COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Bianca Turati has been acting as the Mizzou women’s tennis interim head coach in 2023 and now has officially taken over the role as the tennis program’s 12th head coach. Turati is a former professional tennis player and student-athlete at the University of Texas. She joined Mizzou as an assistant coach in
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) D1Softball pegged Mizzou third baseman Kara Daly its its Player of the Week, on Tuesday, following her back-to-back walk off home runs against then-No. 12 Arkansas over the weekend. The Jefferson City native cranked home runs in the final frame of each of MU’s wins against the rival Razorbacks. Over those two
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) No. 13-seeded Mizzou topped the No. 12 seed, Mississippi State, in the first round of the 2023 SEC Tournament on Tuesday evening, 3-1. The win will move the Tigers further into the first round of action. MU will meet No. 5-seeded Alabama on Wednesday evening. First pitch is slated for 4 p.m.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou baseball standout Luke Mann hauled in the weekly awards after his offensive explosion in the first week of May. The Southeastern Conference pegged Mann as Co-Conference Player of the Week and Collegiate Baseball Newspaper named the third baseman as one its national players of the week. Mann recorded a conference-best nine
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Nathalie Jones brought on Matt Michaels, the color commentator for Mizzou baseball, in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. The two discussed the SEC Tournament picture for the Tigers, as the regular season continues to wind down. MU has two more conference series remaining in 2023, along with
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Jefferson City native Kara Daly made it happen when it matters for Mizzou softball in the regular-season finale against No. 12 Arkansas hitting walk-off homers in back-to-back games to get the series victory. In the final game on Sunday, it was tied up at six runs each and Daly hit a solo
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou women’s basketball coach Robin Pingeton made another addition from the transfer portal, on Sunday evening. Former Evansville forward Abby Feit announced her commitment to the Tigers on social media. The 6-foot-1 grad transfer spent the last four seasons with the Aces. She averaged about 15 points, which ranked seventh in the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) After clinching the series victory on Friday, Mizzou fell short of the sweep on Saturday in a high-scoring game against Ole Miss. The Rebels claimed the finale 20-14. The two teams combined for 31 total hits on the day and 34 runs. The leading force at the plate for Mizzou came from
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Jefferson City native Kara Daly and Columbia native Maddie Snider hit two home runs in the bottom of the eighth inning to even up the series with No. 12 Arkansas after a 4-3 victory. Before the late home runs, the Tigers had just four total hits on the day and six hits
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou football coach Eli Drinkwitz had a good Saturday making two new additions to his roster, including one of the best offensive lineman in the transfer portal. Cam’Ron Johnson joins the Tigers from Houston where he was a first-team All-American Athletic Conference selection in 2022. The 6-4, 305-pound guard has two years
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou softball team dropped the senior weekend series opener to No. 12 Arkansas on Friday night in run rule fashion. The Razorbacks took home the 9-0 win. Senior Jordan Weber got the start for MU in the circle, but was pulled after two innings of work. She allowed one earned run
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou baseball team clinches the SEC series over the defending national champs Ole Miss with a run-rule performance Friday, downing the Rebels 13-3. MU got off to an early 2-0 lead with a two-run home run from Luke Mann in the first inning and never lost the lead from there. The
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou baseball team had a slow start to the series against Ole Miss, but with nine unanswered runs, the Tigers managed to make the 11-9 comeback victory happen. MU trailed 9-2 heading into the bottom of the sixth inning, but six straight runs brought them within one. In the seventh, Luke
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou baseball team completed the season-sweep against Kansas at Taylor Stadium on Tuesday night. The Tigers hung on against the Jayhawks for a 9-7 win. MU scored eight, unanswered runs after KU got up 3-0 in the first inning, however, Kansas’ Luke Leto hit a home run in the ninth inning
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou long snapper Jake Hoffman will join the Kansas City Chiefs for rookie camp in May. The Kearney, Mo. native spent five seasons with the Tigers, appearing in all 13 games in both his junior and senior. He first took over as MU’s primary long snapper in 2019, his sophomore year.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou defensive lineman DJ Coleman confirmed on social media Sunday afternoon that he has signed with the Jacksonville Jaguars as an undrafted rookie free agent. Coleman spent one season in Columbia where he action in all 12 games during the regular season, making three starts. He finished the regular season with 37 total
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COLLEGE STATION, Tx. (KMIZ) The Mizzou softball team had a chance to win its first SEC series of the season Sunday at No. 23 Texas A&M, but the Aggies put together a big fourth inning to secure an 11-4 series victory. The Tigers got on the board first plating four runs in the second inning,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Dennis Gates made a new addition to next years roster Sunday evening in big man Jesus Carralero from Campbell University. The news was originally reported on Twitter by Eric Bossi with 247 Sports. The 6-foot-8 forward, originally from Spain, spent three years at Campbell averaged 7.5 points and 3.9 rebounds per game.
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GAINESVILLE, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou baseball team fell just short of a series finale victory Sunday against No. 4 Florida falling 8-7 to the Gators. This marks the second-straight SEC series sweep for the Tigers after being blanked at home last weekend against Alabama. In the series finale, the Tigers were working from behind early
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Former Mizzou standout safety and Rock Bridge alum Martez Manuel confirmed on social media on Saturday night that he has signed with the Kansas City Chiefs as an undrafted rookie free agent. He said, “All I needed was a chance. Watch this.” The news was first reported by ESPN insider Jeremy
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