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As you probably read yesterday, our jury is still out in assigning the “scrappy” label to Ryan Theriot…so the fine gentlemen over at The Sports Edge (daily, 3-6pm on KFNS) had me on their radio program to discuss our rationale. Truth be told, it was tremendous radio.  Although, it wasn’t my wit, dashing facade or [...]

We certainly could play “beat reporter” and give you the summary of the Mizzou Tigers excrutiating loss to the Georgetown Hoyas last night in KC.  We could comb through the roughly 10 plays that should have sealed the game for the Tigers with under two minutes to play, tell tales of how three players essentially [...]

When news broke on Tuesday that the Cardinals traded for SS Ryan Theriot, our inbox and Twitter feeds were flooded with questions of his presumed scrappiness.  What can we say, we’re subject matter experts on the Cardinals perpetual infatuation with grit.  Hey, everyone has a role in this industry. But wait, is Ryan Theriot actually [...]

With Mizzou football’s regular season having ended without a shot at the Big 12 crown, it has officially become “obsess over bowl projections” time for a sect of hardcore fans.  With media outlets all over the country speculating on what team will play in what meaningless bowl, ample Mizzou fans are already making their opinions [...]

Post-holiday Mondays are one of the worst in the Corporate Monday kingdom.  They probably rank third on the list, right behind “Post Honeymoon Mondays” and “Took a Softball to the Groin at a Weekend Tournament Mondays”. Because your brain and digestive system are likely clogged with malted hops, tryptophan and gravy, we’ll take it easy [...]

Last week, we celebrated Thanksgiving, the birthdays of a few local legends such as Stan Musial and the first time the 2010 Rams were able to hang onto a road victory despite their best efforts to cough up a 20 point lead in the 4th quarter.  November 28 Sixto Lezcano (1953) Sure Sixto only played [...]

We’ll go ahead and give this week’s ceremonial birthday hat to the one and only Stan Musial, what with the fact that he’s the most popular player ever to wear the Birds on the Bat.  But he’s not alone in celebrating a birthday at some point during this Thanksgiving week.  November 21 Stan Musial (1920) [...]

Dan McLaughlin made a triumphant return to television for Fox Sports Midwest last night, broadcasting the dicey Mizzou basketball game against Western Illinois. —– email: matt@joesportsfan.com tweet: @MattSebek

If there is one thing the national media is good at, it’s throwing gasoline on a fire that doesn’t really exist yet. In this case, the “fire” is the early stages of the inevitable Cardinals negotiations with Albert Pujols.  The lines of communications have been opened between the team and its franchise player a year [...]

Our dedicated readers know we love us a healthy dosage of Wikipedia.  After all, there is no source more reliable than a public forum where anyone can edit anything.  Everyday, Wikipedia pulls an entry from their expansive archive and features it on their homepage.  Most of the time, it’s relevant to current news.  Other times, [...]