COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) After a 6-7 record in 2022, the Mizzou football team will have plenty of new faces to make an impact in 2023. With nearly 9,000 athletes in the transfer portal to choose from, Eli Drinkwitz and company added some much needed depth this offseason. Last year’s quarterback battle between Brady Cook and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Former Mizzou offensive lineman and NFL veteran Evan Boehm has joined the Mizzou football support staff as the assistant director of recruiting/player relations. Boehm, a Lee’s Summit native, set a Mizzou football school record with 52 consecutive starts along the offensive line. He started 12 games at guard as a true freshman
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou head football coach Eli Drinkwitz made another addition to his 2024 class on Wednesday evening in four-star linebacker Brian Huff. Huff was between Arkansas, Mizzou, UCF and UNLV as his top four. The 6-foot-3, 220 pound prospect from Jonesboro, Arkansas finished his junior campaign with 92 tackles, seven tackles for loss,
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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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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) 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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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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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The commitments just keep rolling in this weekend for head Mizzou football coach Eli Drinkwitz. On Sunday, three-star defensive tackle Justin Bodford announced his commitment to MU, becoming the fourth 2024 recruit to do so in the last three days. The 6-foot, 292-pound prospect had some other Power Five offers from Georgia
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Three-star athlete Cam Dooley announced his commitment to Mizzou football on Saturday evening. This marks head coach Eli Drinkwitz’ third 2024 commitment in the last two days. Dooley was down to three SEC schools: Mizzou, Vanderbilt and Kentucky, but ultimately decided to bring his talent to Columbia. Dooley plays a little bit
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Eli Drinkwitz’s 2024 Mizzou football class got two new additions on Friday afternoon. The first announcement came from in-state wide receiver Jude James and the second from safety Jackson Hancock out of Georgia. James was part of the Francis Howell football team that is coming off of a state championship win. The
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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 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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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou football coach Eli Drinkwitz promoted cornerbacks coach Al Pogue to assistant head coach, on Wednesday. The role was previously held by former offensive line coach Marcus Johnson, who is now a coach at Purdue. Despite the promotion, Pogue will still serve as the cornerbacks coach in his second season in Columbia,
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DESTIN, Fla. (KMIZ) The Southeastern Conference announced that teams will play in an eight conference games in the 2024 season, as both Texas and Oklahoma join the ranks. The eight-game slate is a one-year solution, but the long-term model hasn’t been set yet. The SEC did announce one change on Thursday evening. The divisions that
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou Athletics and ESPN announced the official start times for two of MU’s home games in the 2023 season on Wednesday. Mizzou will kick off against Middle Tennessee State on Saturday, Sept. 9 at 6 p.m. at Memorial Stadium. The game will be simulcast on ESPN+ and SEC Network+. The next week,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) There will be six new members of the Mizzou Athletics Hall of Fame, after the department announced the 2023 class on Friday. You can find the full list of former Tiger athletes joining the hall below. Justin Gage – Football Karissa Schweizer – Cross Country/Track and Field Nick Adcock – Track and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) For the second season in a row, the Mizzou football team will host its season opener at Faurot Field in primetime, on Thursday, August 31. MU and South Dakota will kick off at 7 p.m. on SEC Network. The game was originally schedule for Saturday, Sept. 2, but the athletics department said
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PITTSBURGH, Pa. (KMIZ) Former Mizzou football standout Markus Golden signed a one-year deal with the Pittsburgh Steelers on Wednesday. The veteran edge rusher will work behind starters T.J. Watt and Alex Highsmith. The 32-year-old has been in the NFL for nine years and has spent seven of those years with the Arizona Cardinals. He started
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