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With career nearing end, Eye content

Bruno Vernaschi • February 25, 2015

Ask Missouri women’s basketball senior guard Morgan Eye about any of her teammates and she’ll give you a rousing review. Junior guard Juanita Robinson: “Mature.” Senior forward Bree Fowler? “Most...

Storming the court: An epidemic

Daniel Schmidt • February 25, 2015

Storming the court. It's meant to be a once-in-a-lifetime type of thing. Something you get to tell people. “Yeah I was there and yeah, it was incredible.” I'll never forget when dozens of MQP faithful...

Senior Bree Fowler approaches her final games

Bobby Ceresia • February 25, 2015

She’s been through this all before. She was a freshman, completely new to the summer workouts and daily practices being run by women’s basketball coach Robin Pingeton. She was a sophomore, setting...

24-0: Recapping Missouri wrestling’s historic regular season

Harrison Degrood • February 25, 2015

It hasn’t been the brightest winter in Columbia. It has consisted of bitter cold, slippery ice and a fair share of snow. Athletics haven’t been much better. The Missouri men’s basketball team is...

Every loss has a story

Will Jarvis • February 25, 2015

Before last night’s 64-52 victory over the Florida Gators, Missouri men’s basketball team had one win to their name in 2015. Yes, the win was nice but it’s not enough to help fans heal from that...

Tigers rule the diamond: Missouri off to unprecedented start

Jason Lowenthal • February 25, 2015

Missouri baseball is off to an unprecedented start. The team sits atop the Southeastern Conference Eastern Division with a 7-1 record, captured the Kleberg Bank College Classic title and has a plethora...

NFL Combine: The ‘underwear Olympics’

Andrew McCulloch • February 25, 2015

The NFL Combine was a revolutionary idea when it was started in 1977. With hundreds of draft prospects and NFL scouts in the same building, every team would get a look at every player and the entire draft...

Missouri dual-sport signee Doherty ready to make impact

Bruno Vernaschi • February 18, 2015

During his official visit to the University of Missouri on Dec. 12, 2014, Marquise Doherty was sat down by a handful of coaches. Among them were football coach Gary Pinkel and baseball coach Tim Jamieson. In...

Wrestling a family affair for Miklus brothers

Quinn Malloy • February 18, 2015

For a pair of boys who lived so close to an amusement park in Altoona, Iowa, the Miklus brothers had a lot of excess energy. When they were five and six years old, their father devised a unique and, as...

Holmes returns following rough start as Tiger

Bruno Vernaschi • February 18, 2015

On Feb. 5 at Mizzou Arena, a tall figure checked in for Missouri’s women’s basketball team as it took on Texas A&M. This player was not on the Aggies’ scouting report. In her first minute on the...

‘Brothers’ in the backcourt

Daniel Witt • February 18, 2015

When fifth-year senior guard Keith Shamburger transferred to Missouri for his final season of college basketball, all he could think was: _Man, I wonder who they’re going to room me with._ Questions...

Michaelis struggles to find consistency

Bobby Ceresia • February 18, 2015

Against the top-ranked South Carolina women’s basketball team, she scored a career-high 22 points. Going up against Texas A&M and Auburn a month later, she didn’t make a single shot. Her very next...