By Amy Woodyatt, CNN (CNN) — Venus Williams is making her return to the US Open at 45 as a wild card for the singles main draw. Williams’ appearance later this month will make her the oldest singles entrant at Flushing Meadows since Renee Richards, who was 47 at the time of her participation in
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By Associated Press Oxnard, California (AP) — Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones credited an experimental trial drug for successfully treating advanced melanoma as he disclosed his cancer diagnosis publicly for the first time. Jones revealed his illness in a documentary series, “America’s Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys,” which will debut on Netflix next week.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The 2025 season will mark a new era of Battle High School’s football program. The Spartans are getting set to tackle their first season under head coach Shawn Gaines, who took over as the leader of the team in April. Battle is striving to restore its winning culture with new leadership in
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The 2025-26 Mizzou athletic calendar will kickoff on Thursday, as the Mizzou soccer team is set to host the first game of the year on MU’s campus out at Audrey J. Walton Stadium at 7 p.m. Before all the action gets going, three Tiger fall sports previewed the year ahead with local
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) There are now just four practices left in Mizzou football’s fall camp, after the Tigers put practice No. 14 into the books on Wednesday afternoon. Head coach Eli Drinkwitz and company will enjoy an off-day on Thursday, before diving back in on Friday. You can watch extended highlights from Wednesday’s practice in
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WARDSVILLE, Mo. (KMIZ) The Blair Oaks baseball team will be under new leadership in the 2025-26 school year, as the athletic department announced the hiring of head coach Chris Ebright, on Wednesday. The move comes after longtime Falcon head coach Mike DeMilia took a new position as the head coach at Missouri Valley College. DeMilia
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou football team put practice No. 13 of the preseason in the books, on Tuesday morning, as ‘execution week’ continues into the home stretch of fall camp. You can watch extended highlights of that practice in the video player below. Throughout the first two weeks of fall camp, MU has put
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou Tiger football players took questions from reporters after another day of fall camp on Tuesday. Watch their answers in the media player.
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By Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — Italian orienteering athlete Mattia Debertolis has died after collapsing at the World Games, organizers said on Tuesday. In a joint statement from the International World Games Association, the local organizing committee (LOC) and the International Orienteering Federation (IOF), the World Games said that the 29-year-old was found unconscious during
Continue Reading By Kevin Dotson, CNN (CNN) — A power outage at the Cincinnati Open tennis tournament created a fair amount of chaos Monday around the grounds at the Lindner Family Tennis Center. Tournament organizers posted just before 6 p.m. local time that play had been suspended due to an “on-site power outage.” Tennis journalist Ben Rothenberg
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Just one week after the Coaches’ Poll excluded the Mizzou football team from its preseason Top-25, the Associated Press (AP) followed suit. The Tigers fell seven spots out of the AP’s Top-25 teams, on Monday, with 33 voting points. BYU, Utah, Baylor, Louisville, Southern Cal and Georgia Tech all received more votes
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) As the Mizzou football team enters the back half of fall camp, the focus is execution. Head coach Eli Drinkwitz and company took to the gridiron for practice No. 12 of preseason work. You can find extended highlights from that practice in the video player below. Following Saturday’s closed scrimmage, Coach Drinkwitz
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By Matias Grez, CNN (CNN) — Las Vegas Aces star A’ja Wilson became the first player in WNBA history to record a 30-point, 20-rebound double-double. Wilson, who turned 29 on Friday, finished with 32 points and 20 rebounds to go with five assists and two steals in an utterly dominant performance as the Aces claimed
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Another week of Mizzou football fall camp is in the books, along with the second scrimmage of camp. Coach Eli Drinkwitz took questions from reporters after practice, including the one that’s on a lot of fans’ minds: Who will be the starting quarterback when the season opens later this month? The coach said after Saturday’s
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou football team is entering the back half of fall camp, as two weeks, 10 practices and a pair of scrimmages are already in the books. On Saturday, head coach Eli Drinkwitz said the week ahead is all about execution, as kickoff to the 2025 season is right around the corner.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Nathalie Jones brought on Calum McAndrew, the Columbia Tribune’s Mizzou Athletics beat writer, in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. You can watch their full conversation in the video player above.
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ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMIZ) In the third meeting between the two clubs in 2025, the St. Louis Cardinals finally put a mark in the series win column against their most bitter rival. After splitting and losing a series to the Chicago Cubs in the first half of the season, the Cardinals finally came out victories
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MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (KMIZ) Just when the Royals were getting back into striking distance of a Wild Card spot, Kansas City went on a less-than-desirable run this past week. On Sunday, skipper Matt Quatraro and company fell for the fourth time in six games in a 5-3 loss to the Minnesota Twins in rubber match action.
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By Thomas Schlachter, CNN (CNN) — Connor Zilisch, the NASCAR Xfinity Series points leader, picked up another win on Saturday but his celebrations quickly came to an unexpected end when he broke his collarbone slipping off his car. The 19-year-old driver was climbing onto the roof of his No. 88 Chevrolet car to celebrate his
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou football team is one step closer to kickoff at Faurot Field, as the group put the second scrimmage of fall camp in the books, on Saturday afternoon. During the action, the Tiger defense took center-stage. A select group of media members, including ABC 17 Sports Director Nathalie Jones, were able
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