Here are the local high school basketball scores from Friday, Jan. 29, 2021. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. HS BOYS HOOPS Hickman (66) Boonville (57) FINAL St. Elizabeth (88) Calvary Lutheran (58) FINAL Mexico (72) Kirksville (57) FINAL Vienna (70) Cuba (27) FINAL Helias (72) West Plains (59) FINAL Hillcrest
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COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) The Mizzou men’s basketball team will host TCU in the annual SEC/Big 12 Challenge on Saturday at Mizzou Arena. The game will tip off at 1 P.M. The Tigers are coming off a rollercoaster ride of a stretch, marked with one top-10 upset and one narrow loss. Mizzou toppled then No. 6
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. (KMIZ) The Mizzou women’s basketball team got back in the win column with a 61-58 win over the Florida Gators on Thursday night. The game got off to a slow start for both teams, with nothing on the board until about four minutes into it. Tiger forward Ladazhia Williams was the first to
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Liverpool showed glimpses of last season’s title-winning pedigree to return to winning ways on Thursday, beating Jose Mourinho’s Tottenham Hotspur 3-1 in the Premier League. Jurgen Klopp’s side had previously been winless in its past five league games, which culminated in a home loss to Burnley last week, ending its 69-game undefeated run at Anfield.
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Thousands of cheering fans packed the stands on Friday to watch some of tennis’ biggest stars warm up for the Australian Open — with hardly a face mask to be seen. In an unusual scene for the coronavirus pandemic, the 4,000 crowd sat cheek by jowl as big hitters including Rafael Nadal, Serena Williams and
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In between a surging pandemic and a global scramble for vaccines, the fate of this year’s Olympic Games has become shrouded in uncertainty. Last November, three weeks before the first vaccine doses became publicly available in the United Kingdom, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach said he was hopeful an effective vaccine would help
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Here are the local high school basketball scores from Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. MEN’S BASKETBALL Columbia College (47) William Woods (54) FINAL Northwest Missouri (76) Lincoln University (74) FINAL WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Northwest Missouri (46) Lincoln University (72) FINAL HS BOYS HOOPS Battle (48) Maryville (56)
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COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) Mizzou head coach Eli Drinkwitz officially added another NFL veteran to his defensive staff on Thursday, hiring Jethro Franklin as the new defensive line coach. Franklin comes to Columbia with 29 years of coaching expereince, including 13 years in the NFL. Most recently, he was an assistant defensive line coach with the
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COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) The Mid-American Conference announced that Mizzou and Kent State will no longer meet on Jan. 31. “The University of Missouri at Kent State University wrestling dual on Sunday, January 31 has been canceled due to roster limitations based on medical clearances by each institution’s medical staff,” the conference said in a press
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Three-time tennis grand slam champion Naomi Osaka says she has invested in National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) franchise North Carolina Courage. Named Forbes’ highest paid female athlete in 2020, Osaka is the daughter of a Haitian father and Japanese mother and, like the members of the Courage, used her platform prominently in 2020 in support
Continue Reading A crazy Premier League season went up a whole level of craziness on Wednesday. If Manchester United and their fans had started to believe a title charge was gaining momentum, bottom-of-the-table, one-win Sheffield United brought them crashing down to earth. Needing a victory to return to the top of the table given the formidable Manchester
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The 6th annual Rally For Rhyan game will be held on Saturday, Feb. 13. The Tigers are hosting Arkansas at 3 p.m. It’s ok…you can be excited, we are too! 🐯🏀🎗More details to follow…. pic.twitter.com/hG7Q8I4cOH— RallyforRhyan (@RallyforRhyan) January 28, 2021 Mizzou is 5-0 all-time in Rally For Rhyan games. Last year –
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (KMIZ) Former Mizzou offensive coordinator Josh Heupel will be making his return to the SEC East as the new head coach of the Tennessee Volunteers. On Wednesday the program announced Heupel accepted a six-year contract for $4 million per year. The hire comes just over a week after the athletic department released former
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UFC had “fight island.” The NBA had “the bubble.” Tokyo 2020 might need a miracle. After the Covid-19 pandemic forced organizers to delay the Summer Olympics last year, the Games are now set to begin in less than six months on July 23, and major questions remain as to how Japan plans to pull off
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The SEC announced Mizzou’s 2021 football schedule on Wednesday afternoon. Sept. 4: Mizzou vs. Central Michigan Sept. 11: Mizzou at Kentucky Sept. 18: Mizzou vs. SEMO Sept. 25: Mizzou at Boston College Oct. 2: Mizzou vs. Tennessee Oct. 9: Mizzou vs. North Texas (Homecoming) Oct. 16: Mizzou vs. Texas A&M Oct. 23: BYE WEEK Oct.
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Congratulations to South Callaway’s Raegan Brown for winning our Week 3 SportsZone Basketball play of the week. You can watch her score impressive block in the video player above. South Callaway is 10-1 on the season. The Lady Bulldogs are playing in the Sturgeon Tournament this week.
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Sekou Smith, a NBA reporter and analyst for more than two decades, has died from Covid-19. He was 48. Smith worked for NBA TV and wrote for NBA.com since 2009. “We are all heartbroken over Sekou’s tragic passing,” Turner Sports, which broadcasts and operates NBA TV and NBA.com, said in a statement. “His commitment to
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Krishna Kumar had long dreamed of watching the Indian cricket team play in Australia. But when that dream materialized at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) earlier this month, the experience, he says, was belittling. A well-traveled sports fan, Kumar has attended Cricket World Cup games in India, Australia and Sri Lanka and has also supported
Continue Reading Sekou Smith, NBA reporter and analyst, has died from Covid-19. He was 48. Smith covered the league for more than two decades. He worked for NBA TV and wrote for NBA.com since 2009. “We are all heartbroken over Sekou’s tragic passing,” Turner Sports said in a statement. “His commitment to journalism and the basketball community
Continue Reading Talk about a busy evening. Zlatan Ibrahimović generated plenty of headlines on Tuesday in the Milan derby — and then some. From scoring to getting into a spat with a former teammate and then being sent off, the Swedish superstar did it all in AC Milan’s dramatic Coppa Italia defeat to cross-city rivals Inter Milan.
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