NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball will stage a Negro Leagues tribute game at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama, in June 2024 between the San Francisco Giants and the St. Louis Cardinals. The 10,800-seat stadium, opened in 1910, is the oldest professional ballpark in the U.S. and a National Historic Site. The stadium was
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Former Mizzou hoops standout Phil Pressey is the latest former Celtics player to join head coach Joe Mazzulla’s staff in Boston. The move up to an NBA coaching staff comes after Pressey spent the last year on MU head coach Dennis Gates’ staff. The news was first reported by the Boston Globe’s
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou women’s basketball team added another new face on Monday afternoon, as former University of Houston guard De’Myla Brown committed to the Tigers. Columbia will be Brown’s fourth collegiate home. She also played for Western Kentucky and Illinois and, most recently, Houston. In her time with the Cougars in Houston, she
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Nathalie Jones brought on first-year Mizzou volleyball coach Dawn Sullivan in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. The pair previewed Sullivan’s upcoming debut season in Columbia, as she was first hired in December of 2022. The former UNLV head coach said that working with her old boss, Athletics
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) AFC Columbia brought semipro soccer to Mid-Missouri for the first time last year with a mens team and now this year with the addition of a women’s team. The group is compiled with athletes who all have ties to the area, including players originally from Columbia who played at Rock Bridge, Hickman
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Angels stars Shohei Ohtani and Mike Trout proved too much for Royals pitcher Zack Greinke in the series rubber match on Sunday afternoon. Home runs from the L.A. duo pushed the club past Kansas City, 5-2. Greinke fell to 1-7 in 2023 with the loss. He threw for five innings, allowing
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QUEENS, N.Y. (KMIZ) The St. Louis Cardinals registered the club’s first series win since May 18-21 with a win against the New York Mets on Sunday. In an offensive showdown, STL just edged out New York, 8-7. Sunday’s win marked two-straight for the red birds. On Saturday, St. Louis won 5-3 to even up the
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ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMIZ) The St. Louis Cardinals announced that the hero of the club’s 2011 World Series win, David Freese, withdrew his candidacy for induction into the team’s Hall of Fame, which will happen August 20. The organization added that Freese will still be an active member of alumni and fan activities. “This is
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Hickman football team hosted three other teams for a round-robin style scrimmage on Friday evening at Robert M. LeMone Field. Capital City, Battle and Festus all came to Hickman. The four teams each got to face each other for 40 minutes with a running clock. During that time, each team got
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Battle football team is returning nine starters on defense and majority of the offense, but they’re working to fill the voids this summer of quarterback Justin Goolsby and running back Ricky Dunn. Head coach and former Mizzou football player Jonah Dubinski said he has already seen guys on his team step
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Jefferson City Renegades squeezed out a 4-3 home victory over the Nevada Griffons Thursday night. With a 9-8 record on the season, JC stays in first place of the MINK league. The Renegades got off to a hot start with two runs drove in during the first inning by Camdenton’s
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou head football coach Eli Drinkwitz wasting no time filling the open quarterback role for the Class of 2024. After QB Daniel Kaelin de-committed from MU a few weeks ago, Drinkwitz added QB Aidan Glover to next year’s class on Thursday. The 6-foot-3, 190 pound, Tennessee native chose Mizzou over Oklahoma State,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Hickman football team will lean on its large group of returning juniors and seniors, as work has already begun ahead of the 2023 season. Head coach Cedric Alvis said that the Kewpies are actually returning their largest group since about 2007. “Hopefully that can bring some success,” he said. “Ultimately, just
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou football team now knows its home and away match ups for the 2024 season, as the Southeastern Conference announced the full conference slate on Wednesday evening. The 2024 season will be the first year that the SEC does away with divisions. There will no longer be an East and a
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Kansas City Royals announced that first baseman Vinnie Pasquantino will likely miss the remainder of the 2023 season, as he will need surgery on his right shoulder. The news comes after the 25-year-old’s MRI on Monday. The infielder will get surgery to repair a torn labrum in the coming days.
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ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMIZ) Cardinals relief pitcher Giovanny Gallegos was one strike away from snapping the Cardinals’ four-game skid in the ninth inning. Instead, with two outs and a 2-2 count, San Francisco’s Mike Yastrzemski lifted up a game-tying home run to send the game to extra innings. San Francisco would eventually secure the series
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DENVER, Colo. (KMIZ) Mizzou hoops alum Michael Porter Jr. and the Denver Nuggets secured the team’s first-ever NBA Finals win in a 94-89 win against the Miami Heat on Monday night. Denver took the championship series 4-1. Porter Jr. registered his second double-double of the series. He finished the game with 16 points and 13
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17’s Chanel Porter brought on Missouri State Representative and former Mizzou offensive lineman, Kurtis Gregory in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. The two discussed the hot topic in college athletics right now, NIL (name, image and likeness) and how it is changing the world of college sports as we know
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ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMIZ) After winning the series opener, the St. Louis Cardinals fell in back-to-back games to rival Cincinnati to lose the series. The two were all tied up in Sunday’s finale, but a run in the eighth inning provided the difference for the Reds. The Cardinals three runs on the day were drove
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BALTIMORE, Md. (KMIZ) The Kansas City Royals continue to get behind in the AL central division after being swept in Baltimore. The Orioles finished the clean sweep of the three-game series on Sunday with an 11-3 victory. In Sunday’s finale, KC got on the board first win a run in the top of the first,
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