After Mizzou completes football stadium renovation, what project will come next?
COLUMBIA, Mo. 鈥 Before Missouri football coach Eli Drinkwitz teed off alongside dozens of fans and donors at the 最新杏吧原创 Tiger Club鈥檚 golf tournament earlier this week, he offered something of a teaser for the school鈥檚 newest sports landmark.
鈥淵鈥檃ll are going to be stunned,鈥 Drinkwitz told the crowd, 鈥渨hen y鈥檃ll see the north end zone.鈥
Mizzou football coach Eli Drinkwitz speaks with the media on Tuesday, May 26, 2026, during the Southeastern Conference spring meetings in Destin, Florida. (Courtesy SEC)
Mizzou women's basketball assembles young roster for 2026-27 season
COLUMBIA, Mo. 鈥 It looks like Kellie Harper wants to assemble an old-school talent pipeline for her Missouri women鈥檚 basketball program. After emerging from a hectic debut season, she鈥檚 settling into a recruit-and-develop approach to building rosters.
The Tigers鈥 2026-27 squad is likely set. Of the 13 players, four are seniors. There鈥檚 one junior, three sophomores and five freshmen.
Mizzou football begins hosting official visits for recruits with 10 commits already
COLUMBIA, Mo. 鈥 It鈥檚 the time of year when high school recruiting seems to matter once again to college football programs like Missouri.
June 鈥 and, technically, the tail end of May 鈥 mean school is out, and official visits can begin. Many top-level recruits have already taken an unofficial visit or two to the college programs they鈥檙e considering, but these early-summer events tend to come with a little more theatrical polish.
Missouri football coach Eli Drinkwitz waves to onlookers before a game between De Smet against 最新杏吧原创 University High on Friday, Sept. 12, 2025, in Creve Coeur.
Mizzou football coach Eli Drinkwitz speaks with the media on Tuesday, May 26, 2026, during the Southeastern Conference spring meetings in Destin, Florida. (Courtesy SEC)
Worthy: Not so fast on that whole idea that Congress saved college sports
The College sports machine loves a branded rivalry that it can sell to market, promote, sell to fans and monetize. Well, someone start coming up with T-shirt concepts for the next big tussle: Conferences v. Congress.
The latest proposed legislation regarding the governance and structure of college athletics, the Protect College Sports Act, landed this week courtesy of the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee.
Mizzou football coach Eli Drinkwitz speaks with the media on Tuesday, May 26, 2026, during the Southeastern Conference spring meetings in Destin, Florida. (Courtesy SEC)
Niche part of Congress' new college sports bill would affect Mizzou football schedules
COLUMBIA, Mo. 鈥 Buried inside the latest bit of college sports-related legislation to emerge on Capitol Hill is an intriguing string of clauses that would seemingly affect Missouri football鈥檚 scheduling.
The Protect College Sports Act, unveiled this week by U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz and Maria Cantwell, contains a whole lot of provisions . There are proposed new rules on transfers, media rights and when coaches can be hired.
Mizzou football coach Eli Drinkwitz speaks with the media on Tuesday, May 26, 2026, during the Southeastern Conference spring meetings in Destin, Florida. (Courtesy SEC)
What kind of College Football Playoff expansion best suits Mizzou? It's complicated
COLUMBIA, Mo. 鈥 There鈥檚 enough haggling over numbers and percentages to make even the most seasoned salesman a little sweaty under the collar. There are enough variables and potential consequences to fog up the mind of a scientist.
This has gone on long enough to, perhaps, start to lose the interest of a college football fanbase that would like the decision-makers paid seven-figure salaries to live up to the decision-making part of their jobs. But hey, at least there are constant headlines to be written about it, ever-present questions to be asked 鈥 this reporter鈥檚 happy in that world.
Mizzou unlikely to sell football stadium naming rights before 2026 season
COLUMBIA, Mo. 鈥 A little more than three months after starting its search for a corporate partner and a little over three months away from the start of the 2026 college football season, the University of Missouri has not yet found a corporate buyer for the naming rights to its football stadium.
And while the search for a sponsor is ongoing, it鈥檚 at this point unlikely that MU鈥檚 Memorial Stadium will be introduced as anything different when the Tigers kick off Sept. 3 against Arkansas-Pine Bluff.
