COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou Athletics and ESPN announced the official start times for two of MU’s home games in the 2023 season on Wednesday. Mizzou will kick off against Middle Tennessee State on Saturday, Sept. 9 at 6 p.m. at Memorial Stadium. The game will be simulcast on ESPN+ and SEC Network+. The next week,
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ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMIZ) After the Royals won the I-70 series opener, the St. Louis Cardinals bounced back on Tuesday winning 2-1 to walk away with a split. This also marks the end of 19 straight days that the Red Birds have been in game action. Game two was a pitchers duel as Zach Greinke
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OZARK, Mo. (KMIZ) The St. Elizabeth baseball team won its second-straight Class 1 state championship on Tuesday with a 13-3 run-rule win over South Nodaway in six innings. This marks the Hornets third state title in five seasons. The Hornets got the scoring started in the top of the second inning putting one run on
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OZARK, Mo. (KMIZ) The St. Elizabeth baseball team is headed to its fifth-straight Class 1 state championship game, excluding the canceled 2020 season, after a 9-0 win against Cooter in the state semifinal on Monday. The Hornets came in as the defending state champions in Class 1, after beating Oran by seven runs in 2022.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Nathalie Jones brought on former Mizzou basketball standout Laurence Bowers, ahead of his annual Camp Bowers, in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. You can watch their full conversation in the video player above.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The national search for a new Mizzou baseball coach is on. MU Athletics fired head coach Steve Bieser, after seven seasons in Columbia, on Sunday afternoon. The department said that the terms of Bieser’s contract, which runs through July of 2024, will still be honored. Bieser just wrapped up his seventh and
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) With two outs and a tie game at the bottom of the ninth inning, Kansas City’s Michael Massey hit a single to score MJ Melendez and secure the 3-2 walk-off win against Washington. It took a while for the Royals’ offense to get going on Sunday, but it fired up in
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CLEVELAND, Ohio (KMIZ) The St. Louis Cardinals were edged out in the series rubber match against the Cleveland Guardians on Sunday. Cleveland walked it off in the ninth inning to win 4-3. Jose Ramirez hit a two-run double off of Cardinals relief pitcher Ryan Helsley to score two runs and lift the Guardians to the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Tolton girls soccer team officially has two more games standing between it and the program’s first-ever state championship. The Trailblazers topped Laquey, 4-0, in the state quarterfinals on Saturday afternoon. With the win, Tolton will head to St. Louis for Final Four action at World Wide Technology Soccer Park. The semifinals
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Helias girls soccer team fell short of a trip to the state Final Four next week after falling to St. Pius Kansas City 4-2 in Saturday’s quarterfinal game. The Crusaders were down 3-0 at the half, but showed fight towards the end to get some points on the board. The
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Classes 3, 4, and 5 finished up competition in the second and final weekend of MSHSAA State Championship Track and Field on Saturday. For the Class 5 boys, as a team Rock Bridge brought home the state title, Camdenton came in third and Capital City in fourth. For the Class 5
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Classes 3, 4 and 5 kicked off the second weekend of MSHSAA State Championship Track and Field on Friday at Adkins Stadium. You can find a full list of local results below. CLASS 3 Girls pole vault: First place Osage’s Madison Kessler, third place Montgomery County’s El Reagan Girls triple jump:
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) There will be six new members of the Mizzou Athletics Hall of Fame, after the department announced the 2023 class on Friday. You can find the full list of former Tiger athletes joining the hall below. Justin Gage – Football Karissa Schweizer – Cross Country/Track and Field Nick Adcock – Track and
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BOONVILLE, Mo. (KMIZ) Here are your local scores from Thursday, May 25, 2023. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. HS BASEBALL EXCELSIOR SPRINGS (7) BOONVILLE (2) FINAL – state quarterfinals ST. CHARLES WEST (9) FULTON (12) FINAL – state quarterfinals SOUTH CALLAWAY (6) ELSBERRY (5) FINAL – state quarterfinals
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) For the second season in a row, the Mizzou football team will host its season opener at Faurot Field in primetime, on Thursday, August 31. MU and South Dakota will kick off at 7 p.m. on SEC Network. The game was originally schedule for Saturday, Sept. 2, but the athletics department said
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A team spokesperson confirmed that six members of the Mizzou softball team are entering the transfer portal. The news comes six days after the Tigers fell out of the Norman Regional in the NCAA Tournament with losses to both No. 1 Oklahoma and Cal. First baseman Riley Frizell, catchers Megan Moll and
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CINCINNATI, Oh. (KMIZ) The St. Louis Cardinals are walking away from a divisional series in Cincinnati with two wins and two losses, after avoiding the finale loss on Thursday 2-1. With no days off this week, the Red Birds opting to rest Paul Goldschmidt, Nolan Arenado and Willson Contreras by leaving them out of the
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Jefferson City Police Department announced in a Thursday press release that there will be a street closure near Adkins Stadium during the second weekend of state track championships. Stadium Drive will be closed between Jackson Street and Mesa Avenue. The closure lasts from 7 a.m.-7 p.m. on Friday and Saturday.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Despite getting within two runs in the late innings at Kauffman Stadium, the Kansas Royals lost to the Detroit Tigers, 6-4, in the series rubber match. With the loss, KC has lost two straight series and dropped to 15-36 on the season. Riley Greene and Zach Short were too much for
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PITTSBURGH, Pa. (KMIZ) Former Mizzou football standout Markus Golden signed a one-year deal with the Pittsburgh Steelers on Wednesday. The veteran edge rusher will work behind starters T.J. Watt and Alex Highsmith. The 32-year-old has been in the NFL for nine years and has spent seven of those years with the Arizona Cardinals. He started
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