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Know Your Murderball Rival: South Carolina
Offensive rebounds, fouls, poor shooting, offensive rebounds and fouls. Yeah, this is a Frank Martin team. Get ready.South Carolina Gamecocks (11-6)SCOpp.Pace (No. of Possessions)67.9Points Per...
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2013 Australian Open: Pupils, masters and familiar foes battle for semifinal...
It's going to be an incredible day (or, in America, night) of tennis at Rod Laver Arena. We lead off with two master-versus-pupil matches in the women's quarterfinals (in the first match, the pupil has...
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Brown and Ross shoot Mizzou out of, into 71-65 win over South Carolina
For the game as a whole, Jabari Brown and Earnest Ross were once again abhorrent from the field on Tuesday night against South Carolina, making just 11 of 34 shots from the field (32.4 percent) and...
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Mizzou Links, 1-23-13
Mizzou Basketball LinksMizzou > South Carolina (eventually)MUtigers.com: Earnest Ross Leads No. 22 Missouri Past South Carolina, 71-65MUtigers.com: Post Game QuotesThe Trib: Tigers survive ugly...
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Study Hall: Mizzou 71, South Carolina 65
So here's where I found my brain going yesterday, even before South Carolina went up 41-28 early in the second half:In football, you've got 85 scholarship players and between 22 and 26 starters,...
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Sloane Stephens' arrival is timely, a bit lucky and welcomed with open arms
You can see it. In every tournament Sloane Stephens enters, the "dialed in" to "in a funk" ratio (the fire-to-funk rate?) shifts ever-so-slightly in a more positive direction. Her footwork is just...
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The Miami case gets stupid
I really don't have anything to add to this that I haven't already expressed, incredulously, on Twitter. It starts with this:The NCAA national office has uncovered an issue of improper conduct within...
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Mizzou Links, 1-24-13
Mizzou Basketball LinksMan ... it's like every writer at the Post-Dispatch lined up to take a swing at the NCAA ... pretty funny stuff.HaithThe Trib: NCAA investigation into Miami and possible charges...
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Australian Open 2013: Djokovic, Federer, Murray and margin for error
Fifty-six. That's the percentage of points Novak Djokovic won in 2011, the year he won 43 straight matches and 64 of his first 66. In 2007, when Roger Federer won three of four slams for the last time,...
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Mizzou Links, 1-25-13
So Ben Askren fought and won last night, maintaining his Bellator welterweight title with a third-round TKO of Karl Amoussou. The Beef live-blogged it in yesterday's links post, and here are a few more...
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Andy Murray has caught up, and tennis is so damn good right now
Federer serves at 0-0, first set. It is a Monday afternoon in New York, September 2008. His quest for a fifth consecutive U.S. Open title has been a little bumpy, but so has his 2008. After winning...
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Know your Nashville Rival: Vanderbilt
A slow-it-down team with iffy (at best) offense and decent defense. It only feels as if Mizzou has already played Vanderbilt three times in conference play, but I promise you, the Tigers...
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No Notice of Allegations for one of Haith's Miami assistants
Fresno State announces that former Miami assistant and current ast Michael Schwartz will not receive a notice of allegations from NCAA 1/2.— Andy Katz (@ESPNAndyKatz) January 25, 2013The NCAA let...
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Victoria Azarenka overcomes Li Na, ire to win second straight Australian Open...
First real boos of night for Azarenka after she whacks away a ball after missing serve. People seemed to be waiting for a chance... #ausopen— Ben Rothenberg (@BenRothenberg) January 26, 2013Big test...
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Saturday Live Thread
It's a busy day of basketball throughout the country, but ... well ... of course it is. It's the last Saturday in January. Here's a thread as we await the mid-afternoon Mizzou game...10:00 a.m....
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Missouri 81, Vanderbilt 59: First-half run keys easy Tiger victory
Good things happen when you make your 3s. Earlier in the week, Missouri made just one of 14 first-half 3-pointers and fell behind South Carolina by double digits before rallying. This time around,...
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2013 Australian Open: Novak Djokovic is still tennis' standard-bearer
He had already made one dramatic leap in his career, and you don't necessarily get a second. He had spent the better part of a year inching up in the rankings, from the 80s, to the 70s, to the 60s. But...
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Novak Djokovic wins 2013 Australian Open
In the fall of 2010, it seemed Novak Djokovic was a victim of poor timing, coming around at the same time as two all-time greats. But then he turned himself into an all-time great. On Sunday, he took...
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Sunday Live Thread
Novak Djokovic has already won the biggest sporting event of the day (let me believe that, dammit), and there's no football (at least no real football), so ... not a lot going on today. And it's...
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Mizzou Links, 1-28-13
Mizzou Basketball LinksMizzou > VanderbiltMUtigers.com: Brown, Oriakhi Lead Mizzou to 81-59 Rout of VandyMUtigers.com: Post Game QuotesMUtigers.com: Post Game NotesThe Trib: Tigers bust out against...
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