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"I haven’t heard a damned thing."
Michael Malone is still waiting for a sign from his father.
Until one comes, he'll keep replaying their conversations in his mind.
for
@DenverPost
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Nikola Jokic on Jamal Murray's four steals and three blocks: "He's just going for stats. He doesn't really play defense."
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Suni Lee on deciding to still come to college after Olympics: “I don’t think anybody intended for me to win gold. I didn’t intend for that to happen, so it was kind of like I already had my mind set: I’m going to Auburn. … I wanted to be here.”
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Aaron Gordon, asked what he likes about playing the five: “There’s only two positions in basketball. On the floor and off the floor.” Gordon prefers to be on the floor.
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Crowd erupts as the best gymnast in the world scores her first perfect 10 at Auburn Arena. What a moment for Suni Lee.
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The
@denverpost
can report Valeri Nichushkin was involved in a police incident at
#Avs
team hotel in Seattle, resulting in a woman who was found intoxicated in his room being transported to hospital for medical treatment. Nichushkin left Seattle that day.
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Things DeAndre Jordan is good for, according to Nikola Jokic: “…to give you advice on and off the court, to make fun of somebody, to make fun of him. He’s always up to something. To share a glass of wine (with), too. He’s a really good teammate.”
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Aaron Gordon is ready to play tomorrow vs. Hornets, he tells
@denverpost
. The dog that bit him on Christmas was his Rottweiler that his dad usually takes care of because the Nuggets travel so often. “He’s a good boy. He’s a good dog,” Gordon says. More soon
@DPostSports
.
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Nikola Jokic on Chet Holmgren:
“He’s a really talented guy, but this is his first year. He’s still learning everything. … I think he needs experience. I think he needs to be a little bit fatter, to be honest.”
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Breaking: Auburn’s Walker Kessler wins Naismith National Defensive Player of the Year award in New Orleans.
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Auburn basketball team disrespectfully dancing on its own logo at center court.
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Jabari Smith on the tarmac (via Wendell Green’s Instagram live): “We’re gonna make up for it. Oklahoma, in The Jungle. We back.”
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“This is probably up there with the Olympics,” Suni Lee said.
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you can make out Jokic holding his child like a beacon of light in the middle of this bedlam
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Jeff Graba on Auburn Arena tonight: “This is why they came here. … Well, this is more than what they came for.”
“In my opinion, there’s not an atmosphere even close to this in college gymnastics.”
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Gonzaga vs. Quad 1/Quad 2: 5-2
Auburn vs. Quad 1/Quad 2: 10-1
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Here’s the NCAA’s official transcript of Ron Hunter’s response to my question about rebounding, before which I was required to state my publication.
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More Harsin when asked about Bo Nix: “Be honest with you, I’m gonna focus more on the guys we have.”
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This guy has averaged 24.8 points the last six games.
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UConn coach Dan Hurley: "Wait, what time do we play (Michigan State) tomorrow?"
(Noon ET.)
Hurley: "Oh, shit."
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Eli Drinkwitz, Cuonzo Martin, Robin Pingeton, Brian Smith and Steve Bieser all in the house for
#Mizzou
softball's regional final today.
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Greatest athlete duos to come through Auburn at the same time:
Bo Jackson + Charles Barkley
Suni Lee + Jabari Smith
Third nomination, anyone?
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Bruce Pearl pointed out Auburn won't have the jungle for the Murray State game with students on break. "We need our crowd to not act their age."
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Erik Johnson said as he was walking into the arena today, Pavel Francouz told him he was going to get a hat trick.
Francouz was mad at Johnson after the game for scoring only one.
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I’ve lived in Missouri my entire life, so it feels weird to leave, but here we go: I got a job!
Starting next week, I’ll be the new Auburn beat writer for the Montgomery Advertiser (
@MGMAdvertiser
) and USA TODAY Network. Excited and humbled to join a stellar SEC coverage team.
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Evan Rodrigues, who joined the
#Avs
on a 1-year deal in Sept., wants to be back. “I love it here. Family loved it here. It’s an unbelievable team. It’s a team that’s set up to win Stanley Cups. Elite talent. When we’re healthy, depth. Forwards, D, goalie. It’s an awesome group.”
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Found the first students who pitched a tent outside Auburn Arena: It was 6 a.m.
“We’re trying to convince ourselves this is fun.”
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The
#Avs
lost to New Jersey, 1-0.
Colorado had been shut out once in its previous 153 games.
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“I feel bad. I nailed him on that screen. God damn.”
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we’re about to find out if yall’s sarcasm literacy is better than it was yesterday
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Murray State guard Tevin Brown says he didn’t talk with any teammates or Auburn people before tweeting the three-weeks-old final score. It was all his idea, in an effort to bring a peaceful end to the Auburn fanbase’s Meme War.
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the Auburn fans flying into Houston today chose violence, in the form of Braves hats
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Hello from mountain time. Next week I begin new job as the Colorado Avalanche beat writer for The Denver Post. I can’t wait to get to know the city, interact with the fanbase and find interesting stories. Please don’t hesitate to hmu with what you enjoy reading about! Can’t wait.
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Cale Makar stayed in full uniform in the locker room for a while. He was the last
#Avs
player to leave. Was hard on himself, said he didn’t play well enough in this series.
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Did the ESPN broadcast just ask if Auburn claims Cam Newton? I can't tell if that actually happened or if my Undisclosed Illness is making me delusional.
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Devils coach Lindy Ruff: "Felt like a playoff game."
#Avs
coach Jared Bednar: "I thought the game was relatively low-event."
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After the All-Star Game, Bill Walton found Nikola Jokic again to chat. They talked at practice the day before. Why has Walton has become Jokic’s biggest fan and advocate?
“Nikola Jokic represents the conquest of substance over hype,” he told
@denverpost
.
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Michael Malone already had a feeling his record at Utah was bad, but he found out how bad this morning -- the Nuggets are 1-14 during his tenure in Salt Lake City.
"I think it's jet lag. That's a really long flight. And we don't really acclimate to the altitude very well."
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South Carolina coach Shane Beamer said he doesn’t know if anyone in the country plays a schedule year in and year out as difficult as the Gamecocks do (Clemson, Georgia, Texas A&M). Wonder if Auburn’s Bryan Harsin would beg to differ.
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Auburn men’s basketball is the No. 1 team in the country via the AP poll for the first time in school history.
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Penn State fans by the dozens in downtown Auburn this morning.
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Cuonzo leaves his postgame presser with this: "That was a big time football game yesterday, wasn't it? Let's all drink up."
#Mizzou
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Michael Porter Jr. said each of his teammates texted him individually to check in after a tough last few days. "A lot of people were reaching out. Friends, family. So to have these guys understand why I missed practice yesterday and just have my back has been big for me."
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Jabari Smith called the No. 1 pick of the draft a coin toss. Here are two sides of the coin on opposite sides of the curtain.
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Happy 1st weekend of baseball! A life update: This summer I’ll be covering the Cardinals and STL sports for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch/
@stltoday
as a Rick Hummel Intern. Surreal opportunity to learn from MLB Hall of Famer
@cmshhummel
,
@dgoold
& other greats at my hometown paper.
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Ronald Acuña Jr.: “I was a little scared at first, but I think the fans were out there and asking for a picture. But security was able to get there, and so I think everything’s OK. Everyone’s OK.”
He said the second, more aggressive fan was also just asking for a photo.
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Empty arena. KD Johnson’s 17 points were on 4-of-6 shooting. He’s working on stepping into his 3s now.
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Joel Embiid on telling Nikola Jokic postgame that Jokic is best in the NBA: "We hugged it out. It's funny because Twitter, they have a war going on between Philly fans and Denver fans. ... Both of us are just like, 'Who cares?' We just want to play basketball and win some games."
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The Nuggets have never lost a Western Conference home game with Nikola Jokic, Jamal Murray, Michael Porter Jr. and Aaron Gordon playing. That's what's at stake in the second half tonight.
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The Big Three: Cale Makar, Devon Toews, John Calipari
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Some news: I’m changing roles. Really excited to share I’m the new Nuggets beat writer at the
@DenverPost
. I’ve had a blast covering the Avalanche, and my byline still may cross over occasionally. But I’m thrilled to be back on a basketball beat abundant with interesting stories.
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"This is our best win of the season so far," Bruce Pearl said.
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Pavel Francouz hopes the
#Avs
are all “really hairy” by the end of the season.
He also thinks the beat writers should grow playoff beards.
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After Michael Malone called out his bench unit in Houston, three young neighbors weren't ready to sleep yet when the Nuggets landed in Denver from a 1-4 road trip late that night.
On the bond between Christian Braun, Peyton Watson and Julian Strawther:
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Bruce Pearl: "If you want to take a picture of an Auburn basketball player and it's Zep Jasper and say, 'That's Auburn basketball,' I'd be OK with that."
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Owen Pappoe asked if he would like Auburn to wear orange jerseys for the orange-out vs. Penn State. "Auburn's real traditional."
"I've mentioned it to them a couple of times, including last year."
Says he's been told Auburn is planning some sort of uniform surprise this year...
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Cale Makar and Gabe Landeskog signing jerseys for
#Avs
fans sitting in front of the press box in LA. Cale just signed a Forsberg.
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Christian Braun said his phone was blowing up a bit because of his dunk, but "I haven't really looked at my phone yet. I saw my mom texted me."
What did she say?
"Lord knows. I probably can't say it in here."
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Aaron Gordon explains Christmas dog bite injuries that required 21 stitches, tells
@denverpost
he feels good enough to play after return to practice.
“For lack of better words, I was (messing) around with my dog, and when you (mess) around, you find out.”
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Artturi Lehkonen is day-to-day. I asked Jared Bednar if he thought the Charlie McAvoy play that that injured Lehkonen was dirty.
“Yes.”
Because of the takedown itself or just because it was after the whistle?
“Both.”
#Avs
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Thoughts and prayers to Bruce Pearl's grandchildren
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Michael Malone and Nikola Jokic are standing under the arena waiting for the Nuggets as they leave the floor, greeting everyone with high fives on the other side of the tunnel. Jokic jumped all over KCP and Malone gave him a double H5. Reggie Jackson got a big hug from Joker.
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uh, I present to you:
Cogliano, MacKinnon, O'Connor
Hudon, Newhook, Rantanen
Hunt, Compher, Kaut
Galchenyuk, Megna, Blidh
#Avs
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I’ve spent many hours the last three years searching for and often failing to find the right words to describe games. Now I graduate in a week and I cannot find the right words to describe how that makes me feel. For now, I‘ll settle with this: Faurot, it has been far out.
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Cale Garrett says this is the play when he originally injured his left pectoral tendon, with 3:27 left in the first quarter. He ended up having three straight tackles on this series and he played the rest of the first half. Played through the injury for two INTs and a touchdown.
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Yesterday was my last game on the Auburn beat. Today is my last day. It was a great experience and a lovely place to live. I’m grateful to friends who made me feel at home in a new state. Grateful to
@tommydeas
&
@ByChrisThomas
for the opportunity. Grateful to everyone who reads.
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Auburn safety Smoke Monday said facing the Mississippi State Air Raid "is gonna show that we're one of the best secondaries in the country."
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Walker Kessler is one block away from an NCAA Tournament triple-double.
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Peyton Watson loudly bleated like a goat in Nikola Jokic’s direction as Jokic was walking through the locker room toward the showers. Jokic had earbuds in. Unclear if he could hear it. But he was looking over at Watson with an expression somewhere between confusion and contempt.
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My 2 cents: Cuonzo Martin deserved 1 more year. He has shown what he can do with time to develop a roster. He’s a good coach. The recruiting was an issue. But he inherited a program at its all-time worst and got it back to March 2x in 4 years. Left Mizzou better than he found it.
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Jordan Weber throws a no-hitter and
#Mizzou
beats Iowa State 5-0 to advance to the NCAA super regional vs. James Madison at Mizzou Stadium next weekend.
Missouri won all three games this weekend and outscored its opponents 17-0 and allowed two hits in 20 innings. Dominance.
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Thanks to
@WalkerKessler13
for allowing me to go on this journey:
I tried to score over Auburn center Walker Kessler, college basketball’s greatest shot blocker.
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OH on the Fire Mike Norvell space: “We went from DBU to Down Bad University.”
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Reggie Jackson on KCP's help defense for Nuggets' last stop after Cunningham got by Jackson: “We’ve been together since our Detroit days, so if anybody has seen me get beat and knew I was gonna get beat quickly, (it’s KCP). ... I’m sure he was counting on me to get crossed over."
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Auburn University Board of Trustees meeting agenda for Feb. 4 includes approval of a new Auburn Arena practice gym.
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Nikola Jokic on his dunk with Wembanyama in pursuit: "It was funny."
He said to Wemby after, "If you block one more shot, I'm gonna -- (long pause) -- something."
"But he blocked like four after that, so I didn't do anything about it."
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Last year during the NBA Finals, I wrote about Bruce Brown’s unseen pregame routine.
Here’s a short sequel. Brown now has a 2-hour video saved in his phone that he watches a snippet of before games: a compilation of every basket he made as a Denver Nugget
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Four years ago, Zep Jasper was an academic redshirt mimicking Auburn guard Jared Harper for College of Charleston’s scout team. He couldn’t travel with the team to March Madness.
Here’s the story of
@Rip_quan5
, his tutor, an NCAA Tournament and 3 degrees:
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#Avs
coach Jared Bednar’s thoughts on Kraken’s Jordan Eberle avoiding supplemental discipline from NHL after boarding Andrew Cogliano in Game 6: “I don’t know. I can’t figure it out anymore. So I don’t even try.”
Bednar said Cogliano is feeling good.
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"I was grateful (Wendell Green) was able to come back," Bruce Pearl said. "Based on his pain and based on his reaction, I thought, 'Man, knee. That's it.'"
"That might've been the biggest win of the night, when Wendell came out of the training room."
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My phone camera missed the main portion of it, but Nikola Jokic received a big applause from the fans in Washington as he walked off.
42-12-8, a steal and three blocks, no turnovers
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Last year, it was Bruce Brown. This year, Denver’s challenge will be keeping Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, who league sources expect will decline his $15.4m player option.
KCP tells
@denverpost
he hasn’t made a decision yet, is keeping his focus on a 3rd ring
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check out this crowd at Ball Arena for college hockey
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There is a sizable Auburn contingent here. Lots of cheers on the early buckets from KD Johnson and Jabari.
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“Where’s Embiid at?” chant breaks out at Ball Arena.
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The crowd reacting to Derrian Gobourne's floor 10 rivals the Devan Cambridge dunk vs. Kentucky in loudest moments of the year in this building.
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The Nuggets starting unit of Jamal Murray, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Michael Porter Jr., Aaron Gordon and Nikola Jokic played 958 minutes in the regular season, 159 minutes more than any other 5-man lineup. That’s more playing time than any 5-man lineup in the last six seasons.
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No. 3 UCLA loses at home to Oregon in overtime, joining No. 1 Baylor in the upset category this week.
Auburn watches patiently…
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Is Auburn rooting for Vanderbilt now?
Sonny DiChiara: "It would be pretty sick to host a super regional, I'll tell you that."
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Previewing Auburn, Arkansas HC Eric Musselman was asked about how excited he is to have the opportunity to beat a No. 1 team: “When you look at their roster, I don’t know if you get really excited.”
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Now that we all have way too much time on our hands, spent hours on zoom making this with
@Liam_D_Quinn
,
@TJQuinnESPN
and
@studurando
(plus a 5-minute
@vgregorian
cameo).
Behold the Bruce Springsteen Bracket. Reply with your completed bracket, E Street fans!
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Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Aaron Gordon and Michael Porter Jr. all left without speaking to media.
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Bruce Pearl on regular season finale after clinching share of SEC title: “It’ll be win this game at all costs. We’re not holding back at all.”
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In today’s
@denverpost
: Michael Malone reflects on extension.
“When I moved to Denver, I think my daughters were in third and fifth grade. The fact that I’m going to see both my daughters graduate high school (here) — that never happens in this business.”
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Freshman K Harrison Mevis goes 5-for-5 on FGs, Bazelak throws 4-for-4 on the final drive for 54 yards against Barry Odom’s defense, and
#Mizzou
beats Arkansas 50-48 for the Battle Line trophy. Missouri is 5-3. This was fun. Coverage to come for
@stltoday
w
@Dave_Matter
@Ben_Fred
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