Opening Day is here!

Happy MLB Opening Day to the Cardinals, Royals and other teams who Mizzou fans reading here root for.

Not one, but TWO former Mizzou Baseball pitchers have been scheduled to get the Opening Day start on their respective big-league clubs. Pitcher U, indeed.

Of course, there’s Max Scherzer. With Jacob deGrom to the Rangers, Scherzer headlines the Mets’ starting rotation making his seventh career Opening Day start in a star-studded pitching match-up against Sandy Alcantara and the Marlins. First pitch at 3:10 p.m. CST at Marlins Park.

Then there’s Kyle Gibson — who will be making his debut with the Orioles against the Red Sox. Gibson signed a one-year contract with Baltimore in the offseason. This will be Gibson’s second Opening Day start of his career. First pitch is at 1:10 p.m. CST at Fenway Park.

Also in the Baltimore-Boston series, Tanner Houck is scheduled to get the start on Sunday afternoon for the Red Sox as he is slotted in the No. 3 spot in the rotation behind Corey Kluber and Chris Sale.

And according to SB Nation’s DRays Bay — Peter Fairbanks has made the Rays’ Opening Day roster as a reliever.

Onto Mizzou’s current diamond sports — both baseball and softball were winners on Wednesday afternoon as both programs stayed undefeated in midweek games.

Plus, a good read on Mizzou Baseball’s senior leader Luke Mann from D1Baseball’s Joe Healy — if you have a subscription.

Onto the links. Enjoy Opening Day, and M-I-Z!

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Yesterday at Rock M

• Mizzou Wrestling from Matthew Smith: A Tiger Style In Review
• From Brandon Kiley: Could Missouri’s new offensive line coach bring All-Conference guard with him?

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More Links:

(STLToday)

• From Jeff Gordon: Free-agent frenzy has college basketball coaches scrambling for talent

(Columbia Missourian)

• From Ethan Burke: Missouri baseball survives scare from Lindenwood
• From the staff: MU softball starts fast, defeats Northern Iowa

(Miscellaneous/Tweets)

• Charlton Young is here to STAY at Mizzou after declining the Temple head coaching job offer. Here’s his message on Twitter. LOVE to see it!

• ICYMI: Nick Garner, Laurence Bowers, and Bud Sasser joined ABC17’s Nathalie Jones to talk all things Mizzou’s NIL collective Every True Tiger

• Ben Sternberg taking over the Mizzou Hoops Instagram account this week!

• ($$) From ESPN’s Bill Connelly: Inside the many ways to construct a college football roster (with some good quotes from Eli Drinkwitz in here)
• A major congrats to Dennis Gates, who has been named a NABC Convention Speaker

• Some big-time awards here from Mizzou Women’s Basketball commits:

• A big congrats to Alfons Bondesson, who has been named the SEC Freshman Golfer of the Week! Read more here on MUTigers.com.

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