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 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) The Mizzou football team was back on the field Friday for day four of fall camp after taking Thursday as a day to rest. Saturday will mark the end of the first official week of camp. Head coach Eli Drinkwitz is set to talk to the media about week one after practice
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Blake Baker is entering his second season at the helm of the Mizzou defense. With nine returners, the group is under some pretty high expectations. “We want to be the best in the country,” Baker said. “Obviously y’all feel like we had a great year last year, but we feel like we can
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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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Plenty of hype and anticipation always accompany the preseason and this year the biggest question might be at quarterback.
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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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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Ahead of Mizzou football’s 2023 fall camp starting up on Monday, players and coaches took questions from the media about what they’re “something to prove” mentality means this season. “We’re not trying to prove that individually we’re talented, we know that we’ve had talent on this football team,” said head coach Eli
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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 football team is entering the 2023 season as an underdog. The Tigers were selected to finish sixth in the SEC East during preseason media polls that were released Friday. This would be the same spot that MU finished in last season with a 6-7 record, just above Vanderbilt. Here is
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The SEC just wrapped up its annual Media Days — the annual summer preview of the coming football season.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou football coach Eli Drinkwitz brought a veteran group to SEC Media Days in Nashville, but a lot of the experienced guys wanted to shout out other upcoming stars that have shined in summer camp. “Armand Membou, he’s going to be very special. He’s going to be sitting here one day,” said
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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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