COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Saturday will be the final practice of a long fall camp for the Mizzou football team, as the group will soon turn its attention to the season opener against South Dakota, on Aug. 31. You can watch extended highlights from Friday’s second-to-last practice of fall camp in the video player below. https://youtu.be/qrD3iyOCyls
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou football team hosted a practice open to MU students at Stankowski field in Columbia, on Wednesday night. A good crowd gathered to watch the Tiger position battles unfold. You can watch extended highlights from Mizzou’s practice in the video player below. https://youtu.be/wSrOoNYpmt4 Students were allowed to walk around the track
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou baseball coach Kerrick Jackson made the final hires for his 2024 coaching staff on Wednesday. MU Athletics officially announced the additions of a director of player personnel and a director of player development. Jose Carballo will serve as that director of player personnel. He will come to Columbia after a five-year
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou football team returned quite a few familiar faces for the 2023 season, but head coach Eli Drinkwitz also managed to bolster the roster with some transfers. Now on the third week of MU’s fall camp, the new guys are settled in. You can watch extended highlights from Tuesday’s practice in
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Gov. Mike Parson and Mizzou coaches, athletes and supporters gathered at Faurot Field on Tuesday afternoon for a ceremonial signing of Missouri’s amended name, image and likeness (NIL) bill. In addition to Parson’s signature, Mizzou men’s basketball player Sean East got to add his name on the bill, as representative of all
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou football team continued the start of its final week of fall camp on Monday. The Tigers will do an official wrap up of the entire camp on Saturday, Aug. 19. The start of practice featured a highlight reel catch from wide receiver Mekhi Miller. You can watch that clip, as
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Monday was the decision that Mizzou football fans had waited months for. Five-star defensive lineman Williams Nwaneri made his commitment at Lee’s Summit North High School and did end up sticking with his hometown team. Nwaneri will join head coach Eli Drinkwitz’s 2024 recruiting class, following his commitment ceremony. According to 247sports’
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Nathalie Jones brought on Mizzou soccer coach Stefanie Golan in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. You can watch the full interview in the video player above.
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By ANDREW SELIGMAN AP Sports Writer EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) — Northwestern athletic director Derrick Gragg criticized assistant football coaches and staff members for wearing shirts supporting fired coach Pat Fitzgerald at practice. Gragg called the shirts “inappropriate, offensive and tone deaf” given the hazing and abuse scandal engulfing the football program and other teams. Gragg
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Former Mizzou star quarterback Chase Daniel was in Columbia, on Wednesday, to get a look at MU’s new indoor practice facility, as well as take in a fall camp practice. Daniel got a good look at the ongoing quarterback competition, while he was there. You can watch extended highlights from practice in
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COLUMBIA Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou defense exceeded expectations in year one under defensive coordinator Blake Baker, in 2022, and will look to do the same in the upcoming season. The group said the goal is to be the best, plain and simple. Players said the key to being the best is consistency in everything they
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou men’s basketball coach Dennis Gates now has two recruits in his class of 2024, after four-star forward Marcus Allen committed to the Tigers on Monday. Allen is ranked No. 60 in the 2024 ESPN 100. He’s also, according to Rivals, the No. 52 ranked prospect in the nation and the No.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) H.A.B.I.T. Performance in Jefferson City is an off-season training program ran by Jefferson City soccer coach Dakota Acock to give collegiate athletes a place to keep their game up year round. The program started with eight players in year one, and now in year four, that number is over 50. “In
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou football coach Eli Drinkwitz spoke out about the constantly shifting landscape of college athletics in the midst of multiple universities deciding to leave the Pac-12 conference over the past week. “What cost is it to those student-athletes?,” he said in a press conference on Saturday. ABC 17 Sports Director Nathalie Jones
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou football team wrapped up its sixth practice of fall camp on Sunday morning, as the battles for starting jobs continued. You can watch extended highlights of the Tigers’ practice in the video player below. https://youtu.be/4tjb0jIicoo One position battle head coach Eli Drinkwitz said he was particularly happy with, on Saturday,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) It’s been a hectic week for the landscape of college athletics, which continues to shift. The Pac-12 conference was dwindled down to just four member schools, following the departure of Arizona, Arizona State, Utah, Washington and Oregon over the past few days. Arizona, Arizona State and Utah will all join the Big
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou football coach Eli Drinkwitz saw progress in quite a few areas through the first few sessions of fall camp, however, he emphasized that the group is just one week in. He added there is still a lot of work to be done. You can watch extended highlights of Saturday’s practice in
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) First-year offensive coordinator Kirby Moore will have his pick of weapons to work with in 2023. Mizzou is returning more than a handful of wide receivers, in addition to a couple of big off-season transfers. Standouts Luther Burden, Mookie Cooper and Mekhi Miller will all be back on the field this upcoming
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou offensive line headed into fall camp with some work to do, after head coach Eli Drinkwitz brought on Brandon Jones as the new o-line coach in April, after spring camp. Coach Drink made the hire after former line coach Marcus Johnson left his position to join the staff at Purdue.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) For the second-straight day of fall camp, the Mizzou football team was forced inside due to the rain. The Tigers continued work ahead of the 2023 season, as head coach Eli Drinkwitz and company will hope for the first opportunity get outside on Wednesday. At the start of practice, Coach Drink named
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