
How Mizzou got back to NCAA Tournament: ‘This doesn’t happen if players don’t believe in the vision’
The past two Missouri men’s basketball seasons have started the same.

The past two Missouri men’s basketball seasons have started the same.
The Kansas City Mavericks have signed another college player to help with the stretch run of the regular season.
Free agent wide receiver Mecole Hardman, who caught the winning touchdown for the Chiefs in Super Bowl 58, is headed elsewhere for the 2025 season.
Missouri is hiring former Tennessee coach Kellie Harper to lead its women’s basketball program.

Back by popular (?) demand, this region-by-region bracket preview – in homage to late News & Observer sports columnist Caulton Tudor, who invented the format and lingo and produced this preview for decades – cuts to the meat of the bracket.

The NCAA Tournament is here, and that can mean only one thing. TV timeouts.

The NCAA women’s basketball tournament bracket is set. Here’s a rundown of the players to watch, potential Cinderella teams and game previews for every region in the 2025 NCAA women’s basketball tournament.

The Grain Valley baseball team has been a factory for high-level pitchers.
The path, for now, is marked with percentages and projections.

Just like fathers and sons often form a bond tied together by baseball, Clint Hurdle started loving the game the day his dad, Big Clint, asked him, "Do you want to go outside and play catch?" The former Pittsburgh Pirates manager was 5. A flame was lit.