Mizzou Football LinksWell ... saw this one coming...
KC Star: MU suspends BerkstresserMissouri quarterback Corbin Berkstresser will indefinitely sit out team activities per a university policy that states athletes who have been charged with a felony or face a possible felony charge are automatically suspended, team spokesman Chad Moller confirmed Wednesday. […] If Boone County prosecutors decide to charge Berkstresser with a misdemeanor, he will have to apply for reinstatement before rejoining team activities, Moller said.
According to UM System rules for student conduct, if an athlete pleads guilty or is found guilty of a felony charge, the athlete is barred permanently from participation in athletics at any campus of the UM System.
Rivals.com: Rivals Spotlight: Anthony SherrilsJoeDec89 asks: Who do you think is the most underrated commit in the 2013 class so far and why? Also who do you think from the 2012 class besides DGB can have a impact as a freshman?
GD: I've never professed to being a talent scout. But the guy I hear the most about from people around Mizzou who isn't getting a ton of attention nationally is Jeff City linebacker Joe Burkett. I've heard some say they think Burkett is the best linebacker in the state of Missouri this year, even though he won't get the hype that Nick Ramirez and Eric Beisel will. As far as last year's guys, I think either Russell Hansbrough or Morgan Steward definitely plays as a freshman. I think Evan Boehm has a great shot to play. And partially because of the relative lack of depth at defensive tackle, I'm keeping my eye on Evan Winston, who certainly has the physical look of a D1 player.
Other Football LinksGenerally speaking, I'm not a humongous fan of Yahoo!'s Dan Wetzel -- he has tended to go a bit too far for my liking when it comes to blaming all of college football's ills on bowls and the BCS; meanwhile, I also really have no objection to hypothetical playoff semifinals taking place at bowl sites. That said ... Wetzel is absolutely right that the Big Ten has bent over backwards to make the Rose Bowl happy during this playoff debate, to the extent that they are costing their own teams and fanbases. Not that I care, really, but he's right.
Mizzou Basketball Links EXPANSIONAPALOOZA™ 2012 Mizzou Diamond Sports LinksLooks like there are a couple of Stubble Drive radio appearances in the works for this afternoon. Stay tuned!
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Hey, hey! It's Wednesday!
1. Corbin Berkstresser is probably suspended, and Tavon Bolden is off the team. Which one of these two developments troubles you more?
2. So the Tremendous Stubble movement (okay, it's probably not actually a "movement," but it's fun to say) arose from a random Roundtable answer. What's the next Roundtable-based movement that will emerge? (And no, it cannot involve Jenna Haze.)
3. What's the greatest Tremendous Stubble prop bet you can think of that nobody has made yet?
4. It's Relegation Week at SB Nation! Not that it will ever happen in America, but if you had to bet your life on one sport adopting a promotion-and-relegation system in the States, which would it be?
May means two things at Rock M Nation: Tremendous Stubble and votes. The former will come soon enough; it's time to begin the latter. We start with the third class of inductees into The Rafters, Rock M's celebration of Mizzou's finest basketball players from different eras.
Class of 2010: Willie Smith, Steve Stipanovich, Doug Smith, Kareem Rush, DeMarre Carroll
Class of 2011: Norm Stewart, Jon Sundvold, Derrick Chievous, Clarence Gilbert, Arthur Johnson
Eras for the Class of 2012
Tier I: Pre-Norm (pre-1967)
Tier II: Norm Era I (1968-82)
Tier III: Norm Era II (1983-94)
Tier IV: Norm Era III
Tier V: The 2000s
Today, we make our final selections. Who joins Kareem Rush, Clarence Gilbert, DeMarre Carroll and Arthur Johnson as representatives from the past decade of Mizzou Basketball? Read the bios, do your own research ... and place your votes.
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Someone posted this photo over on PM last week, but it came without a caption. Please give James Franklin a winning caption.
Congratulations to SEC Supremacist for dropping a cluster-bomb of a winner on Tuesday. Denmoney to you!
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Mizzou Football LinksThere are good weeks, and there are bad weeks. It appears Mizzou Football is having a bad week. Corbin Berkstresser is almost certainly suspended, and Tavon Bolden has been dismissed. This, of course, won't matter if James Franklin is healthy in September, and if other safeties continue to develop. Still ... the safety net has developed a couple of holes.
But in happier news...
Thanking God 4 another opportunity 2 pursue my dream. Thank u all 4 ur prayers and support. I'm a Kansas City Chief!! Good 2 b home!!
— Martin Rucker (@RuckerSouthSide) May 15, 2012
Other Football LinksWe're having some fun with this relegation series, but ... damn, if it wouldn't work. Today, Jason unveils how each league, from FBS to NAIA, could be connected. Tomorrow, I do some simulating.
Also: Et tu, Andy?
Basketball LinksIncredible, incredible piece by Luke Winn, especially considering how much time we spent thinking and talking about this topic a couple of months ago.
SEC.@MU_Volleyball's w/ SEC logo added! Some special 'finishing touches' will be added tomorrow twitter.com/ShawnDizzle77/…
— Shawn Davis (@ShawnDizzle77) May 15, 2012
Mizzou Diamond Sports LinksAnd a tip of the cap to trripleplay for the Tip of the Cap series...
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[Bumped back to the top of the page for the first of many times.]
This is one of my favorite times of the year, and not just because we're going to donate a bunch of money to a worthy cause for a second consecutive year, but because once again, I get to tell the Tremendous Stubble story. And, to me, the Tremendous Stubble story represents everything that is alternately awesome-then-silly-then-awesome about the Internet.
So, once again, let's start from the beginning:
THE TREMENDOUS STUBBLE STORY
It was May 26, 2010, in a Rock M Nation Roundtable much like every Rock M Nation Roundtable: a rambling, incoherent, tangential and generally fruitless way to satiate the growing Rock M Nation community's demand for content with little to no effort. Wait, what's that? I'm not supposed to explain the purpose of the Roundtable? And I shouldn't be typing out the directives you're issuing to me? Oh. My bad.
Anyway, the question posed by our leader Bill C. was a simple and silly one: "Name the person from your school (current or former player/coach/whatever) that you wish was on Twitter more than anybody else, just for the potential day-to-day entertainment prospects."
Most Mizzou grads would say something like "Norm Stewart" or "Chase Daniel" or "dean of journalism Brian Brooks" or "What's a Twitter?" or something similar. I chose to go off the beaten path, to a guy I'd only known about on a very cursory level: Mizzou softball coach Ehren Earleywine.
A quick Google Image Search later, the wheels of one of Rock M Nation's defining memes began to turn in the matter of 24 words.
"Hey. I'm Ehren Earleywine. Yeah, my name's spelled a little funky, but what I lack in normal namehood I make up in tremendous stubble."
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Missouri pitcher Chelsea Thomas prepares for another pitch against Oklahoma State.
Photo: August Kryger CDT
Please go donate to the Tremendous Stubble pledge drive, then give this photo a winning caption.
Congratulations to RPT for winning the Monday Contest. Your Denmoney will help prevent you from leaving the scene of an accident.
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Hits a parked car, leaves the scene, is arrested a little while later, admits involvement. Good times. Evidently both Tristen Holt and Jimmy Burge were arrested for similar incidents in the past; Holt was dismissed from the program because it was not his first disciplinary issue. Burge was disciplined but remained on the team.
Naturally, this news is uncovered as we gear up for the Stubble Drive...
