Missouri heavyweight Mark Ellis was certain to score a takedown and secure two points … if … he … could … just … hold … on.
People have been pointing Monday night’s Big Monday showdown between Kansas and Texas since before the season began. It was long assumed that the outcome of that 8 p.m. game in Austin, Texas, would go a long way toward deciding the Big 12 Conference title. 3 comments
Almost good enough gave way to almost bad enough for the Missouri women’s basketball team Sunday afternoon. The Tigers, who time and again had hung close with tough teams even as they fell deeper into the Big 12’s basement, nearly set the program’s offense back 36 years in a 65-39 loss to Iowa State at Mizzou Arena.
BOULDER, Colo. — The Missouri basketball team’s frontcourt took a beating both literally and figuratively during and after the Tigers’ loss to Texas A&M on Wednesday night.
Missouri’s gymnastics team held up its end of Saturday night’s fourth annual “Beauty and the Beast” event, cruising to victory over New Hampshire 195.125-192.875. But merely outscoring their visitors from the Granite State was not the night’s objective — not after last week’s performance at Nebraska.
Denise Johnson leaves her daughter, Jessra, with the same message every day. “I can do all things through Christ that strengthens me,” Johnson, a pastor in Fayette, will remind the Missouri forward during one of their three daily phone conversations.
Midway through his football career at Missouri, former Tiger Marcus James had a sit-down with assistant coach Andy Hill, a conversation James still recalls vividly. 6 comments
With the ninth-ranked Oklahoma wrestling team in town, the Missouri Tigers couldn’t just sit there and take it.
BOULDER, Colo. — Hard as Kim English and his teammates might have tried, they hadn’t put Wednesday night’s loss behind them the way Missouri basketball Coach Mike Anderson always preaches in defeat. 6 comments
Alec Burks could appreciate the charged atmosphere created by a near sell-out crowd Wednesday night inside the Coors Events Center, and he had a better seat than nearly every one of the 11,027 spectators as his Colorado basketball team took top-ranked Kansas to overtime before losing 72-66. 2 comments
The Missouri basketball team’s 32-game home winning streak is over, as it should be. 11 comments
College football national signing day — perhaps the one day that keeps the fax machine industry alive — was wrapped up at Missouri’s football facility shortly after 9 a.m. Wednesday. What’s normally a stressful day on the recruiting calendar barely raised a Tiger’s pulse. 12 comments
J.T. Tiller, whose offensive struggles have been pored over throughout the season, found himself at the heart of another debate after Missouri’s 77-74 loss to Texas A&M Wednesday night at Mizzou Arena. 4 comments
The Missouri basketball team had developed an air of invincibility at Mizzou Arena during a 32-game home winning streak that was tied for the second-longest in the country. 26 comments
It will be remembered as one of the most gruesome injuries in sports, and it had a profound effect on the teammates who saw it happen. Texas A&M senior guard Derrick Roland leaped to attempt a shot at the rim in a Dec. 22 game at Washington, but forward Quincy Pondexter met him and blocked it. As the Huskies grabbed the ball and started a fast break, Roland fell in a heap on the floor and remained there. He snapped the tibia and fibula in his right leg.
Wesley Leftwich isn’t one to take his time. The Hickman junior is known for his speed on the football field and has decided to burn through the recruiting trail, too. 3 comments
Tomorrow afternoon Missouri will officially unwrap what’s almost universally regarded as the school’s best football recruiting class under Gary Pinkel, who’s into his 10th season at MU. 24 comments
Bill Self hoped it would somehow turn out to be a blessing when undermanned Tennessee knocked Kansas from its anointed place as the best team in the country. He wished the game would refocus the Jayhawks and inspire them to new heights. 6 comments
Ninety-six, 117, 104. Those numbers represent Missouri’s national pass defense rankings from 2007-09. Reminder: Up until this past season there were only 119 Football Bowl Subdivision teams. With the addition of Western Kentucky to the national statistics, there are now 120. 9 comments
Missouri women’s basketball Coach Cindy Stein gleaned at least one positive from her team’s 61-59 loss to Kansas Saturday night. “Well,” she began afterward, “it was better than the first game.”
If there’s one common element among the elite defenses in the Big 12 Conference, or the entire country for that matter, it’s the presence of hulking yet nimble men among boys in the trenches, athletic defensive linemen who create chaos in opposing backfields. Last week, Texas continued another sterling recruiting class with a commitment from one of the country’s top-rated defensive ends, Plano, Texas, native Jackson Jeffcoat.
The basketball found Laurence Bowers in the waning seconds. With a victory over Oklahoma State well in hand, he had no real desire to shoot the ball, but the shot clock was about to elapse, so what the heck? 6 comments
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