Missouri
Memphis Athletic Director leaving for Missouri
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) – Memphis Athletic Director Laird Veatch is leaving for Missouri.
Veatch will be leaving his job in Memphis to take the same position at the University of Missouri.
Veatch has served as Director of Athletics since October 2019 and as Vice President and Director of Intercollegiate Athletics since June 2021.
Among his accomplishments are renovations at Elma Roane Fieldhouse, and indoor football and the Leftwich Tennis Center. He was also behind the hiring of head football Ryan Silverfield, and women’s basketball coaches Katrina Merriweather and Alex Simmons.
Veatch has a history at Missouri–he worked there from 1997 to 2002 as Director of Annual Giving & Development Coordinator, Director of Athletics Development for Major Giving and Assistant Athletics Director for Development.
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Missouri
Southeast Missouri State appoints interim provost
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (KFVS) – Leaders at Southeast Missouri State University announced they have chosen an interim provost.
The university said Dr. Doug Koch has been appointed interim provost effective June 1 and Melissa Odegard has been appointed Interim Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies effective August 1.
Dr. Koch will take over the duties of Dr. Michael Godard who is stepping into the role of president at Indiana State University.
Odegard will continue her chair duties over the summer as she provides additional support to Koch.
The university said their search for a provost will get underway within the next academic year.
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Missouri
Missouri Route 58 in Cass County closed due to flooding, MoDOT says
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Missouri Route 58 was closed Thursday night due to flooding, the Missouri Department of Transportation said.
The closure stretched from Missouri Highway 7 to Locust Street in Pleasant Hill near the Cass County Public Library.
Police reported there was water over the road.
No word on how long the road would be closed.
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Missouri
Campaign to legalize sports betting in Missouri gets help from mascots to haul voter signatures
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s professional sports teams on Thursday turned in more than 340,000 voter signatures to put a ballot proposal to legalize sports betting before voters this November.
The campaign had help from Cardinals’ mascot Fredbird, Royals’ Sluggerrr and St. Louis Blues’ mascot Louie. The oversized bird, lion and blue bear waved enthusiastically as they hauled boxes filled with voter signatures to the Missouri Secretary of State’s Office in Jefferson City.
Republican Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft now must validate the voter signatures before the proposal officially makes it on the ballot. The campaign needs roughly 180,000 signatures to qualify.
A total of 38 states and the District of Columbia now allow some form sports betting, including 30 states and the nation’s capital that allow online wagering.
The Missouri initiative is an attempt to sidestep the Senate, where bills to allow sports betting have repeatedly stalled. Missouri is one of just a dozen states where sports wagering remains illegal more than five years after the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for states to adopt it.
Teams in the coalition include the St. Louis Cardinals, St. Louis Blues, Kansas City Chiefs, the Kansas City Royals, and the Kansas City Current and St. Louis City soccer teams.
The proposed constitutional amendment would allow each of Missouri’s 13 casinos and six professional sports teams to offer onsite and mobile sports betting. Teams would control onsite betting and advertising within 400 yards of their stadiums and arenas. The initiative also would allow two mobile sports betting operators to be licensed directly by the Missouri Gaming Commission.
Under the initiative, at least $5 million annually in licensing fees and taxes would go toward problem gambling programs, with remaining tax revenues going toward elementary, secondary and higher education. If approved by voters, state regulators would have to launch sports betting no later than Dec. 1, 2025.
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