Yes, this is a Missouri Tiger site.  Yes, Albert Pujols does not go to Mizzou, nor has ever gone to Mizzou.  Still, I was thinking about La Machina (El Machino?) the other day and got to wondering about his Triple Crown chances.  He’s currently leading the NL in homers and RBIs and is ninth in [...]

Say what?  Why didn’t anyone tell me that a new professional football league was starting?  Come on, people. 
I love professional football leagues, the more fledgling the better.  I was a rabid USFL fan - loved the Michigan Panthers with their cool helmets and electric WR Anthony “the Darter” Carter. 

What pre-teen football enthusiast wouldn’t fawn over that [...]

Weeks go by with no college football news.  Then, suddenly, we get bombarded with stuff.  Not that the following really constitutes a bombardment.  More of a light shrapnel shower.
Blaine Dalton is a free man.  All charges dropped.  He’s a Tiger again.
Sheldon Richardson is going to the College of the Sequoias for a couple years and [...]

Is it happening again?  Who knows, but the idea that Bobby Petrino can consistently swoop into Missouri and take players Pinkel wants is more than a little troubling.  From an Arkansas blog:
Marquise Hill received a scholarship offer from Arkansas this morning.
 
Hill, 6-1, 175, 4.45 of St. Louis Trinity Catholic has about 15 scholarship offers, including [...]

Just for fun, so I can be mocked mercilessly in a few years, here are my predictions of NFL success for the 2009 Tiger NFL draft class:
1. Chase Coffman. I guess it is just a feeling, but Coffman’s competitive fire and “difference-ness” make him my choice for the 2009 draftee most likely to [...]

Like others, the Wall Street Journal is where I turn for my sports news.  Recently, the WSJ ran a piece on the value of having an experienced offensive line.  I think that fact is intuitive to some degree but unfortunately, the WSJ doesn’t dig too deep to confirm this intuition.   Anyway, this tidbit caught my [...]

Aaron Crow, former Mizzou pitcher and number one draft pick of the Washington Nationals in 2008, finally pitched again in a game.  Crow, after being unable to come to terms with the Nats, signed with the Fort Worth Cats of the American Association, and is prepping for the 2009 draft in early June.
Crow wasn’t masterful [...]

Brock Christopher had a deal in place with the Atlanta Falcons before the draft even started.  Tommy Saunders got invited to tryout with the Bucs after impressive pro-days that included benching Ziggy Hood 20 times.   That dude is all muscle - and he can catch the ball too. 
While the drafted and Chase Tigers have lit [...]

The quarterbacks Chase have embarked on their quest to carry a clipboard, wear a headset and an outrageously long cape-like coat in the winter, and make a shitload of money.  A nobler pursuit I do not know.  
We’ve come a long way from this….

The halcyon days of Chasery if ever there was one.   The magazine came [...]

Stryker Sulak is on the same Colin Brown bubble with respect to making the NFL team that drafted him.  I like his chances less than Brown’s if only because the Raiders are dumb and keeping the man who lead all of college football in forced fumbles would be smart. 
It’s become a chant almost to say [...]

Well, this was a pleasant surprise.  Not much had been written about Colin before the draft and while I assumed he’d get an NFL shot, I thought it’d be the free agent route.  Colin was surprised when his phone rang during the fifth round.  The Chiefs, my adopted hometown team but not a team I [...]

Chase Coffman was the third round pick of the Cincinnati Bengals, not a good team, but a team with a really good QB and some playmakers and a crazy guy who can’t say “85″ in Spanish.   Already Chase Coffman leads the team in fewest police reports and TROs filed against him, so that’s something.
Coffman was [...]

The Bootheel’s favorite son, Willy Mo, was the third safety taken in the ‘09 draft.  Kiper had Moore’s mug at the top of his list of best available safeties from the get-go, but he lasted  until the 23rd pick in the second round.  His lack of production in ‘09, his injuries, and his so-so combine 40 didn’t help [...]

The Super Bowl Champion Pittsburgh Steelers, home of the best defense in the world, drafted our guy Ziggy Hood in the first round.  With the Steelers’ greatness (gave up fewest points and yards in 2008) and 3-4 defense (so only one interior d-line spot), one might think it’d be tough for Ziggy to crack the starting lineup.  [...]

After years of ambivalence, I am now an Eagles fan.   Former Mizzou coach, Andy Reid, pulled the surprising trigger to make Maclin his team’s first round choice.  Not that it was surprising that Maclin was a first round pick, but that the Eagles, a team seldom mentioned as a possible destination, picked him.  After looking [...]