COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou’s new baseball coach Kerrick Jackson signed a five-year contract worth $3.625 million with the Tigers, according to a copy of that contract obtained by ABC 17. The 49-year-old will make a guaranteed $675,000 in his first season. Each year after, his salary will increase by $25,000. The salary maxes out in
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Watch the introductory news conference live. COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou Athletics announced that former Memphis head coach Kerrick Jackson will be Tiger baseball’s next head coach. The St. Louis-native will be officially introduced on MU’s campus in a few days. The news comes less than a week after MU fired former head coach Steve Bieser.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Nathalie Jones brought on the co-host of KTGR’s ‘The Big Show,’ Andy Humphrey 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) Mizzou men’s basketball coach Dennis Gates secured a late Sunday night commitment from Oral Roberts transfer Conner Vanover. The 7-foot-5 forward started his career at Cal and then played two seasons at Arkansas. In his year his year with the Golden Eagles, he averaged about 12 points, seven rebounds and three blocks
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DESTIN, Fla. (KMIZ) The Southeastern Conference announced that teams will play in an eight conference games in the 2024 season, as both Texas and Oklahoma join the ranks. The eight-game slate is a one-year solution, but the long-term model hasn’t been set yet. The SEC did announce one change on Thursday evening. The divisions that
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou hoops standout Kobe Brown has officially played his final game in a Tiger uniform. The 23-year-old announced that he will stay in the NBA Draft in a social media post on Wednesday. In that social media post Brown said, “I couldn’t be happier to call Mizzou home, but with that being
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou infielder Trevor Austin is set to enter the transfer portal, a team spokesperson confirmed on Wednesday night. The news comes just three days after MU Athletics fired head coach Steve Bieser. The Helias alum led the Tiger attack at the plate in 2023. Through his junior season, he registered 36 RBI
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou Athletics and ESPN announced the official start times for two of MU’s home games in the 2023 season on Wednesday. Mizzou will kick off against Middle Tennessee State on Saturday, Sept. 9 at 6 p.m. at Memorial Stadium. The game will be simulcast on ESPN+ and SEC Network+. The next week,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Nathalie Jones brought on former Mizzou basketball standout Laurence Bowers, ahead of his annual Camp Bowers, 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 national search for a new Mizzou baseball coach is on. MU Athletics fired head coach Steve Bieser, after seven seasons in Columbia, on Sunday afternoon. The department said that the terms of Bieser’s contract, which runs through July of 2024, will still be honored. Bieser just wrapped up his seventh and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) There will be six new members of the Mizzou Athletics Hall of Fame, after the department announced the 2023 class on Friday. You can find the full list of former Tiger athletes joining the hall below. Justin Gage – Football Karissa Schweizer – Cross Country/Track and Field Nick Adcock – Track and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) For the second season in a row, the Mizzou football team will host its season opener at Faurot Field in primetime, on Thursday, August 31. MU and South Dakota will kick off at 7 p.m. on SEC Network. The game was originally schedule for Saturday, Sept. 2, but the athletics department said
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A team spokesperson confirmed that six members of the Mizzou softball team are entering the transfer portal. The news comes six days after the Tigers fell out of the Norman Regional in the NCAA Tournament with losses to both No. 1 Oklahoma and Cal. First baseman Riley Frizell, catchers Megan Moll and
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PITTSBURGH, Pa. (KMIZ) Former Mizzou football standout Markus Golden signed a one-year deal with the Pittsburgh Steelers on Wednesday. The veteran edge rusher will work behind starters T.J. Watt and Alex Highsmith. The 32-year-old has been in the NFL for nine years and has spent seven of those years with the Arizona Cardinals. He started
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HOOVER, Ala. (KMIZ) The Mizzou baseball team could not find a way to hold off the Auburn bats in a 10-4 loss in the first round of the conference tournament on Tuesday night. It was MU’s first SEC Tournament appearance since 2019. The Columbia-based Tigers got off to a solid start in the loss, as
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou third baseman and Missouri native, Luke Mann had been selected as a member of the All-SEC Second Team after a historic fifth season in the black and gold. At the end of the regular season, Mann is leading the Tigers in hitting with an average of .318. He’s also brought in
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Former Mizzou football coach and hall of famer Gary Pinkel hosted his fifth annual charity golf tournament for his GP M.A.D.E. foundation at the Club at the Old Hawthorne on Monday afternoon. Pinkel says when he retired he missed helping his players, so he created the foundation to help kids across the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17’s Chanel Porter brought on the SEC baseball analyst and former Mizzou baseball catcher Dylan Kelly in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. The Mizzou baseball team just wrapped up its regular season and now are preparing to enter the SEC tournament as the 12th seed to play Auburn in the
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NORMAN, Ok. (KMIZ) The Mizzou softball team saw its season come to an end Saturday with two losses in the Norman Regional. Up first, the Tigers fell 11-0 to No. 1 Oklahoma and then took a 7-5 loss later that evening against Cal. MU put together just one hit against the Sooners and it took
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NORMAN, Ok. (KMIZ) After winning the opening round of the NCAA Norman Regional, the Mizzou softball team fell 11-0 Saturday against the defending national champions No. 1 Oklahoma. Now, the Tigers will move to the elimination game against the winner of Cal and Hofstra at 7:30 p.m. The Sooners put the game away in six
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