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The Maneater

The Student Newspaper of the University of Missouri

The Maneater

The Student Newspaper of the University of Missouri

The Maneater

Error-stricken Tigers fall to Commodores

Error-stricken Tigers fall to Commodores

Ryan Hood October 6, 2012

Somebody, Missouri or Vanderbilt, had to leave the confines of Memorial Stadium victorious. And after an almost unspeakable 85-yard touchdown pass from redshirt freshman Corbin Berkstresser to redshirt...

E.J. Gaines looks to escape the moment

E.J. Gaines looks to escape the moment

Seth Boster September 25, 2012

This island they keep referring to, that’s it: inches from the face mask’s rubber-draped metal, just a step or two worth of land between a man against a man, just a shared glare into the other’s...

Kenronte Walker finds fit in statement performance

Kenronte Walker finds fit in statement performance

Ryan Hood September 18, 2012

After growing up in Fayetteville, N.C., tucked away from the bright lights and commotion of a big city, Kenronte Walker is more of the introverted type. This independent, keep-to-oneself modus operandi...

Missouri hangs on to win over Arizona State

Missouri hangs on to win over Arizona State

Seth Boster September 15, 2012

After a 24-hour period of speculation, a time of relative unknown, the answer appeared to have splashed onto the scoreboard. James Franklin’s digital body went up on the screen to the north end of Faurot...

Longtime Georgia party bus lands in Missouri

Longtime Georgia party bus lands in Missouri

Seth Boster September 8, 2012

Bus rumbles with the groans of the many miles it has covered across the Southeastern Conference pride lands. It spews its exhaust into the league’s newest environment: Columbia, Mo. The scrappy, white-bearded...

Missouri gets bitter taste in SEC-opening oust

Missouri gets bitter taste in SEC-opening oust

Ryan Hood September 8, 2012

Redshirt freshman center Brad McNulty called facing Georgia outside linebacker Jarvis Jones “an awakening.” The same description could be applied to Missouri’s first foray into the nation’s premier...

Tigers set for first SEC competition

Tigers set for first SEC competition

Ryan Hood September 7, 2012

After eight months of anticipation, it didn’t take long after Georgia officially became Missouri’s next opponent for bulletin-board material to emerge. Asked by a reporter if he had watched any of...

On wild path to dreams, Copeland wants to settle in

On wild path to dreams, Copeland wants to settle in

Seth Boster September 4, 2012

Max Copeland takes his hand. It's the same one he rests on his bent knee when in position, when in the time between the down and the snap, in the seconds divided by calm and calamity, joyful calamity. He...

Missouri warms up with season-opening rout

Missouri warms up with season-opening rout

Seth Boster September 1, 2012

Slipups were few and far between in Missouri’s 62-10 season-opening victory against Southeastern Louisiana, an opponent familiar with the rain over Columbia on Saturday night. But in the first play...

Kicking competition up in the air

Ryan Hood August 31, 2012

Missouri is all too familiar with the consequences of an unreliable kicking game. Grant Ressel struggled mightily last year, converting on just nine of his 16 attempts. Perhaps no miss did more damage...

The strange, silent summer of DGB

The strange, silent summer of DGB

Seth Boster August 31, 2012

Dorial Green-Beckham was not allowed to talk. All he could do was walk through these glass doors of the athletic complex. All he could do was look around him. The field ahead of him was fresh. The yard...

Gaines takes business to SEC

Gaines takes business to SEC

Ryan Hood August 31, 2012

Highly-touted freshman receiver Dorial Green-Beckham carefully watched the ball fall into his hands. Green-Beckham reeled in the bubble pass and was promptly leveled by a defender before he could even...