COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Former Fatima softball standout Sammey Bunch will return back to Mid-Missouri this weekend. The Northern Iowa shortstop will be competing in NCAA Regionals at Mizzou Stadium. “It’s just really special for me to be able to play so close to home,” Bunch said on a Zoom news conference Tuesday. “It’s just a
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Venus Williams received some unwanted divine intervention during Monday’s defeat to Anna Karolina Schmiedlova, after she was given a time violation while waiting for heavy winds to die down before serving. “If the wind blows, then I can’t hit the ball,” she told the umpire. “I can’t control God, I can’t control the wind. I’m
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The first time Abraham Majok Matet Guem competed in a track race, he ran in his black school shoes. Guem — now a 21-year-old Olympian representing South Sudan — was so fast he quickly caught the eye of a coach, who bought him proper running shoes and sportswear. “I used those for some years, and
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Here are the local scores from Monday, May 17, 2021. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. HS GIRLS SOCCER Battle 0 | Hickman 8 FINAL Owensville 2 | Fulton 0 FINAL HS BASEBALL New Bloomfield 3 | Vienna 1 FINAL Linn 9 | Dixon 5 FINAL Harrisburg 5 | Westran 2
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The UM Board of Curators will vote on the plans for a new football indoor facility at its meeting on Wednesday afternoon. Mizzou athletic director Jim Sterk said he expects the board to approve the $33,410,000 project. Sterk spoke more about the facility on SportsZone Sunday night. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6k1-KTx43o Sterk added he expects
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou softball team is the No. 8 overall seed in the upcoming NCAA Tournament. The Tigers will host an NCAA regional for the first time in five years. MU will take on University of Illinois at Chicago in the first game of regional play on Friday at 3:30 P.M. Northern Iowa
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HALLSVILLE, Mo (KMIZ) For nearly the last half century, Hallsville has had the same baseball coach. Barry Koeneke outlasted 17 Royals managers, 10 Cardinals skippers, and eight Mizzou football coaches in his time with the Indians. “Somewhere along the line, I guess I developed some sense of loyalty that sometimes, you know, you gotta hang
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Andrew Kauffman brought on Mizzou athletic director Jim Sterk in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. You can watch the full interview at 10:30 on ABC 17. Sterk discussed a variety of topics, including the recent name, image and likeness legislation. Plus – he talked about capacity limits
Continue Reading Barcelona scored four first-half goals to defeat Chelsea 4-0 and capture the Women’s Champions League on Sunday for the first time. After taking the lead inside the first minute of the game in Gothenburg, Sweden, through Melanie Leupolz’s own goal, Barcelona never looked back and had all but wrapped up the title by halftime with
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Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson swapped saving goals for scoring one as his stunning stoppage-time header helped Liverpool defeat West Bromwich Albion 2-1 on Sunday. It’s the first time in the club’s history that a goalkeeper has scored a competitive goal, according to data site Opta, and the header sparked wild celebrations from Liverpool’s players. Alisson came
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Despite protests from the public, skepticism from stakeholders and an ongoing state of emergency in Tokyo and other prefectures, organizers maintain that the Olympics will still go ahead later this year. Having already been postponed by a year, the Olympics are scheduled to run from July 23-August 8 and the Paralympics from August 24-September 5,
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Kobe Bryant was officially inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2020 on Saturday night. “I wish my husband was here to accept this incredible award,” Bryant’s wife, Vanessa Bryant, said at the ceremony, as she was joined onstage by basketball legend Michael Jordan. “He and Gigi
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STARKVILLE, Miss. (KMIZ) The Mizzou baseball team stunned No. 3 Mississippi State in a 16-8 victory on Saturday afternoon, which clinched the Tiger’s first series win since the beginning of April. You can watch the full postgame press conference with head coach Steve Bieser in the video player below. https://youtu.be/ldmQBBqIGeg MU’s bats caught fire in
Continue Reading Leicester City won the FA Cup for the first time thanks to a sensational strike from Youri Tielemans as a dramatic, late video assistant referee decision denied Chelsea an equalizer at Wembley Stadium on Saturday. It looked like Chelsea had leveled the scores with minutes left to play when Ben Chilwell’s cross bounced off defender
Continue Reading Robert Lewandowski equaled the Bundesliga record of 40 goals in a season during Bayern Munich’s 2-2 draw against SC Freiburg. His first-half penalty drew him level with Gerd Müller’s tally set in the 1971/72 season, and the striker paid tribute to Müller by revealing a shirt that read “4EVER GERD” as he celebrated the goal.
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Chelsea manager Emma Hayes says winning the club’s first Women’s Champions League would be an “incredible achievement,” but insists success is also about inspiring the next generation of young girls. Speaking to CNN Sport’s Amanda Davies ahead of the final against Barcelona on Sunday, the 44-year-old says she feels relaxed and is determined to enjoy
Continue Reading Sabrina Ionescu had a dream that this was coming. On Friday, her first game back since a sprained ankle sidelined her for most of her rookie season in 2020, Ionescu hit a game-winning three with less than one second remaining to give the New York Liberty a 90-87 win over the Indiana Fever in the
Continue Reading STARKVILLE, Miss. (KMIZ) The Mizzou baseball team upset No. 3 Mississippi State to send the series to a rubber match and snap a ten-game losing skid. The Tigers kept it close with the Bulldogs throughout, tying it up multiple times, but the Mississippi-native Joshua Day sealed the deal. The junior knocked one left to bring
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (KMIZ) The Mizzou softball team fell short of its first SEC Championship game in program history, in a 7-6 semifinal loss to top-seeded Florida on Friday. You can watch the full press conference with Larissa Anderson, after the loss, in the video player below. https://youtu.be/wo966mGgawU The Tigers led by one run early on,
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers have passed a bill that could let college athletes cash-in on their fame but could also result in higher tuition for students. The bill says colleges and universities can’t prevent student-athletes from making money off their name, image or likeness. The bill given final approval Friday also repeals
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