COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou football team answered one of the biggest questions of the off season on Tuesday night. Sophomore Brady Cook will be the Tigers’ starting quarterback for Mizzou’s season opener on Sept. 1. You can watch extended highlights of Mizzou’s practice in the video player below. https://youtu.be/xwcMISeizXU “I wouldn’t say I was
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou football coach Eli Drinkwitz said the competition for who will be MU’s starting center is wide open through four days of fall camp. Redshirt freshman Connor Tollison took a large portion of the reps at center at Thursday’s practice. The Missouri native made an impression on Drinkwitz through spring ball and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou football team will begin preparations for the 2022 season on Monday, as fall camp will kick off in the morning. The Tigers, for the second year in a row, come into camp with a quarterback battle on their hands. Sophomore Brady Cook, redshirt freshman Tyler Macon, freshman Sam Horn, and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Nathalie Jones brought on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s Mizzou beat writer Dave Matter in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou football’s Barrett Banister is a member of the 2022 Wuerffel Trophy Watch List, which honors college football players who serve others, celebrate their positive impact on society and inspire greater service in the world. A cum laude graduate in the spring of 2021, Banister is a 2022 AFCA Good Works Team
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COLUMBIA, MO. (KMIZ) Mizzou junior kicker Harrison Mevis is among the 30 kickers named to the 2022 Lou Groza Award Watch List, released by the Palm Beach County Sports Commission. As Mevis enters his third season, he has been a finalist in both 2021 and 2020 for the award. His 19 field goals from at
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ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou and Illinois men’s basketball teams will meet in the 2022 edition of Braggin’ Rights on Dec. 22 at the Enterprise Center in St. Louis. The official game time and television information will be released at a later date. It will be 53rd meeting all-time between the Tigers and the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director NathalieJones brought on Mizzou volleyball coach Joshua Taylor in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. You can watch the conversation in the video player above.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou softball coach Larissa Anderson named Alivia Forshey as the team’s volunteer assistant coach. Anderson said Forshey will work primarily with the hitters and the outfielders. “Alivia is an up-and-coming future coaching star in our sport.” Anderson said. Forshey served as an assistant coach at Toledo during the 2022 season after spending
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Five Mizzou baseball players were selected in the 2022 MLB Draft. Rock Bridge Alum, Spencer Miles, was the first off the board with pick 136 in the fourth round to the Giants. Miles finished last season for the Tigers with a 6.20 ERA and a 5-5 record from the hill. This past
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ATLANTA, Ga. (KMIZ) “Our culture is starting to be set,” was the words of Coach Eli Drinkwitz at SEC Media Days ahead of the 2022 season. Drinkwitz is entering his third season as the head coach of the Tiger’s football team. With that, he says it’s important to have a winning record, and he relies
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ATLANTA, Ga. (KMIZ) Head coach Eli Drinkwitz brought his patented humor to SEC Media Days in Atlanta, but he also put an emphasis on working to move into the upper half of the conference. “We’ve got a long way to go as far as, you know, you can’t be in the upper echelon with a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Former Mizzou basketball standouts Laurence Bowers and DeMarre Carroll hosted an alumni basketball game with some of the biggest names from both the MU gridiron and hardwood on Saturday. You can watch the full interviews with some of the players in attendance in the video players below. https://youtu.be/7nR2W2cigQk https://youtu.be/n5mgB641dtE https://youtu.be/sdWlOozcWW0 https://youtu.be/wUx-OdDQMx4 Fans
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PHOENIX, Ariz. (KMIZ) Former Mizzou women’s basketball star Sophie Cunningham made WNBA history on Tuesday, courtesy of a career outing against the Minnesota Lynx. Cunningham finished with 36 points, six three pointers, and five steals in the Mercury’s double overtime loss to Minnesota. She became just the second player in league history to record more
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou men’s basketball coach Dennis Gates added a big piece to his class of 2023 on Tuesday afternoon, with the commitment of four-star forward Trent Pierce. The Oklahoma-native picked MU over offers from Florida, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Illinois, and Minnesota. In his junior campaign with Tulsa Union, Pierce averaged about 16 points
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou football team is bringing senior defensive back Martez Manuel, senior defensive lineman Isaiah McGuire, and graduate student wide receiver Barrett Banister to talkin’ time in Atlanta. The 2022 edition of SEC Football Media Days will kick off on Monday, July 18, as head coach Eli Drinkwitz will make his second-ever
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The University of Missouri will pay former offensive coordinator Derek Dooley $200,000 to settle an 18-month long lawsuit. ABC 17 News received a copy of the settlement agreement between the two sides. It states that an agreement was reached on July 6, which is about a week before the case was set
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Nathalie Jones brought on the newest addition to Mizzou’s baseball team, former Nebraska outfielder and Columbia-native Cam Chick, in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. You can watch the conversation in the video player above.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou alum, Michelle Parish, says in returning to her alma matter as the assistant women’s golf coach she hopes to protect the state and get local athletes to stay at MU. Parish was standout at Mizzou from 2011-2016 and says this a dream come true and honor for her to be back.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou shortstop Josh Day announced he will be entering the transfer portal on Monday. Day transferred to MU from Copiah Lincoln Community College ahead of the 2021 season. In his first year with the Tigers he started in 43 out of Mizzou’s 44 games and batted .250, driving in 21 runs and
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