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Showing how it’s done
Eleven rows behind the Missouri women’s basketball team’s bench sits 17 seventh- and eighth-grade girls, waving black and gold pompoms and looking at the team picture handed to them with player information and the season’s schedule on the back. They’re eager for the game to end so they can head to the court and get autographs from their favorite players.
Kids’ club keeps rolling
More than a dozen red-faced young boys with untied shoes strategically position themselves on the green and gold matted floor of the Rock Bridge wrestling room. Waiting intently on all fours for their coach’s signal, a few of the boys grin knowingly in anticipation of the ensuing mayhem. On cue, the boys rumble toward each other, ultimately engaging in desperate attempts to remove their opponents’ footwear.
Tigers know atmosphere will affect Illini game
For Marshall Brown, Tuesday night’s game is going to be big, almost as big a game as the Missouri men’s basketball team will play all season.
Power surge too much
ST. LOUIS — Given 11 power-play chances, the Nashville Predators finally cashed in.
Rams rudely rout Raiders
OAKLAND, Calif. — Five more turnovers, a seventh straight loss and a third shutout this season.
A pioneer of politics
For George Parker, education and duty are serious business.
Insurance help main issue for chamber
JEFFERSON CITY — Missouri Chamber of Commerce President Dan Mehan said that among the major issues the chamber plans to pursue for the next General Assembly session will be a plan for small businesses that don’t provide health insurance for employees.
Method lowers treatment time for breast cancer
Eileen Perry, a 79-year-old Columbia resident, found a tumor during her annual mammogram in January.
Ashland economic growth linked to sewer update
It’s no secret the city of Ashland has big plans for 840 acres of mostly undeveloped land it annexed six years ago that stretches north to Columbia Regional Airport.
A new spin on mysteries of gravity
Relativistic jets are among the most spectacular, and most mysterious, phenomena in the known universe.
Columbian charged in stabbing, car theft
A Columbia man turned himself in to Jefferson City Police on Sunday morning after Boone County Sheriff’s Department deputies say he attacked two woman with a frying pan, stabbed one of them three times with a steak knife and then stole one of their cars.
