COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The start to the new season came in a new building FIR on Monday morning. The Mizzou football team completed the first practice of fall camp in the newly-built Stephen’s Indoor Practice Facility due to the rain. Coaches and players brought a lot of energy for the first official day of the
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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. You can watch their full conversation in the video player above.
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ST. JOESPH, Mo. (KMIZ) The Jefferson City Renegades claimed its first ever MINK League title Saturday evening with a 4-0 shut-out win over the St. Joesph Mustangs. Nick Panagos was a forced to be reckoned with on the mound throwing a complete nine inning game. He allowed just five hits in the game and recorded
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FULTON, Mo. (KMIZ) The first-ever William Woods football team now has a conference to reside in. The athletic department announced that the Owls will join the Heart of America Athletic Conference, as an associate member, ahead of the program’s inaugural season in 2024. The Owls will be a part of the south division, joining rival
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Nathalie Jones brought on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s Dave Matter in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. You can watch the pair’s full conversation in the video player above.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou men’s basketball team has a busy Saturday ahead, as the team will host an open practice for fans, as well as give a proper send off to former Tiger star Kobe Brown. It will be the first time fans will be able to catch a glimpse of head coach Dennis
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WICHITA, Kan. (KMIZ) The Basketball Tournament, otherwise known as TBT, tipped off on Wednesday on the campus of Wichita State. The No. 4-seeded Show Me Squad, made up of Mizzou hoops alumni, won its first round game against the Vegas Rebellion, 96-90, TBT is a 64-team, single elimination tournament, which runs in July and August.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou football coach Eli Drinkwitz is headed into year four at the helm of Tiger football knowing that each season is never a guarantee. At SEC Media Days, on Monday, Drinkwitz said he thinks that his program is headed in the right direction. MU finished the 2022 season 6-7 overall and 3-5
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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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