OAKLAND, Calif. (KMIZ) Mizzou baseball standout Luke Mann heard his name called in the 2023 MLB Draft on Tuesday afternoon. The Oakland Athletics drafted Mann with the No. 406 overall pick in the 14th round. The St. Louis native came back for his fifth season in the black and gold in 2023 and what a
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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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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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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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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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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) Less than four weeks after taking over the Mizzou baseball team, head coach Kerrick Jackson has added MU fall of famer Tim Jamieson and two others to his staff. On top of the addition of Jamieson, Jackson will also be assisted by Jabari Brown and former Tiger outfielder Bryson LeBlanc. Jamieson returns to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou men’s basketball coach Dennis Gates landed his first 2024 commitment on Thursday in four-star guard Antonio “T.O.” Barrett. The 6-foot-5 Oklahoma native helped lead Edmond North High School to a 27-2 overall record this season and a Class 6A state championship. Barrett is planning to transfer to Link Academy in Branson,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou men’s and women’s basketball teams now know who they’ll be facing in this years inaugural SEC/ACC Challenge. Dennis Gates and company will be taking the trip to Pittsburgh to take on the Panthers on Nov. 28 at 6 p.m., while Robin Pingeton’s group will travel to Virginia on Nov. 30
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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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