COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou baseball team secured a series win over Mississippi State on Sunday, courtesy of a walkoff home run from shortstop Josh Day in the bottom of the ninth inning. The home run was Day’s seventh of the season and his first since April 1. Big day at the plate for multiple
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou softball team finished up the regular-season home schedule with an 11-6 win over Texas A&M on senior day. https://youtu.be/V38u0Q2JosI Six Tigers finished the day with at least a hit against the Aggies, but an eight-run third inning is what really propelled MU to the win. After the game, Mizzou honored
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Come HOME Tour Caravan and Mizzou Athletics has spent the past few weeks traveling with administration, coaches and players to unify Tiger nation and this weekend they stayed in Columbia. Fans gathering outside the Hearnes Center Saturday afternoon to talk with Athletic Director Desiree Reed-Francois, Head Football Coach Eli Drinkwitz, Head Men’s
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Former Mizzou running back Tyler Badie and cornerback Akayleb Evans were the only two Tigers who heard their names called in the 2022 NFL Draft, but multiple of those undrafted players are signing deals. Center Michael Maietti will head north to Pittsburgh to join the Steelers organization. He played one season at
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LAS VEGAS, Nev. (KMIZ) Former Mizzou cornerback Akayleb Evans became the first Tiger taken off the board in the 2022 NFL Draft, after the Minnesota Vikings picked him up in the fourth round. He was taken with 118th overall pick in the draft. Evans joined Mizzou as a fifth-year senior after playing the majority of
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LAS VEGAS, Nev. (KMIZ) The Baltimore Ravens picked up former Mizzou running back Tyler Badie with the 196th overall pick on Saturday. Badie had a historic senior season with MU, breaking the all-time single season rushing record with 1,604 yards and adding 14 touchdowns on top of that. The running back was the last of
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The No. 25 Mizzou softball team secured a series win against Texas A&M, courtesy of a 7-2 win in front of a sellout crowd on Saturday. MU pitcher Laurin Krings tossed a complete game in the circle with five strikeouts and just two earned runs allowed. The sophomore is now 13-7 through
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Every Mizzou baseball player hit, scored, and had an RBI in the team’s 19-8 win over Mississippi State on Saturday afternoon. The win evened up the series between the two teams. The offense got started with a first inning grand slam courtesy of Fox Leum. That hit triggered 17-hit outing from the
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WARDSVILLE, Mo. (KMIZ) Blair Oaks basketball standout Luke Northweather announced his commitment to Oklahoma via social media on Friday. The Missouri Gatorade Player of the Year picked Oklahoma over offers from Mizzou, Wyoming, and Wisconsin. Northweather will join the Sooners after averaging about 29 points and 11 rebounds per game game for the Falcons through
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou softball team won the first game of the group’s final home series of the year in walkoff fashion on Friday night. The Tigers took down the Bulldogs 7-5, courtesy of a Hatti Moore home run in the eighth inning. It was quite a night for Moore, as she hit three
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) State representatives honored the career of former Mizzou football coach Gary Pinkel at the Missouri State Capitol on Wednesday morning. The honor came on his 70th birthday. https://youtu.be/_rPsQnDhBYI Pinkel coached at Mizzou from 2001 to 2015 and, in that time, became the all-time winningest football coach in program history. The 70-year-old
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou sophomore wide receiver JJ Hester announced he will be entering the transfer portal on Wednesday night. The Oklahoma-native always received high praise from head coach Eli Drinkwitz as one of the up and coming players in the program. Through the 2021 season Hester recorded 12 catches for 225 yards and two
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou softball team captured a 9-3 win over the SLU Billikens on Wednesday evening to extend the team’s win streak to four games. It was a big outing for fifth-year senior Brooke Wilmes. The outfielder hit her 14th home run of the season, which is a career-high. With that home run,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou athletic community is mourning the loss of former wrestling coach and Hall of Famer Vernon Hap Whitney, who passed away on Wednesday. “This morning, we lost a great man in Hap Whitney,” current head coach Brian Smith said in a press release. “Hap brought Mizzou Wrestling into the modern era and
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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou baseball got on top first in Tuesday night’s game out in Springfield, but the Bears showed some fight in the ninth to get the win for Missouri State. No runs were scored in the matchup until the top of sixth inning, Luke Mann gets a double and Torin Montgomery smacks a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou softball’s Kimberly Wert was named the SEC Player of the Week Tuesday for the second time this season. This comes after Wert dominated the series against No. 12 Kentucky. She batted .857 with four home runs, including two grand slams, and 13 RBI in the three-game sweep. This is her second
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) MU guard Amari Davis announced Monday that he has entered the transfer portal meaning that as of now, the Tigers have three players from last year on the roster. Davis averaged 9.0 points and 2.4 rebounds per game this past season. The 6-foot-2 guard transferred to Mizzou from Green Bay where he
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 has received contract details via an open records request concerning Mizzou men’s basketball assistant coach Kyle Smithpeters. The contract says that Smithpeters has agreed to a one-year deal with a $150,000 salary. The contract states that Smithpeters will be considered a benefit-eligible employee of the University and has some perks
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LEXINGTON, KY. (KMIZ) It only took Mizzou softball five innings Monday to secure the series sweep against No. 12 Kentucky. The Tigers won 9-1 in game three with the bats on fire from the start. Brooke Wilmes had a solo home run and double on the day with three RBI’s. Kimberly Wert hit a grand
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou softball’s Kara Daly has had a breakout season for the Tigers. As a freshman, she already landed a spot in the starting line up, has cranked ten home runs, and has broken a program record. “Every single time she steps in the batter’s box, she has the ability to hit the
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