By Ethan Burke After waiting eight long months and going through an offseason with plenty of uncertainty, SEC football is back this Saturday, and fans around the country cannot be more excited to see programs in the best conference in college football go up against each other. As the season kicks off this weekend, now seems […]

By Lucas Owens Week 3, depending on what team you followed, was either a week of triumph or great pain in the American Athletic Conference. UCF won decisively over Georgia Tech. USF lost by nine scores to Notre Dame. Navy won Pun Battle 2020 with a fantastic comeback, but Tulane collapsed hard enough to let […]

By Justin Parmer The Big Ten really had to return, didn’t they? After all the rule changes the eliminator made and all the accommodations the eliminator provided to the Group of fives, it all was for nothing. Well, maybe not all of it. With the Big Ten announcing its return to the college football landscape, […]

By Ethan Burke After a lot of offseason criticism, head coach Manny Diaz’s Hurricanes took care of business last night as they opened up ACC play with a victory over the Louisville Cardinals to start the season 2-0. Louisville got off to a quick 3-0 start in the first quarter after a 40-yard field goal […]

By Cole Banker and Chris Blake It’s been a crazy year, but football is finally back, and we’re ready to set the fantasy table for Week 2  of Love/Hate. To clarify, when we say we “love” a player, we mean that we expect him to outperform his projections for that week, and the opposite for […]

By Lucas Owens For the first time in what feels like forever, the American has a near full slate of games. In fact, only three teams — ECU, Memphis, and Temple — will be sitting out this week. Considering one of those teams in Memphis has a large amount of COVID-19 cases, and the others […]

By Ethan Burke With Week 2 rolling around, college football fans have a lot to be excited for as the No. 18 Louisville Cardinals host the No. 17 Miami Hurricanes. Head coaches Scott Sattersfield (Louisville) and Manny Diaz (Miami) are both in the beginning of their second season with their respective programs, so a win […]

By Justin Parmer Welcome back to the article that is pain and misery for at least one team every single week. Let me introduce you to the 2020 College Football Playoff eliminator. You may get to know him for a week or throughout the entire season, but the eliminator’s job is to unofficially narrow down […]

By Lucas Owens Week 2 was never going to be the most exciting week for the American Athletic Conference, but there was at least one game that ended up coming down to the wire in Tulane and South Alabama. However, whereas the AAC was ho-hum, the Sun Belt took all their magic away from them […]

By Kenny Van Doren and Payton Havermann With the MLB season half way through, let’s look at some preseason awards for a 30-game stretch. Awards will be hard this season with it only being 60 games and because of the fact that, if you miss a week due to injury, your chances will plummet. Co-hosts […]

By Cole Banker and Chris Blake It’s been a crazy year, but football is finally back, and we’re ready to set the fantasy table for Week 1 with our first edition of Love/Hate. This column will be posted every week prior to the Thursday night game during the fantasy football season, featuring two players we […]

By Lucas Owens Last week, the American Athletic Conference started out with three teams in action and went 2-1 in their games. This week there are two games: one against an FCS foe, and another against a middling Sun Belt team. It’s safe to say that this is not the most hyped-up week. SMU and TCU […]

By Lucas Owens Coming into Week 1, the American Athletic was looking good after a very strong 2019 season. Now that Week 1 has passed and three of the top teams in the conference have already played, it’s safe to say the stock in the conference is already trending downward. AAC teams went a combined […]

By Shane Gravlin Cooperstown’s Louis Clark Brock died Sunday, September 6, but his impact on the sport of baseball and on the city of St. Louis is infinite and unending. Lou Brock played in his final Major League game over forty years ago, and while he won’t throw out any more pitches on Opening Day […]

By Shane Gravlin The buzzer blared, the clock flashed zeros and the players held their breath as point guard Mike Conley hurled up a last-second three-pointer to try to send the Utah Jazz into the next round of the NBA playoffs.  The ball rimmed out by a margin of centimeters, sealing an improbable 3-1 Denver […]

By Lucas Owens Quite a few things have changed since the last time any team in the American Athletic Conference played a football game, haven’t they? For one, UCONN is finally out, making the American an 11-team football conference for the foreseeable future. However, the big change has come in the form of the COVID-19 […]

By Shane Gravlin “Uncle Charlie” Adam Wainwright dazzled on his 39th birthday, throwing a complete game and fanning nine batters en route to a 7-2 victory over the visiting Cleveland Indians. Receiving his ankle-breaking curveballs was friend and teammate Yadier Molina, who was playing in his 2000th game as an MLB player.  Cardinals Nation is […]

By Gerald Hopkins This upcoming year of college football has seen some changes due to the pandemic. The PAC-12 and BIG 10 both decided to cancel fall sports, major institutions like the University of North Carolina and Michigan State University already opted into having classes go online, and there is a realistic possibility of there […]

By Kyle Jones England will wrap up its international cricket summer over the next few weeks with the Vitality IT20 series against Pakistan and Australia, followed by a 3-ODI series against Australia at Old Trafford in Manchester. The games cap off what has been a successful summer both on and off the pitch for English cricket. […]

Dear KCOU family, friends, listeners and staff: By now you’re all aware of the impact of the Coronavirus outbreak on the University of Missouri. KCOU 88.FM and the Sports Department are no exception. As a result, we have decided to cancel all remaining sports broadcasts for the remainder of the Spring 2020 semester. It has […]