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The Maneater

The Student Newspaper of the University of Missouri

The Maneater

The Tigers look to take care of business against the Chippewas

The Tigers look to take care of business against the Chippewas

Jaden Lewis September 3, 2021
Both Missouri and Central Michigan will have a lot of playmakers on the field when they face off on Saturday.
Eli Drinkwitz generates excitement within Missouri football with new captains and scholarship player

Eli Drinkwitz generates excitement within Missouri football with new captains and scholarship player

Mason Arneson August 26, 2021

With just over a week until Missouri football kicks off its season, the last few days have been understandably eventful within the meeting rooms of Faurot Field’s south end zone. Coach Eli Drinkwitz...

A look ahead: Missouri football’s best recruiting class since 2015 contains plenty of potential stars

Parker Gillam April 22, 2021

function removePic() { document.getElementById("articlePictureBox").remove(); } removePic(); Eli Drinkwitz and the Missouri football program landed the 28th best recruiting class in the country...

Black and Gold Game takeaways: Defense dominates unusual spring game

Mason Arneson March 25, 2021

Missouri football stretched the limits of what could be considered a “game” during Tigers coach Eli Drinkwitz’s first Black and Gold Spring Game on Saturday. For all intents and purposes, it was...

Observations from Faurot: Missouri football continues to develop camaraderie as spring season continues

Kyle Pinnell March 16, 2021

On Saturday, for the first time since it fell 51-32 to Mississippi State in mid-December, Missouri football played live tackle football. Sure, the defense couldn’t completely deck a receiver running...

Meet the ‘Bigga Figga’: New defensive line coach Jethro Franklin brings passion, energy to Missouri football

Kyle Pinnell March 12, 2021

Former Southern California defensive coordinator Rocky Seto remembers the interview as if it was yesterday. In front of a room full of the university’s coaching staff and administrators, a then-40-year-old...

Observations from Faurot: More Mookie, new position for Carlies

Jack Soble March 9, 2021

Missouri football opened its Saturday practice at Faurot Field to fans and media, and those in attendance witnessed an action-packed morning. Here are The Maneater’s observations and takeaways from...

Now in pads, Missouri football ratchets up intensity in second week of spring practices

Kyle Pinnell March 5, 2021

Missouri Football players arrived at their first spring practice in t-shirts last Friday. On Tuesday, they took the practice fields at the Mizzou Athletics Training Complex in pads, and with that came...

Observations from the MATC: Tigers honor legend, Cooper impresses early

Jack Soble February 27, 2021

When walking toward the Mizzou Athletic Training Complex’s outdoor turf field for Missouri football’s first practice of spring camp, the first thing you notice is the number 40. Each coach wore a...

‘I’m jealous’: NFL Pro Bowlers praise Missouri football’s new defensive coordinator

Jack Soble February 4, 2021

When Charles “Peanut” Tillman, former All-Pro cornerback for the Chicago Bears, talks about new Missouri defensive coordinator Steve Wilks, the first thing he brings up is his daughter. “I learned...

Senior Bowl Q&A: Rountree impresses in Mobile

Jack Soble February 3, 2021

Missouri sent three representatives to the Senior Bowl last week in Mobile, Alabama: running back Larry Rountree III, free safety Joshuah Bledsoe and boundary safety Tyree Gillespie. Rountree, Bledsoe...

Missouri men’s basketball finds positives in response during Auburn loss

Jack Soble January 27, 2021

Missouri — and everyone else — is lucky Sharife Cooper’s team is ineligible for the NCAA tournament. Otherwise, it might have a problem on its hands. But Cooper’s time dishing dimes and drawing...