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Undefeated Missouri has room to improve

Ryan Hood • November 15, 2011

Two games into the young 2011-12 season, Missouri is 2-0 despite having played less-than-stellar basketball. As is the case with the majority of early-season matchups, neither of MU’s first two contests...

Changing of a guard: English adapts to move

Seth Boster • November 15, 2011

While he was haunted over the summer by memories of his previous season, perhaps the best advice Missouri men’s basketball senior Kim English said he heard was a message relayed by senior teammate Marcus...

Haith making himself known in new state

Ryan Hood • November 15, 2011

Days after an EF-5 tornado devastated the town of Joplin, killing 162 people and destroying roughly 30 percent of the town's infrastructure, first-year Missouri basketball coach Frank Haith assisted in...

Tigers get Longhorn off their back in 17-5 upset win

Nate Atkins • November 12, 2011

As Missouri prepared to play Texas in its third-to-last game as a member of the Big 12 Conference, memories of six straight defeats to the Longhorns played on repeat in the Tigers’ minds. But if the...

Myth-busting Missouri’s move to the SEC

Nate Atkins • November 11, 2011

As Missouri officials hung up a newly crafted, 14-team Southeastern Conference logo Sunday, they covered a century’s worth of athletic history with a sign of progressive expansion. Many fans refuse...

Missouri’s SEC move to cause changes for wrestling

Matthew Fairburn • November 11, 2011

The Missouri Tigers wrestling program faces major changes after the university announced its decision Sunday to leave the Big 12 Conference for the SEC, which is not currently a home to a single Division-I...

Niemann spurs Tigers to victory in final exhibition

Sam Rourke • November 11, 2011

Tuesday’s final exhibition tune-up for the Missouri women’s basketball team against UM-St. Louis didn’t go quite as scripted for much of the night. The Tigers were able to eventually prevail by a...

Learning to fall: Elvis Fisher’s walk from disaster to recovery

Nate Atkins • November 11, 2011

At the sound of a whistle, a stampede of Missouri football players takes off down the field, around the goalpost and into lines for the daily stretch. In the distance limps a straggler. Clad in street...

MU will have to step up spending to match SEC

Linnea Hardin • November 11, 2011

In announcing their decision to leave the Big 12 Conference to join the Southeastern Conference, MU not only entered into a new era of athletic tradition and competition, but it will undergo great changes...

JoePa is mortal after all

Michael Bracciano • November 11, 2011

Joe Paterno might be one of the greatest coaches of all time. He may have been head coach at Penn State since 1966 and served as an assistant for 15 years before being promoted to head coach. He may have...

Tigers rally to win season opener

Ryan Hood • November 11, 2011

Despite the 83-68 final, Friday night’s season opener for Missouri basketball did not go as smoothly as coach Frank Haith had hoped for in his MU debut at Mizzou Arena. A sloppy start by the Tigers,...

Tigers show growth in loss to Iowa State

Seth Boster • November 10, 2011

The last time the freshmen of Missouri’s volleyball team met Iowa State, it was their first collegiate conference match and it was under the bright spotlight of ESPNU’s national broadcast. The nerves...