Mizzou Basketball Links
Tony Mitchell posted the following message on his Facebook page last night:
ZOU Nation! Thank You ALL For The Love And Support You All Gave Me These Past Months And Continue You To I Love Yall For That The Best Fans In America lol But I Just Have To Change My Route :) Thanks Everybody! I Love Yall Man..Mean Green!! Ha!
Classy. Good luck to you, Tony.
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Mitchell
NCAA.org: The NCAA declares Tony Mitchell ineligible; University of Missouri plans no further appeals
PowerMizzou: Mitchell and Mizzou: How we got here
KBIA Sports Extra: Anderson on NCAA Mitchell ruling: "I'm very disappointed for Tony and his family"
KC Star: Mitchell saga finally comes to an end at Missouri
The Missourian: Tony Mitchell moving on after NCAA decision
The Dagger: Prized Missouri recruit Tony Mitchell may land at North Texas -
Ratliffe
KC Star: Mizzou's Ricardo Ratliffe wears reminder of hardships on his back
Fox Sports MW: Juco transfer Ratliffe starring for MissouriThe tattoo stretches from one shoulder to the other across the back of Ricardo Ratliffe, a script of the sort you see spray-painted on subway cars and walls in rundown parts of most of the big cities of America.
It shrieks at you.
P-O-V-E-R-T-Y
When Missouri basketball teammate Michael Dixon first saw that massive skin engraving, Dixon didn’t stroll over and casually ask the 6-foot-8, 240-pound forward to tell the story behind it. Dixon saw a history in that tattoo.
"You’ve got to go through some pretty bad stuff to have ‘poverty’ tattooed on your back," Dixon said.
Pretty bad stuff doesn’t cut it. Try real bad stuff. Horrendous stuff. The kind of stuff that can break kids like Ricardo Ratliffe, who vowed he would not break, no matter how hard life got to be in Hampton, Va.
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SI.com (Seth Davis): Jigsaw Man
Big 12 Basketball Links
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Texas > Oklahoma State
ESPN.com: VIDEO: Texas Wins Big Over Oklahoma State
ESPN.com: OTL: Dear Nate
Cowboys Ride for Free: Oklahoma State Basketball falls to Texas, 61-46
Daily Oklahoman (Berry Tramel): A night to remember
Daily Oklahoman: Marshall Moses scores 14 in Oklahoma State's loss to Texas
Austin American-Statesman: Longhorns bring flowers
Daily Oklahoman: Texas players wear shirts honoring Oklahoma State plane crash victims -
Texas Tech > Iowa State
ESPN.com: Texas Tech 92, Iowa State 83
Clone Chronicles: Uninspired Play Against Texas Tech Leads to Third Consecutive Loss
Mizzou Football Links
- Fox Sports MW: Prepare for life after Blaine Gabbert at Mizzou
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The Trib (Dave Matter): Post-Mortem by Position: Receivers
Other Mizzou Links
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Mizzou Women's Basketball
MUtigers.com: Mizzou Roars Past Kansas, 66-52
The Missourian: Missouri women use late run to beat Kansas
KC Star: Missouri women pull away in second half, top Kansas
Lawrence Journal-World: Missouri women cruise by KU, 66-52
The Missourian: Pingeton brings coaching family to Missouri women's basketball
KBIA Sports Extra: Brown leads Mizzou women past Kansas
KBIA Sports Extra: PHOTOS: Mizzou women defeat Kansas -
Mizzou Gymnastics
MUtigers.com: Gymnasts Prepare for the Metroplex Challenge
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CBS Sports: Texas A&M has "many questions" about UT network
I haven't been able to throw together much outrage regarding Bevo TV at this point -- last summer defeated me -- but ... this IS a pretty decent point. They want to air high school athletes on what basically amounts to ESPN UT?"I can't speak for the NCAA, but I would imagine the governing body will look into the use of a collegiate television network airing games of prospective student-athletes," Byrne said in a statement. "I understand networks such as FSN and ESPN airing high school sports, but whether or not employees under contract with a university that may have additional contact would seem to be an issue" ...