The end of Rory McIlroy’s winning drought just so happened to fall on Mother’s Day — a fitting way to celebrate with his family. After claiming his first victory since 2019 at the Wells Fargo Championship on Sunday, McIlroy made a beeline for daughter Poppy and wife Erica as they celebrated victory as a family
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Andrew Kauffman brought on Mizzou golfer Ross Steelman on this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. You can watch the full interview in the video player above. Steelman is a redshirt sophomore for the Tigers. The former Rock Bridge standout recently qualified for an NCAA Regional in Noblesville, Ind.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou baseball team fell to No. 5 Tennessee in a 10-2 loss on Sunday, which extended their losing streak to nine games. The three-straight losses mark just the fourth time Steve Bieser’s group has been swept this season. The Tigers got on the board first, due to solid base running from
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FAYETTE, Mo. (KMIZ) The 2021 Central Methodist softball team ended up being a pretty unexpected group of girls. It’s composed of every grade, including a couple of “super seniors.” Due to COVID-19, college athletes received an extra year of eligibility, however, the decision to return was not easy one. “Some of them had different things
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (KMIZ) The No. 15 Mizzou softball team finished the regular season with a road series victory over No. 17 Tennessee. The Tigers won the rubber match on Sunday 5-3. MU finished the regular season 37-14 overall and 15-9 in the SEC. The Tigers 15 conference wins matched their most victories since joining the
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Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit has tested positive for elevated levels of betamethasone, trainer Bob Baffert revealed Sunday, throwing the horse’s victory last weekend at Churchill Downs into question. Speaking to reporters Sunday morning, Baffert denied that the horse had ever been treated with the drug, which is sometimes used for joint pain in horses,
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Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes pulled off a perfect pit stop strategy to reel in Max Verstappen’s Red Bull and pass the Dutch driver with just six laps remaining of the Spanish Grand Prix. These two rivals have been battling for race wins in each of the four grands prix so far this season, but Hamilton’s
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Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit has tested positive for elevated levels of betamethasone, trainer Bob Baffert revealed Sunday, throwing the horse’s victory last weekend at Churchill Downs into question. Speaking to reporters Sunday morning, Baffert denied that the horse had ever been treated with the drug, saying his team would conduct its own investigation. “Yesterday
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COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) The Columbia College softball team claimed its fourth-straight AMC Championship, in an 8-0 win over Central Baptist College on Saturday afternoon. The Cougars had a big day at the plate, with eight runs on ten hits in the outing. You can watch extended highlights of the championship win in the video player
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Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez added the WBO super-middleweight belt to his burgeoning collection, defeating Billy Joe Saunders in front of a record-breaking 73,126 crowd inside Texas’ AT&T Stadium. The attendance figure set an all-time record for an indoor US boxing event — breaking the previous record set in 1978 when Muhammad Ali beat Leon Spinks in
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COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) The Mizzou baseball team dropped game two of the weekend series with No. 5 Tennessee, 11-4. The Volunteers got off to a quick start, with a four-run top of the first inning. Although the Tigers responded at the bottom of that inning and even tied the game in the third, they could
Continue Reading KNOXVILLE, Tenn (KMIZ) No. 15 Mizzou and No. 17 Tennessee will battle in a Sunday rubber match, after Mizzou bounced back in a 7-4 victory on Saturday. The Tigers brought back their firepower, after getting shutout for just the third time this season, on Friday night. Five players brought in runs, including seniors Brooke Wilmes,
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IndyCar Series driver Robert Wickens has experienced a lot in the past three years: a paralyzing crash in 2018, regaining strength to have his first dance at his wedding in 2019, and returning to the racetrack — virtually — in 2020. Now, in 2021, he has just driven a real race car for the first
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What a 12 months this has been for Bayern Munich — both on and off the pitch. The German side secured its ninth consecutive Bundesliga title on Saturday, after second place RB Leipzig — the only side still able to mathematically catch Bayern — fell to a 3-2 defeat away to Borussia Dortmund. Despite wrapping
Continue Reading Pitcher Wade Miley threw the first no-hitter of his MLB career as his Cincinnati Reds defeated the Cleveland Indians 3-0 on Friday night. Miley struck out eight players and walked one over the nine innings in Cleveland. “That’s so surreal,” Miley said after the feat. It was the fourth no-hitter in major league baseball this
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COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) The Tennessee Volunteers took down Mizzou in a come-from-behind win in the series opener on Friday night. Although the Tigers led the majority of the matchup, the Volunteers kept that lead within just one run. In the 8th inning, Tennessee grabbed two runs to take the lead. Steve Bieser’s group could not
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) No. 15 Mizzou softball fell, 4-0, in the first game of its weekend series against No. 17 Tennessee. The Tigers, usually explosive, offense only got one hit courtesy of a Jenna Laird single in the 7th inning. Tennessee pitcher Ashley Rogers went all seven innings and allowed just one hit with five
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European football’s governing body, UEFA, says nine of the 12 founding clubs that formed the ill-fated breakaway Super League competition have recommitted to UEFA club and national team competitions. In a Friday press release, UEFA states that Arsenal, AC Milan, Chelsea, Atlético Madrid, Inter Milan, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur, have acknowledged
Continue Reading Former Australian international rugby league player Jarryd Hayne has been jailed for five years and nine months after being found guilty of sexual assault. Hayne, who is 33, was sentenced Thursday after being found guilty of “sexual intercourse without consent” in March. A court heard that he attacked an unnamed 26-year-old woman at her home
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If US boxing promoter Don King came to define the art of braggadocio in promoting a world title fight, then Briton Eddie Hearn has taken the art of bravado and showmanship to a whole new level in the age of social media. The subject of viral memes, champion of big-money fights and winner of record-breaking
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