BOONVILLE, Mo. (KMIZ) The Boonville Pirates football team is coming off of their best finish in 11 years, claiming a district title with a championship win over Moberly. “Winning a district championship or just winning a championship in general is the number one thing you talk about when you come in as a coach,” said
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Former Mizzou pitcher Chandler Murphy became the third Tiger to be drafted in the 2023 MLB Draft on Tuesday. Murphy was taken in the 12th round with pick 363 by the Tampa Bay Rays. Murphy spent one season at Mizzou finishing with a 4-5 record and a 5.47 ERA. His best outing
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) SEC Football Media Days is set to kick off on Monday, July 17 in Nashville, Tenn. Mizzou football will be the second team to speak that day, as the Southeastern Conference announced that the Tigers will be bringing defensive back Kris Abrams-Draine, defensive lineman Darius Robinson and offensive lineman Javon Foster to
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Rock Bridge baseball alum Spencer Nivens is staying home for his professional career. The Kansas City Royals drafted Nivens with the No. 142 overall pick in the fifth round of the 2023 MLB Draft. Nivens went to college at Missouri State, where he posted a Missouri Valley Conference Player of the
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NEW YORK, N.Y. (KMIZ) Former Mizzou pitcher and Fatima alum Austin Troesser is going to the next level. The New York Mets drafted Troesser with the No. 135 overall pick on Monday. The 21-year-old played for the Tigers for three seasons, after graduating from Fatima High School. He finished his MU career with a 4.98
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CHICAGO, Ill. (KMIZ) Former Mizzou pitcher Zach Franklin got drafted by the Chicago White Sox in the 2023 MLB Draft on Monday. The righty went with the No. 299 overall pick in the 10th round. Franklin came to Columbia as a sixth-year transfer from Western Carolina. In his Tiger career, he tallied 59 strikeouts over
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Nathalie Jones brought on the Columbia Tribune’s sports editor Chris Kwiecinski in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. The duo broke down a hectic week in the world of Mizzou football. Head coach Eli Drinkwitz picked up seven commitments in the span of five days to put the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou men’s golf will be searching for a new head coach ahead of the 2023-24 season. MU Athletics announced that head coach Mark Hankins resigned, on Sunday. Just minutes after MU’s announcement USC announced that it has hired Hankins’ as their new head coach. In a press release, Athletics Director Desiree Reed-Francois
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CHICAGO, Ill. (KMIZ) The St. Louis Cardinals will head into the All-Star break with some much-needed momentum, following a 4-3, extra innings win against the Chicago White Sox on Sunday afternoon. The victory secured the series win for the birds, 2-1. STL had a one-run lead headed into the bottom of the seventh inning, courtesy
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CLEVELAND, Oh. (KMIZ) The Kansas City Royals avoided a series sweep in Cleveland Sunday winning the finale game 4-1. The Guardians still managed to walk away from the series with three wins before the All-Star break. In Sunday’s finale game, Cleveland scored first, but the Royals busted things open with three runs in the sixth
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou softball coach Larissa Anderson made an addition to her staff, on Friday afternoon. Molly Jacobsen will come to Columbia to assist with the pitching staff, as well as scouting. Jacobsen spent the last two seasons at Texas, where she was a graduate manager in 2022 and a volunteer assistant in 2023.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Jefferson City renegades overcame a six-run deficit to down the U.S. Military War Dogs 14-7 on Thursday night at Ernie Vivion Field. The War Dogs put up six runs in the second inning to grab an early lead. JC started to chip away at the lead with three runs in
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MIAMI, Fl. (KMIZ) Jack Flaherty pitched a shutout in his second straight start as the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Miami Marlins 3-0 on Thursday night to avoid a series sweep. St. Louis fell during the first three games of the series, two of which were decided by one run, including Wednesday’s 10-9 loss that
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MINNEAPOLIS, Mn. (KMIZ) The Kansas City Royals were shut out in Wednesday’s series 5-0 against the Twins as Minnesota completes the 3-0 series sweep. Pablo López pitched his first career shutout, a four-hitter complete with a career-high 12 strikeouts against Kansas City. He managed to retire 15 straight from the third to the eighth inning.
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The 41-year-old Cardinals starting pitcher has an ERA north of 7.00 after another bad performance to start off a beating in Miami on the Fouth of July. The team placed him on the injured list after the game.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Four-star defensive back Cameron Keys becomes the second Mizzou football 2024 commitment on the Fourth of July. Keys just finished his junior season at A. Crawford Mosley in Lynn Haven, Florida. During his junior campaign, he racked up 26 tackles, had nine passes broken up and two interceptions. He also spent some
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Four-star wide receiver James Madison, originally from Kansas City, is coming back to Missouri as apart of Mizzou football’s 2024 class. With Madison’s Fourth of July commitment, that marks three different prospects from St. Thomas Aquinas in Fort Lauderdale that are now headed to MU in next year’s class. During his junior
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Former Mizzou basketball player DeMarre Carroll was appointed as an assistant coach for the Los Angeles Lakers on Monday. Carroll spent last season as an assistant with the Milwaukee Bucks after finishing an 11-year playing career in 2019-20 with the Houston Rockets. During his collegiate career, Carroll was on the court for
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TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Vince Tobin, who coached the Arizona Cardinals to their first playoff win in 51 years in 1998, has died. He was 79. The Cardinals said Tobin died at his Arizona home. Tobin was hired in 1996 to replace Buddy Ryan and took over a team that had future Hall of Fame
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Eli Drinkwitz keeps the commitments rolling into the new week with four-star linebacker Nicholas Rodriguez becoming the fifth Mizzou commit in four days. The 6-foot-1, 190 pound commit from St. Thomas Aquinas in South Florida announced his commitment to Mizzou one day after his high school teammate did so, three-star defensive tackle
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