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Wow! From Danario Alexander's Instagram feed (danario_84).
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Congratulations to MUPete for winning the Wednesday Contest with the bare minimum of 3 votes. I will award you with the corresponding bare minimum allotment of Denmoney.
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Mizzou Links, 5-24-12
by Bill C. on May 24, 2012 5:22 AM CDT
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Mizzou Diamond Sports Links
So does it count as a "surprise" when you upset a team that you already beat two of three times in the regular season? Regardless, Mizzou took out Texas last night and will now face Texas A&M instead of Kansas. God, Kansas, do you always have to avoid playing us?
(For those interested, Mizzou and A&M played a ridiculously close series in College State at the end of March: Texas A&M won 8-6 and 7-6, and Mizzou won 4-3.)
And yeah, Mizzou almost certainly has to win the conference tournament to get an NCAA bid. Tim Jamieson has been saying for a while that the Tigers should be in good shape if they can get to 30 wins (they're currently 29-26), but that non-conference schedule was so weak that I can't imagine that's the case. The resume is certainly decent -- series wins over Auburn, Texas, Oklahoma State, Kansas State -- but the late series losses to Memphis and Kansas had to doom them. Either way, it won't matter if they can win a few more games and get the automatic bid.
- Super Regionals
The Trib: How LSU's softball coach got her job - Big 12 Baseball Tournament
MUtigers.com: Tigers Blank Texas, 5-0, In Opening Round of Big 12 Tournament
Big 12 Sports: Missouri Shuts Out Texas, 5-0
The Trib: Missouri shuts out Texas in Big 12 opener
KC Star: MU surprises Texas in Big 12 Baseball Tournament
Austin American-Statesman: Missouri shuts down Texas 5-0 in Big 12 tournament
Mizzou Football Links
North endzone going into The ZOU! GP #MIZZOU twitter.com/mizzoufootball…
— Coach Pinkel (@mizzoufootball) May 23, 2012
- E.J. Gaines Now Has DISRESPECT!!!!! Fuel
The Trib (Dave Matter): Seven Tigers land on Steele's All-SEC teams - SEC Defenses
CBS Sports: Missouri and Texas A&M prepare for tough sledding vs. SEC defenses
Other Football Links
- PLAYoff?
Pacific Takes: Larry Scott Says Plus-One Back On The Table
Mizzou Basketball Links
- No Wonder Mike Anderson Wanted To Go Back To The SEC ... Okay, That Was Mean
Rush The Court: Home Sweet Home: A Look Back At Home Court Advantage In The SEC - Sorry, Keyon ... First, You Lose the Rafters Playoff ... And Now This
SB Nation: Keyon Dooling Has His Head In The Game
EXPANSIONAPALOOZA™ 2012
- Tsk Tsk, TCU...
SB Nation: Big 12 Expansion Rumors All But Confirmed By TCU Athletic Director
EDSBS: TCU AD TELLS TRUTH, WILL LIKELY CLAIM HE WAS HIGH
Saturday Blitz: Positives & Negatives of Growing Media on College Football: Recruiting Tools vs. Conference Expansion - But Seriously, It's Probably Going To Happen
Tigernet: Clemson BOT to meet Thursday, discuss rumors of realignment and future
On The Banks: What's wrong with the ACC? - SEC Expansion Candidates Are Pretty Obvious At This Point
Wildcat Blue Nation: Is more SEC realignment on the way? - Everybody Join In!
SB Nation: Notre Dame To The Big 12 And Other Best/Worst Case Scenarios For Conference Realignment
MWC Connection: Mountain West Offered Boise State More Revenue To Stay In The Mountain West
BC Interruption: Conference Realignment: Conferences Based On Academics
Miner Rush: What Would It Be Like If Utah And BYU Never Broke Up The WAC?
Rock M Roundtable!
by Bill C. on May 23, 2012 4:11 PM CDT
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As I momentarily pull myself away from a suddenly mobile Rally Baby, let's crank out some roundtable questions! And no, Atch, no softball questions. We all expect Mizzou to win the WCWS and earn $10K for the Stubble Drive, right? We're in agreement there?
1 - Hey look, EXPANSIONAPALOOZA™ rolls on! How do you think the SEC would respond if the Big 12 added 2-6 ACC teams (and/or Notre Dame) to its roster? Stay at 14? Try to add Virginia Tech and N.C. State? Other?
2 - Big 12/SEC Football Challenge: love the idea or hate it?
3 - Continuing the "CHALLENGE!" theme, who would you want Mizzou to draw in the apparently upcoming Big East/SEC Challenge?
4 - Really, what kind of role model is Dora the Explorer? Adopting a jaguar? Really? And come on, Dora, I don't want to say "Arriba!" four times. Twice is more than enough.
Now For Sale: Tremendous Stubble T-Shirts
by Bill C. on May 23, 2012 12:01 PM CDT
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It's official: you can now purchase your very own Tremendous Stubble T-Shirt! Proceeds will go toward the Missouri Children's Hospital and the Stubble Drive. Here are the details.
1. The front of the shirt will look like the one Lisa Simmons posted last week (see above), only without the (licensed) Block M. The back of the shirt will have some combination of the Rock M Nation logo, the URL, and Stubble Drive information.
2. The price: $20. Half of the cost will go to the printing of the shirt, approximately 10 percent will go to shipping, and the rest will go toward the Stubble Drive.
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Tim Jamieson, Missouri Tigers
Photo: SimmonsField.com (thanks Trrip)
Mizzou Baseball is down at BrickTown to play in their final Big 12 Tournament. Please give TJ the kind of caption that will propel the Baseball Tigers to take that thing down.
Congratulations to TiK for a brilliant winner in the Tuesday Contest. I will deliver your Denmoney on one of those old timey bikes with the giant front wheel.
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Mizzou Links, 5-23-12
by Bill C. on May 23, 2012 5:32 AM CDT
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Joplin
A year ago this moment, we all became #JoplinStrong. Help join us rebuild as part of the #JoplinChallenge: on.mo.gov/IDLch7
— Mizzou Athletics (@mutigersdotcom) May 22, 2012
- Mizzou Network: Revisiting the One State, One Spirit Classic
- Buzzfeed: 60 Powerful Photos Of Joplin Rebuilding
- From The Day After The One State, One Spirit Classic
The Trib: A victory for Missouri
KC Star: Joplin turns to basketball for relief
PowerMizzou: A win all around
The Missourian: Sense of community defines One State, One Spirit Classic
ESPN.com: It's one State, one Spirit in Joplin
Mizzou Diamond Sports Links
- Elite
The Trib: MU softball among elite when it comes to advancing in NCAAs - Big 12 Baseball Tournament (And Other Big 12 Stuff)
The Trib: Ball in hands of ace as MU hits Bricktown
KC Star: KU, MU could meet up early in Big 12 baseball tournament
MUtigers.com: Five Tigers Honored By Big 12 Conference - MU In The Minors
SimmonsField.com: Former Tigers: Frey to Double-A; Fick to the opposing dugout
Mizzou Football Links
- Gabs
Draft Breakdown: Blaine Gabbert: What Can Be Done? (Part 1) - Because We Can't Get Enough Turf Updates...
We Are Mizzou: Turf Tear Up Timeline
Other Football Links
- Real Depth Vs. Fake Depth
Barking Carnival: Texas Longhorns Football: As Depthless As Matt Nordgren's Twitter Feed
Mizzou Basketball Links
- Big East-SEC Challenge
ESPN.com: Big East-SEC matchups
SEC
- No
Mr. SEC: Could TV Negotiations Drive SEC To 9-Game Football Schedule?
EXPANSIONAPALOOZA™ 2012
- This FSU-to-Big-12 Thing Is Going To Drag Out A While, Isn't It...
CBS Sports: Texas AD not for expanding, but admits courting Notre Dame
SB Nation: FSU, Clemson In Touch, But Texas Still Wants Notre Dame
Burnt Orange Nation: Dodds Talks Notre Dame, Need For Expansion
Tomahawk Nation: Podcast: Ingram Smith, Bud Elliott and Brian Ethridge Talk About FSU's Role In Conference Expansion
Other Mizzou Links
- Mizzou Wrestling
Mizzou Network: Kyle Bradley overcomes the odds - Mizzou Women's Basketball
MUtigers.com: Women's Basketball Adds Two Signees To 2012 Class
Other
- Rick Reilly Writes For Fifth Graders
Harvard College Sports Analysis: The Reading Level of Sports Writing - Gatti-Ward I
Grantland: On the 10-year anniversary of Gatti-Ward I, rewatching one of the greatest boxing matches of all time
Missouri had a spot in the premier football league in the land (and it's pretty good in some other sports too) that will have the equivalent of a license to print money when it renegotiates its television deal. It had a seat at the table if and when the music ever stopped. Guaranteed. No questions asked. Had they not taken it, the Tigers might have ended up in another seat at that same table. They may have ended up in a situation that was as good, or at least close. But they would not have ended up in a situation that was any better. And they may have found themselves in a spot far, far worse.
What Missouri lost in leaving the Big 12 was the chance to play Kansas and some history with Kansas State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Iowa State. That's really it. Because even if the Big 12 rebuilds and is just as good as it was three years ago, it's not any better than the SEC. Big 12 teams won't make more money than Mizzou will in the SEC or be more visible on the national landscape. They might be equal (though I think that's arguable), but they will not be superior.
PowerMizzou's Gabe Dearmond, in a free column at PM. I didn't even realize "I bet Missouri is regretting their decision now!" was even a thing until this, but apparently it is.
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Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon, right, later a Titanic survivor, and two British fencing teammates hold dueling pistols at the 1908 London Games, though the individual event was held only in 1906. And none of the duelists was actually shot.
Photo: Topical Press Agency/Getty Images
Victor Mather wrote a really nice piece in the NYT on Olympic Events that should be re-introduced to the Olympics - including Dueling Pistol. Go Read It.
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Congratulations to nycbirdo for locking down the Monday Contest. Your Denmoney will be delivered off the bat of Ashley Flemming. Good luck with that.
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