COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The University of Missouri announced that new MU Athletics Director Laird Veatch will be formally introduced on Friday afternoon at 3 p.m. at the Stephens Indoor Facility. The event will be open to the public and will be carried live on ABC 17, KMIZ and abc17news.com The former Memphis AD is preparing
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Mizzou legend is joining the College Football Playoff (CFP) Selection Committee. The CFP Management Committee announced it has appointed former Tiger football coach Gary Pinkel and former Mizzou Athletics Director Mack Rhoades. They will both begin three-year terms starting in the Spring. Pinkel was inducted into the College Football Hall of
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The UM Board of Curators are scheduled to meet on Friday, Dec. 15 at 8 a.m. to continue discussions of the planned Memorial Stadium renovations. At Friday’s meeting, Mizzou Athletics will seek approval to hire an architect/engineering firm to consult on the project. DLR Group, a Missouri-based firm, is being recommended for
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou Athletics announced the UM System Board of Curators passed a resolution during an executive session of Thursday’s meeting to begin making renovations to Memorial Stadium, according to a Friday press release. The resolution allows Mizzou Athletics to take its first steps toward renovating Memorial Stadium by seeking to hire an architecture
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17’s Kyle Helms caught up with Columbia Tribune Sports Editor Chris Kwiecinski to preview the upcoming Mizzou football game against Georgia and the Mizzou men’s and women’s basketball seasons for this week’s Sunday Sit-down. You can watch their full conversation in the video player above.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou soccer team lost its third consecutive conference match on Thursday night, after losing to No. 7 Arkansas 1-0 at Audrey J. Walton Stadium. The Razorbacks outshot the Tigers 13-7 in the contest. Arkansas’ Ava Tankersley scored the lone goal of the match in the 13th minute on a penalty kick.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Quarterback Brady Cook, wide receiver Luther Burden and six other players are listed as questionable on Mizzou’s Week 5 injury report. Mekhi Miller and Peanut Houston have been ruled out for Saturday’s SEC opener against Vanderbilt. At Tuesday’s press conference, head coach Eli Drinkwitz said both Cook and Burden would be limited
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The top-ranked recruit in the state of Arkansas has committed to Dennis Gates’ 2024 recruiting class. Annor Boateng announced his commitment to play college basketball at Mizzou on Friday. 247 Sports Composite lists Boateng as a five-star recruit. It also ranks him as the 26th best high school basketball prospect in the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou rallied late to upset No. 15 Kansas State 30-27 at Faurot Field. The game was played in front of Memorial Stadium’s first sellout crowd since 2019 with an estimated 62,621 fans attending. You can watch extended highlights of MU’s upset in the video player below. https://youtu.be/cNhuHP3oVAc Entering this contest, both Kansas
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The University of Missouri’s undergraduate student body met Thursday during a town hall. The town hall was a regularly scheduled meeting, but students and members of the Missouri Students Association discussed concerns about recent events that impacted university students. MSA sent out a vague release before the meeting. The group said the
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The Mizzou Athletics Department has apologized over Twitter after some social media users called earlier posts on the platform featuring athletes and other students insensitive. Below is a screen shot ABC 17 News obtained that was captured Wednesday afternoon. Mizzou Athletics later deleted the tweet and tweeted an apology Wednesday night, saying it had made a mistake. Earlier
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