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Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Mizzou Links, 7-31-07

Dave Matter decides that Baylor deserves some coverage too. Plus, he covers #11-13 in his Top 25 countdown.
Meanwhile, Matter's basketball counterpart at the Trib questions Dickie V's talent evaluation...blasphemer...
Congrats to Tim Jamieson, ABCA Midwest Region Coach of the Year! Needless to say, I strongly agree with this selection. Mizzou wasn't supposed to do anything this year.
Good luck to the 6 Mizzou swimmers (Bennett Clark, Bryan Difford, Jill Granger, Colleen Gordon, Lori Halvorson, and Jill Bastien) competing at the US National Championships. The competition starts today at IUPUI (Go Ooo-wee-poo-wee!).
Tyler Wilson, Mizzou's new #1 QB target, will decide on a school before his season starts. Meanwhile, a "top JUCO forward" names Mizzou his favorite.
And finally, this is a bit insane. As The Beef put it to me last night, Minnesota is now on the other end of a Herschel Walker deal. The Celtics are now a contender in the East, but their window of opportunity is about two years, max. Meanwhile, they traded away every single building block of the future. Knowing how much he liked Al Jefferson, I figured Bill Simmons would be pretty upset by all this...he's not. I realize that the NBA's different--trading away your future in a sports like MLB, with no salary cap, wouldn't make much sense--but in the NBA it's really really hard to build a young nucleus and keep all the cogs for years at a time thanks to the luxury tax and relatively short rookie contracts. Still, though, this deal would make me QUITE queasy if I were a Celtics fan. Ray Allen's got 1-2 years left in him and Pierce has about 165,000 miles on his tires (though he's somehow only 29).

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Mizzou Links, 7-24-07

The football commitments continue to roll in. Good-sized kid. Meanwhile, Jeff Ermann from InsideMizzou has more on last week's Mizzou commit, Drew Temple. Have we mentioned how much good, free stuff there is at InsideMizzou lately?

Dave Matter has some notes from Media Days in San Antonio. Most interesting part: Mark Mangino is bigger than ever. When he suggests gastric bypass surgery to Mangino's face, he will become the bravest journalist ever.

It seems that everything happens in Oklahoma City nowadays. This time it was the Central Section VIII Long Course Swimming Championships, and Mizzou swimmers represented well, winning 12 gold medals and 26 medals overall.

Pretty neat series ESPN.com has going right now, examining great under-the-radar rivalries. Today: Williams-Amherst.

And from that link I found this one: welcome to the big-time, Longwood. Having once attended a concert in the Longwood gym, I can only say...hope you're prepared to upgrade your facilities a smidge, guys. My high school gym was bigger, and my high school gym wasn't that big.

Thursday, May 24, 2007

Mizzou Links, 5-24-07

Not quite the start Mizzou was looking for at the Big XII Baseball championships. Stephen Holst and Kyle Gibson combined to give up 6 runs in 6 IP, Mizzou batters left 15 men on base (failing to capitalize on SIX Sooner errors), and #2 MU was knocked off by #7 OU, 7-2. They'll play Baylor on Friday. Pretty vital that they beat both Baylor and OSU.
In other action, #4 Nebraska beat free-falling #5 ATM, 5-3 (pdf); #1 Texas had to use five beat #8 Kansas State (who used eight), 19-10 (!); and #6 Baylor upset #3 Oklahoma State, 3-1. Tonight, it's Texas/ATM and Nebraska/KSU.
The Trib has a nice profile of Mizzou ace Aaron Crow. He needs to come up big Friday.
The NCAA Mideast Regional Track Championships take place at our very own Walton Stadium tomorrow! Mizzou will have 19 athletes competing, including...the Bomber from Barbados!! Also, 800m runner Trisa Nickoley.
Mizzou Swimming & Diving just finished four days at the Michigan Grand Prix. Does Michael Phelps have eligibility remaining?
PowerMizzou's thrown together a rough '2008 recruiting board' for men's basketball.
And just for fun, here's an article about Kenny Hulsof and the MU Presidency vacancy.

Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Mizzou Links, 5-9-07

New Rivals basketball rankings are out for the Class of 2008. Here are the rankings for some of Missouri's big-time recruits.

* SF Terrance Henry (Monroe, LA) - #47
* SG Dante Anderson (Gainesville, FL) - #49
* SG Andrew Steele (Birmingham, AL) - #50
* C John Brandenburg (St. Louis, MO) - #63
* PG Courtney Fortson (Montgomery, AL) - #64
* SG Travis Releford (Shawnee Mission, KS) - #67
* SG Scott Suggs (Augusta, MO) - #72
* SG Matthew Humphrey (Chicago, IL) - #74
* PF Will Brown (Dallas, TX) - #100

Mike Anderson will have a ton of scholarships to work with, and I'm sure he'll bring in at least a couple of JUCO's as well, but it would very much behoove him to lock down at least 4 of the guys on the above it.
Mizzou Swimming & Diving signed six women this week.
It appears that Damien Nash's death was via natural causes. That was what was suspected, but now it's apparently been confirmed.
And congrats to former Tiger Justin Smith for striking it rich.