COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Eli Drinkwitz has found Blake Baker’s replacement. Mizzou Football announced on Saturday evening that Corey Batoon has officially been hired as the team’s next defensive coordinator. Saturday’s announcement confirms Friday’s report from ESPN that said the Tigers were set to give the defensive coordinator job to Batoon. “Our intent from the start
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Nathalie Jones brought on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s Eli Hoff 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) The Mizzou men’s basketball team has not produced the results that any of them would have liked through the first part of SEC action. The Tigers are on a four-game losing streak, still winless in conference action, however, the team emphasized that there is no finger-pointing in the locker room. Head coach
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Nathalie Jones brought on PowerMizzou’s Drew King in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. The pair talked about the Tiger men’s basketball team’s rough start to SEC action, including the group’s overtime loss to South Carolina, on Saturday. “So far it kind of feels like Mizzou can either
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou tight end Tyler Stephens is returning to the Tigers for another season. Stephens announced on social media on Thursday night that he will be using another year of eligibility to play football for the Tigers in 2024. Stephens has played the past two seasons with the Tigers, appearing in 25 games.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou offensive coordinator Kirby Moore couldn’t have written a better script for his first season in Columbia. In 2023, the Tigers not only scored eight more points per game than the season before, but went on to win a New Year’s Six bowl game. As a result, Moore received a contract extension
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou football team grabbed the No. 8 spot in the final AP Poll of the 2023 college football season, on Tuesday. It marks the program’s best finish in the poll since 2013. The Tigers jumped up one spot, from No. 9, after beating then-No. 7 Ohio State in the Cotton Bowl
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) After six years in the black and gold, Mizzou linebacker Chad Bailey declared for the 2024 NFL Draft, on Monday. With that announcement, he became the 12th Tiger player to take the next step since the season wrapped up. Bailey saw an unfortunate end to his final season in Columbia, appearing in
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou football’s historic, 11-win 2023 season paid off for head coach Eli Drinkwitz. On Dec. 31, just days after No. 9 MU’s Cotton Bowl win over No. 7 Ohio State, the Mizzou Athletic Department extended Coach Eli’s contract through 2028. Through details obtained by ABC 17 in an open records request, Drinkwitz
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou defensive lineman Josh Landry became the 11th Tiger football player to declare for the 2024 NFL Draft, on Monday. Landry spent two seasons in Columbia, after transferring from Baylor ahead of the 2022 season. He saw action in every game of his MU career, including four starts in 2023. In his
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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 the full conversation in the video player above.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou football team is looking for a new defensive coordinator, after former DC Blake Baker left his post for the same job at LSU, on Friday. That news came just 15 days after he had signed a contract extension with MU. On social media, head coach Eli Drinkwitz said to Baker,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou linebacker Ty’ron Hopper will look to bring his talents to the next level. The former Florida transfer declared for the 2024 NFL Draft, on Saturday. With that, the tally of MU players headed to the Draft is up to 10. Hopper, a Butkus Award finalist, had one year of eligibility remaining,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou kicker Harrison Mevis, fondly known as the ‘Thicker Kicker,’ made it official and declared for the NFL Draft, on Saturday. He is the ninth Tiger to declare for the draft, so far. The man who’s provided quite a few memorable moments to Tiger football fans will look to take his leg
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Just weeks after signing a contract extension with Mizzou, defensive coordinator Blake Baker is headed to LSU. He will serve, once again, as a defensive coordinator for a Tiger team, after two years in Columbia. It is LSU head coach Brian Kelly’s first move since firing his entire defensive staff at the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Defensive lineman Jayden Jernigan is taking his first steps toward starting an NFL career. Jernigan announced on social media on Friday evening that he will declare for the upcoming NFL Draft. The Texas native played two seasons with Mizzou after transferring from Oklahoma State after the 2021 season. In his two seasons
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou wide receiver Theo Wease Jr. will run it back with the Tigers in 2024. Wease Jr. announced on social media on Thursday that he will be coming back to play another season with Mizzou. Wease Jr. emerged as one of Brady Cook’s top two targets after transferring from Oklahoma to Mizzou
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou defensive lineman Realus George Jr. became the fourth Tiger on Thursday to announce that they are declaring for the 2024 NFL Draft. The graduate student is now the sixth Mizzou defensive player to reveal their plans to take their football talents to the professional level. George Jr. spent three seasons with
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou’s new single-season rushing record holder is taking his football talents to the next level. Running back Cody Schrader announced on social media that he is declaring for the 2024 NFL Draft. Schrader’s story took the college football world by storm this season. He started his collegiate career at the NCAA Division
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Two more defensive players on the Mizzou football team are officially starting their NFL journeys. Defensive back Kris Abrams-Draine and defensive lineman Nyles Gaddy announced on social media that they will be declaring for the 2024 NFL Draft. Abrams-Draine spent his entire four-year collegiate career with the Tigers. He was a four-star
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