Local Sports Stories
One last look at 2006
Story by Tribune sports editor JOE WALLJASPER
What could possibly go wrong when a radio color commentator is sent to remind a struggling coach that it might be the right time to resign? As it turned out, plenty. 

Southern comfort
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
Maybe the fans were as starved to watch a game as the Missouri basketball team was to play one, because a season-high crowd of 9,091 filed into Mizzou Arena yesterday evening for a rare 5:30 p.m. tip-off against Southern, a team that had won only once this season.

Offense provides silver lining behind loss
By DAVE MATTER of the Tribune’s staff
It might have been the most dismal postgame press conference during Gary Pinkel’s six-year stay at Missouri, but there was a silver lining to emerge from Friday’s Sun Bowl. Two actually, and they were both sitting to Pinkel’s immediate right.

Fight from the inside
By RUS BAER of the Tribune’s staff
Katherine Harry isn’t too hard to spot on a basketball court.

Resolutions needed for a happy new year
By RUS BAER of the Tribune’s staff
Inspired by a long-awaited Christmas wish on the cusp of coming true - Boonville is planning to join the North Central Missouri Conference beginning in 2008! - here’s a few New Year’s resolutions I’d like to see occur on the area high school scene.

Cougars outrun Missouri Valley
By ANGELA BUSCH of the Tribune’s staff
It was clear minutes into the game. The Columbia College women’s basketball team was simply too quick for Missouri Valley to keep up.

Missouri wrestlers capture Scuffle title
By the Tribune’s staff
Missouri wrestler Ben Askren pinned three opponents and brother Max Askren added two falls to earn first-place finishes and lead the Tigers to the Southern Scuffle title yesterday in Greensboro, N.C.

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