Mizzou Sports

Several former Missouri football players have found spots with NFL teams as undrafted free agents after the conclusion of this year's NFL Draft.

Missouri starting pitcher Nicole Hudson gave up seven runs on nine hits while Kentucky pitcher Kelsey Nunley held Missouri batters to six hits and only one earned run.

The start time for the Missouri baseball team's Saturday game against Southeastern Conference opponent Auburn has been moved back from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. because of rain.

Rob Zastryzny gave Missouri a chance to win against Auburn, but the offense could only muster one run on a second-inning Keaton Steele homer. Still, Zastryzny said the loss is on him.

Missouri's Sheldon Richardson was picked 13th to the New York Jets in the first round of the NFL draft but the decision has been met with some criticism. 

Katrine Haarklau set a new Missouri school record of 49.56 meters and placed third in the javelin throw Friday at the Drake Relays in Des Moines, Iowa.

Nicole Hudson's ninth-inning home run put the Tigers up for good, 2-1, Friday night. Chelsea Thomas (18-4) pitched a complete game for the victory.

Angie Kern, a three-time Level 10 Missouri state vault champion and a two-time Level 10 state all-around champion, will join the Missouri gymnastics team for the upcoming 2014 season.

Sheldon Richardson made 75 tackles in the 2012 season, best among all SEC interior defensive linemen. The Jets selected him with the 13th overall pick.

Dan Quigley broke the 5K school record last weekend and moved up to eighth in the NCAA national rankings.

With the help of his mother, Jared McGriff-Culver is coming to grips with the reality that his football career might be over after this weekend.

Five different Tigers pitchers combined for 11 strikeouts, but it was the lack of offense that led to a 4-2 loss to the Bears on Wednesday at Taylor Stadium.

The Tiger Academy of Gymnastics, one of Columbia's largest youth gymnastics clubs, has practiced out of MU's Tiger Performance Complex since the facility opened in October of 2011. But come Aug. 31, it will no longer be able to use the home of the Missouri gymnastics team.

While the Tigers' No. 2 and 3 pitchers had strong performances, the team's lack of enthusiasm led to a split double-header against Western Kentucky on Wednesday.

Missouri improves one spot in the USA Today/NFCA poll and remains the same in the ESPN.com/USA Softball poll.

Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas is the favorite to be the site of the first national championship game in the new system.

Redshirt freshman pitcher Gerrion Grim said the decision was based on his "development as a player." He plans on continuing that development at the junior college level.

This is the fifth game that Missouri has not played because of weather this season. The Tigers will host Missouri State on Wednesday. 

The senior pitcher leads all SEC players in weekly awards.

Former Missouri women's basketball associate head coach Randy Norton, who had been on coach Robin Pingeton's staff for the past 10 seasons, has accepted the head coaching position at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.