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Missouri football is headed to Fort Worth, Texas. The Tigers accepted an invitation Sunday to participate in the Armed Forces Bowl against Army, the program announced.

QUEEN CITY — Even though both Brookfield High School basketball teams came close to avoiding the fate, both the Lady Bulldogs and Bulldogs went winless in last week’s Tri-Rivers Classic tournament and entered this week still searching for elusive victory No. 1 of 2021-22.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Chiefs' Andy Reid is an offensive-minded coach to his core, so the Kansas City defense must have done something special against the Denver Broncos on Sunday night for him to call its performance "beautiful."

Missouri head men’s basketball coach Cuonzo Martin has made it clear in his time leading the Tigers: He’s willing to play anyone, anywhere, anytime. That leads to games like Missouri played Thursday night: a true road contest against Liberty, the three-time defending champion of the Atlantic Sun Conference.

IRVING, Texas (AP) — Major League Baseball plunged into its first work stoppage in a quarter-century when the sport's collective bargaining agreement expired Wednesday night and owners immediately locked out players in a move that threatens spring training and opening day.

COLUMBIA — Given the strong Marceline-MU connection, fueled by the extensive, long-time support of the University of Missouri-Columbia by Marceline businessman Don Walsworth’s family and publishing business, there was a home-game feel and black-andgold appearance to the Marceline High School football Tigers’ involvement in Saturday’s final game of the Missouri State High School Activities Association’s 2021 Show-Me Bowl series of state-championship games on Faurot

COLUMBIA — At the end of a 2021 season begun with high expectations and marked by a series of spectacularly-tight finishes in the postseason, the Marceline High School football Tigers will try today (Saturday, Dec. 4) to finally scratch a 3-1/2-decades itch.