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Weekend wins spell key Florida match

Jack Witthaus • October 8, 2012

The No. 16 Missouri women’s soccer team (12-2, 7-1 Southeastern Conference) knocked off both Kentucky and Mississippi State in its home stand this weekend. On Sunday, the Tigers dismantled the Bulldogs...

Tigers blank Bulldogs

Brent Pearson • October 7, 2012

Mississippi State entered its game against No. 16 Missouri with no wins this season in Southeastern Conference play. The Tigers kept it that way Sunday afternoon as they over-powered the Bulldogs 2-0 at...

Tigers edge Wildcats in overtime

Jack Witthaus • October 6, 2012

With a cannon blast, the No. 16 Missouri women’s soccer team (11-2, 6-1 Southeastern Conference) breeched Kentucky Friday night, 2-1, on Hometown Hero’s night. The firing tube, called Little Joe,...

Error-stricken Tigers fall to Commodores

Ryan Hood • October 6, 2012

Somebody, Missouri or Vanderbilt, had to leave the confines of Memorial Stadium victorious. And after an almost unspeakable 85-yard touchdown pass from redshirt freshman Corbin Berkstresser to redshirt...

Sarah Meister: ‘One of the darkest places you don’t want to be’

Jacob Bogage • October 5, 2012

The 13,611 seats at the Hearnes Center are empty as Sarah Meister comes through the shadowy tunnel to the floor. A left from the team room walks her past a vast mural of Tiger greats, Lindsey Hunter and...

Something in the air

Kalen Wagoner • October 5, 2012

I wanted this column to be all about Missouri’s 21-16 win over UCF, but it won’t be. Truth is, I didn’t even watch that game. West Virginia and Baylor played their game at the same time, and I guess...

Ashton channels competitive spirit into wheelchair basketball

Jack Witthaus • October 5, 2012

At 8:15 a.m. Thursday at the MU Student Recreation Complex, the sounds of metal crashing and rubber squeaking echo from the hardwood floor of court 10. The Missouri wheelchair basketball team scrimmages...

Like a flash, Sheldon Richardson arrives

Seth Boster • October 5, 2012

The way defensive line coach Craig Kuligowski describes it, the play was like a streak of lightning, which occurs when all the atmospheric elements align just right, _when a cloud becomes filled with negative...

Spurred by first loss, Tigers look to weekend

Joe Trezza • October 5, 2012

On Thursday, Missouri soccer coach Brian Blitz looked like he usually does at chilly morning practices: jacket on, arms folded, beanie strapped almost down to his eyes, bundled up for the stretch run....

Whitney Little, Tigers block out Georgia

Jacob Bogage • October 2, 2012

If the Georgia Bulldogs got a tongue-lashing after their first set against the Missouri volleyball team Sunday, the Tigers certainly had something to do with it. Georgia hit -.079 (yes, _negative_ .079)...

Break the trend: #UnfollowDGB

Joe Trezza • October 2, 2012

Most Missouri fans weren’t just east of Orlando on Saturday when Dorial Green-Beckham gave them his first 80 reasons to shout. Almost every person who was happy when the nation’s No. 1 recruit chose...

Tigers surge forward in win over Central Florida

Ryan Hood • October 2, 2012

Few Tigers have spent more time on the mend the past couple seasons than Will Ebner. Ebner, a redshirt senior linebacker, suffered a concussion in the 2011 season opener against Miami (Ohio), and the...