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The Maneater

The Student Newspaper of the University of Missouri

The Maneater

The Student Newspaper of the University of Missouri

The Maneater

Missouri tops Iowa State to advance in Big 12 Championship

Matthew Flores April 27, 2012

With a 4-2 victory Thursday against Iowa State (4-19), the No. 49 Missouri tennis team (11-11) advanced to the second round of the Big 12 Conference Championship. "We're very thrilled and grateful to...

Stars and Gripes: Olympic basketball needs to pay up to keep up

Alex Smith April 27, 2012

Dwyane Wade, Ray Allen and Mark Cuban want to be compensated for participating in the Olympics. Call them unpatriotic. Call them selfish. Call them idiots. But in the end, they’re right. Olympic basketball...

Dwight Howard defines difference between injury and pain

Mark Bergin April 24, 2012

Dwight Howard has exemplified throughout his entire career the glaring difference between playing hurt and being injured. With that in mind, it’s amazing what Howard, who will miss the rest of the season...

Champagne delivers consistency on base paths

Champagne delivers consistency on base paths

Brandon Grammer April 24, 2012

In baseball and every other sport, an obvious, fundamental concept rules the game and reeks with John Madden-like undertones: the team that scores the most wins the game.
 In order to score, one has...

Missouri completes sweep of Kansas State with 7-0 shutout

Ian Frazer April 24, 2012

The Missouri baseball team has made a habit of playing games down to the wire, often while behind. The team’s 4-3 walk-off win Saturday and its string of tight losses against Baylor, Oklahoma and Texas...

Elvis Fisher gears up for sixth year

Elvis Fisher gears up for sixth year

Nate Atkins April 24, 2012

For a sixth year in a row, Elvis Fisher is back. The redshirt senior left tackle is back on the grind of Missouri football practice. He’s back to wearing a white practice jersey, to running drills,...

Missouri’s Pinkel joins SEC coaches in first league teleconference

Ryan Hood April 24, 2012

The Missouri football team will commence its Southeastern Conference era Sept. 8. when the Tigers play host to the Georgia Bulldogs, and the topic became one of instant buzz on the first SEC coaches' teleconference...

Missouri completes sweep of Kansas State with 7-0 shutout

Missouri completes sweep of Kansas State with 7-0 shutout

Ian Frazer April 22, 2012

In their 7-0 win over Kansas State on Sunday, the Missouri baseball team took control of the game immediately and, through strong pitching and situational hitting, kept it out of fully out of reach. And...

Tigers walk off in 4-3 victory over Kansas State

Brandon Grammer April 21, 2012

The story seemed to be repeating itself once more. Yet again, MU baseball found itself trailing by a small margin heading into the bottom of the ninth, just as it had to Oklahoma, Texas A&M and Baylor. But...

Missouri, Oklahoma prep for Big 12 showdown

Missouri, Oklahoma prep for Big 12 showdown

Matthew Flores April 20, 2012

After Wednesday’s drubbing of Western Illinois, the No. 10 Missouri Tigers (33-8, 10-5 Big 12 Conference) sit just a game and a half back of the first-place and No. 5 Oklahoma Sooners (36-6, 11-3 Big...

Holovach energizes depleted Tiger pitching

Brandon Grammer, Ian Frazer April 20, 2012

The plan for the Missouri baseball team’s pitching staff this season was that it was going to be headed up by junior Eric Anderson and sophomore Rob Zastryzny. It seemed obvious, as Zastryzny was named...

Concussion drama threatens NFL’s identity

Alex Smith April 20, 2012

The NFL’s product is in severe decline, and unless we approach the game with a little more honesty and common sense, it’s going to fall from grace quicker than you can say “concussion.” Head injuries,...