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A Brief Cardinals Draft-Day Primer

The Major League Baseball first-year player draft is just a few hours away, taking place in New York City and beginning at six pm central. The Houston Astros have the first overall pick, and are expected to take Mark Appel, a right-handed pitcher out of Stanford, with their selection. Appel isn't a ... More >>

The Tigers' Terrible Revenge

​The Missouri Tigers have only lost two games this year; one to a Kansas State team which simply bullied them all over the floor, surprising the Tigers into losing their composure, and one to Oklahoma State. The Oklahoma State loss was a true trap game, a contest against a lesser opponent coming o ... More >>

Tigers Get Trapped; Fall to Oklahoma State

​This past weekend, the Missouri Tigers traveled to Waco, Texas. The played the number three Baylor Bears. They beat the number three Baylor Bears. And they left Waco on their way to a #2 national ranking and a whole heaping helping of hype. All in all, a pretty good weekend. Against tha ... More >>

Declare Your Love For Mizzou -- On Your Ass

OCJ ApparelThere's no better place to show off your school spirit than your ass.​If the eighties taught us anything, it was that there's no better place to show off a fancy logo than your ass. And for most people, there is no fancier logo to flaunt than that of their dear, dear alma mater. Gr ... More >>

Foot Hi Pie at Blue Springs Cafe

Robin Wheeler​Last October Gut Check staged the Great Illinois Pie Fight, with Blue Springs Cafe in Highland taking a sound beating from Mills Apple Farm in Marine. How sound was the beating? But if we ever need to gather ammunition for a pie fight, we're heading straight to Blue Springs. O ... More >>

Rams 30 - Redskins 16: Rammin Home A Victory in the Edward Jones Dome

Not only did the Rams win in St. Louis for the first time in nearly two years (October 19, 2008 against Dallas, if your memory needs jogging) they did it largely without the help of their two best players -- OJ Atogwe and Steven Jackson both left the game with minor injuries early in the game. They ... More >>

Reviewing the Rams' Final Preseason Game

Hope. (Yes, Sandoval. Still, Hope.)​The Rams finished their preseason schedule on a high note, beating the Baltimore Ravens last night 27-21. I know preseason games don't count, and they very rarely actually translate into real season results, but I'll take fake wins that don't count over no wins ... More >>

A Seriously Comprehensive Draft Review, Part 2

In part one, I took a look at the first five rounds of the Cards' draft, as well as the overall breakdown of player by type. This time I'll cover the middlish rounds of the draft, 6-20, and then next time tease out any interesting players who happened to be picked up in the late rounds. ​Afte ... More >>

Mizzou Curators Fuel More Big 12 Questions After Sunday Meeting Yields No Answers

Mike Alden the new face of Big 12 expansion.​The University of Missouri Board of Curators held another meeting last night to consider the future of the school's Big 12 athletic conference. The meeting was the the third in four days and like previous gatherings yielded no answers, though its beginn ... More >>

Big Ten Quashes Rumors of Adding Mizzou, and That's Too Bad

So the commissioner of the Big Ten came out yesterday to deny the rumors -- started this week by a Kansas City radio station -- that it plans to add University of Missouri (or University of Nebraska) to its conference. Whatever. That went away when the Big 8 became the Big 12.​Commissioner Jim Del ... More >>

Colleges Not Fans of Bud Light "Fan Cans"

budlight.com​You won't find them at the frat house or shotgunning beers in the stadium parking lot, but there's at least one group on campus not happy with Anheuser-Busch's new college marketing ploy. College administrators across the country say the brewer's Bud Light "Fan Cans" -- beers wrapped ... More >>

Unreal dabbles in social psychology

New Study Proves That Single Women are Indeed Predatory Bitches

flickr.com/photos/syl2007​Unreal has just been informed that the biggest question that plagues single women is "Why are all the good men taken?"This came as a surprise to us, because we always believed the lament of the single woman (well, actually, women in general) was "Why are men such assholes ... More >>

SLU Gets an "Old-Fashioned Butt-Kicking," and Other College Hoops News

The Billikens' woes on the road continued last night when they were manhandled by Temple, losing 65-40. Tom Timmermann at the Post-Dispatch was in Philly to watch the massacre and came through with some very colorful reporting and this quote from the always-upbeat Bills coach Rick Majerus: ... More >>

What to Watch for Tonight as We Remember the Alamo

Tonight, our beloved Missouri Tigers will take on Northwestern University in the prestigious Alamo Bowl. Well, okay, not "prestigious" in the typical sense. But definitely prestigious in the way that, um, well, um, huh. Maybe prestigious isn't the best word in any sense of it. At any rate, they ... More >>

Mizzou Football Has Arrived

The Year of the Izzo

Championship prediction: Big Ten dark horse gallops to victory

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