Posted 3:48 PM 6/13/2013 by Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) - Adam Wainwright became the major leagues' first 10-game winner by pitching seven scoreless innings and sent Matt Harvey to his first loss of the season, leading the St. Louis Cardinals over the New York Mets 2-1 Thursday in a classic pitching match up.
Wainwright (10-3) (More)
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Posted 3:10 PM 6/13/2013
JEFFERSON CITY - The Lincoln baseball team will host camps for kids aged 8-18 spanning four days this summer. The camps will be held on June 26 and 27 as well as July 1 and 2 at the Lincoln University Baseball Field.
The camps will consist of two sessions, with kids aged 8-12 working from (More)
Posted 7:22 PM 6/12/2013
COLUMBIA- Mizzou fans love the athletes that currently don the black and gold, but some athletes continue to make an impact on the community even after they move on. Utah Jazz forward DeMarre Carroll, also known as the "Junkyard Dog", is back in Columbia hosting the DeMarre Carroll Next Level (More)
Posted 5:26 PM 6/12/2013 by Associated Press
KANSAS CITY (AP) - Lorenzo Cain hit a tying, two-run homer off Jose Valverde with two outs in the ninth inning and Eric Hosmer had a winning single in the 10th, helping the Kansas City Royals overcome Justin Verlander's seven scoreless innings Wednesday in a 3-2 victory over the Detroit (More)
Posted 3:17 PM 6/12/2013
MARSHALL, MO -- Members of the Missouri Valley College rodeo teams are competing this week at the College Nationals Final Rodeo (CNFR) in Casper, Wyoming. A total of nine MVC rodeo team members are competing at the championship event.
On the men's side Sophomore Tim O'Connell is currently (More)
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Posted 2:31 PM 6/12/2013
CHICAGO - Mizzou softball signees Tori Finucane and Casey Stangel earned Gatorade Softball Player of the Year awards for their respective states of high school competition, the Gatorade Company, in collaboration with USA TODAY High School Sports, recently announced.
Both Finucane and (More)
Posted 4:10 PM 6/11/2013
COLUMBIA - The Mizzou Volleyball team is ready for its second season in the SEC with three returning All-SEC players and five upperclassmen.
The schedule for the Tigers was announced Tuesday.
The season will open with the annual Tiger Invitational at the Hearnes Center (More)
Posted 2:52 PM 6/11/2013 by Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A child psychology expert says the 9-month-old daughter of a Kansas City Chiefs player who fatally shot the baby's mother and then himself should have just one primary caregiver.
Carrie Contey, a human development specialist from Texas, testified Tuesday in a (More)
Posted 2:46 PM 6/11/2013
COLUMBIA - A review of the numbers for South Eastern Conference schools shows that Mizzou leads the league in Academic Progress Rates in four different sports, a figure which is tied for second-best in the league.
The APR measures academic progress and performance of athletic programs (More)
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Posted 2:28 PM 6/11/2013
COLUMBIA - The Mizzou softball team finished 11th in the nation in the final 2013 rankings by the ESPN.com/USA Softball Collegiate Top 25 poll and the USA Today/NFCA Division I Top 25 poll on Tuesday.
Mizzou finished in the program's sixth-straight NCAA Super (More)
Posted 9:56 PM 6/10/2013 by Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Jeremy Guthrie pitched impressively into the seventh inning, Salvador Perez hit a two-run triple and the Kansas City Royals beat the Detroit Tigers 3-2 Monday night for their sixth straight victory.
Guthrie (7-3) limited the Tigers to a two-run homer by Miguel Cabrera (More)
Posted 7:50 PM 6/10/2013 by Associated Press
KANSAS CITY (AP) - The Kansas City Royals have signed first-round draft pick Hunter Dozier for $2.2 million.
The Royals signed the 6-foot-4 shortstop for $937,800 less than the allotted $3,117,800 for a No. 8 selection. The money can be used to sign other picks.
The 21-year-old (More)
Posted 5:54 PM 6/10/2013
ATLANTA - Former Missouri Basketball Coach Quin Snyder is returining to the NBA as an assistant coach with the Atlanta Hawks.
Snyder spent last season as an assistant with CSKA Moscow in Russia. He has previous NBA assitant coaching experience with the Lakers, 76ers and Clippers.
Snyder coached at Missouri from 1999 through 2006.
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Mizzou Head Basketball Coach Frank Haith announced the hiring of former Drake University Head Coach Mark Phelps as an assistant coach on Monday. Phelps enjoyed more wins (77) than any Drake head coach in his first five seasons with the program and led the Bulldogs to a pair of postseason...
Once again the 2013 spring semester was a success in the classroom and the community for Mizzou Athletics. Missouri's student-athletes posted an overall GPA of 3.00 in the spring to mark the fourth consecutive semester of 3.00 or higher for the department. Additionally, 13 of Missouri';s 20 athletic programs compiled...
Former Tigers Nicole Hudson and Rhea Taylor were selected to the USA Softball Women's National Team on Friday.
COLUMBIA, Mo. - Yesterday we took a look at what former Mizzou baseball players in Major League Baseball were doing and today, we will look at what former Tigers are doing in the minors. Several former Mizzou standouts are very close to being called up to big league rosters by...
Whether you know Brady and Anne personally or professionally, please join me in congratulating them on a job well done. The amount of growth that the University of Missouri has seen in Brady's nine years as Chancellor have been monumental.