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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

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...

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...

Returning Franklin has savvy, options

Returning Franklin has savvy, options

Seth Boster August 31, 2012

Junior James Franklin will try to dodge the question with a big smile and a “yes sir” or a “yes ma’am” response. Does it mean anything to be considered one of the more elite quarterbacks in...

Josey takes road back to glory

Josey takes road back to glory

Ryan Hood August 31, 2012

He’s not playing Saturday. He won’t be suiting up next week, or the week after that, either. Henry Josey is out for the season. Yet every day at practice, he is there, in full-pads, working up a...

Rising to the occasion

Rising to the occasion

Seth Boster August 31, 2012

Defense, as coaches have always said, starts at the front, and the Southeastern Conference has crafted an echelon for starting up front. In the past decade, the league has produced 90 NFL Draft first-rounders...

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...

Mizzou Athletics announces major facility upgrade plan

Mizzou Athletics announces major facility upgrade plan

Seth Boster June 26, 2012

For just a brief moment Tuesday evening — five days before Missouri would officially become members of the Southeastern Conference — athletics director Mike Alden pardoned himself behind a glass podium. On...

Egnew selected in third round of NFL Draft

Nate Atkins May 1, 2012

Missouri senior tight end Michael Egnew was the lone Tiger selected in the 2012 NFL Draft, selected in the third round (78th overall selection) by the Miami Dolphins on Friday. Eight other Missouri seniors...

Elvis Fisher gears up for sixth year

Elvis Fisher gears up for sixth year

Nate Atkins April 24, 2012

For a sixth year in a row, Elvis Fisher is back. The redshirt senior left tackle is back on the grind of Missouri football practice. He’s back to wearing a white practice jersey, to running drills,...

Missouri’s Pinkel joins SEC coaches in first league teleconference

Ryan Hood April 24, 2012

The Missouri football team will commence its Southeastern Conference era Sept. 8. when the Tigers play host to the Georgia Bulldogs, and the topic became one of instant buzz on the first SEC coaches' teleconference...