Fri. 3/12 - FOOTBALL
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System without star

A year ago, the burning questions about Missouri’s football team centered on the passing game. Once Blaine Gabbert established himself as the next franchise quarterback, the attention shifted to the players catching his passes. Who would emerge as a star among the Tigers’ pack of supporting castmates?

Fri. 3/12
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Never good time to say goodbye

KANSAS CITY — Cindy Stein crossed the small locker room deep inside Municipal Auditorium and hugged each of her 14 players Thursday. It was time to say goodbye.

Fri. 3/12

Cindy Stein handled end with class

KANSAS CITY — After the last narrow loss in a season full of them, Cindy Stein finished her final postgame press conference at 4 p.m. 1 comment

Fri. 3/12 - BASKETBALL

No ignoring MU’s shooting woes

KANSAS CITY — It had been easy enough to downplay the struggles of the Missouri basketball team over the past two weeks. Sure, the Tigers had lost two of their final three regular-season games, but both defeats came against top-10 opponents in Kansas State and Kansas.

Thu. 3/11

Tigers avoid falling prey to lethargy

The Missouri softball team did more than survive the frontloaded portion of its schedule — the Tigers collected enough wins over powerhouse programs to propel themselves to No. 3 in the national rankings.

Thu. 3/11 - BASKETBALL
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The art of rally-killing

KANSAS CITY — A partisan Sprint Center crowd made several efforts to spur Missouri during its 75-60 loss to Nebraska in Wednesday's opening round of the Big 12 Tournament.

Wed. 3/10 - BASKETBALL
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Loss has Tigers cloaked in doom and gloom

KANSAS CITY — Outside a locker room where Missouri basketball players were describing their 75-60 loss to Nebraska with morose quotes expressing varying degrees of the four stages of grief, Coach Mike Anderson alone seemed ready to move on to stage five: acceptance. “All sickness is not death,” he said. 22 comments

Wed. 3/10 - BASKETBALL
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Tigers bounced from Big 12 Tournament

KANSAS CITY — The shock was evident on the blank faces of Missouri basketball players who sat in almost total silence in the locker room Wednesday at the Sprint Center. 45 comments

Wed. 3/10 - FOOTBALL
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Moving in for ‘The Mouth’ no easy task

Never during a Missouri football practice will the Devine Pavilion be compared to MU’s Ellis Library, but as the Tigers gathered for their first spring workout Tuesday, an occasional hush fell over the field. One familiar voice was conspicuously muted. 1 comment

Wed. 3/10 - BASKETBALL
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Haven’t we been here before?

KANSAS CITY — The thought only occurred to Rick Barnes Tuesday as he faced reporters in the bowels of the Sprint Center shortly before his Texas basketball team took the court for its final workout before the Big 12 Tournament.

Wed. 3/10
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Tigers looking for another KC surprise

KANSAS CITY — Missouri women’s basketball Coach Cindy Stein remembers her underdog team’s last visit to Kansas City for embodying the reason she loves sports.

Tue. 3/9 - BASKETBALL
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Missouri struggles without Safford

It’s not in Mike Anderson’s nature to make excuses. That’s why the coach won’t lower expectations for the Missouri basketball team heading into the Big 12 Tournament, which begins tomorrow at the Sprint Center in Kansas City. 6 comments

Tue. 3/9 - BASKETBALL

OSU’s Anderson is the pick as conference’s best player

There’s no question Kansas is the Big 12’s best team after rolling up a 15-1 record and winning the conference title by a whopping four games. But the Jayhawks’ biggest strength was the multitude of weapons they could turn to each night to win games. Other players had to do more with less help to put their teams in position to make the NCAA Tournament.

Mon. 3/8
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Tigers send Stein out a winner in home finale

A small but full-throated Mizzou Arena crowd rose to its feet as the Cindy Stein era of Missouri women’s basketball yielded a final, emotional home celebration. 2 comments

Mon. 3/8 - BASKETBALL

English on All-Big 12 third team

Big 12 Conference coaches recognized guards Kim English, Zaire Taylor and J.T. Tiller for their roles in helping the Missouri basketball team to a fifth-place finish in the league standings.

Mon. 3/8

MU softball sweeps own tournament

The fourth-ranked Missouri softball team completed an undefeated run through the Missouri Breast Cancer Awareness Tournament with a 9-3 victory over Missouri-Kansas City yesterday at University Field. On the weekend, the Tigers outscored their opponents 36-3.

Sun. 3/7 - FOOTBALL
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Focus is on the Future

Gary Pinkel is about to embark on his 10th season as Missouri’s football coach, and with 18 starters back from last year’s 8-5 team, the Tigers should field one of the more experienced lineups in the Big 12. Still, there will be plenty of questions to resolve when spring practices begin Tuesday. Last week, Pinkel sat down with the Tribune’s Dave Matter to discuss a range of topics, including Pinkel’s thoughts on one of the hottest topics in college athletics, Big Ten expansion. 6 comments

Sun. 3/7

Pitching close to perfect

Lindsey Muller had little time to celebrate after sending her third hit in another lopsided Missouri softball win screaming some 40 feet over the left-field wall Saturday.

Sun. 3/7 - BASKETBALL

Emotions aside, KU just better

Sometimes an underdog basketball team can gather strength from a sell-out crowd and ride the emotional wave to a glorious victory that causes fans to spill forth onto the court and sideline reporters to scream inaudible questions into the ears of star players and the residents of an entire state to remember where they were at that moment.

Sun. 3/7
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Look to end on high note

Cindy Stein is comfortably in her “basketball cocoon” as she prepares for a mid-afternoon practice Friday at Mizzou Arena.

Sun. 3/7 - BASKETBALL
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Not much fun in watching

The Missouri basketball team’s 77-56 loss to second-ranked Kansas might have hit Justin Safford harder than anyone. That’s because the 6-foot-8 junior forward, sidelined by the knee injury he suffered 10 days earlier against Colorado, was stuck watching it from the Tigers’ bench. 4 comments

Sat. 3/6 - BASKETBALL
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Jayhawks go above & beyond

There wasn’t a bit of doubt in Zaire Taylor’s voice as he spoke from the front of the interview room at Mizzou Arena after the Missouri basketball team’s humbling 77-56 loss to Kansas. 15 comments

Sat. 3/6
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Ho-hum, just another no-hiter

Missouri’s softball home opener began Saturday with Coach Ehren Earleywine slamming his clipboard to the dugout bench at University Field. The offense: Chelsea Thomas walked Saint Louis’ leadoff hitter.

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