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The Griffon defense failed to stop any of the three running backs the Washburn Ichabods put into the game on Saturday in their second straight loss at home 31-24.

A stunned silence hit the once hostile crowd in “The Jungle” as Cedric Houston, a Griffons wide receiver, crossed the goal line with 22 seconds left on the clock.
“When I caught that ball, it felt wonderful,” said Houston. “The heat, the crowd, it all meant nothing after that catch.”
That catch gave the Griffons 38-32 lead [...]

In saturday’s game against Pitt State, I watched a young, talented Griffons team show a great deal of poise in a tough situation, in an even tougher environment.
This team showed they’re not waiting a few years to be good; they’re a playoff team now.

The landscape of college football is changing from the traditional powers dominating everyone every single week to one in which any team, any week can knock off a highly ranked opponent.

 
The athletic director of MissouriWestern for the last five years, Mark Linder, has decided to travel back to his home state of Alabama to take the job as athletic director for the University of North Alabama.

The Missouri Western sports program has reached a point in time where things are either going to keep pace with the steadily improving landscape that Mark Linder set, or they will falter in a series of bad choices that would make all of the successes at Missouri Western in the last 10 years null and [...]

The rain fell onto an already waterlogged field in Fayette, Iowa as the Griffon women’s soccer team stepped on the field to play Upper Iowa for their first regular season game of the year.