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Croyle playing catch-up heading into preseason finale

Sep 2, 12:13 AM

If there was one play that showed Brodie Croyle was indeed back on the Chiefs’ practice field this week, it was the last one from a 2-minute drill. Croyle looked to his left, dragging defenders that way. He came back to the other side with a bullet to tight end Leonard Pope, who was standing in the end zone. And he didn’t look like a quarterback with a sore arm.

Former Rockhurst quarterback Scheelhaase says one loss has inspired him

Sep 2, 12:22 AM

The story about this Saturday — when Illinois quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase strolls onto the Edward Jones Dome carpet, faces a hell-bent Missouri defense and takes his first snap as a Big Ten starter — begins with the young protagonist fighting back tears.

Tailback Washington won’t be allowed to return to the Tigers

Sep 1, 11:27 PM

The University of Missouri will not allow Derrick Washington to return to the Tigers’ football team, even though there has been no resolution made public regarding a class C felony charge against Washington for deviate sexual assault. The move surprised Washington’s family, said his mother, Sarah.

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How steroids help home-run hitters

Aug 24, 11:22 PM

You never know when talk of steroids is going to enter a baseball chat, even one that is the centered around physics. Mont Hubbard, a professor at the University of California-Davis, previously discussed why a curveball is hit farther than a fastball.

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Wary of another Clemons fiasco, MU acted too fast on Washington

"Derrick Washington is being done wrong by Missouri, and he can blame Ricky Clemons," The Star's Sam Mellinger writes of the tailback who on Wednesday was permanently suspended from the Tiger football program. "The school’s response goes back to Clemons, a well-intentioned administration misapplying lessons of its own past mistakes."

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Blair Kerkhoff

Going for two | Big 12 has shot at perfect weekend

Win now, Big 12, or forever hold your peace. Well, not forever, but the rest of September. Lid-lifting weekend brings an excellent opportunity for the Big 12 to put its best foot forward against nonconference competition.

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Candace Buckner

Mom knows best, even in football

Here’s the lesson for today, kids. Listen to Mom. If she tells you to start your homework, do it. She says to eat your veggies, go hang out at a salad buffet. And if she wants to get her Tony Severino on and give you football advice, then try not to roll your eyes too much and hear what she has to say.

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The Perfect Draft: Not an elusive fantasy

In a perfect world, my starting fantasy lineup this season would feature Drew Brees, Chris Johnson, Adrian Peterson, Andre Johnson, Randy Moss, Miles Austin and Jermichael Finley. That would be the same perfect world in which my daughter rides her pet unicorn to school, Scarlett Johansson stalked me and the IRS didn’t exist.

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