JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Jefferson City High School has hired Damon Wells as its new head football coach. He will also be the activities director for the Jays. Wells comes to the Capital City from Rifle High School in Colorado. He led his football team to a 118-35 record, including seven conference championships. Wells took
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A former assistant coach for the University of Missouri football team claims the school still owes him money following his departure. Derek Dooley filed a lawsuit in Boone County claiming the university must still pay him a year’s worth of his salary under the terms of his contract. The university hired Dooley
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Here are the local high school basketball scores from Monday, Jan. 11, 2021. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. HS GIRLS HOOPS Jefferson City (82) Ft. Zumwalt North (25) FINAL Harrisburg (40) Tolton (39) FINAL California (69) Fulton (37) FINAL Southern Boone (57) Sullivan (26) FINAL HS BOYS HOOPS Boonville (67)
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India cricket captain Virat Kohli and his wife, Bollywood star Anushka Sharma, announced on Monday the arrival of their first child. “We are thrilled to share with you that we have been blessed with a baby girl this afternoon,” Kohli said in a statement on Twitter. “We thank you all for your love, prayers and
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Tiger Woods always wanted us to believe that he was just like the rest of us. “We’re all the same; we’re all human,” Woods told CNN Sport in 2006. And yet, in the same breath, he understood just how different he really was. Asked in the same interview where he could go in the world
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The R&A on Monday announced that it has no plans to stage any future championships at the Trump Turnberry golf course and resort in Scotland. The organization oversees The Open Championship, which is the world’s oldest men’s major golf championship, as well as the Women’s British Open, among others. “We had no plans to stage
Continue Reading Tennis star Ana Konjuh kept alive hopes of competing at her first grand slam in more than two years after outlasting Anna-Lena Friedsam in Australian Open qualifying in Dubai. Konjuh, a former world No. 20, has endured 18 months away from the game and undergone four elbow surgeries over the course of her young career.
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ABC 17 Sports Director Andrew Kauffman brought on St. Louis Post-Dispatch sports columnist Ben Frederickson in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. You can watch the entire interview in the video player above.
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Six people were ejected from the Sydney Cricket Ground on Sunday as the third Test between Australia and India was overshadowed by allegations of racist abuse. The Indian team lodged an official complaint after bowlers Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj complained of hearing racist slurs while fielding near the boundary rope on Saturday, the third
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Congratulations to our Week 1 SportsZone Basketball Play of the Week Nominees! You can watch the plays in the video player above. You can vote for your favorite play here. Nominee No. 1: Battle’s James Lee hits a three-pointer at the buzzer to beat Harrisburg. Nominee No. 2: Capital City’s Brooklynn Greene stops a transition
Continue Reading Danish freediver Stig Severinsen has broken the world distance record for swimming with fins on just one breath — making it 202 meters (662 ft 8.7 in) underwater, Guinness World Records has confirmed. Guinness said Severinsen, 47, completed the swim on November 26 in La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico. The previous record of 177
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COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) The Auburn women’s basketball team postponed its scheduled matchup with Mizzou due to positive COVID-19 tests and contact tracing. The Tigers were set to tip off at 2 P.M. at Auburn on Sunday. Robin Pingeton’s group will return to action on Thursday, Jan. 14, when they make the trip to Ole Miss
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Here are the local scores from Saturday, Jan. 9, 2020. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. HS BOYS BASKETBALL Smith-Cotton (57) Hickman (76) FINAL Rock Bridge (50) Truman (68) FINAL Battle (66) Harrisburg (63) FINAL Father Tolton (36) Vashon (72) FINAL Helias (68) Notre Dame (52) FINAL Sweet Springs with Malta
Continue Reading All the signs are looking good that leading Italian football club AC Milan could secure its first Serie A title in 10 years. Milan defeated Torino 2-0 on Saturday to extend the Rossoneri’s lead at the top of Serie A as second-place Internazionale drew at Roma on Sunday. After its 17 games — nearly half
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COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) The Mizzou men’s basketball team will not return to action on Tuesday night against Vanderbilt, due to COVID-19. This all comes after the team postponed its Saturday matchup with LSU due to multiple positive cases. Cuonzo Martin’s team has not been participating in any team activities, but expects to be able to
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COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) Both Columbia College basketball teams claimed wins over the St. Louis College of Pharmacy on Saturday afternoon. The double-header started with women’s action. The Cougars and the Eutectics kept it close until the very end, however, the home team prevailed in a 63-59 victory. Freshman forward Mallory Shetley led the team with
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Having last won a German Bundesliga game just under a year ago, Schalke ended that dismal record in some style on Saturday — comfortably beating Hoffenheim 4-0 on Saturday. Matthew Hoppe was the star of the Schalke show as he became the first-ever American player to score a hat-trick in the Bundesliga. Armine Harit, assisted
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Footballers don’t usually smile after losing a game 4-1, but all is forgiven in the case of teenager Louie Barry. The 17-year-old was part of a youthful Aston Villa team — with an average age of 18 years — that was beaten by Liverpool in the English FA Cup third round on Friday. The FA
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Here are the local scores from Friday, Jan. 8, 2020. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. HS BOYS BASKETBALL Boonville (59) Blair Oaks (74) FINAL Father Tolton (53) Cardinal Ritter (70) FINAL Capital City (62) Centralia (55) FINAL Vienna (55) St. Elizabeth (65) FINAL Ozark (79) Hickman (72) FINAL Pacific (49)
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COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) The No. 10 Mizzou wrestling team dominated No. 21 Central Michigan in dual one of a round-robin bout at the Hearnes Center. The Tigers didn’t start off as they would have liked, with Central Michigan’s Drew Hildebrandt taking down Connor Brown in the first match of the day, however, the team bounced
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