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Byline: Nick Kelly Missouri remains in the middle of its search to find a replacement for fired coach Barry Odom, and the question remains who that individual will be. But [...]

Byline: Nick Kelly Make that two Missouri players forgoing their final year of eligibility to head to the NFL Draft. Missouri redshirt junior tight end Albert Okwuegbunam declared for April's [...]

Byline: Nick Kelly Missouri fired Barry Odom on Saturday, but you can be sure MU athletic director Jim Sterk began looking at potential candidates before then. Sterk, who arrived in [...]

Byline: Nick Kelly The community of former and current players, as well as fans, in and around the University of Missouri reacted quickly Saturday to the news about the firing [...]

Byline: Nick Kelly I didn't choose this life. I didn't ask for this existence. It's been forced upon me by those of you in cardinal red and those of you [...]

Byline: Nick Kelly In the early parts of this season, Missouri coach Barry Odom and senior captain Cale Garrett talked on multiple occasions about green grass. In regard to sanctions [...]

Byline: Nick Kelly A three-man cornerback rotation has served Missouri well throughout the 2019 season. It's worked so well that the Tigers went from annually one of the nation's worst [...]

Byline: Nick Kelly EDITOR'S NOTE: This story will be updated throughout the day. The NCAA Infractions Appeals Committee has denied Missouri's appeal and upheld the penalties handed to MU Athletics [...]

Byline: Nick Kelly One moment, Kelly Bryant looked like himself. The next moment, not so much. About a minute remained in the first half of Missouri's game against Tennessee when [...]

Byline: Nick Kelly There might be an end in sight, after all, to the wait on a decision from the NCAA. Some kind of answer could come prior to Selection [...]

Byline: Nick Kelly The second to last weekend of the season is a weird one in the Southeastern Conference. If this were the NFL, it might be fair to consider [...]

Byline: Nick Kelly Believe it or not, Missouri might not have hit rock bottom. Not yet. No, believe it or not, a loss to Vanderbilt was not the worst it [...]

Byline: Nick Kelly If there was any doubt about the value that senior cornerback DeMarkus Acy provides for the Missouri defense, Christian Holmes and Adam Sparks squashed it. Or, more [...]

Byline: Nick Kelly After Barry Odom insisted during the week that he thought receiver Johnathon Johnson and cornerback DeMarkus Acy would play on Saturday, both seniors missed their final home [...]

Byline: Nick Kelly If Missouri has a twin in the SEC East, Tennessee might be the closest thing to it. We can begin with the easy number to compare: Both [...]

Byline: Nick Kelly Richaud Floyd has had no shortage of memorable moments during his time at Missouri. Good and bad. The fifth-year Tiger arrived on campus in 2015, a season [...]

Byline: Nick Kelly No longer do the Tigers have road woes. They just have woes. The Tigers, who hadn't lost at home this season, returned to Memorial Stadium on Saturday [...]

Byline: Nick Kelly If there's a day of practice for which Missouri offensive players want to make sure they are most focused, it's Wednesday. On that day, they work third [...]

Byline: Nick Kelly Receiver Johnathon Johnson did not travel with the Tigers to Athens due to an illness that kept him out of practice this past week. 'We anticipate (Johnson) [...]

Byline: Nick Kelly ATHENS, Ga. -- As the red lights flashed, the stands rattled and the crowd booed, Missouri quarterback Taylor Powell decided to try and find familiar in a [...]

Byline: Nick Kelly Former Missouri receiver Bud Sasser couldn't stand the noise. He found it annoying. He didn't want to be practicing in the week before a game while listening [...]

Byline: Nick Kelly Kentucky center Drake Jackson couldn't help but grin and release a baritone chuckle when he thought of the block. He was smiling from the moment Missouri lined [...]

Byline: Nick Kelly Missouri football has another bye this week, but when they play next, the Tigers will be back in primetime. Missouri will face Georgia at 6 p.m. Nov. [...]

Byline: Nick Kelly The Missouri football team has another bye this week, but when they play next, the Tigers will be back in primetime. Missouri will face Georgia at 6 [...]

Byline: Nick Kelly Missouri football coach Barry Odom wants the re-opening of Missouri-Kansas to extend past men's basketball. With the news that the Tigers and Jayhawks men's basketball teams will [...]

Byline: Nick Kelly NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Tigers, even after three quarters of less-than-desirable play, had more than a chance Saturday heading into the final quarter. They had a tie [...]

Byline: Nick Kelly Missouri's discipline was at a low point Saturday in a stunning 21-14 loss at Vanderbilt. Among the worst of the Tigers' 12 penalties for 120 yards was [...]

Byline: Nick Kelly NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- There's no place like home, especially when you're the Missouri Tigers. The team that played in Nashville on Saturday looked like anything but the [...]

Byline: Nick Kelly For the first time this weekend, Vanderbilt running backs coach Tim Horton will experience a consequence of helping direct receiver Barrett Banister to Missouri three years ago. [...]

Byline: Nick Kelly Watching freshman defensive end Isaiah McGuire run down the field in one-on-one coverage is not what Missouri wanted or expected. But here McGuire was, trying to keep [...]

Byline: Nick Kelly Missouri offensive coordinator Derek Dooley's decision to line up left tackle Yasir Durant at wide receiver for one play Saturday received no lack of attention. It's difficult, [...]

Byline: Nick Kelly In the first glimpse of life without linebacker Cale Garrett, Missouri learned a couple of lessons: 1.) The transition will take some time; and 2.) there will [...]

Byline: Nick Kelly All Missouri needed to erase a 15-yard facemask penalty was one right foot. But not just any right foot would do. It needed to be the one [...]

Byline: Nick Kelly Missouri will play yet another afternoon game when it heads to Nashville in two weeks. The Tigers will face Vanderbilt at 3 p.m. CT on Saturday, Oct. [...]

Byline: Nick Kelly There might not have been a more important lesson than the one learned minutes before halftime Saturday: The outlook of a team's season can change in one [...]

Byline: Nick Kelly Missouri will have a primetime homecoming game for the first time during the Barry Odom era. The Southeastern Conference announced Monday that the Tigers will face Ole [...]

Byline: Liam Quinn, Bennett Durando, Nick Kelly Missouri offensive lineman Yasir Durant was a surprise omission from the Tigers' roster in their Southeastern Conference opener against South Carolina on Saturday. [...]

Byline: Nick Kelly, Liam Quinn, Bennett Durando Yasir Durant left Missouri's 50-0 win over Southeast Missouri State in the third quarter with a neck injury, the team said. 'It sounded [...]

Byline: Nick Kelly Barrett Banister had not scored a touchdown since the state championship game of his senior year in high school. It was in 2016. That finally changed Saturday. [...]

Byline: Nick Kelly Missouri will face South Carolina at 3 p.m. CT on Saturday, Sept. 21, at Memorial Stadium, the Southeastern Conference announced Monday. The game will be broadcast on [...]

Byline: Nick Kelly Take a close look at the No. 7 on Kelly Bryant's chest. Squint, maybe. That's when the S might come into view. Might. And it's not just [...]

Byline: Nick Kelly Quarterback Lindsey Scott Jr. has left the Missouri football program as of Friday, per a source with knowledge of the situation. Scott posted 'MIZ' with a 'peace [...]

Byline: Nick Kelly Missouri football lost its top pledge for the 2020 recruiting class Thursday when Antonio Doyle Jr. announced he's decided to re-open his recruitment. 'Big thanks to the [...]

Byline: Nick Kelly Missouri coach Barry Odom could have taken the Oklahoma approach when it came to releasing the depth chart. The page in the Sooners' weekly preview where a [...]

Byline: Nick Kelly Trajan Jeffcoat came into fall camp primed to start at one defensive end spot for Missouri. An elbow injury changed that trajectory. He has missed most of [...]

Byline: Nick Kelly class='asset-contentsubscriber-premium'> MU student-athletes and tutors haven't been permitted to communicate via text, email or any other electronic means as part of a list of corrective actions the [...]

Byline: Nick Kelly class='asset-contentsubscriber-premium'> Mike Slive looked, but he couldn't find the white Southeastern Conference helmet. Slive, then the SEC's commissioner, meant to give the helmet to then-MU chancellor Brady [...]

Byline: Nick Kelly Wide receiver C.J. Boone ditched gaming for napping when he enrolled at Missouri in January. By the time he finishes class, assignments, tutoring, football practices and workouts, [...]

Byline: Nick KellyTwo weeks ago, MU Director of Athletics Jim Sterk announced that MU athletics intended to appeal the sanctions the NCAA Committee on Infractions placed on the department for [...]

Byline: Bennett Durando and Nick Kellyclass='asset-contentsubscriber-premium'>MU athletics thinks it has a chance to overturn a number of NCAA sanctions, including postseason bans, in its appeal to the NCAA Committee on [...]