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The Maneater

The Student Newspaper of Mizzou since 1955

The Maneater

The Student Newspaper of Mizzou since 1955

The Maneater

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...

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...