Ticket sales for MU events provide big boost for Columbia's economy

Monday, August 29, 2011 | 7:05 p.m. CDT; updated 3:54 p.m. CDT, Tuesday, August 30, 2011

COLUMBIA — As Columbia Convention and Visitors Bureau board members tore into their rolls at Monday’s lunchtime board meeting, bread and butter of a different kind was on the agenda: the $118 million generated by the MU Department of Athletics.

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