Schuckman: Mizzou will play for national championship someday, right?

Mizzou quarterback Brady Cook, who led the Tigers to an 11-2 season, brings the team out of the locker room prior to an October game against LSU at Faurot Field in Columbia, Mo. | Mathew Kirby photo

QUINCY — Someday, right? That’s what I keep telling myself. Following Michigan’s victory in Monday night’s national championship game, several colleagues and friends who are devout Wolverines fans took to social media to celebrate. It had been 27 years since Michigan, the winningest program in college football history, had captured a crown. So jump, shout,…

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Crim: Comeback against Florida shows Mizzou football team not destined to continue trend of disappointing finishes

Wide receiver Luther Burden III and the Mizzou football team rallied to beat Florida last Saturday to improve to 9-2. | Mathew Kirby photo

QUINCY — Maybe the perception of the Missouri football program is changing. Coming off a 36-7 demolition of Tennessee after going toe-to-toe with top-ranked Georgia between the hedges, the Tigers moved up to ninth in the College Football Playoff rankings. There was talk of a New Year’s Six bowl game. They were double-digit home favorites…

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Southeastern’s Stephens finds right college fit close to home, commits to play hoops at Mizzou

Southeastern's Danny Stephens, the 6-foot-7 first-team all-state forward, verbally committed to be a preferred walk-on at the University of Missouri. | Matt Schuckman photo

AUGUSTA, Ill. — Tuesday’s steady rain didn’t cause Danny Stephens or his father, Jeremy, any delays in getting the fields on the family farm worked over. “We finished them (Monday),” Stephens said. “So it was good timing.” And for as much as Stephens, the Southeastern senior, feels at home on the basketball court, he feels…

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QND’s Schreacke verbally commits to play basketball at Mizzou

Quincy Notre Dame senior guard Abbey Schreacke, right, verbally committed Wednesday to play for the University of Missouri women's basketball team. | Matt Schuckman photo

QUINCY — Abbey Schreacke figured Wednesday’s trip to Columbia, Mo., for an official visit with the University of Missouri women’s basketball program might end with giving Tigers coach Robin Pingeton a verbal commitment. “I was thinking about it a lot and just waiting for the right moment,” Schreacke said. It came when she learned her…

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Crim: Illinois, Mizzou searching for improvement, consistency as college football season dawns

Illinois junior running back Chase Brown and the Illini got the reason started with a 38-6 thumping of Wyoming on Saturday in Champaign, Ill. | Photo courtesy University of Illinois athletics

In case you missed it, Alabama is once again the consensus pick to win the college football national championship, with Ohio State nipping at its heels, and so yawn. Sure, Georgia, Clemson and Utah have the potential to reach the four-team playoff, but the Crimson Tide are expected to avenge last season’s championship game loss…

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