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Remembering home run that conquered fear on anniversary of 9/11

Joe Trezza • September 11, 2012

I was 9 years old in September 2001, too young to fully comprehend the magnitude of the smoke surrounding what were my hometown’s largest buildings, suffocating my city in hate. I was too naive to process...

Longtime Georgia party bus lands in Missouri

Seth Boster • September 8, 2012

Bus rumbles with the groans of the many miles it has covered across the Southeastern Conference pride lands. It spews its exhaust into the league’s newest environment: Columbia, Mo. The scrappy, white-bearded...

Missouri gets bitter taste in SEC-opening oust

Ryan Hood • September 8, 2012

Redshirt freshman center Brad McNulty called facing Georgia outside linebacker Jarvis Jones “an awakening.” The same description could be applied to Missouri’s first foray into the nation’s premier...

Column: Time to show

Kalen Wagoner • September 7, 2012

Ready or not, this is finally happening. This isn’t Southeastern Louisiana. This is the Southeastern Conference. Of course, Missouri officially joined the SEC on July 1. Several Tiger athletes have...

Tigers set for first SEC competition

Ryan Hood • September 7, 2012

After eight months of anticipation, it didn’t take long after Georgia officially became Missouri’s next opponent for bulletin-board material to emerge. Asked by a reporter if he had watched any of...

Peltier earns stripes with break-out performance

Jacob Bogage • September 7, 2012

When the women’s volleyball team departed Columbia for Kansas City International Airport last week en route to Nashville for the Lipscomb Invitational, the pre-dawn awakening was especially rude to freshman...

Tigers finishing pre-conference slate at Morehead Challenge

Connor Casey • September 7, 2012

Sitting at a 6-1 and 1 1/2 games behind undefeated South Carolina in the Southeastern Conference East division, Missouri has a chance to improve on its record this weekend in Morehead, Ky., at the Morehead...

Behind the scenes: Krentz opens curtain to team’s success

Jack Witthaus • September 7, 2012

On Sunday against Tennessee Tech, the Missouri Tigers put 34 shots up against the Golden Eagles. Only two shots found the back of the net. The game's stat sheet states that senior midfielder Haley Krentz...

Tigers dealt first loss to Ohio State

Joe Trezza • September 7, 2012

The No. 13 Missouri women's soccer team suffered its first loss of the season Thursday night, dropping a debilitating overtime match 1-0 to the Ohio State Buckeyes (4-2) in Columbus, Ohio. After 90 minutes...

Behind the scenes: Krentz opens curtain to team’s success

Jack Witthaus • September 6, 2012

On Sunday against Tennessee Tech, the Missouri Tigers put 34 shots up against the Golden Eagles. Only two shots found the back of the net. The game's stat sheet states that senior midfielder Haley Krentz...

The MLB has a bunch of ridiculously talented and interesting people

Joe Trezza • September 4, 2012

Albert Pujols can probably hit a pebble 400 feet. Jose Reyes runs like a deer. You can’t teach someone to throw like Stephen Strasburg. But lost in the chaotic shuffle that is Boston these days, small...

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...