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The ‘menace’ who helped Memphis basketball get a statement win at Missouri
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COLUMBIA, Mo. — Jahvon Quinerly and Jordan Brown stood shoulder-to-shoulder in the hallway outside the media room Friday at Mizzou Arena.
They had just led Memphis basketball to a remarkable come-from-behind 70-55 win over Missouri. Quinerly listened as a reporter asked him what that kind of thing does to a team’s confidence level. At the same time, Brown was quietly perusing the final box score when his eyes widened, as though the sixth-year senior saw something he couldn’t quite comprehend.
“My fault,” Brown began. “I was just looking at (Missouri’s) field-goal percentages from the first half to the second half.”
No apology necessary. He was right to be stunned. Not by his running mate’s (Quinerly) 18 points, eight rebounds, five assists and three steals. Not by the 12-0 advantage Memphis had in the second-chance points category. And not by the first double-double of David Jones’ Tigers career (10 points, 10 rebounds).
Instead, defense was the jaw-dropper for Brown. Missouri shot a crisp 43.3% in the first half, only for Brown and his teammates to limit the SEC team to a pitiful 19.2% in the second.
And it was that turnaround that was just about all anyone from Memphis could talk about after Friday’s game. During the same postgame interview, Brown was asked by a reporter whether panic ever set in for the Tigers when they found themselves trailing by 14 points with fewer than six minutes left in the first half. That’s when Quinerly interjected.
“Wait, can I talk about that?” he asked, drawing a few chuckles from some nearby. “Nah, because I’m happy about that.”
Quinerly, the transfer point guard who spent the past three seasons playing for Alabama, was happy about the resolve the Tigers showed. They could have buckled after falling so far behind in front of a sold-out crowd of 15,000-plus on a game airing on the SEC Network, he said. But they didn’t.
Why?
“I think that’s the veteran leadership that we have and some of the veteran guys we have,” he said. “It’s so important to have these guys in situations like this. We came back in the second half, had a helluva half defensively. That’s what kind of got us going.”
Rick Stansbury, serving as Memphis’ acting head coach while Penny Hardaway is suspended for the first three regular-season games, said the strategy was simple: Stop Missouri guard Sean East II. The 6-foot-3 guard was giving Memphis fits in the first half.
Memphis had a clear size advantage over Missouri, but the quicker East was having his way with the visitors’ big men, dropping 14 points during a stretch that spanned 10:45 on the clock.
So at halftime, Stansbury made a subtle but critical alteration.
“You know, we didn’t start Nicholas (Jourdain) the second half,” he said. “We put (Caleb) Mills out there, another quick guy out there on East. Being big with Nicholas, we weren’t winning that war defensively.
“In the second half, they scored 22 points. Here at home. We scored 44 the second half, but it all started on that defensive end. Getting those stops. Mills was a huge change in that game.”
Huge, indeed. So huge that not only didn’t East, being guarded by Mills, score in the second half — he never even attempted a field goal. East was also 0-for-2 at the free-throw line after halftime.
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“A defensive menace,” Quinerly called Mills.
“You know, Caleb Mills comes in and takes on that challenge and holds (East) to zero points, so I want to shoutout Caleb Mills — one of our other leaders,” he said.
Reach sports writer Jason Munz at jason.munz@commercialappeal.com or follow him @munzly on X, the social media app formerly known as Twitter.
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Missouri State football vs. Montana today: Live updates, highlights from Week 1 game
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Missouri State football: Ryan Beard previews Montana
Missouri State head football coach Ryan Beard held his weekly press conference ahead of Saturday’s opener at Montana.
Missouri State football season has arrived and an offseason of looking to the 2025 season and its impending move to Conference USA will be set aside for the Bears’ final season in the Missouri Valley Football Conference and FCS.
Opening day will present quite a challenge.
Missouri State will open its 2024 season at FCS national runner-up Montana on Saturday in Missoula, Montana, at 8 p.m. This is the first time the two teams have met on the gridiron.
Ryan Beard is entering his second season as Missouri State’s head coach. His team will look to build off a 4-7 season while staying focused on this season despite being ineligible for the FCS Playoffs.
Montana finished last season as the FCS national runner-up. The Grizzlies hope to finish the job this season as they enter the season as the No. 3-ranked team in the country.
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Missouri father uses a funeral to wean daughter off pacifier
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The Bishop family of Festus, Missouri, can smile now, but a few months ago the mood was much more somber as Courtney, Jake and their 3-year-old daughter Hazel said goodbye to a very important member of the family: Hazel’s beloved pacifier.
“It’s not good for her teeth and her jaws and all of that, so we had been trying to wean her off of it for some time,” Jake, 35, said.
Hazel’s beloved pacifier, affectionately known as “Paci,” had been with her for years. Jake knew saying goodbye could come with tears and tantrums, so he searched for creative approaches to ease the transition. He considered options such as cutting off the end of the pacifier, soaking it in vinegar or planting it in a pot.
Instead, Jake chose to give Paci a funeral.
Of course, before the internet, parents used to just take the thing away and deal with the tantrum. But today, for better or worse, young parents like Jake would rather not go to war over a binky. They’re “pacy-fists,” if you will.
“You need them to go through some tough times to really grow as a person but you don’t need to make extra tough times for them,” Jake said. “They’ll have plenty of those coming up.”
Parents delight in making milestones, but those milestones are often bittersweet because each turning point is a point of no return.
“She’s transitioning to the next stage of her life,” Jake said of Hazel, their first child. “We just got to hold onto those moments and those memories, because it goes fast.”
Hazel hasn’t asked for Paci again since. Although, shortly after the ceremony, Jake dug it up and buried it again in a keepsake box, making dad the one who just can’t let go.
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Kansas man charged after child porn allegedly sent while in Missouri
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) – A Kansas man has been charged after he allegedly sent child pornography while in a Missouri county.
Court documents filed in the Platte County, Missouri, Circuit Court have revealed that on Wednesday, Aug. 28, Courtnie R. Purvis, 45, of Overland Park, Kansas, has been charged with a single count of promoting child pornography in the first degree.
A complaint filed by the prosecuting attorney reported that in June 2023, Purvis knowingly sent out child pornography while in Platte County. The content allegedly depicted two victims, with whom Purvis has been barred from any contact.
As a part of his $25,000 cash-only bond agreement, if bailed out, Purvis is not allowed contact with any minor whatsoever. As of Friday, he is not behind Platte County bars.
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