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Football is a game to be played in the elements. All the elements. But sometimes it’s not about the game. All week building up to the Chiefs playing one of the…
Football is a game to be played in the elements. All the elements. But sometimes it’s not about the game. All week building up to the Chiefs playing one of the…
The South Carolina Gamecocks never led in the second half. But they never trailed in overtime. South Carolina escaped Mizzou Arena with a 71-69 overtime win Sa…
A lot has changed for Lars Nootbaar since he took part in the Cardinal Caravan last season. He played for Japan and won the World Baseball Classic, he became a…
The Missouri Tigers were able to stick with the No. 1 South Carolina Gamecocks through the first 14 minutes, holding a lead at 23-21 with 6:08 left before half…
As they have a couple of times this season, the Missouri Tigers fell behind early. And as they have a couple of times this season, they came all the way back t…
The Capital City Lady Cavaliers don’t have far to carry their first team plaque. The Lady Cavaliers took third Friday in the Capital City Girls Tournament, ear…
You don’t always have to win your match. That’s what Capital City wrestling coach Mitch Werdehausen has told his wrestlers and it proved true Wednesday night a…
Rock Bridge hit the boards again and again. The Bruins out rebounded the Capital City Cavaliers 37-15 and scored 14 second-chance points to take a 56-41 Centra…
The Missouri Tigers ended 2023 on a high note. The Tigers outscored the Central Arkansas Bears 66-34 in the final 27 minutes Saturday afternoon to build a 92-5…
Two years ago, the Rogers (Ark.) Mounties came to the Joe Machens Great 8 Classic and went 1-2 for seventh-place. Last year, they came back and went 1-2 for si…
A slow start doomed the Cavaliers. “We weren’t ready to play,” Capital City coach Ryan Fick said. “… But we still found ourselves within striking distance.”…
The Jays were off to the races. Jefferson City jumped out to a 23-4 lead in the first quarter to build a 73-59 win against the Lausanne Collegiate (Tenn.) Lynx…
The third try was the charm. After placing sixth and seventh in their first two appearances in the Joe Machens Great 8 Classic, the Rogers, Ark., Mounties are …
Evangel Christian couldn’t miss. The Eagles made 20-of-26 shots in the second half to pull away from the Helias Crusaders, building a 75-59 win Wednesday in th…
The Rogers (Ark.) Mounties stormed out of halftime. The Mounties scored 24 points in the third quarter to take a lead they would not give up on the way to a 64…
There will be a lot of familiarity for the Capital City Cavaliers today, and some major differences. The Cavaliers open the Joe Machens Great 8 Classic in toda…
The Capital City Lady Cavaliers are hoping the third time is the charm. The Lady Cavaliers are set to host the Jefferson Bank Holiday Hoops Classic for the thi…
The Missouri Tigers never adjusted. The Tigers, who were averaging 9.6 made 3-pointers per game, were just 1-of-17 from deep in the first half Friday in a 97-7…
The Blair Oaks Falcons rattled off champion after champion. “I thought we wrestled really well,” Blair Oaks coach Mike DeMilia said after the Falcons took seco…
Three individual champions led the Blair Oaks Lady Falcons to a silver medal. The Lady Falcons scored 85 points Saturday in the inaugural Steve Johnson Girls I…
The lid never came off the rim. The Missouri Tigers shot 6-of-27 from 3, including a 3-of-4 stretch in garbage time late, and couldn’t find the points elsewher…
It’s that time of year when I like to look back on all the wonderful things we got in the sports world the past year. We didn’t start on a high note, with one …
The Rolla defense was always in the right spot. The Bulldogs poked away 16 steals to help build a 64-38 win against the Blair Oaks Falcons and control the game…
Neither team could get much going, then a first-quarter timeout got Capital City rolling. The Lady Cavaliers went on a 6-0 run out of the early break to take a…
With a 2-2 record Saturday, the Capital City Cavaliers matched their best finish at the Missouri Duals. “I just telling them keep fighting, keep improving, goo…
It was a strong start to the season for the Jefferson City Jays. The Jays opened the first campaign of Darrell Luebbert’s tenure as the head coach with a 2-1 r…
It was a quick first day for the Blair Oaks Falcons at the Missouri Duals. The Falcons went 0-3 at Helias Gym, with less than half a lineup competing in each d…
The Missouri Tigers piled up great individual nights to put together a big team win. The Tigers beat the Missouri State Lady Bears 81-63 on Wednesday at Mizzou…
When starting an athletic program, there’s a lot of learning for both competitors and coaches. “I’m very unbiased when it comes to information,” Capital City s…
The Missouri Tigers made their free throws. Nearly all of them. The Tigers shot 23-of-25 from the charity stripe Sunday afternoon to secure an 82-72 win agains…
Missouri didn’t have long to wait long Sunday during the FBS bowl selection show. With the Cotton Bowl the first announced, the Tigers learned they would play …
The Missouri Tigers were in control from the opening tip. Making her first career start, Hannah Linthacum hit a free throw for the first point of the game with…
The offense went quiet for the Calvary Lutheran Lions. Calvary came within a point with 4:52 left and looked to have the momentum, but the La Monte Vikings hel…
The Capital City Cavaliers started the season in dominant fashion.m The Cavaliers beat St. James 70-12 with only one match going the distance in a season-openi…
Last year, the Capital City Cavaliers got their first boys wrestler on the podium at the state tournament. Now the Cavaliers are working for more. “We’re looki…
For the second consecutive game, the Missouri Tigers used an extended scoring run to jump out to a 20-point lead. But they didn’t use this one to run away with…
The Missouri Tigers have one game left to prove what they have been trying to all season. That they deserve a spot in a premier bowl and are ready for the next…
Only one team showed up to the first 10 minutes of Wednesday night’s game at Mizzou Arena, but it wasn’t the team that showed up at the end. The Missouri Tiger…
A torrid start for the Owensville Dutchgirls was too much to overcome. Owensville started the game hitting 7-of-8 shots, including its first four 3s, to build …
The Capital City Lady Cavaliers are getting a fresh start in the 2023-24 season. Former Sewanee University and Westminster College coach Tracey Braden has take…
The number of players on the Calvary Lutheran girls basketball roster is growing. After playing with too few players to have a 5-on-5 scrimmage each of the pas…
The Capital City girls wrestling program continues to grow. The Lady Cavaliers enter the 2023-24 season starting today at the Owensville Tournament with 15 wre…
All night, Missouri was frustrated with settling for field goals. But there was no frustration with the final one. Harrison Mevis hit his second game-winning f…
The Tigers needed it all. Down 31-30 with 38 seconds to play, Missouri faced fourth-and-17 from its own 33-yard line. The Tigers called timeout, knowing this w…
Major League Baseball’s awards week has come to a close without much suspense. Both MVPs were unanimous selections for the first time, as was one of the Cy You…
The Missouri Tigers are continuing to rise. The Tigers are up to No. 11 in the Associated Press Top 25 poll and No. 9 in the College Football Playoff rankings …
A new coach means a new start for the Capital City Cavaliers. Former Blair Oaks coach Ryan Fick is set to take on his first season leading the Cavaliers as the…
The next era of the Capital City Lady Cavaliers basketball program is underway. Capital City went 2-1 during its Jamboree at Capital City High School on Thursd…
The Capital City Cavaliers unofficially kicked off the basketball season Tuesday night, hosting Hallsville, Battle and Rock Bridge in a Jamboree at Capital Cit…
At the end of the night Saturday, the Missouri football team was chanting “Cody, Cody, Cody” and putting running back Cody Schrader on their shoulders. It was …