Mizzou Links, 5-27-10

Big 12 Baseball Tournament Links

• Mizzou 7, Texas 3
  MUtigers.com: Mizzou Upends No. 1 Texas
  Austin American-Statesman: Missouri takes down Texas 7-3 in Big 12 Tournament
  SimmonsField.com: Big 12 Tournament: MU 7, UT 3
• Other Results
  Big 12 Sports.com: Aggies Defeat Texas Tech (9-2)
  Big 12 Sports.com: Baylor Defeats KSU On Day One (11-8)
  Big 12 Sports.com: Sooners Beat KU in Last At Bat (3-2)

Football Links

• Dr. Saturday: Sizing up Oklahoma as an alternative at No. 1
  

Basketball Links

• Kansas
  The Dagger: Four questions raised by the Kansas ticket-scalping scandal
  KC Star: NCAA breeds a culture of corruption
  KC Star: Ticket scandal outrages KU donors, alumni
  The Wiz of Odds: Perkins Had Front-Row Seat and Missed Ticket Scandal
  Topeka Capital-Journal: KU announces safeguards
• Oklahoma
  Dallas Morning News: Oklahoma basketball coach deals with 'challenging' offseason
• And via Twitter request ... CBS Sports.com (Gary Parrish): When opportunity knocks, can't blame players for acting like coaches.

And I have no reason for sharing this, other than it's really good -- Joe Posnanski analyzes Paul Pierce.

Other Mizzou Links

• Mizzou Softball
  The Missourian: Missouri looks to silence doubters in super regional

  Earleywine said the team was getting a lot of hype this season, but after Thomas was sidelined, everything changed. On Wednesday, Earleywine waved away reporters with his hands and walked away, imitating what he thought media did after Thomas' injury.

  "One minute we were bring talked about, then they are like, 'Oh Mizzou softball, I'm going to go over here and cover this sport now,'" he said. "I just stopped hearing about us."

  Earleywine said he was angry that people cast aside any hopes of Missouri going deep into the postseason. But even he was guilty of having his doubts.

  "Let me be 100 percent honest, first of all when Chelsea went down, I thought it was really doubtful that we will win a national championship," Earleywine said. "I still thought at that point if we squeeze every bit of juice out them that we got, maybe we can win a regional."

  Meme meets meme: Coach #TremendousStubble smells ... DISRESPECT.
• Mizzou Track & Field
  MUtigers.com: Tigers Set for NCAA First Round
  

Expansion

• USA Today: 'Nothing's off the table' as Texas, Notre Dame keep eye on expansion