ABC 17 Sports Director Andrew Kauffman brought on former Mizzou and Rock Bridge star Sophie Cunningham in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. You can watch the full interview in the video player above.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou softball team cemented their place in the Regional Final with a 4-0 win over Northern Iowa on Saturday afternoon. You can watch full interviews with Larissa Anderson and players in the video players below. https://youtu.be/9sJ-gazHZd4 https://youtu.be/unP1CpsB3xs https://youtu.be/i6D0Dw54huY The Tigers had six hits and two of those were home runs, courtesy
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou baseball team ended an up and down season on a high note on Saturday afternoon. The Tigers took down Auburn 7-6 on senior day. Head coach Steve Bieser rotated seniors in on the bump, including Konnor Ash, Jackson Lancaster, and Lukas Veinbergs. All together, Mizzou has eight seniors, including Mark
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou softball team fired on all cylinders in a 8-0 win over the University of Illinois at Chicago on Friday night. You can watch full interviews with Mizzou catcher Hatti Moore and pitcher Jordan Weber in the video players below. https://youtu.be/fpyzNYFk6I8 The game started about five hours after its original time
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou has a new soccer coach for just the second time in program history. MU hired Stefanie Golan to replace longtime head coach Bryan Blitz, who recently retired after spending 25 seasons at the helm. Golan comes to Columbia after spending the last nine seasons as the head coach at the University
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou will allow full capacity at its upcoming NCAA softball regional this weekend. This comes after the NCAA announced it will end its COVID-19 restrictions for championship events. Starting on Thursday – it’s now up to each championship host to abide by its own local health guidelines. https://youtu.be/4eFw3FkT4go MU quickly sold out
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The UM Board of Curators unanimously approved the plans to build a new indoor football facility at its meeting on Wednesday. The budget for the project will be $33,140,000, and it will be funded by gifts donated to the school over the next seven years. MU said a new full-sized indoor football
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If the board approves the proposed tuition increases, out-of-state and in-state undergraduate and graduate Mizzou students will see a five percent jump in tuition cost, starting this fall.
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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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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
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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 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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COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) Mizzou Athletics announced that, beginning on May 18, it will be increasing venue capacities to 50 percent for the remainder of the spring season. MU stadiums have been operating at about 20 percent capacity since the school year began. “Our fans have been tremendous in supporting all of our teams this year,
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Former NFL head coach Scott Linehan is joining the Mizzou football staff as an offensive analyst. Linehan went 11-25 as the head coach of the St. Louis Rams from 2006-08. Since then, the 57-year-old has had several coaching stops. Most recently, Linehan was the passing game coordinator at LSU last season. From
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TUSCALOOSA, Alab. (KMIZ) The Mizzou softball team beat LSU 4-1 on Thursday afternoon to advance to the SEC Tournament semifinals. It’s the Tigers first conference tournament win since 2015. MU pitcher Jordan Weber pitched a complete game two-hitter. The sophomore standout had four strikeouts as well. https://youtu.be/WR3e04uWHJ0 Senior Brooke Wilmes led the Tigers offensively. She
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou football coach Eli Drinkwitz promoted Marcus Johnson to assistant head coach and run game coordinator on Wednesday afternoon. Johnson will still continue to coach the offensive line, according to a release. “Coach Johnson is a tremendous leader of young men,” Drinkwitz said in a release. “His work with our offensive line
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou freshman phenom Jenna Laird is the SEC freshman of the year. The conference announced its yearly awards on Tuesday, and Mizzou was well represented. In total – MU had five players named to All-SEC teams. Laird was also named First Team All-SEC. The New York native added an All-SEC freshman team
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou lifted the interim tag off of tennis coach Chris Wootton on Tuesday afternoon. He’s now officially the Tigers head coach. Wootton led the Tigers to a 15-16 record this past season. Those 15 wins were the fifth-most in program history for a single season. Wootton’s squad was ranked as high as
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