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Tigers vs Tigers Homecoming for #Mizzou

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The Missouri Tigers and Memphis Tigers will meet for the first time since three matchups in the 1990’s as the University of Missouri celebrates the 107th Homecoming.  The birthplace of Homecoming has been fairly successful for the Tigers who are 61-40-5 all-time. Mizzou is hoping to snap a three-game losing streak in SEC play after going through a difficult opening stretch of conference games against then #2 Georgia, at South Carolina and at #1 Alabama.

What to watch for this Saturday:

1.  Darrell Henderson. The Memphis running back is averaging an FBS-best 10.3 yards per carry and is the only back with over 1,000 rushing yards (1,133).  His 15 touchdowns also leads the nation.

2.  Drew Lock to Jalen Knox.  Lock who threw a nation’s best 44 touchdowns last year has just 12 halfway through the season.  Part of the reason has been his favorite target Emanuel Hall has been healthy in just two games.  He missed significant time at Purdue, was a non-factor while playing hurt against Georgia and sat out the last two games.  Hall will not play again this weekend.   Lock is trying to get the ball to the outside by targeting the freshman, Knox.  Lock and Knox connected for a 23-yard touchdown in the first quarter at Alabama.  Knox has 280 receiving yards through the first six games.

3.  Mizzou’s run game.  To help take some of the pressure off Lock, the Tigers need to continue to focus on their run game.  Damarea Crockett, Larry Rountree and Tyler Badie have combined for a 4.9 yards per carry average.

4.  Mizzou’s defense needs to step up.  The Tigers are dead last in the SEC in interceptions (2), and QB sacks (8) and 12th in the league in passes defended with just 19.  Memphis has produced 11 touchdowns in under one minute in time of possession.  Mizzou needs to slow the Memphis run game, put pressure on QB Brady White and win the turnover battle.

Bill Pollock Show–How the Baseball Gods have gotten even with Houston. (PODCAST)

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What is Craig Counsell doing in the NLCS? The Baseball Gods have gotten even with Houston. Blues lose–another “Yeo, what’s up?” Plus Patrick Mahomes and Barry Odom

LISTEN: Blues lose a heart breaker in the closing seconds. Yeo not happy with the effort

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Brendan Gallagher scored the winning goal with just 11 seconds left in regulation as the Canadiens clipped the Blues 3-2 in Montreal.  Max Domi and Mike Reilly also lit the lamp for the Habs, who have won three straight to improve to 4-1-and-1 on the season.  Carey Price posted 23 saves in the victory.

Vince Dunn and Brayden Schenn scored the St. Louis goals.  Schenn’s tally had tied the game at two with 3:29 to go.  Schenn talks about the Blues needing to play a complete game.

Head coach Mike Yeo is still looking for a full-game effort.

Jake Allen allowed all three goals on 23 shots for the Blues, who fell to 1-3-and-2.

Bill Pollock Show–Explaining “…but how you play the game,” to your kids is so important (PODCAST)

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Dr. Jordan Peterson is a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto and clinical psychologist.

I want to share from the Joe Rogan Experience podcast and I hope I’m not breaking any rules by doing this but I want to share a portion where Peterson talks about parents teaching their kids to be good sports and why that’s important in life.

Mizzou women’s basketball picked for 5th in talented SEC

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Mizzou Women’s Basketball was selected to finish fifth in the Southeastern Conference Tuesday by a select voting panel of both SEC and national media members as the league office announced its 2018-19 SEC Preseason Media Poll. In addition, senior Sophie Cunningham (Columbia, Mo.) was one of seven players selected to the Preseason All-SEC team.

Mizzou was picked to finish fifth behind Mississippi State, South Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia. Each team picked ahead of the Tigers advanced to the NCAA Tournament last season, with South Carolina making the Elite Eight and Mississippi State ending the season as the runner-up.

Cunningham was one of three players to receive votes for the Preseason SEC Women’s Basketball Player of the Year award, which ended up going to Mississippi State’s Teaira McCowan.

Cunningham averaged 18.5 points and 4.7 rebounds per game in her junior campaign, and was the only player in the nation to shoot better than 54 percent from the field (54.2 percent, 186-for-343), 45 percent from three (45.7 percent, 69-for-151) and 83 percent from the free throw line (83.6 percent, 133-for-159). She scored in double figures in 28 of 31 games she played in, and ranked fourth in the NCAA in three-point percentage as she earned AP All-America Honorable Mention honors for the second consecutive season.

As a team last season, Mizzou earned a third consecutive NCAA Tournament berth for the first time since 1984-86. Head Coach Robin Pingeton’ssquad won 11 conference games for the second straight season, the first back-to-back seasons with 11 plus conference wins since 1983-84 and 1984-85. Mizzou is 13-3 at home against SEC opponents in the past two seasons.

PRESEASON MEDIA POLL
1. Mississippi State

2. South Carolina

3. Tennessee

4. Georgia

5. Mizzou

6. Texas A&M

7. Kentucky

8. Auburn

9. LSU

10. Alabama

11. Arkansas

12. Florida

13. Vanderbilt

14. Ole Miss

Player of the Year
Teaira McCowan, Mississippi State

Preseason All-SEC

Calyia Robinson, Georgia

Anriel Howard, Mississippi State

Teaira McCowan, Mississippi State

Sophie Cunningham, Mizzou

Alexis Jennings, South Carolina

Rennia Davis, Tennessee

Chennedy Carter, Texas A&M

 

Mizzou men picked 9th in the SEC. Jontay named to 2nd team All-SEC

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Kentucky was predicted to win the 2019 Southeastern Conference men’s basketball championship in voting by a select panel of both SEC and national media members. The Wildcats are the overall preseason favorite for the 14th time since the 1998-99 season.

Tennessee junior forward Grant Williams was the choice of the media for SEC Men’s Basketball Player of the Year. Auburn’s Bryce Brown; Florida’s Jalen Hudson; Kentucky’s Keldon Johnson, Reid Travis & PJ Washington; LSU’s Tremont Waters, Mississippi State’s Quinndary Weatherspoon; South Carolina’s Chris Silva and Tennessee’s Admiral Schofield also received votes in the Player of the Year voting.

Travis, Waters, Silva, Williams and Arkansas’ Daniel Gafford were each All-SEC First Team selections. Brown, Hudson, Washington, Weatherspoon and Schofield were second team picks along with Auburn’s Jared Harper and Missouri’s Jontay Porter.

The 2018-19 campaign begins November 6, with conference play set to begin January 5. The 2019 SEC Tournament will be March 13-17 at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn.

First Team All-SEC

Daniel Gafford – Arkansas

Reid Travis – Kentucky

Tremont Waters – LSU

Chris Silva – South Carolina

Grant Williams – Tennessee

Second Team All-SEC

Bryce Brown – Auburn

Jared Harper – Auburn

Jalen Hudson – Florida

PJ Washington – Kentucky

Quinndary Weatherspoon – Mississippi State

Jontay Porter – Missouri

Admiral Schofield – Tennessee


SEC Player of the Year

Grant Williams – Tennessee


Preseason Media Poll

1. Kentucky

2. Tennessee

3. Auburn

4. Mississippi State

5. Florida

6. LSU

7. Alabama

8. Vanderbilt

9. Missouri

10. Arkansas

11. South Carolina

12. Texas A&M

13. Georgia

14. Ole Miss

 

LISTEN: Mozeliak on Oquendo’s departure from #STLCards staff: “No doubt he’s going to be a loss.”

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Cardinals president of baseball operations John Mozeliak announced Tuesday that St. Louis Cardinals third base coach Jose Oquendo would like to find a coaching opportunity that would allow him to work near his home in Jupiter, Fla.  Oquendo informed the club a week after the season ended that he will leave manager Mike Shildt’s coaching staff to take on an instruction role with Minor League players. He’ll work primarily out of the club’s Florida complex.

Ron “Pop” Warner, who took over as bench coach in July, will be installed as the new third-base coach. Oliver Marmol, the team’s first-base coach last year, will become Shildt’s bench coach.  Mozeliak also said Stubby Clapp will likely be promoted.

Mozeliak’s comments

Bill Pollock Show–Charges filed after fan douses #Chiefs Hill with beer. #Mizzou to face top RB in the nation–Love thy neighbor but only if they have a key fob (PODCAST)

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The fan who threw a beer in the face of Chiefs’ wide receiver Tyreek Hill is facing two charges after Hill’s 75-yard touchdown late in the fourth quarter. The fan was initially banned from Gillette Stadium only, but law enforcement later charged him with disorderly conduct and throwing an object at a sporting event.

Barry Odom said on St. Louis Radio 590 The Fan that wide receiver Emanuel Hall will not play this week. He’s missed the last two weeks with a groin injury but is still the team’s leading receiver with 18 catches and 430 yards.

Memphis has the nation’s top running back. Darrell Henderson leads all running back with 1133 yards. He’s averaging over ten yards per carry and rushed for 199 yards against Central Florida, coached by former Missouri coordinator Josh Heupel.

One chick, one dude…they live in the apartment complex in St. Louis.  Instead of working together on a civil resolution that would take five minutes to solve, they both become strong headed stubborn leading to one of them losing their job.  Its the hyper-sensitive world that’s become the norm.