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The Maneater

The Student Newspaper of the University of Missouri

The Maneater

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...

Drinkwitz lands his guy in new defensive coordinator Steve Wilks

Kyle Pinnell January 25, 2021

In the search for a new defensive coordinator, Missouri football coach Eli Drinkwitz left Columbia to interview a potential candidate just once. That trip was to Charlotte, N.C., to visit long-time NFL...

Food, family, traditions: How Missouri football players spent their holiday break

Kyle Pinnell December 26, 2020

The 2020 football season has felt like a marathon to Missouri players. They’ve spent most of their time at the Mizzou Athletics Training Complex where they practiced, prepared for games and took tri-weekly...

Sloppy start dooms Missouri in 51-32 loss to Mississippi State

Kyle Pinnell December 19, 2020

If you were to tell any Missouri fan back in September that the Tigers would finish their 2020 season with a .500 record and bowl appearance, there’s a good chance they wouldn’t have believed you. A...

Five Takeaways: Missouri humbled in Georgia defeat

Kyle Pinnell December 14, 2020

A palpable sense of excitement and energy reverberated around Faurot Field as Missouri ran out of the tunnel Saturday morning. The noise of 10,830 fans cut through the chilly December air. For a few minutes,...

Missouri pops Champaign, stuns Fighting Illini

Jack Soble December 13, 2020

Ayo Dosunmu went crazy, scoring 36 points on ridiculously efficient shooting. Mark Smith and Jeremiah Tilmon combined for eight points and four rebounds, both fouling out of the game. Illinois outscored...

Missouri gashed on ground, fall to the Bulldogs 49-14

Kyle Pinnell December 12, 2020

Georgia running back Zamir White took the handoff, cut to his left and took off. White bounced to the outside, turned on the afterburners and outran every defender to Faurot Field’s north end zone. If...

Tricks, blocked punt not nearly enough in 49-14 loss to Georgia

Jack Soble December 12, 2020

Coach Eli Drinkwitz’s team looked outmatched when the Tigers went down 14-0 to Georgia. They were, but they weren’t ready to give up just yet. Like it had so many times this season, Missouri fought...