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Inductee spotlight: Bass Pro Shops’ Martin Mac Donald

There is an old saying that, if you are living your dream, you’ll never really work a day in your life. That’s true for Martin Mac Donald, who since his college days has championed the outdoors and, even better, found a tremendous platform 24 years ago to showcase his passion. That’s when he accepted an… Read more »

Inductee spotlight: Jim Otis, St. Louis Football Cardinals

It’s almost as if a Hollywood script writer delivered it right to Frank Capra himself. How else to explain the career of Jim Otis? There he was at age 7 in a photo beside 1955 Heisman Trophy winner Howard “Hopalong” Cassady of Ohio State. As a high school junior, with the headlights of teammates’ cars… Read more »

Hall of Fame mourns passing of Blues Chairman Mike Shanahan

The Missouri Sports Hall of Fame joins with the family of Mike Shanahan and the National Hockey League’s St. Louis Blues in mourning the passing of its former Chairman. Shanahan passed away Monday at age 78. Shanahan was inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame in 1997, the second induction class under President &… Read more »

110 Special Achievement Award winners to be recognized at Enshrinement

The Missouri Sports Hall of Fame is proud to announce that a combination of nearly 100 student-athletes, coaches and teams will be honored with Special Achievement Awards during the 2018 Enshrinement presented by Killian Construction. Special Achievement Awards are bestowed on national champions, First Team All-Americans and others who received national recognition while competing for… Read more »

Inductee spotlight: Howard Richards, Mizzou Tigers offensive tackle

When he was younger, he grew up looking up the family tree at Uncle Ernie McMillan, an offensive lineman of the National Football League’s St. Louis Football Cardinals from 1961 to 1974, even though he loved baseball more. For Howard Richards, however, everything changed in the mid-1970s when Leon Anton, the football coach at St. Louis’ Southwest… Read more »

Inductee spotlight: Dan Lucy, KOLR 10 Sports Director

Long before his TV sports broadcasting days, he developed his reporting chops as a free-lance writer the old-fashioned way: A student by day working his way into the University of Missouri School of Journalism. A beat writer at night covering the 1983-1984 Mizzou basketball team, even lugging around a portable typewriter and dictating two stories… Read more »

Inductee spotlight: Rick Grayson, PGA Teaching Professional

Whenever Rick Grayson ultimately sinks his final putt, those eager to follow him as one of Springfield’s next great golf gurus probably will feel like the act after Elvis has left the building. Certainly, his resume wows, given Grayson has been a Professional Golf Association (PGA) teaching professional for 33 years. But that’s just skimming… Read more »

Crowd of 750 turns out for Basketball Luncheon presented by Mercy

Former University of Missouri standout Doug Smith, longtime high school basketball coaches Terry Writer and Lynn Long, and the Kickapoo High School Girls Basketball Program were inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame Wednesday in front of a crowd of 750-plus at the Oasis Hotel & Convention Center. In a ceremony led by President… Read more »

Hall of Fame announces Enshrinement Ceremonies for January 2018

Mike Garrett, the 1965 Heisman Trophy winning running back who played on the Kansas City Chiefs’ two Super Bowl teams, will headline the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame’s Enshrinement Ceremonies of 2018 presented by Killian Construction, set for Sunday, January 28 in Springfield. President & Executive Director Jerald Andrews announced Tuesday the Class of 2018,… Read more »

Inductee spotlight: Mizzou’s Doug Smith

He traveled from Detroit determined to carry the University of Missouri deep into the Big Dance, along the way emerged as one of its all-time greats and then received the ultimate compliment in his final home game. Doug Smith remembers it like yesterday – not so much because the Mizzou Tigers surprised him by retiring… Read more »

Inductee spotlight: Terry Writer, nearly 40 years and 750-plus wins

Surrounded by empty seats of Missouri State University’s iconic McDonald Arena, with the mid-afternoon sun pouring through the glass windows, you could find a student sitting quietly and taking mental notes. Terry Writer didn’t want to be anywhere else. Not with basketball practices down on the hardwood, with coaches Bill Thomas and a young Charlie… Read more »