abstract:The Missouri Tigers athletics programs include the extramural and intramural sports teams of the University of Missouri, located in Columbia, Missouri, United States. The name comes from a band of armed guards called the Missouri Tigers who, in 1864, protected Columbia from Confederate guerrillas during the Civil War.
On the day of the big football game between the University of MissouriTigers and the Cowboys of Oklahoma State, a football scout named Dan Shonka sat in his hotel, in Columbia, Missouri, with a portable DVD player.
The debacle of Missouri's fall this season to No. 15-seeded Norfolk State was predictable: The Tigers had it coming for whining about being seeded No. 2 instead of No. 1.