Missouri wrestling recently finalized its schedule for the 2016-17 season. Within the first month of the season, Mizzou will face two top-five teams and travel for a conference dual and a tournament.
The...
The Missouri wrestling program is dreaming big.
The Tigers are coming off a sixth-place finish at NCAA Championships last season, but they’re aiming higher due in part to newcomers to the lineup like...
While Cathy Cox was pregnant with her third child, she turned on the television to watch an episode of Star Trek.
As she watched, one character stood out: a pale man with dark hair, dressed in a red shirt...
As a four-time wrestling All-American and two-time NCAA Champion, Missouri graduate Ben Askren knows what it is like to be in the spotlight. The 32-year-old athlete also has Olympic experience — he competed...
_The Maneater looks at eight fall and winter athletes who could have breakout seasons in 2016._
**Terry Beckner Jr., sophomore, football**:
When Beckner came to Missouri, people had high expectations...
**Nate Strong set to join the Tigers**
This fall, four-star running back recruit Nate Strong will don the black and gold after all. The Hinds Community College transfer was a 2015 graduate of East St....
J’den Cox grew up around the Missouri wrestling room, accompanying his older brothers, who were part of the Columbia Youth Wrestling Club.
Cox wasn’t allowed in the actual wrestling room at 4 years...
Through hundreds of games, championships and stories, it’s nearly impossible to recap each and every moment that took place in the world of Missouri athletics this year.
So, we give you five. These...
J’Den Cox officially punched his ticket to the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro with a first-place finish in the 86-kilogram weight class at the World Games Qualifying Tournament in Mongolia early Sunday...
Following the 2015 world wrestling tournament in September, four-time NCAA national champion Kyle Dake of Cornell announced he’d be competing in the 86-kilogram weight class in the 2016 U.S. Olympic...
The Missouri wrestling team set out this season to be the top non-Big 10 team in the country. After the NCAA-emblazoned mats were cleared out of Madison Square Garden, Missouri Tigers fell short of that...
After the second match of the 2014–15 Mizzou wrestling season, Cathy Cox texted her son, J’den, and asked if he was having fun.
His response? “No. No, I’m not.”
Fast forward a year later to...
