Wes Kemp News

One of the prime tenets of the first week of bowl-game preparations at Missouri was giving extra work to players buried in the depth chart, or those ticketed for a redshirt with mere scout-team experience.

A month after his last football game as a Missouri Tiger, Jared Perry climbed aboard a stair-step machine and trudged toward what he hopes will be one more football game as a Missouri Tiger.You should see how much I wanted to play in the last two games I had to miss, said Perry, who suffered a fractured tibial platform of the right knee against ...

In his last game at Faurot Field, senior wide receiver Danario Alexander gave the Missouri faithful some history to remember him by.

Iowa State cornerback Michael O'Connell unfastened his helmet while walking off of the field as Missouri celebrated Missouri running back De'Vion Moore's touchdown in the second half during the University of Missouri and Iowa State University football game on Faurot Field in Memorial Stadium on Saturday, Nov 21, 2009, in Columbia, Missouri.

Freshman Nick Florence passed for a school-record 427 yards and three touchdowns and ran for a fourth, helping Baylor defeat Missouri 40-32 on Saturday.

Even amid Mizzou's plunge that presumably reached its low in the loss to a Baylor program that had been 2-52 in Big 12 road games, Mizzou coach Gary Pinkel said he wasn't doubting the soundness of MU's foundation.

Missouri linebacker Andrew Gachkar, right, kept Kansas State's Brian Banks from hauling in this pass during second quarter action of the Tigers' victory Saturday in Manhattan.

Missouri won more than a football game on Saturday afternoon.Did more than end a 13-game losing skid to Bill Snyder-coached Kansas State teams and become, at 6-4, bowl eligible for a school-record fifth straight year.Did more than score its first three second-half touchdowns of Big 12 Conference play in a sometimes mystifying, often frustrating ...

Each is just a moment. Some are beginnings, others are culminations, each a still reminder of the greatness of last season's class of stars.

There were still 47 seconds left on the scoreboard when the football bounced harmlessly to the ground, and for one fleeting moment, Wes Kemp wanted to race back to the line of scrimmage, paw his toes into Faurot Field's artificial grass and take one last shot at finishing off a miraculous comeback.

In retrospect, I can think of endless ways in which I could have better spent my Saturday afternoon.

Whether it wraps up in three weeks or at some lower-tier bowl game, by the conclusion of Missouri's football season, the Tigers might lead the Big 12 Conference in blank stares.

I can't tell you specifically what goes on in the locker room at halftime of a Missouri football game.

A record-setting day from a freshman quarterback who began the season as the third stringer helped Baylor win at Missouri for the first time in 36 seasons.

Washington 54, Sunnyside 18 Senior quarterback Adam McCurley passed for 395 yards and five touchdowns to lead Washington High to a 54-18 victory over Sunnyside in a nonleague football game Friday in Easton.

Upon building 8,000 permanent seats for Lewis Field in 1920, Oklahoma State history goes, the school reconfigured the previous north-south field dimensions to an unusual east-west arrangement to "avoid the prevailing winds." Now the stadium represents the prevailing wind, thanks to oilman - and wind power advocate - T. Boone Pickens.

Linebacker Will Weatherspoon thinks his Snuggie is awesome-er than yours. It is.

On a night where famed Oklahoma State alums Garth Brooks and Barry Sanders were honored, the Cowboys finished the festivities with a 33-17 win over Missouri.

STILLWATER, Okla. - For the most part on Saturday at Oklahoma State, Mizzou scrubbed up the penalties that had plagued it in its game against Nebraska, committing just three for 25 yards while the Cowboys were nabbed nine times for 75.

Danario, that is - was Great on Saturday night. The Missouri senior wide receiver had 105 yards receiving by the end of the first quarter and finished with nine catches for a career-high 180 yards.But the collective truth for Alexander and Missouri is that the Tigers - two-time defending Big 12 North Division champions - are now in last place in ...