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The Maneater

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The Maneater

The Student Newspaper of the University of Missouri

The Maneater

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...

Tigers outmuscle Tennessee Tech for 2-0 win

Tigers outmuscle Tennessee Tech for 2-0 win

Joe Trezza September 2, 2012

The No. 18 Missouri women’s soccer team shined despite Sunday’s low, gray sky left in Isaac’s wake, dominating both ends of the field en route to a 2-0 victory over Tennessee Tech at Walton Stadium. Senior...

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...

Missouri sets aim on season-opener

Missouri sets aim on season-opener

Ryan Hood August 31, 2012

Missouri’s first SEC game is Sept. 8, inside the friendly confines of Faurot Field. They will face the No. 6 Georgia Bulldogs, the preseason Southeastern Conference East favorites. “I think the Georgia...

Wayne and Susan Kreklow reach milestone

Wayne and Susan Kreklow reach milestone

Connor Casey August 31, 2012

When told he was reaching his 1000th career game, Wayne Kreklow could only laugh. “It’s big,” Wayne said. “I never would’ve thought of that.” On Friday, he and his wife, Susan, the director...

Up with the sun, Tigers shine

Joe Trezza August 31, 2012

It’s just a minute or so past 7 a.m. on a Thursday in late August, too early for soccer balls to be flying around Walton Stadium. Yet they’ve been here for an hour already — redshirt sophomore goalkeeper...