COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou women’s basketball team got its first look at the 2023-24 SEC opponents. The Tigers are looking to improve on their 6-10 conference record last season. MU will play a 16-game conference slate hosting Alabama, Auburn, Georgia, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Texas A&M, Vanderbilt and Arkansas to Mizzou Arena. On the
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Former Arkansas quarterback Ryan Mallett, who also played for New England, Houston and Baltimore during five seasons in the NFL, has died. He was 35.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Clarinda A’s took down the Jefferson City Renegades 9-5 on Monday night in the battle of the top seeds in the MINK league. Jefferson City claimed the first matchup between the two on Sunday 11-5. In Monday night’s game, the Renegades scored first with a solo home run from Chase
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou men’s basketball team got its first look into upcoming SEC opponents for the 2023-24 season on Monday. The Tigers are coming off of their best ever conference finish in year one under head coach Dennis Gates. During the conference’s 18-game slate are five home-and-home series with Arkansas, Florida, Ole Miss,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Nathalie Jones brought on Mizzou’s new baseball coach, Kerrick Jackson, in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. Jackson comes on the show, just 22 days after he was hired to take the helm of the Tiger baseball team. He said he’s hit the ground running, so far, and
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (KMIZ) The Kansas City bats failed to get going in the series finale against Tampa Bay on Sunday, as the Royals fell 3-1. With the KC loss, the four-game series ended in a split. The Rays out-hit the Royals 7-4 on Sunday afternoon, as Maikel Garcia was the only Kansas City player
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LONDON, England. (KMIZ) St. Louis rallied its way to a 7-5 win against Chicago in game two of the London series, after trailing by four runs in the first inning. With the win, the Cardinals split the series 1-1 with the Cubs. The red birds are still in last place in the National League, central
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (KMIZ) Former Mizzou baseball coach Steve Bieser landed a new head coaching job about a month after being let go from the University of Missouri. Bieser is the new head coach at Jacksonville State University, the program announced on Saturday. Bieser spent the past seven years at the helm of Tiger baseball. He
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou men’s basketball coach Dennis Gates only spent one season with Tiger hoops standout Kobe Brown, but he said he knew his potential after their first conversation. That’s why, on the night of the NBA Draft, he took a step back and watched everyone else’s reaction to Brown being a first round
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LOS ANGELES, Calif. (KMIZ) Mizzou hoops alum D’Moi Hodge signed a two-way contract with the Los Angeles Lakers on Thursday night, directly following the NBA Draft. The 24-year-old only spent one season in Columbia, as he followed head coach Dennis Gates to MU from Cleveland State. However, in that one year he made quite an
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Former Mizzou hoops standout Kobe Brown is headed to Los Angeles. The Clippers selected Brown with the No. 30 overall pick in the first round of the 2023 NBA Draft. Brown spent draft night in his hometown of Huntsville, Alabama, with family and friends. He said that his agent called him first,
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WASHINGTON D.C. (KMIZ) The St. Louis Cardinals missed out on a sweep against the Washington Nationals in a 3-0 loss on Wednesday afternoon, but the club still managed to win four out of its last six games to win two series straight. The four wins came right before the birds will make a trip across
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DETROIT, Mich. (KMIZ) The Kansas City Royals have not won a series since the middle of May and that trend continued on Wednesday afternoon. The Detroit Tigers secured a series win with a 9-4 victory at Comerica Park. The Royals got off to a two-run lead in the second inning, however, the Tiger offense heated
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou pitcher Logan Lunceford announced that he will be returning to Mizzou for the 2024 season, despite entering his name into the transfer portal at the beginning of June. Lunceford was one of three key pitchers to enter the portal after MU fired former head coach Steve Bieser. Chandler Murphy and Austin
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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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