NASHVILLE, Tenn. (KMIZ) The Mizzou football team took center stage in Nashville on Monday morning, as SEC Media Days kicked off. Head coach Eli Drinkwitz and players all took questions from both national and local media at the Grand Hyatt Hotel. The conversation widely centered around the impending quarterback competition. Drinkwitz will be deciding between
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) SEC Media Days always marks the start of a clean slate for football teams around the Southeastern Conference, as it all kicks off on Monday in Nashville. The Mizzou football team will look to move forward from a 6-7 finish in 2022. The team made head coach Eli Drinkwitz’s third bowl game,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Former Mizzou hoops standout DeAndre Gholston is headed to Europe. The guard signed a contract with the OSE Lions in Hungary, on Saturday. Gholston is now the third member of the 2022-23 team to make it pro. He is joining Kobe Brown and D’Moi Hodge, who are participating in NBA Summer League
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The Southeastern Conference and Commissioner Greg Sankey have agreed to a contract extension through 2028. Financial terms were not disclosed in the release on Thursday. Sankey, 58, is in his ninth year after becoming the SEC’s eighth commissioner in 2015. As NCAA Transformation Committee co-chair, Sankey helped expand the College Football
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CLEVELAND, Ohio. (KMIZ) Former Mizzou pitcher Rorik Maltrud agreed to an undrafted free agent deal with the Cleveland Guardians on Wednesday. The deal made him the fifth Tiger to find his way to the pros in 2023. Maltrud came to Mizzou as a transfer from New Mexico State in 2023. In his one season in
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OAKLAND, Calif. (KMIZ) Mizzou baseball standout Luke Mann heard his name called in the 2023 MLB Draft on Tuesday afternoon. The Oakland Athletics drafted Mann with the No. 406 overall pick in the 14th round. The St. Louis native came back for his fifth season in the black and gold in 2023 and what a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) SEC Football Media Days is set to kick off on Monday, July 17 in Nashville, Tenn. Mizzou football will be the second team to speak that day, as the Southeastern Conference announced that the Tigers will be bringing defensive back Kris Abrams-Draine, defensive lineman Darius Robinson and offensive lineman Javon Foster to
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NEW YORK, N.Y. (KMIZ) Former Mizzou pitcher and Fatima alum Austin Troesser is going to the next level. The New York Mets drafted Troesser with the No. 135 overall pick on Monday. The 21-year-old played for the Tigers for three seasons, after graduating from Fatima High School. He finished his MU career with a 4.98
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CHICAGO, Ill. (KMIZ) Former Mizzou pitcher Zach Franklin got drafted by the Chicago White Sox in the 2023 MLB Draft on Monday. The righty went with the No. 299 overall pick in the 10th round. Franklin came to Columbia as a sixth-year transfer from Western Carolina. In his Tiger career, he tallied 59 strikeouts over
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Nathalie Jones brought on the Columbia Tribune’s sports editor Chris Kwiecinski in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. The duo broke down a hectic week in the world of Mizzou football. Head coach Eli Drinkwitz picked up seven commitments in the span of five days to put the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou men’s golf will be searching for a new head coach ahead of the 2023-24 season. MU Athletics announced that head coach Mark Hankins resigned, on Sunday. Just minutes after MU’s announcement USC announced that it has hired Hankins’ as their new head coach. In a press release, Athletics Director Desiree Reed-Francois
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou softball coach Larissa Anderson made an addition to her staff, on Friday afternoon. Molly Jacobsen will come to Columbia to assist with the pitching staff, as well as scouting. Jacobsen spent the last two seasons at Texas, where she was a graduate manager in 2022 and a volunteer assistant in 2023.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Jefferson City renegades overcame a six-run deficit to down the U.S. Military War Dogs 14-7 on Thursday night at Ernie Vivion Field. The War Dogs put up six runs in the second inning to grab an early lead. JC started to chip away at the lead with three runs in
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TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Vince Tobin, who coached the Arizona Cardinals to their first playoff win in 51 years in 1998, has died. He was 79. The Cardinals said Tobin died at his Arizona home. Tobin was hired in 1996 to replace Buddy Ryan and took over a team that had future Hall of Fame
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17’s Chanel Porter brought on Stephens College assistant athletic director and head basketball coach Andre Bell, in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. Bell has spent two seasons as the basketball coach at Stephens leading the Stars to their most successful record in school history. Bell was also promoted in March
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Clarinda A’s took down the Jefferson City Renegades 9-5 on Monday night in the battle of the top seeds in the MINK league. Jefferson City claimed the first matchup between the two on Sunday 11-5. In Monday night’s game, the Renegades scored first with a solo home run from Chase
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Nathalie Jones brought on Mizzou’s new baseball coach, Kerrick Jackson, in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. Jackson comes on the show, just 22 days after he was hired to take the helm of the Tiger baseball team. He said he’s hit the ground running, so far, and
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (KMIZ) Former Mizzou baseball coach Steve Bieser landed a new head coaching job about a month after being let go from the University of Missouri. Bieser is the new head coach at Jacksonville State University, the program announced on Saturday. Bieser spent the past seven years at the helm of Tiger baseball. He
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou men’s basketball coach Dennis Gates only spent one season with Tiger hoops standout Kobe Brown, but he said he knew his potential after their first conversation. That’s why, on the night of the NBA Draft, he took a step back and watched everyone else’s reaction to Brown being a first round
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LOS ANGELES, Calif. (KMIZ) Mizzou hoops alum D’Moi Hodge signed a two-way contract with the Los Angeles Lakers on Thursday night, directly following the NBA Draft. The 24-year-old only spent one season in Columbia, as he followed head coach Dennis Gates to MU from Cleveland State. However, in that one year he made quite an
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