LAS VEGAS, Nev. (KMIZ) The Baltimore Ravens picked up former Mizzou running back Tyler Badie with the 196th overall pick on Saturday. Badie had a historic senior season with MU, breaking the all-time single season rushing record with 1,604 yards and adding 14 touchdowns on top of that. The running back was the last of
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The No. 25 Mizzou softball team secured a series win against Texas A&M, courtesy of a 7-2 win in front of a sellout crowd on Saturday. MU pitcher Laurin Krings tossed a complete game in the circle with five strikeouts and just two earned runs allowed. The sophomore is now 13-7 through
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Every Mizzou baseball player hit, scored, and had an RBI in the team’s 19-8 win over Mississippi State on Saturday afternoon. The win evened up the series between the two teams. The offense got started with a first inning grand slam courtesy of Fox Leum. That hit triggered 17-hit outing from the
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WARDSVILLE, Mo. (KMIZ) Blair Oaks basketball standout Luke Northweather announced his commitment to Oklahoma via social media on Friday. The Missouri Gatorade Player of the Year picked Oklahoma over offers from Mizzou, Wyoming, and Wisconsin. Northweather will join the Sooners after averaging about 29 points and 11 rebounds per game game for the Falcons through
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou softball team won the first game of the group’s final home series of the year in walkoff fashion on Friday night. The Tigers took down the Bulldogs 7-5, courtesy of a Hatti Moore home run in the eighth inning. It was quite a night for Moore, as she hit three
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) State representatives honored the career of former Mizzou football coach Gary Pinkel at the Missouri State Capitol on Wednesday morning. The honor came on his 70th birthday. https://youtu.be/_rPsQnDhBYI Pinkel coached at Mizzou from 2001 to 2015 and, in that time, became the all-time winningest football coach in program history. The 70-year-old
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou sophomore wide receiver JJ Hester announced he will be entering the transfer portal on Wednesday night. The Oklahoma-native always received high praise from head coach Eli Drinkwitz as one of the up and coming players in the program. Through the 2021 season Hester recorded 12 catches for 225 yards and two
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou softball team captured a 9-3 win over the SLU Billikens on Wednesday evening to extend the team’s win streak to four games. It was a big outing for fifth-year senior Brooke Wilmes. The outfielder hit her 14th home run of the season, which is a career-high. With that home run,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou athletic community is mourning the loss of former wrestling coach and Hall of Famer Vernon Hap Whitney, who passed away on Wednesday. “This morning, we lost a great man in Hap Whitney,” current head coach Brian Smith said in a press release. “Hap brought Mizzou Wrestling into the modern era and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The NCAA announced Tuesday evening that Mark Emmert will be stepping down as president of the NCAA after more than 11 years. A statement from the NCAA says Emmert will stay in the position until a new president is named, or until June 30, 2023. “Throughout my tenure I’ve emphasized the need to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou softball’s Kara Daly has had a breakout season for the Tigers. As a freshman, she already landed a spot in the starting line up, has cranked ten home runs, and has broken a program record. “Every single time she steps in the batter’s box, she has the ability to hit the
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (KMIZ) The Mizzou softball team secured its first conference series win since the beginning of April in an 8-7 win over the No. 12 Kentucky Wildcats on Sunday night. It was a shootout from start to finish, as there were a total of five lead changes along with a combined total of five
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ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. (KMIZ) The Mizzou men’s golf team bowed out the SEC Championships on Saturday afternoon, as the group came up just short against LSU in match play. The Tigers fell in a 3-1-1 match. It was just the second time program history that the Tigers had advanced to the match play portion,
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BATON ROUGE, La. (KMIZ) The No. 22 LSU baseball team downed Mizzou 8-6 on Saturday to complete the three-game sweep against Mizzou. Head coach Steve Bieser and company consistently played the other Tigers close, with each loss coming by two runs or less. In Saturday’s loss, Helias Catholic alum Trevor Austin had the game-high four
Continue Reading LEXINGTON, Ky. (KMIZ) The Mizzou softball team captured a much-needed big time offensive win over No. 12 Kentucky on Saturday afternoon. The Tigers dominated at the plate from start to finish, as MU run-ruled the Wildcats 13-0 in five innings. Fifth-year senior Kimberly Wert was, once again, the star of the show for Mizzou. In
Continue Reading ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. (KMIZ) The Mizzou men’s golf team finished in fifth place in the stroke play portion of the SEC Championships, which means the group will advance to match play. The top eight teams will start competing in match play on Saturday, April 23. Father Tolton alum Jack Parker continues to show up
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An MU official confirmed with ABC17 Sports that Mizzou guard Jarron ‘Boogie’ Coleman became the eighth Tiger to enter the transfer portal on Friday. Coleman will be looking for his third collegiate home, as he transferred to MU from Ball State ahead of the start of the 2021-22 season. He averaged about
Continue Reading BATON ROUGE, La. (KMIZ) The Mizzou baseball team dropped game one of its three-game series against No. 22 LSU, 5-3, on Thursday night. MU played the other Tigers close through the opening innings, as Mizzou actually led 2-1 headed into the bottom of the third inning. However, LSU’s Jacob Berry was a problem, as he
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou men’s basketball coach Dennis Gates hired his third assistant coach on Thursday afternoon. Former John A. Logan College head coach Kyle Smithpeters will officially join the MU staff. “He is a great teacher, evaluator, and recruiter. I have had a front row seat for 15 years watching him prepare for this
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Former Mizzou women’s basketball standout LaDazhia Williams announced her commitment to LSU via Instagram on Wednesday night. It will be the forward’s third SEC school in her collegiate career. Williams first entered the transfer portal near the end of March, along with her former teammates Kiya Dorroh, Aijha Blackwell, and Izzy Higginbottom.
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