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Hickman coach Gregg Nesbitt doesn’t have any doubt when he talks about the importance of a blocked punt. “It’s the biggest play in football.” Nesbitt would know, too. His team has done it 11 times this season.

With the loss of All-Big 12 linemen Rob Droege and A.J. Ricker after the 2003 season, there were concerns heading into this season about the play of the offensive line.

Senior Scott Paffrath filled the leadership void among the linemen, however, and has molded the inexperienced group into a solid unit.

James Kinney will likely set the career tackles record for Missouri on Saturday against Kansas or the week after against Iowa State.

That, though, is not the record he cares about most.

As a quarterback at West Platte High School in Weston, Adam Barmann often looked for his younger brother, Brian, on pass patterns.

The Barmann tandem helped West Platte become one of the most successful programs in the state, winning a title in Missouri’s Class 1A division in 2001. If Adam connected on a pass to Brian on Saturday, however, his fans wouldn’t cheer.

When teams prepare to play Kansas, the preparation in all three aspects of the game begins and ends with No. 3.

Sophomore Charles Gordon, after setting school records for a freshman at wide receiver last season, is now making the majority of his plays on defense, leading the Big 12 Conference in interceptions with six. However, he still finds time to return kicks and to catch passes, something Gordon said is an honor.

Davidson begins its season against the Tigers tonight at the Paige Arena. Missouri will be the first in a list of tough competitors the Davidson Wildcats will be facing in the next few weeks. The Wildcats basketball team will be playing Duke, St. Joseph's, Massachussets and Georgetown. The game tonight is 7 p.m. at Paige Sports Arena.

Missouri's game against KU on Saturday now means much more than the regular Border Showdown this year. After a disappointing loss against Kansas State on Nov. 6, Missouri's hopes were rekindled after a series of games last Saturday that gave the Tigers one more chance to reach their goals.

Hickman girls' basketball team is going to have to compensate lack of experience with optimism and hard work this year. Hickman lost all five players that started last season in the the Class 5 state championship. The quest for another state championship experience began Thursday night with the Purple and Gold game.

Lindenwood’s volleyball players have shown Columbia College one side this season. Their good side. In the Cougars’ season opener on Sept. 1, Lindenwood took Columbia College to four games before losing, and on Oct. 2, the Lions defeated the Cougars at the Lindenwood Invitational. The Cougars face the Lions at 7 tonight at The Arena of Southwell Complex in a semifinal match of the NAIA Region V Tournament.

The Missouri women's basketball season begins its 31st season today. The first game today is against Northern Illinois at the Carver Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City, Iowa today at 3 p.m. It is part of Hawkeye Challenge, a tournament that includes Iowa and Southern Illinois as well.

Before many college students hit the snooze button on their alarm clocks, Marla Applebaum Wilcox has parked her car in the Hitt Street garage and headed into Jesse Hall.

At 7:45 a.m., she makes her way to the ice machine for her traditional morning tea. With a cup in hand, she continues her routine, walking one floor down from her office in 128 Jesse Hall to chat with a favorite fellow employee, her husband, Dale Wilcox.

Students gathered in MU’s Middlebush Auditorium on Wednesday evening, anxiously and eagerly awaiting the announcement of winners in the first Journalism FIG Challenge Awards.

The event was meant to showcase skills learned by the journalism and communications freshman interest groups, known as FIGs, in photo, audio and video editing. Students used Apple iBook and PowerBook computers to produce two- to three-minute videos to learn the capabilities of their programs. They formed their own groups of no more than four people to create their vision.

Reclining in his office with his feet up on a chair, David Roebuck is where he wants to be.

“I will never leave,” Roebuck said. “At Columbia College, it is all about teaching and learning. How can it be any better than that when you love doing both?”

Historic Senior Hall, the oldest building on the Stephens College campus, has served many purposes throughout the years.

It was a home, a library, a hospital ward and a residence hall. What makes it famous, however, is its alleged ghost.

Scholars, historians and political scientists studying the Watergate period will now have reason to stop in Columbia to continue their research.

A collection of personal papers from a former Senate lawyer involved in the Watergate investigation was recently donated to MU. The papers belonged to Don Sanders, the deputy minority council for the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities. In 1973, it was Sanders who indirectly asked whether there was a recording system in the White House, perhaps the most important question in the Watergate hearings, the university said in a news release.

In 1994, 72 percent of Boone County residents voted against a tax to advance local mental health service needs. But the Boone County Mental Health Board is mobilizing again, hoping a more specific plan will help the measure pass this time around.

“(The board) didn’t prioritize. They didn’t know how the money would be spent,” Board Chairman Roldan Mienert said. “We will not move ahead this time until we are confident this tax will pass.”

The mother of one of the two Mexico, Mo., teens arrested and charged in the Tuesday night killing of Komninos “Gus” Karellas, 60, told a Mid-Missouri Major Case Squad detective that she helped the defendants destroy evidence, according to a probable cause statement obtained from the Audrain County courthouse.

Lance Lee Berry, 17, and Quinton O’Neal Canton Jr., 17, were arrested without incident in Hermann at 4:35 a.m. Thursday on warrants in connection with the killing, according to a Mexico Department of Public Safety news release.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Bill Clinton, America’s first baby boomer president, opened his library Thursday with a rock ’n’ roll gala that hailed the $165 million glass-and-steel museum as “a gift to the future by a man who always believed in the future.”

Despite a steady, bone-chilling rain, nearly 30,000 people joined a celebration that included tributes from President Bush, his father and former President Carter. Rock stars Bono and The Edge of the band U2 performed a three-song set before Clinton spoke to the crowd .

Music blares as girls in curlers and half made-up faces scamper frantically across the room singing, dancing and nervously chattering.

Across the hall, anxiety fills the room as boys pace silently, rehearsing lines; a few talk among themselves as they dress. These are the typical scenes before the opening night of a play, but the preparation for this play was missing one key element: Its lead actor.