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The Revue: Requiem for a Debilitating Loss

When someone tells you that something is “once-in-a-lifetime,” how do you usually interpret that phrase? That it’s so good that you only encounter something like it once? Is it a rare event, like some sort of astronomical event? Is it living in a shotgun shack? In another part of the world? Is it behind the […]

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Tennessee has a new look after years of continuity

Part of the fun of college basketball is watching players grow up over the course of four years. Coaches and player develop relationships and extends beyond the basketball court, and perhaps there are few relationships over the last few years quite like Rick Barnes and Zakai Zeigler. Zeigler represented more than just Tennessee as a […]

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Week 10 Opening Odds: Tigers lick their wounds into the bye week

If you’re in Missouri this Sunday, the weather matches the mood. Mizzou is coming off a heartbreaking loss — literally by inches — to Vanderbilt, which effectively puts them in do-or-die territory for their fledgling College Football Playoff hopes. Even then, the Tigers may have lost starting QB Beau Pribula for the season after a […]

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Beau Pribula could miss regular season, per report

Welcome to the Morning Commute Well there’s good news and bad news on the Beau Pribula front this morning. Unfortunately, the bad sort of outweighs the good on this one. After going off the field in an air cast on Saturday afternoon, there were fears that Mizzou’s quarterback had done some serious damage to his […]

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Mizzou volleyball slams door on Georgia, extends winning streak to six

The Mizzou volleyball team continues to just win, taking down Georgia in four sets 25-22, 22-25, 25-14, 26-24. The Tigers are now 6-4 in the SEC and have won six matches in the last two weeks. After splitting the first two sets, Mizzou separated with a 25-14 victory in set three to launch themselves to […]

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Mizzou Socer Ends Season With 1-1 Draw at Auburn

Coming off an impressive 0-0 tie against No. 11 Arkansas, Mizzou soccer had an even wilder finish to end the 2025 season with a draw. Redshirt freshman goalkeeper Riley Wilkerson deserves her flowers for battling a 22-6 shot discrepancy, allowing Mizzou a late equalizing goal to take a 1-1 tie. Mizzou finished its 2025 season […]

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Pourover: An inch, a foot, a mile away

Well, that sucked. For Missouri to make the playoff this season they were going to need to get some breaks. Through most of the season they’d gotten a lot of the breaks they needed. The Tigers were 6-1 and had fought to get there. They overcame deficits, poor play, ill-timed turnovers and penalties, and found […]

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Margo’s Mizzou Photos of the Week

While Hannah has been out of the photo office, the Rock M photo staff has gotten some help from other talented photographers in the Missouri School of Journalism. Last week’s edition introduced you to freshman Margo Jenkins, and she was busy this week, shooting Friday’s Mizzou sports double header. She first attended Dawn & Co.‘s […]

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Beau Pribula Injury Overshadows Mizzou’s Loss to Vanderbilt

It was slow. It was sluggish. It was chippy. It was a game that left multiple players injured or hurting. And alongside the 17-10 loss to Vanderbilt, fans will stay up thinking about their injured quarterback. In a fourth-and-two scenario, Beau Pribula rushed it up the middle and was tackled from all directions by the […]

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Five Takeaways from Mizzou’s Pivotal 17-10 Loss to Vanderbilt

In a top-15 matchup between No. 15 Missouri and No. 10 Vanderbilt with ESPN’s College Gameday in Nashville, Mizzou had the opportunity to make a statement on the road and spoil the Vandy party. Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case. Saturday belonged to Commodores as they proved why they’re legitimate College Football Playoff contenders. Let’s get […]

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Beau Pribula carted off against Vanderbilt with apparent leg injury

Mizzou starting quarterback Beau Pribula was carted off the field midway through the third quarter with an apparent leg injury. The Tigers were attempting a 4th-and-goal inside the Vanderbilt 5-yard line when Pribula was bent backward by a pile of Vanderbilt defenders ahead of the goal line. Pribula laid on the ground for several minutes […]

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Breaking News: Ahmod Billins becomes 20th Mizzou commit of 2026 recruiting class

With a massive game on Saturday between Mizzou and Vanderbilt, three star 2026 cornerback Ahmod Billins announced his commitment to the Tigers, becoming the 20th commit of Missouri’s 2026 recruiting class. Billins held a private party with his family before publicly announcing his decision, and the news ultimately came out at X through X. Billins […]

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Live Game Thread: Mizzou faces Vanderbilt in Nashville

After a narrow double overtime victory over Auburn last week, Mizzou faces another SEC road challenge in the Vanderbilt Commodores. Vanderbilt enters Saturday’s game having one of its best seasons in decades, recently becoming a top-10 team for the first time since 1947. And the Commodores hosted College GameDay for the first time since 2008 […]

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Rock M Pick ‘Em: Week 9

Week 9 of the College Football season is here, and Mizzou will be featured in College Gameday for the first time since 2014. Too bad it’s not in COMO — but a Top-15 matchup between the Tigers and Commodores headlines the Saturday slate. Ole Miss at Oklahoma and Texas A&M at LSU are the other […]

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Five Takeaways from Missouri’s exhibition win over Kansas State

Missouri and Kansas State took the court for an exhibition basketball game Friday night, late. The tip off wasn’t until 9:00pm so you’ll forgive me if this is brief. Mizzou won the game 100-91. Here is the game sheet from StatBroadcast: I said before the game for people to not read too much into any […]

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Maya Sands Sets Career-High in 3-1 Victory Against South Carolina

With a four-game win streak in tow, Mizzou volleyball (14-7, 5-4 SEC) returned to Hearnes Center for a matchup with South Carolina (7-12, 1-8 SEC). The Tigers displayed tremendous adversity in this contest, responding to multiple opposing runs to ultimately win 3-1. Libero Maya Sands was the standout player in the match with a career-high […]

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Live Thread and Game Preview: Exhibition against Kansas State

Yay basketball! I beg you, it’s an exhibition game, do not read too much into any results. Kansas State brings their shade of lavender back to Mizzou Arena for the first time since a 10 point loss to the Wildcats in 2012. If you forgot, Mizzou was pretty awesome that season but Frank Martin’s K-State […]

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Takeaways from the opening two games of Mizzou Baseball’s Fall Ball World Series

Missouri continued its fall baseball campaign this past weekend at Taylor Stadium. After playing in a pair of games, facing off against Central Methodist and traveling down to Iowa City to face off against the Hawkeyes, the Tigers renewed their yearly tradition of a Fall World Series at Taylor Stadium. This year, the titled Bronze […]

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PREGAMIN’ VANDERBILT

WELCOME BACK TO PREGAMIN’ HERE’S YOUR JAM OF THE WEEK NEED TO KEEP THOSE VIBES SKY HIGH THIS WEEK Rock M-ixology We’re back on the cocktail grind this week, folks! Just to be transparent, I haven’t been mixing myself as many cocktails these days. Not only am I trying to watch my weight, I’ve needed […]

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The ceiling for Alabama is as high as anyone in the SEC

It might be hard to fathom this but most people will consider last season a disappointment for Alabama. In the context of ‘Only March Matters’ it was a step back from the heights the Crimson Tide achieved in 2024. No matter how many times you shout about the tournament being a crap shoot, Alabama did […]

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