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The return of Missouri basketball.

When the Hickman football team won the 2004 Class 6 state championship, the Kewpies’ defense allowed only 54.1 yards and 8.1 points per game. The man in charge of that unit was defensive coordinator Jason Wright.

Two balanced, athletic teams. Two senior point guards to lead. Two teams that expected to be where they are. And two teams trying not to focus on No. 2 seed Connecticut.

Adam Spieker likes to frequent buffets that serve pizza and Chinese food with other members of the offensive line. But, the 6-foot-2, 310-pound center has decided to watch what he eats.

With two outs in the bottom of the seventh and the Missouri softball team trailing Louisville 7-6, the sound of Andee Allen’s walk-up music, “Hells Bells”, lingered in the air at University Field. The few fans remaining after over four hours of softball were hoping for a tying hit, and cheered raucously for Missouri’s freshman shortstop.

The Harrisburg Bulldogs were in uncharted territory in Friday’s Class 2 boys’ basketball championship. The school with an enrollment of 182 had never finished better than fourth in the state tournament.

Cardinal Ritter had an answer for everything. It gave a steal for a steal, and a point for a point, a reaction for every action.

Lining up more than an hour and a half before Saturday’s game began, fans from Blair Oaks waited outside Mizzou Arena to see the Jefferson City team’s Class 3 girls’ championship game. The kelly-green shirts most were wearing announced the school’s trip to the state final four, the first in the Falcons’ history.

A nationally-broadcast television show filmed at his house. Acclaim and admiration from his peers. A chance to teach others about what he loves.

While working on her balance beam routine at a recent practice, Missouri senior Jodie Heinicka paused, almost in mid-stride.

“Come on, Whit!” She yelled, looking straight ahead, seemingly at a very important spot on the wall.

Next week marks the third anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq.Help us pay tribute by sharing memories, stories, prayers, well wishes and photos of loved ones currently serving in Iraq.

Jake Malloy enlisted in the Army at 19, before the war with Iraq began and before he had thought much about the intersection of his religious faith and a duty to kill, should it arise.

Sen. Delbert Scott’s voter identification bill might be well intentioned, but good intentions sometimes “get made into bad laws,” Boone County Clerk Wendy Noren said.

When Ling Han wanted to buy a Christian Chinese book in Columbia, her search seemed impossible. So Han, a Chinese student at MU who is also a Christian, had to look beyond the obvious bookstores.

Before the Columbia City Council applies for state funds to fix transportation issues, it is asking residents to identify problem areas within the city.

Computers, monitors and keyboards once used by city employees were piled onto folding tables in the main room of the Downtown Optimist Building on Saturday morning, waiting to be picked up by low-income Columbia residents.

JEFFERSON CITY — State and federal crews have found about 1,500 damaged or destroyed homes as a result of storms that tore through Missouri last weekend.

Bundled in winter coats, Columbia-area children spent a chilly Saturday afternoon exploring Camp Adventure’s new playground in Stephens Lake Park while their parents picked up informational fliers about the city-run summer day-camp program.

Two Columbia residents were injured Friday night when the car they were in hit an unoccupied vehicle stalled on College Avenue between Walnut and Ash streets.