MU athletes beat rivals with books

Mizzou dominated in the classroom this year. If you can't win a conference title you might as well do beat your rivals on the academic side of things.

MU did a whole lot better than Kansas or Kansas State.

Two of our favorites, together at last

Clemens steroid hearings, in pics

A pretty spot on analysis of the Congressional hearing on steroids featuring Roger Clemens last week.

Simon on Sports: Clemens Trial in Picture Form.

Why Valentine's Day sucks

Hey, everybody. We're back.

A little tired and road weary, but excited to be home. For our first post in a while we wanted to let you know why we hate Valentine's Day. And not because it is a rip-off day invented by Hallmark. There may be a little bit more to the day's history but that really doesn't matter.

We hate Valentine's Day because it is this man's birthday.

Tyus Dwayne Edney, author of one of the most painful moments in Missouri atheltics history. Edney was born on a day that, according to the Hallmark website, is supposed to give everyone a "supersweet" feeling.

Mizzou fans have many different emotions and adjectives come to mind when thinking of Tyus: "supersweet" isn't one of them. Happy birthday, Tyus. I still hate you.

See you next week

We're out all this week for work travel, meetings, etc. We'll see you next weekend when baseball spring training will be getting under way, the NFL draft will be one week closer, Mizzou hoops will be winding down and Olympic athletes will have been censored. So long.

You're with me, Rebecca

The family that juices together.....

Somewhere, Barry Bonds is laughing his ass off.

This is freaking unbelievable. According to Brian McNamee, the personal trainer who is quoted extensively in the Mitchell Report, Roger Clemens' wife Debbie used Human Growth Hormone in advance of her 2003 Sports Illustrated photo shoot.

McNamee claims to have injected Debbie himself under Roger's direction.

Debbie Clemens' fitness website just seems so hollow now. (But I betcha it gets a shitload of hits over the next few days).

This story just keeps getting weirder. Today's revelation comes on the heels of yesterday's disturbing photo of steroid syringes (and a Miller Light can) McNamee turned over to authorities that allegedlly contained Roger's DNA.

What's going to come next, news that McNamee injected the family dog?

New York Daily News: Source: Brian McNamee testified Roger Clemens' wife took HGH.

Irony

I can't define irony but I know it when I see it.

What people read

Kathryn sends The Wizard of Odds an amazingly entertaining analysis of different newspapers and the types of people who read each.

Rest In (hopefully one) Piece, albino catfish

This has absolutely nothing to do with the Royals, Tigers or Chiefs, but I can't resist posting this story.

A 53-pound albino catfish passed away recently after being caught by a Columbia, Mo., fisherman.

Read the Columbia Missourian story.