Before Missouri senior safety Ian Simon could answer a question about Mizzou being distracted during the long break prior to its bowl game, senior defensive end Shane Ray interrupted. “Distractions,”...

Have I ever told you guys how much I love the St. Louis Rams? I've had my moments of doubt, where I've begged them to move to LA or sworn on all that is holy that I would never watch another one of their...

No. 16 Missouri (10-3, 7-1 SEC) takes on No. 25 Minnesota (8-4, 5-3 B1G) on Jan. 1 at the Buffalo Wild Wings Citrus Bowl in Orlando, Florida. Maneater writer Jason Lowenthal scouted the Golden Gophers...

Missouri coach Gary Pinkel clearly remembers the last time he was at the Citrus Bowl. In 1972, when Pinkel and Kent State traveled down to Orlando to play in the Tangerine Bowl — the game's former name...

ATLANTA — With media crowded around him, Bud Sasser paused. Mid-answer, he had to tell a member of Missouri’s football equipment staff that he wanted to keep the nameplate above his Georgia Dome locker. The...

My family and I sat down to dinner last Friday a couple of hours after Mizzou had beaten the Arkansas Razorbacks 21-14 to win the Southeastern Conference Eastern Division and its spot in the SEC title...

Last Monday, as Missouri football prepared to play Arkansas, coach Gary Pinkel said his team couldn’t afford to be “eating hot dogs with eight minutes left in the fourth quarter.” Saturday’s inaugural...

With the Southeastern Conference Championship Game this weekend in Atlanta, The Maneater talked to Kelly Ward, the sports editor of the University of Alabama’s student newspaper, The Crimson White. **Another...