The Missouri Sports Hall of Fame joins with the family of Red Schoendienst and the entire St. Louis Cardinals organization in mourning the passing of one of the most beloved Redbirds ever to wear the Birds on the Bat jersey. Schoendienst passed away at age 95 on Wednesday, the Cardinals announced. Known by many as… Read more »
The top 123 athletes from southwest Missouri high schools – along with 26 teams, including those in cheerleading, dance and marching band – soon will be honored in the Sports Commission Awards presented by Elliott Lodging. The event is a celebration of the past school year, and the remaining finalists were announced Wednesday, including… Read more »
A Jack Henry & Associates-sponsored team, in which Adam Harris aced No. 15, won the A Flight of the morning round, and a Whitlock Company-sponsored team took top honors in the afternoon to complete the Springfield Celebrity Golf Classic presented by Great Southern Bank. The two-day golf tournament, held Sunday and Monday at Highland Springs… Read more »
Folks looking for a summer party with shrimp, beer, wine, live music as well as chances to participate in auctions and $1,000 blackout bingo – plus, play a round of golf – will have the chance soon in the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame’s big two-day fundraiser of 2018. The open-to-the-public Shrimp Social presented by… Read more »
Former St. Louis Cardinal Rick Ankiel and three high school coaches – the late Howard Bell, Centralia’s Jill Angel and Ozark’s Mike Essick – can call themselves Hall of Famers along with the Ozark High School Baseball Program and the St. Louis Browns Baseball Club. The Missouri Sports Hall of Fame inducted the contingent Thursday… Read more »
He had long dreamed the dream. Of coaching a high school baseball team. Of teaching teenagers about the game he loved. Of filling out lineup cards and winning games and, well, everything else great about it. Truth is, Mike Essick had to climb from the very bottom to get there. In fact, the journey began… Read more »
Some folks don’t know what they want to do in life until after they reach college age. Others try to map it out even in high school. For Jill Angell, she found her calling in life well before then. “When I was in the fifth grade, I had a P.E. teacher (Carol Gross) I idolized”… Read more »
He might have played pro baseball if not for a car wreck in his early 20s, and who knows where his journey would have taken him. Fortunately, the baseball gods had a great plan for Howard Bell as a high school baseball coach. “He was a kid magnet,” said Mark Stratton, the longtime Glendale High… Read more »
Sit with John Cyrus as he talks about his nearly 27-year career with the Missouri Highway Patrol — or his moon shots off a tee box on area golf courses – and his stories are hard to believe. At one point, he had no choice but to fire on an emu on I-44 in southwest… Read more »
The Springfield Sports Commission made public most finalists Wednesday in the Sports Commission Awards presented by Elliott Lodging, a ceremony that will honor the top high school athletes and teams from throughout southwest Missouri. The event is set for 6 p.m. June 11 at the Oasis Hotel & Convention Center in Springfield. Sponsorship tables of… Read more »
A Jack Henry & Associates-sponsored team captured top honors in the morning round of the Lake of the Ozarks Celebrity Golf Classic presented by Missouri Eagle. The Missouri Sports Hall of Fame event was held Monday at the Club at Porto Cima near Osage Beach. The afternoon was rained out after thunderstorms swept across the… Read more »
Whenever Advertising Plus owner Marc Kiser is on a golf course, he’s usually smiling. Well, he certainly was trying to kill a grin Monday afternoon, downplaying an incredible shot in our Lake of the Ozarks Celebrity Golf Classic presented by Missouri Eagle. Kiser aced the No. 3 hole at scenic Club at Porto Cima, the… Read more »
The Missouri Sports Hall of Fame is celebrating Mother’s Day with free admission for moms and grandmas who bring a child to the museum. We are open from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday.
Imagine putting for par on holes Nos. 15, 16 and 17 on a Jack Nicklaus-designed course to this picturesque backdrop: A boat humming along the water, the MM bridge across the way and a quiet cove tucked around the corner. That’s what the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame envisioned years ago when it held a… Read more »
Teams sponsored by Chaney & McCurry Attorneys at Law, Andy Stewart, Missouri Equipment Leasing and Sue Carrol Terry were the big winners in the MU Alumni Golf Classic presented by Great Southern Bank on Friday at Millwood Golf & Racquet Club. The event was part of a two-day scholarship fundraiser by the Greater Ozarks Chapter… Read more »
University of Missouri-bound southwest Missouri high school graduates will be the big winners Thursday and Friday as the Greater Ozarks Chapter of the MU Alumni Association hosts a two-day scholarship fundraiser in Springfield. The Tiger Ball & Scholarship Auction presented by Meyer Farms and Meyer Communications is at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Oasis Hotel… Read more »
