Missouri Tigers

COLORADO SPRINGS, Co. - A pair of Missouri Tigers basketball stars hope to add a trip to China to their busy off-season program. Seniors Marcus Denmon and Kim English are competing for a chance to represent the USA at the World University Games in China next month.  22 of the top college basketball players are training at the U.S. Olympic facility in Colorado Springs this week.  USA Basketball committee led by Syracuse Head Coach Jim Boeheim will...

ORLANDO, Fla. - Call Mizzou "Tight End U. " Missouri Tigers junior tight end Micahel Egnew has been named first team Walter Camp Football Foundation all-America.  Egnew is the third Missouri tight end in the last four years to earn first team all-America status joining Martin Rucker (2007) and Chase Coffman (2008). Egnew's 83 receptions leads the country at the position.  He racked up 698 yards and four touchdowns this season.  Egnew recorded double-digit receptions against San Diego State (13)

OKLAHOMA CITY, Mo. - The Missouri Tigers are a win away from an improbable run into the NCAA Tournament. Kelly Fick threw seven scoreless innings, leading the eighth-seeded Tigers to a 2-1 victory over the Texas Longhorns and a Big 12 Tourney championship game berth on Sunday against the Texas A&M Aggies.  The Tigers (27-31) have to win the tournament to earn a selection to the NCAA Tournament. Missouri defeated the top-seeded Longhorns (43-15) twice in the conference tournament.  Mizzou defeated the two-seeded Aggies twice in the regular season.

DALLAS, Texas - The Big 12 Conference has landed its own big television deal. The conference is teaming up with Fox Sports for a 13 year agreement for cable television rights to 40 football games a season.  Fox Sports will also broadcast other sports.  The deal is reportedly worth $90 million per year.  The new deal begins at the start of the 2012 college football season. Talk Tigers with us on Facebook @KYTV TigerTalk or on Twitter @KY3TigerTalk.  

COLUMBIA, Mo. - Missouri is moving up in the polls. Mizzou (7-0) jumped three spots to No. 10 in this week's Associated Press poll.  The Tigers scored a victory Friday night against Northwestern State.  The poll features four Big 12 Conference schools.  Kentucky remains No. 1. Missouri will go on the road Tuesday to play Villanova in the Jimmy V Classic in New York City.  Tip-off is at 6:00 p.m. on ESPN. Talk Tigers with us on Facebook @KYTV TigerTalk or on Twitter @ky3tigertalk.

COLUMBIA, Mo. - College football now knows Mizzou's Michael Egnew. The 2010 consensus all-America tight end headlines the Mackey Award watch list for the country's best at the position for 2011.  Egnew led the Tigers in catches with 90 and collected 762 yards and five touchdowns in his junior season. The Plainview, Texas native was a finalist for the Mackey Award last season.  The Tigers open the 2011 season at Faurot Field September third against Miami (Ohio). Talk Tigers with us on Facebook @KYTV TigerTalk or on Twitter @KY3TigerTalk.

EUGENE, Ore. -Missouri learned from its late-game mistakes against Georgetown. Marcus Denmon scored 19 points to lead the Mizzou to an 83-80 victory against the Oregon Ducks. The Tigers (6-1) blew a 20-point halftime lead.  Ricardo Ratliffe and Michael Dixon added eleven points each. E.J. Singler scored a career-high 19 points for the Ducks (4-3). Call the Hogs on our Facebook @KYTV HogsInsider or on Twitter @KY3HogsInsider.       

COLUMBIA, Mo. - The injury bug has bitten Mizzou again. Starting tailback Kendial Lawrence suffered a broken bone in his leg.  The injury will sideline the junior for at least a month.  The Rockwall, Texas native rushed for 10-yards on nine carries in Saturday's win against Miami (Ohio).  De'vion Moore and Henry Josey will likely get the majority of carries Friday night on the road at Arizona State.  Kickoff is at 9:30 p.m. on ESPN. Talk Tigers with us on Facebook @KYTV TigerTalk or on Twitter @ky3tigertalk.

COLUMBIA, Mo. - Mizzou's basketball roster for the 2010-2011 season will look different than Tigers fans expected. Sophomore guard Miguel Paul and freshman forward Tyler Stone will transfer from the program, just days before the spring signing period. Paul averaged 3.2 points and 1.6 assists in 69 games in his two-year career. Stone played in 11 games, averaging 2 points and 0.8 rebounds.

ST. LOUIS, Mo. -- It is "Braggin' Rights" for another year for Mizzou. Marcus Denmon scored 15 points to lead a balanced Missouri Tigers attack to a comeback victory against the Illinois Fighting Illini 75-64.  The win is the ninth-ranked Tigers (11-1) second straight in the series. Mike Davis led Illinois (10-3) with 17 points. Missouri's comeback was sealed in the last minute after Laurence Bowers scored four points on one play.  The junior forward made a break-away layup, then added two free throws after Illinois' Mike Tisdale committed an intentional foul.

COLUMBIA, Mo. - It's official. Sunday, the University of Missouri became the newest member of the Southeastern Conference.  Mizzou joins fellow Big 12 Conference school Texas A&M as the thirteenth and fourteenth members of the league. Missouri has capitalized on the move announced last fall.  Mizzou reports a jump in season tickets for the upcoming football by selling SEC packages.  The school has also marketed its brand throughout the south with billboards, an area rarely focused on by the school in the past.  The university's board of curators last week announced a $102 million facilities renovation upgrade.  It includes adding an additional 6,000 seats to Memorial Stadium.

COLUMBIA, Mo. - Kim English's NBA career begins in Detroit. The Pistons drafted the University of Missouri forward with the 44th selection in the second round of the 2012 NBA Draft Thursday.  "MO Town!!," tweeted English shortly after the draft.  "Blessed to be a Detroit Piston.  Ready to get to work. " The Baltimore, Maryland native averaged 14.5 points per game in his senior campaign, helping lead Mizzou to the Big 12 Conference Tournament championship.  English shot better than 38-percent from three-point-range last season too.  He was a third-team all-Big 12 selection.

COLUMBIA, Mo. -It's always nice to be nominated, we guess? The Missouri Tigers basketball team is nominated for two 2012 ESPY's.   Both were losses.  Mizzou is up for "Game of the Year" for its final trip to Kansas.  The Tigers built a 19-point lead in the second-half.  Kansas fought back behind its all-America Thomas Robinson to send the game to overtime.  Kansas won the game 87-86, ending the 105-year rivalry for the time. Mizzou is also up "Upset of the Year" for its NCAA Tournament opening round loss to Norfolk State 86-84.  The upset was only the fourth time a No. 15 seed won a first-round tournament game.   Missouri had previously rolled through its final Big 12 Conference Tournament, entering the NCAA's on a high.

COLUMBIA, Mo. - The University of Missouri is ready to compete with the rest of the Southeastern Conference. Tuesday, the school's board of curators approved spending an estimated $102 million to renovate campus athletics facility.  A $30 million private gift from the Kansas City Sports Trust will jumpstart the projects.  Mizzou will borrow the rest of the money. "This historic gift is putting into motion a series of improvements that will impact Mizzou athletics for generations to come," said Missouri athletics director Mike Aldon.  "We are moving into the nation's best and most competitive conference, and by committing to this master plan, we fell this is a statement that Mizzou is going to be a factor on the conference and national levels.

COLUMBIA, Mo. - Mizzou student-athletes are getting it done in the classroom. The University of Missouri leads the Big 12 in five sports in the NCAA's annual Academic Progress Rates or APR.  APR measures academic progress and performance of athletic programs.  The score is counted over four academic years. Mizzou football ranks second in both the Big 12 and the Southeastern Conference.   It scored a 972 out of a 1,000 point scale.  Women's gymnastics and women's golf scored a perfect score.  The school has ranked either first or second since the NCAA developed the scoring scale in 2004.

TUCSON, Ariz. - Mizzou's end of the season run ends in the desert. The Lousiville Cardinals (41-20) smashed 20 hits in an 11-3 blowout victory over the Missouri Tigers (33-28) Sunday night in the Tuscon Regional.  The loss ends Mizzou's season.  Louisville will play host school Arizona for the regional championship, having to win twice. The Big 12 Tournament champions could not control the Cardinals' Ty Young and Nic Ratajczak at the plate.  Young touched Mizzou pitching for four RBIs.  Ratajczak was 3 for 3 with three runs scored.

TUCSON, Ariz. - Mizzou survived elimination for at least one more game. The No. 4 seeded Missouri Tigers used a six-run eighth inning to beat the No. 2 seeded New Mexico State aggies 6-2 in the elimination game of the Tuscon regional.  Mizzou will play another elimination game Sunday night. Scott Summerfield's triple was the key hit of that five-run inning.  Sommerfield was three-for-four with three RBIs.  Mike McGraw added two hits, scoring twice for Mizzou.  Jeff Emens earned the victory for Mizzou, throwing three shutout innings in relief.

COLUMBIA, Mo. - There is little reward for Mizzou after the school's first Big 12 Tournament championship. The No. 4 Missouri Tigers (32-26) will open NCAA baseball tournament action Friday in Tucson Regional.  Mizzou open against the host school Arizona Wildcats.  The regional also features New Mexico State and Louisville. This is Mizzou's 22 tournament appearance, but the first since 2009.  Missouri is one of four Big 12 schools invited to the tournament.    

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. - Mizzou baseball took its own parting shot to the Big 12 Conference. Shortstop Eric Garcia went 2-4 to lead the No. 6 seeded Missouri Tigers to an 8-7 victory over the No. 4 seeded Oklahoma Sooners in the championship game of the Big 12 Tourney Sunday.  It is Mizzou's first Big Tourney title in its final year in the league.  The win earns the Tigers an automatic berth into the NCAA Tournament, with the field announced Monday....