The National Junior College Athletic Association’s Division-I volleyball tournament gets underway Monday on the campus of Southwest Missouri State-West Plains—it’s the fourth straight year they’ve hosted it and will host it in 2005 and 2006, as well. SMS-West Plains is in the tourney for the sixth straight year by grabbing the sixth seed. The Grizzlies, who made it to the championship game and lost in 2002, is the only team from Missouri in the field. The champion will be crowned on Wednesday night.
SLU Falls To EMU
November 22, 2004 By
The Saint Louis basketball team dropped to 0-2 on the season with a 61-58 loss to Eastern Michigan on Sunday at the Paradise Jam in the Virgin Islands. The Billikens led by as many as nine points in the second half before seeing that bulge slip away late in the game. EMU was 22-31 from the free throw line, but hit four crucial free throws in the waning moments to put it away. SLU will play in the fifth-place game against Troy Monday afternoon.
Tom And Rex, Man And Horse
November 22, 2004 By
Kentucky gets credit for being the center of thoroughbred horse raising, but Missouri can’t be far behind. Two of the greatest names in our horse-raising history are Tom Bass and Rex McDonald. If Tom Bass wasn’t the greatest trainer of horses, he was certainly the equal of any. Rex McDonald, one of the greatest horses in American history, didn’t win the Kentucky Derby – although at least three Missouri-bred have – because he wasn’t that kind of horse. His tombstone at the fairgrounds in Mexico identifies him as “The World’s Champion Saddle Stallion.”
