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Missouri volleyball seeks to satisfy hunger against Sooners

Lindsey Davison • October 28, 2011

The Tigers are approaching the final stretch of their season with one feeling sweeping through the team: hunger. The Missouri volleyball team is gearing up for tomorrow’s annual "Can The Sooners" match...

Student-athletes looking for compensation in wrong place

Michael Bracciano • October 28, 2011

The payment of student athletes is an issue that has been in a heated debate for a long time. Many believe that giving any more compensation to athletes is detrimental and violates “amateur status”...

A leader of men: Phil Pressey takes charge

Seth Boster • October 28, 2011

He’s the smallest and youngest player that takes the floor for the Missouri men’s basketball team, but make no mistake: There is something dominant about Phil Pressey. He was that 5-foot, 10-inch,...

English’s performance could define new Tigers’ season

Nate Atkins • October 25, 2011

Missouri basketball fans could not have been any more ready for last Friday’s Black & Gold scrimmage. It offered the first glimpse of the new coach, the new team and the new look of the Missouri Tigers. The...

Fans lose in NBA lockout struggle

Michael Bracciano • October 25, 2011

A while back I wrote about how the NBA lockout was detrimental to its overall success. Now, weeks later, we still aren’t anywhere closer to a deal being made between the players and the owners. The...

Josey gives Tigers rushing power

Pat Iversen • October 25, 2011

The general requirements for playing running back in the highly physical Big 12 Conference are size, speed and strength. To survive with just two-thirds of the equation, you have to be a one-of-a-kind...

Road struggles, home victories continue for Tiger Volleyball

Lindsey Davison • October 25, 2011

The Mizzou volleyball team has fallen into a pattern in October. As the month closes, the Tigers haven’t won a match on the road in regular season play. At home, the team has won all but one match....

Oklahoma State passes through Missouri, 45-24

Pat Iversen • October 22, 2011

For just a fleeting moment in Missouri’s battle against No. 4 Oklahoma State on Saturday, the crowd at Faurot Field seemed to collectively think the same idea: This is within our grasp. The players on...

Curators grant Deaton sole authority on Missouri’s conference loyalty

Pat Iversen • October 21, 2011

The MU Board of Curators voted unanimously Friday to grant Chancellor Brady Deaton the power to move the university out of the Big 12 Conference while stating interest in retaining a presence in Kansas...

Black & Gold Scrimmage unveils new Kim English

Seth Boster • October 21, 2011

After his team prevailed in the annual men’s basketball Black & Gold scrimmage Friday night, senior Kim English took a stat sheet from a reporter’s hand and sighed when he looked at one category. English...

The ace in the hole: When pass-first doesn’t have to remain pass-first

Nate Atkins • October 21, 2011

If Missouri football isn’t apt to change, it needs to be. At 3-3, the Tigers are desperate for wins, hungry for a bowl game and enamored with continuing Gary Pinkel’s winning tradition. The solution...

Bowers injury raises questions at Big 12 Media Day

Seth Boster • October 21, 2011

At this time last year, men’s basketball coach Frank Haith was sitting behind a microphone at the Atlantic Coast Conference Media Day in a green and orange polo shirt talking to reporters about the turn-around...