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FILE - In this Dec. 5, 2015, file photo, Baylor helmets on shown the field after an NCAA college football game in Waco, Texas. For more than a year, the federal civil lawsuits against Baylor have piled in and piled on, accusing the nation's largest Baptist school of mishandling, ignoring or stifling claims of sexual and physical abuse of students for years. After months of bad publicity, the firing of a popular football coach and demotion and departure of a school president, Baylor is starting to make those cases go away with settlements as evidence gathering is just heating up and well before any of them approach trial.