College Football

University of Illinois Seeks New Mascot; Students Attempt to Provide

Since the forced departure of Chief Illiniwek in February 2007, the University of Illinois has been mascot-less. While their Big Ten rivals have fielded ancient Greek warriors, oversized and suspiciously cuddly hawks, badgers and wildcats, not to mention whatever the hell Ohio State's Brutus Buckeye ... More >>

Tigers to Open SEC Schedule Against 'Bama

The Alabama Crimson Tide, and fans of the same, have had a pretty good 24 hours. A third national championship in four years last night, achieved by stomping an over-hyped Notre Dame team into the turf, and a future that looks to hold preseason number one status for next year as well. No doubt about ... More >>

Mizzou Football -- At a Crossroads?

The season is officially over for the Missouri Tigers football program following their ugly loss to Texas A&M over the weekend. It was a tough way to end the season, an exceptionally low note in a campaign that has largely been low notes. The Tigers, after moving steadily into the national ... More >>

Tailgaters Go All Out For Mizzou and SEC

Open-container laws went unheeded Saturday in Columbia as football fans began tailgating as early as ten hours prior to the 6:30 p.m. kickoff of Mizzou's first SEC conference game. By late afternoon, the parking lots surrounding the stadium were a sea of gold and black, sprinkled with a bit of red f ... More >>

Guys Behind Atrocious "We Are Mizzou" Song Have Even Worse Country Tune "SEC Bound"

It's hard to discern the worst part of "SEC Bound" -- a country music song (and video) about Mizzou's new athletic conference. It is it: The inane chorus that goes: "We're SEC bound, the girls dress like it, too. When we're all done we're singing MIZ - ZOU"?The girls in the video wearing sundresses ... More >>

Mizzou Tickets On Sale, Mizzou Unis On Point

The Missouri Tigers football team is nearing the open of the 2012 football season, their first as part of the Southeastern Conference. I'm going to start previewing this year's squad from an on-field perspective next week in preparation; today I just have a couple items of interest to share. Fi ... More >>

Mizzou's New Sports Rivals are the Arkansas Razorbacks

The SEC today officially announced the new conference schedules and cross-division rivals, and Mizzou has traded Kansas for Arkansas. Both the football and basketball teams will play a home and away game against our neighbor to the south beginning in the 2013 season.

Corbin Bergstresser, Mizzou QB, Arrested After Leaving the Scene of an Accident

Corbin Bergstresser, the University of Missouri Tigers provisional number two quarterback next season, was arrested early this morning by Boone County police. According to KOMU-8 in Columbia, Bergstresser hit a parked car around 3:15 p.m. and then drove off. He was arrested for leaving the scene of ... More >>

The Rams' Draft Options: Who Does The Team Take First Tonight?

The NFL Draft is tonight, coming to you live from New York City. This promises to be one of the least interesting drafts in recent memory, at least at the very top; there is literally no doubt in anyone's minds about who the first two picks will be. The Indianapolis Colts will begin their rebui ... More >>

UPDATED: Sneak Peek at Mizzou's New Football Helmet?

Updated with information from the person who designed the helmet and a possible clue that the new Mizzou hard hat will look "shockingly similar" to the image below. Yesterday, University of Missouri football coach Gary Pinkel confided to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that the team's new uniform -- to ... More >>

Attorney General Sues Gridiron Fantasy Sports; Company Operated in Chesterfield

Dustin Ashby ran fantasy leagues while working as UMSL's golf coach.​Attorney general Chris Koster today filed suit against Dustin Ashby, a former golf coach at University of Missouri - St. Louis, and his company, Gridiron Fantasy Sports, for allegedly defrauding Missouri consumers by failing to p ... More >>

Independence Bowl: Who the Hell is AdvoCare v100?

We were similarly disappointed when discovering just what AdvoCare v100 is.​If you're like us, you woke up this morning scratching your head on news that the Missouri Tigers would face off against the North Carolina Tar Heels in the AdvoCare v100 Independence Bowl.Your confusion wasn't why these t ... More >>

The T.S. Eliot-Approved Ending of the Mizzou-KU Border

​With apologies to T.S. Eliot: This is the way the border war endsThis is the way the border war endsThis is the way the border war endsNot with bang, but with a whimper.Yep, Missouri and Kansas played what looks to be -- for now, at least -- the final edition of their Border War rivalry over ... More >>

Joe Paterno: Old School, For Good and For Ill

Joe Paterno in better times. ​I'm sure everyone out there is at least somewhat aware of the scandal going out right now involving Penn State's football program. A former coach there, a man by the name of Jerry Sandusky, is facing a large number of charges, all relating to accusations he molested a ... More >>

Miracle Weekend for Missouri Sports: Is God to Thank?

The gift of life and the gift of winning.​October 28-30, 2011, may just go down as the greatest weekend for Missouri sports ever. On Friday the Cardinals won their 11th World Series title in one of the greatest come-from-behind stories ever in sports. On Saturday the struggling Missouri Tigers tra ... More >>

Mizzou Remains Ranked But is Underdog vs. Arizona State

The Sun Devils hope to stick it to Mizzou tomorrow night.​The University of Missouri survived a scare last week at home, eking out a 17-6 victory over Miami-Ohio. The game didn't cost the Tigers any status in the rankings (they remain #21 in the AP poll) but it did scare off the Las Vegas oddsmake ... More >>

Mike Anderson Panic Proves College Sports is the True Moneyball League

livewire.missouri.eduMike Anderson: Playin' the game; makin' it rain.​This is not a personal slight against University of Missouri basketball coach Mike Anderson. I like Mike. In fact, what's not to like about the man who resurrected the Tiger basketball program from the train wreck inherited from ... More >>

Blaine Gabbert No. 1 Overall Pick, According to Sports Illustrated Mock Draft

​We know what you're thinking. 1. WTF? 2. What about that other quarterback? You know, Auburn's run-away Heisman/BCS Championship winner, Cam Newton? College no longer matters. Now it's all about marketing, according to SI columnist Andrew Permloff, who believes Gabbert's star agents (and the deci ... More >>

Blaine Gabbert Goes Pro; Where Do the Tigers Go?

The high point of Blaine Gabbert's Mizzou career, and one of the few things in this world guaranteed to always cheer me up. ​As we noted yesterday, Blaine Gabbert will not be returning for his senior season at Mizzou. The Tiger quarterback announced yesterday he will enter the 2011 NFL draft.  ... More >>

Mizzou Finishes Season On a Frustrating Note

One is a fluke. Two is a trend. Three is a problem. I think this sums it up pretty well, don't you? ​​The Missouri Tigers are now sitting on 'trend', following their loss to the Iowa Hawkeyes in the Insight Bowl 27-24. Two years in a row the Tigers have gone to bowl games against ... More >>

Missouri Earns Trip to Insight Bowl vs. Iowa Hawkeyes

​It's not as bad as it could've been. Last week we speculated that the Missouri Tigers would get dissed in the bowl selection process despite the team's impressive 10-2 record. As it turns out, Mizzou didn't not receive an invitation from a name-brand bowl (ie. Cotton or Orange) but it did end up ... More >>

Will We Live to See Blernsball?

The Tigers Finally Get Over That Hump

​The Missouri Tigers finally beat their own personal bugaboo, the Oklahoma Sooners, on Saturday. Even better, they won like a real football team. Now, lest that second statement come across as horribly condescending, let me explain. In years past, the Missouri teams which have come so cl ... More >>

Rams 20 - Chargers 17: Bringing the Big 12 to the NFL

Image viaBad memories be damned, Mizzou fans shouldn't mind that Bradford is a Sooner.​Raise your hand if you thought Danario Alexander was going to emerge as the deep threat the Rams so desperately need this season.You there, way in the back wearing the black-and-gold Mizzou jersey, step forward ... More >>

Mizzou Loses Shutout Streak, Beats Texas A&M Handily

​The Tigers of Missouri headed into College Station Saturday as 3-point underdogs, preparing to play in perhaps the most intimidating environment in all of college football. They left with a 6-0 record, their first since 2006, and a budding national awareness of just how good this current Tigers s ... More >>

Atlanta Falcons Want a New Stadium = Only a Matter of Time Before Rams Demand the Same

Georgia Dome: 18-years-old and over the hill. ​The Atlanta Falcons last week said that the Georgia Dome -- built in 1992 -- is too out-dated to suit the team's future needs. The franchise wants a new, open-air stadium  a.s.a.p. and says that ground could be broken on the new facility as soon ... More >>

Mizzou Bungles Big Dance Bid; SLU's Cinderella Season Still Alive

Image Via Losing to Nebraska is easy when you shoot like this​If the SLU Billikens needed a lesson on how not to lock-up an NCAA tournament bid on the eve of their showdown with Rhode Island in the A-10 tournament, Mizzou was happy to oblige. The Tigers, who finished fifth in the Big 12 in the reg ... More >>

Signing Day: Four St. Louis Area Athletes Among 23 Expected to Sign with Mizzou

We'll use any excuse to run this photo. Click for larger size.​It's a semi-holiday for college football fans today. As the first Wednesday in February, it's National Signing Day, or the day when an athlete can officially autograph a binding letter of intent to play sports at a university.The Unive ... More >>

The Morning Brew: Thursday, 10.15

​ Kitchens of the future, featuring your very own biosphere. (Washington Post)California bill would mandate labels for sustainable seafood. (Contra Costa Times)Worlds largest cocktail party at University of Georgia - University of Florida football game gets pooped. (The Sporting News)Archaeol ... More >>

Mizzou Earns National Ranking the Easy Way: Doing Nothing

Tigers: Their back.​For the first time since upsetting University of Illinois in week one of the college football season, the Mizzou Tigers are a "ranked team," earning the No. 24 slot in this week's Associated Press poll. The football team slid into the Top 25 by doing something it hasn't done al ... More >>

Nelly and Titans Quarterback Vince Young Make It Rain, Spark Internet Outrage

Fresh off the St. Lunatics reunion concert at the Pageant this past Sunday, Nelly has taken his show on the road and people have started to take notice. It would be nice if a new hit single was attracting all the attention, but instead he'll have to settle for a struggling NFL quarterback tossing a ... More >>

The 5 Greatest Coach Meltdowns Ever Filmed

After seeing Jim Calhoun, men's basketball coach at the University of Connecticut, lay into a reporter who asked him about giving back a portion of his salary to help and offset the state's budget shortfall (Calhoun is, in fact, the highest paid state employee in Connecticut), I found myself thinkin ... More >>

Fuzzy Math: Why the BCS Doesn't Work

So I was in my automobile last night, driving along as I often do, and I heard something really interesting. So interesting, in fact, that I very nearly drove right off the road into some nice person's front yard. Luckily, my reflexes were good enough to save both myself and someone rhododendrons.&n ... More >>

Everyone Can Read Your Facebook Page -- Don't Put Racial Slurs On It (Texas Football Content)

Scott Linehan: I Can See Him Now

Just for Kicks: St. Louis will field a new professional women's soccer team next spring

Tigers Attack!

But will they win?

Faster Than a Speeding Rocket Scientist: Cards rookie Brian Barton chooses baseball over aerospace engineering — for the time being.

Linehan Vouched for Troubled Football Star Jerramy Stevens

Linehan Vouched for Troubled Football Star Jerramy Stevens

Basketball by the Book: A Riverfront Times Investigation

The Vashon High School Wolverines have won five state titles in the past eight years. But did they play by the rules?

Alley Cat

Somebody forgot to tell Emil Williams Jr. that bowling is for fat, beer-guzzling honkies

Gateway to Fun

This Classic Weekend has it all -- even LL Cool J!

Lame Time

Q's Sports Bar & Grill commits some flagrant fouls

Tallboys

The answer to Larry Bird's prayers for a white basketball savior might reside just off Highway 67 in Poplar Bluff

Where's Florissant?

Some Lou denizens feel dissed by Miss USA (but Unreal still loves her!), a Pattonville student is treated criminally, and an 84-year-old grandma praises the Rams in song; plus, we clock local athletes on our gaydar

Bobs and Weaves

You gotta have style at Spring Bling '04

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The year in review: A quiz (For answers, see last page)

The Midas Touch

Cardinals owner Bill DeWitt Jr. has a knack for making money without risking his own. Meet the guy who wants you to cough up $250 million for a new stadium.

Nothin' But Net

An obsession with basketball takes CBC seniors Ryan Johnson and D.J. Hogue through a successful -- but heartbreaking -- season