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Mizzou grad serves on NBA champion Spurs’ training staff

Michael Natelli • July 9, 2014

Like a lot of young basketball fans, Carson Calkins grew up dreaming of winning the NBA Finals and hoisting the Larry O’Brien Championship Trophy. Unlike most basketball fans, he realized that dream...

MU Quidditch seeks to gain popularity following World Cup appearance

Jacqueline LeBlanc • July 9, 2014

Junior Taylor Korte has always been a natural athlete. In high school, she excelled at basketball, softball and track and field. However, not once in high school did a coach from any of Korte’s several...

Heart over wins: Why it’s more fun to cheer for our less successful teams

Daniel Schmidt • July 9, 2014

Over the last couple years of my St. Louis sports fandom, I have developed a theory simply labeled the Rams Theory. This theory is what I use to explain why I am still a Rams fan to concerned friends...

As Tigers look to replace star setter Kreklow, cousin waits in wings

Bruno Vernaschi • July 9, 2014

Setter Molly Kreklow’s accolades are almost too many to count. The niece of Missouri head coach Wayne Kreklow, she was the 2013 Southeastern Conference Player of the Year and a first team All-American...

Former Tiger Dorial Green-Beckham joins Oklahoma Sooners

Michael Natelli • July 3, 2014

The Oklahoma Sooners were once considered big players during the recruitment of then-highly touted high school receiver Dorial Green-Beckham. Three years later, it appears they’re going to get their...

Basketball coaching staff complete with hiring of Fulford

Aaron Reiss • June 23, 2014

Kim Anderson’s staff is complete. The Missouri basketball coach finalized his coaching staff Monday with the hiring of Rob Fulford. Fulford spent the past five seasons as the head coach at Huntington...

Statistics follow Missouri baseball to bottom of Southeastern Conference

Brandon Kroos • June 4, 2014

If the conditions at Taylor Stadium were unusually breezy this season, Missouri’s offense was at fault. Tiger bats swung and missed to the point of practically generating a weather front with their...

Mizzou softball looks to reload

Alex Schiffer • June 4, 2014

This May marked the first time the Missouri Tigers would not be advancing to NCAA Super Regionals since 2007. But while this year’s team ended its season earlier than expected, there are reasons to already...

A fresh beginning: Mizzou basketball will silence critics

Nick Yahl • June 4, 2014

Just about everything that could go wrong did go wrong for the Tigers basketball team this past season. From player suspensions to poor production throughout the season and missing the NCAA Tournament,...

Mizzou’s season ends with two straight losses

Alex Schiffer • May 18, 2014

Missouri needed only to win one game against Nebraska on Sunday to punch their ticket to a seventh-straight super regional later this week. Instead the team dropped both games to regional champion Nebraska,...

Missouri tops Kansas, advances to regional championship

Matt Muenzberg • May 17, 2014

It almost happened again. After blowing a four-run seventh inning lead to Bradley Friday, freshman pitcher Casey Stangel gave up a two-run shot in the seventh inning Saturday to cut Missouri’s lead...

Tigers top Bradley, will face KU

Matt Muenzberg • May 16, 2014

After a two-year ceasefire, the war will continue. But Bradley almost kept the peace. The Braves erased a four-run Missouri lead with two outs in the seventh inning. Down one, the No. 15 seeded Tigers...