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With new jerseys and all, Tigers complete Black and Gold Game

Ryan Hood • April 14, 2012

College football spring games typically serve as a preamble to the regular season games played five months later in the fall. For Missouri football, Saturday afternoon’s Black and Gold Game at Faurot...

Franklin to miss spring training with shoulder surgery

Pat Iversen • March 20, 2012

Missouri quarterback James Franklin will undergo surgery to repair his injured throwing shoulder and will miss the rest of spring football activities, according to a release from the MU athletics department...

Franklin injury opens door for Berkstresser

Pat Iversen • March 16, 2012

Donning a red no-contact jersey, quarterback James Franklin roamed around Missouri’s practice on Thursday with a playsheet in one hand and a gigantic bag of ice on his throwing shoulder. The ever-optimistic...

Missouri football gears up for conference switch

Nate Atkins • February 24, 2012

For Missouri football coach Gary Pinkel, “SEC” wasn’t the peak and “DGB” wasn’t the highlight. The past year’s switch to the Southeastern Conference and addition of Scout.com’s No. 1 football...

SEC move brings changes to football funding, game day operations

Pat Iversen • February 21, 2012

MU athletics are getting a facelift before their official introduction to the Southeastern Conference next year, as MU Athletics Director Mike Alden announced Monday a series of changes for football funding...

M-I-Z discusses D-G-B: Students react to landing top recruit

Connor Casey • February 3, 2012

The MU campus has been abuzz this week over National Signing Day on Wednesday, when the Missouri football team signed the Rivals and Scout No. 1 recruit, Dorial Green-Beckham. The wide receiver from Springfield,...

No. 1 football recruit anchors 2012 class

Nate Atkins • February 3, 2012

At one point Wednesday morning, Hillcrest High School senior Dorial Green-Beckham had much of the country in silence, gaping at his 6-foot-6-inch, 220-pound frame as it hovered over a podium on an ESPNU...

Top national recruit Green-Beckham selects Missouri

February 1, 2012

A year of history-making for the Missouri football program has taken another step into uncharted territory in wrapping up perhaps its top profile recruit in school history. Hillcrest High School senior...

Missouri slashes through North Carolina en route to Independence Bowl win

Pat Iversen • December 26, 2011

It's safe to say that no matter the outcome of Monday's Advocare 100 Independence Bowl, a new era of Missouri football would begin at the final whistle. After a season where conference realignment morphed...

Tigers, Tar Heels take opposite paths to Independence Bowl

December 22, 2011

In the eyes of a football program embarking on its third trip to the Independence Bowl in a record eight consecutive bowl appearances, the quaint confines of Shreveport, La., will more closely resemble...

Missouri lands Independence Bowl bid against North Carolina

Nate Atkins • December 4, 2011

When MU Senior Associate Athletics Director Mark Alnutt made his opening statement to the media Sunday at Mizzou Arena, he didn’t talk about the Independence Bowl and he didn’t talk about the Big 12...

Memorable Border War battles

Pat Iversen • November 29, 2011

Intro: Before the book is officially closed on the Border War rivalry, The Maneater takes a look back at the five games that stand out the most from the 120-year history between Missouri and Kansas. Nov....