands of people in the ballpark neighborhood, known as Wrigleyville, and there were still fireworks exploding every few minutes.This was torture, said Mike Delmanowski, a lifelong Cubs fan who flew to Chicago from California just to be surrounded by other Cubs fans. I would not have missed it for anything.I am so proud to be a part of it, said his wife, Sue, who was crying off and on from the fifth inning.Mike Dillon said all he could think about was his father, who died without ever seeing what Dillon witnessed.I came here by myself, but Im not alone at all, said Mike Dillon, 57.Craig and April Likhite drove to Chicago with their 10-year-old son, Cade, because they wanted to see history made with other fans as close to Wrigley as possible.To finally see this in my lifetime with my son here with us, it means everything, Craig Likhite said. This game with all the ups and downs showed him exactly what it is to be a Cubs fan.My dad passed away this year. He would have loved this, said Likhite, 50.Judy Pareti flew in from New York City to watch the game at Murphys Bleachers, a neighborhood sports bar in a buildingg where her grandfather lived and where his hot dog stand was located.dddddddddddd My dad and grandfather owned it, and I was born here, she said. I would never want to be anywhere but here for this.Liz Wolfe, a 36-year-old physical therapist, said, People always said if the Cubs win the World Series it would be like hell freezing over. Im still in shock. This is the most exciting thing in my life.Long-time Cubs fan Bob Newhart, who grew up in the Chicago area, tweeted The billy goat is dead!! As Ive said, from the beginning, Im getting too old for this! The 87-year-old comedian was alluding to the curse allegedly placed on the team during the 1945 World Series by the owner of the Billy Goat Tavern after he was told his pet goat wasnt welcome at Wrigley.The 8-7 extra-inning victory over the Indians in Cleveland came after the emptiness and bitterness of years past when the Cubs found spectacular and sometimes downright strange ways to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. The setbacks prompted the annual refrain of Wait until next year.Every Cubs fan knows those stories, starting with the 1969 team loaded with Hall of Famers that amassed a 9 1/2-game lead in mid-August before they started losing game after game in such numbers that the Miracle Mets not only caught them but ended up winning the National League East by 8 games.Then came 1984. After taking the first two games of the National League Divisional Series against the Padres at Wrigley, the Cubs needed just one win in San Diego to advance to the NLCS. They were swept in three games on the West Coast.There were other playoff losses but none as painful as in 2003 when in a where-were-you-when-it-happened moment that Cubs fans still have trouble comprehending, Steve Bartman deflected a ball that seemed destined for Moises Alous glove with the Cubs just five outs from reaching the World Series.Fans watched in horror as the Cubs fell apart, and few who left the park that night believed the team would win game seven the next night. They didnt.But that was all in the past as Cubs fans throughout Chicago celebrated into the early hours of Thursday. ' ' '