Nov

23

Laurie’s give up arena naming rights

November 23, 2004 | Comments Off

The Star and the St. Louis Biz Journal are reporting that the Laurie family has voluntarily given up naming rights to the new Mizzou basketball arena. The UM System curators will eventually meet to consider a new name, and the sentimental favorite is sure to be Norm Stewart.

Nov

20

MU arena namesake in cheating scandal

November 20, 2004 | 2 Comments

More scandal for the MU basketball program. Paige Laurie, the millionaire heiress who is the namesoke for Mizzou’s new basketball palace, is the subject of a recent 20/20 expose on academic dishonesty. She’s accused of paying her roommate $20,000 to wright dozens of papers for her at USC.
Clementa Floyd’s remark that [...]

Nov

19

Downtown ballpark gaining momentum

November 19, 2004 | Comments Off

The Star’s Kevin Collison reports that with the Bistate 2 failure now in the past, the Downtown Council is finally taking a public position in favor of a new downtown baseball stadium.

Nov

15

Chiefs season over

November 15, 2004 | Comments Off

Yesterday’s 27-20 defeat in New Orleans ended the Chiefs’ last hopes for the postseason. Football fans are now experiencing a deja vu from baseball season – a season of high hopes ending in bitter disappointment.
Posnanski: Season’s collapse complete.
Whitlock: Fingers point to everyone.

Oct

5

Politically correct border war

October 5, 2004 | 3 Comments

Political correctness has claimed the MU-KU Border War rivalry, which will now be known as the Border Showdown. This was the one atheletic rivalry that actually did begin as a war, the Civil War era clashes between the bushwhackers and jayhawkers on the Missouri-Kansas border.
Maybe it’s time to burn Lawrence again?
The Star: They [...]

Sep

30

The mothership has landed – arena design proposals

September 30, 2004 | 2 Comments

Today the two competing arena architect candidates presented their qualifications to the city’s selection committee. The pictures below are conceptual proposals from the Downtown Arena Design Team consortium. Their ideas include a saucer-shaped arena with a glass exterior showing off the interior, and an elaborate lighting and video system showing scores and video [...]

Sep

23

Bistate II afraid of the tough questions?

September 23, 2004 | 2 Comments

Shortly after launching the Bistate II campaign last week, the votebig.org forum began getting pointed questions about the proposal, and the decision to renovate Kauffman Stadium in favor of a new Downtown baseball stadium. Instead of replying to the posters and explaining their position, Bistate boosters just pulled the forum off of the web [...]

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