Kansas Wins 2,000th Game
The Lawrence Journal World has created a poster that lists every single game that make up Kansas 2,000 wins in NCAA men’s basketball. 168 of those belong to Missouri.
Source: Lawrence Journal World
Download the pdf here.
Missouri: 7th Ugliest State
Daily Beast declares that Missouri falls into the 44th slot in the list of Best Looking State residents. While this comes as a shock to no one the River Front Times (a Saint Louis blog) decided to push in their neighbors faces by offering analysis of the ranking. They make a couple good points on whether the metrics were really valid and scientific and that the data could be a bit skewed. However, I counter that they should be happy that IQ and number of teeth weren’t figured into the equation, because finishing 51st in a 50 entry competition is pretty pathetic.
Fizzou Alum: Tony Temple
Like many of Mizzou’s former star performers Tony Temple finds himself on the wrong of a $40,00 dollar bail bond. KMBC reports that Missouri’s star running back just two years ago has been charged with domestic assault.
According to court documents, a 25-year-old woman told police that Temple came into her Grandview home Tuesday morning, demanding to know where she had been.
The woman told police that she had been working at a restaurant and had not returned Temple’s phone calls.
The woman told police that Temple started throwing items in her house and grabbed her by the throat. The woman said she tried to call police from a cell phone, but Temple grabbed the phone.
The woman said she then tried to run out the front door, but Temple pulled her back inside and told her to go to the bedroom. The woman said she ran into the bathroom and escaped out a window. The woman said she ran to an aunt’s house to call 911.
I’m not trying to make light of the situation as woman beaters are a disgrace in themselves. However his side of the story is humorous. He claims “he went to the woman’s house to let the dog out, but she wanted to talk about their relationship. He claims the woman began throwing items around the house.” Nice alibi Tony.
Debacle Decade pt.2
As if in response to my post a week ago about the best memories of bad things happening at Mizzou this decade, The Rock M Nation blog posted this article: Mizzou in the ’00s: Worst Moments of the Decade.
I would say they did a pretty good job of on taking themselves apart. After all no one knows someones weaknesses like themselves. Here’s the list
1. Ricky Clemons (2002-04)
2. Athena-Gate (2008)
3. Basketball: Texas 75, Mizzou 69 (2004)
4. Football: Oklahoma 38, Mizzou 17 (2007)
5. Football: The Five-Game Losing Streak (2004)
6. Basketball: The Popcorn Incident (2005)
7. Football: Troy 24, Mizzou 14 (2004)
8. Basketball: Kansas 84, Mizzou 82 (2004)
9. Football: Kansas 40, Mizzou 37 (2008)
10. Basketball: Belmont 71, Mizzou 67 (2003)
There is some really good commentary in the article that picks apart why each event was so disheartening as well as links and videos to further revel in Fizzou’s incompetence.
Feel free to leave a comment on their post and offer your idea on why Fizzou had such a horrible decade.
Mizzou: Debacle Decade
The Kansas City Star recently ran an article looking back at what Missouri had done in sports this decade. I found interesting that about one fourth of the article was devoted to talking about the scandals and unrest at Missouri.
In the span of eight seasons, from 2002 to 2009, Missouri played in two Elite Eight rounds of the NCAA Tournament. In between those stellar seasons, though, the Tigers suffered through the Ricky Clemons affair, which was one of the most public and humiliating periods of any college basketball program.
Tiger fans would love to forget the jailhouse tapes, when even the wives of an assistant athletic director and the university’s system president were acting like Kansas fans cracking on Missouri’s misery.
Ultimately, Missouri was handed sanctions for employing out-of-control young coaches who made questionable decisions, some of them against NCAA rules.
But it was not only the coaching staff and a couple of “crackers shaking” comments that embarrassed Mizzou.There was also the untimely Board of Curators meeting, which was called to consider firing athletic director Mike Alden over his handling of Quin Snyder’s ouster and occurred on the same day that Alden was to introduce Mike Anderson as Missouri’s new basketball coach.
I guess Missouri follows the adage of “No publicity is bad publicity”. This did get me thinking about the best moments of Tiger demise in the past decade. Was it David Padgett’s last second shot to close down the Hearnes center? Was it Todd Reesing’s pass the Kerry Meier in the closing seconds of the 2008 Border War? Or was the Ricky Clemons’ fiasco the best way to expose the country to Missouri’s blundering ways. Weigh in and let me know what your favorite MU embarrassment was.
One Shining Moment
Here’s a nice compilation of Missouri’s accomplishments (events listed below):
1. MU v Nebraska “The Kick” touchdown
2. Student section after David Padgett’s shot closes Hearnes
3. The infamous Ricky Clemens
4. Steve Stipanovich’s shooting himself in the foot, then blaming it on a robber, then admitting he was lying.
5. A “full” Mizzou arena during a men’s home bball game.
6. Quin Snyder getting some TLC from a fan’s popcorn.
7. Chase Daniels picking his nose on the sidelines…then eating the boogie.
8. Colorado’s “Fifth Down” touchdown victory.
9. Skinny Antler dancing.
10. Cheerleader falls.
11. Sports Center anchor and MU grad John Anderson sports his Bucknell shirt @ MU v KU hoops game.
12. Paige Laurie, namesake of Paige Arena.
13. Quin working for his boss.
14. Tyus Edney takes Jason Sutherland and the Tigers the length of the court.
15. Rhode Island knocks Mizzou out of the first round in the 1988 tourney to cap 3 straight 1st round exists by the Tigers.
16. Arthur Johnson breaks his back.
17. Kansas defeats Missouri in Columbia to go 16-0 in the Big 12.
18. Tigers dance during their rap video.
19. Keyon Dooling has big eyes.
20. What happens when you Google “Missouri Final Four Appearances”.
The best comment to this video on YouTube:
This is so funny, i could watch it every day. Why can’t we have a quality rival? At least UNC has Duke. Both claim titles and have glory, as well as academics. We’ve got underacheiving hillbillies with a generic tiger as their mascot. Sooooo lame.
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