Potter shot rounds 75 and even-par 72, to finish with a two-day total of three-over par 147 to tie for second.

University of Missouri women's soccer seniors Meghan Pfeiffer and Crystal Wagner were each invited to join the United States under-23 national team as the squad convenes in England this week for 10 days of training and competition.

All Keith Dewitt can do is work out and wait. The 6-foot-10, 220-pound forward from Charis Prep took the ACT on June 12 hoping to obtain a qualifying score so that he could honor the terms of the letter of intent he signed last November pledging to play for Mike Anderson at Missouri. The results have not become available yet and likely won’t for another week, maybe more.

The Missouri women's basketball team will keep a weekly blog over the summer. This week Shakara Jones fills us in on summer workouts, school and camps.

Missouri's softball coaches, Ehren Earleywine, Melissa Tucci, Mark Redburn and Pete D'Amour were named the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) Midwest Staff of the Year as announced on Monday. The honor is a first for the 34 year old program, although former Head Coach Jay Miller received Midwest Region Coach of the Year accolades in 1994 and 1997

University of Missouri had already announced it would put screening into effect.

The Wednesday tutoring session began like so many others. Lee’s Summit High School quarterback Corbin Berkstresser threw pass after pass. Then he popped the question.

Missouri has finished a best-ever 36th nationally in the Learfield Directors' Cup standings, a measure of overall athletic success. The MU athletic department improved by one spot its finish in 2002-2003.

Former Mizzou Basketball standout Rickey Paulding was named Finals MVP of the German BBL (Bundesliga Basketball League) after leading his EWE Baskets to the league crown.

What's already been a banner year for Missouri Athletics has been capped by a record finish in the final 2008-09 Learfield Directors' Cup standings.

Leslie Farmer finished seventh overall in the 400-meter hurdle finals on the last day of the U.S. Track and Field Championships, while past Tiger champion Christian Cantwell won the men's shot put and will head into international competition as the one of the top throwers in the world.

Sunday was another day of triumph for <strong>Christian Cantwell</strong> and another day of coming up short for <strong>Muna Lee</strong>. Cantwell, a former Missouri shot-putter who won the silver medal in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, won the event Sunday in the U.S. Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Ore.

Mike Dixon's basketball talents have been on display the past four years in Kansas City, where the 6-foot-1 point guard rewrote the record book at Lee's Summit West.

One is 6-foot-2, 225 pounds and runs with the flare and power of a tailback. His right arm can uncork a striking deep ball, too. The other is 6-3, 220, barely old enough to drive a car but flashes the raw signs of a future star.

The bulk of Missouri athletes competing in the 2009 U.S. Track and Field Championships took part on the second to last day of the event, with the most notable performance coming from freshman Tiger Leslie Farmer who qualified for the finals of the women's 400-meter hurdles.

A personal record in the javelin and his second best day ever in a competition, Nick Adcock finished seventh in the decathlon on the third day of the U.S. Track and Field Championships and will represent the United States in the Thorpe Cup Decathlon in Berlin, Germany.

Leo Lyons, not selected Thursday night in the NBA draft, has agreed to play for the Indiana Pacers&rsquo; summer-league team. &ldquo;Then we&rsquo;ll see where we go from there,&rdquo; said Mark Bartelstein, the Chicago-based agent who represents Lyons and Missouri teammate DeMarre Carroll.

Leo Lyons, not selected Thursday night in the 2009 NBA draft, has agreed to play for the Indiana Pacers' summer league team.

Leading off the pack of Missouri Track and Field athletes participating in the U.S. Track and Field Championships, junior Nick Adcock currently sits in ninth place in the men's decathlon after the first day of competition.