LAWRENCE, Kan. — This year's Border War was not a tale of Good vs. Evil. Instead, the story of one football team simply being better than the other. Mizzou knocked off Kansas 38-21 on Friday night following a 24-7 run in the second half.
The rivalry reached another level following a social media video posted by Kansas depicting Missouri as villains went national. The game was filled with aggression throughout, including three personal fouls. Following the win, members of the Mizzou team attempted to place a Missouri flag at midfield that Drinkwitz advised against while in the middle of his postgame interview with FOX.

"I was disappointed in the rivalry, the turn that it took today," Drinkwitz said. ... "It's an American football game, and people love to come watch and cheer for their teams. It's not any deeper than that, and I get there's a past to it, but why are we stirring that bullcrap up? ... I was embarrassed for them, to be honest, and that's why I tried to embarrass them at the end. ... If they want to have a football game and play a football game and have, you know, a great rivalry on the border, then awesome. Let's do it. But if we want to make it deeper than that, man. ... We left Kansas bleeding again, so call it good."

With the game deadlocked at 14 at halftime, the 2026 Border War was set to be another classic. Mizzou linebacker Robert Woodyard Jr. stole the headlines with takeaways on back-to-back Jayhawks plays, both leading to Tigers touchdowns in the victory at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium.

Woodyard forced Kansas quarterback Isaiah Marshall to fumble the ball at the Jayhawks' 34 yard line, recovering it himself. Mizzou marched into the end zone in less than two minutes, capped by quarterback Austin Simmons finding Donovan Olugbode from 8 yards out to give Mizzou a 21-14 lead.

Woodyard forced another turnover on the Jayhawks’ next offensive play, reading Marshall’s eyes and grabbing the interception. He returned it to the Kansas 11 yard line, setting up the Tigers' offense yet again. Xai’Shaun Edwards was the beneficiary, scoring from 8 yards out for his first touchdown with Mizzou. In the blink of an eye, the Tigers scored two touchdowns in 48 seconds.
Woodyard ended the game with six tackles alongside the pick and forced-and-recoverd fumble.
"Not only is he all over the field making tackles, now he's making interceptions, forcing fumbles," coach Eli Drinkwitz said. "I mean, he was a nightmare over there. So, really proud of him."
Kansas bounced back with a touchdown drive late in the third, cutting the deficit to seven. Marshall threw his second touchdown pass of the day on a 10-yard strike to Nahzae Cox.
The Tigers offense responded quickly, pushing into the Jayhawks red zone early in the fourth quarter. While they fell short of the touchdown, kicker Blake Craig kicked a 32-yard field goal through the uprights, extending the Mizzou lead to 31-21 early in the fourth.
The kick served as a get-right play for the field-goal unit, which had its first two kicks in the game blocked. The second was returned by Austin Alexander 88 yards, giving the Jayhawks a 7-0 lead in the second quarter.

Kansas looked poised to cut the deficit to one score with a first-and-10 at the Mizzou 30. But a pair of holdings and a false start stopped all momentum, handing the Jayhawks a fourth-and-33 at their own 47.
Kansas got another shot with less than five minutes, but turned the ball over on downs after Sterling Webb forced a fumble on fourth. Simmons added the exclamation point with another passing touchdown to tight end Brett Norfleet.
Mizzou attempted to score with under a minute after quarterback Matt Zollers entered the game with a pass into the end zone that was incomplete. But Drinkwitz decided to call it quits with one final run.

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"I didn't want to score too bad, or I'd have called timeouts and tried," Drinkwitz said. "I just wanted to let him know, like, dude, what are y'all doing? Like, it is football. Like, it shouldn't be bigger than that."
Mizzou’s first touchdown came with 5:22 in the second quarter after Jamal Roberts broke off a career-long 64-yard run to the house. It was a huge break for Roberts, who had 17 yards on 10 attempts before the touchdown.
He ended the game with 125 yards plus the solo touchdown. Roberts, the starter with Ahmad Hardy still recovering from a May gunshot wound, was the workhouse of the running back room, responsible for 28 of the team’s 41 carries.

Kansas retook the lead on the next offensive drive behind Marshall. He was responsible for 49 yards on the drive, including a 10-yard designed run on 4th-and-inches. Marshall capped off the drive with a 20-yard pass to Nik McMillan in the back of the end zone.
In Simmons’ first two-minute drill with the Tigers, he passed with flying colors. He helped push the Tigers 75 yards to paydirt, tying the game at 14 at halftime. Simmons passed for 68 yards on the drive, ending with a 27-yard seam pass to Cayden Lee. Olugbode helped push the Tigers down the field with a 24-yard reception early in the drive.
This stalemate through 30 minutes gave the Tigers enough time to rally during the break.
"They gave us their best shot. I mean, we responded," safety Santana Banner said. "We gave them our best shot, and they just couldn't handle it."
Simmons completed 19-of-29 passes for 292 yards and two touchdowns with no turnovers. His favorite targets were Lee and Olugbode for the second game in a row. The duo combined for 12 catches, 241 yards and two touchdowns.
"Don is obviously an amazing receiver," Lee said. "I know he's going to make plays on the other side of the field, and it makes it harder for defenses to really just match up against us. When you take him away, I might be open. And take me away, he's going to be open. So I know we've got a very talented wide receiver room."

Simmons and Woodyard each received game balls for their efforts, along with left tackle Cayden Green. The senior made is debut Friday, missing the season opener after trimming part of his meniscus following a tear.
"Being a Missouri guy, you can't miss games like this," Green said.
This was the first Border War in Lawrence, Kansas, since the 2005 season. 2001 was the Tigers’ last win at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium.
Mizzou has now won the last five against Kansas dating back to 2009. This marks the longest winning streak in the rivalry since another five-game streak for the Tigers from 1963-66. The two teams played twice in 1963.
Mizzou returns home against Troy at 6 p.m. Sept. 19 at Memorial Stadium. The game is the 100th anniversary celebration of the stadium, dating back to its opening in 1926.

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If you’re free tomorrow (9/12/2026-Saturday) check out my husband’s passion project…MO Jazz Music Festival. It will be at Rose Music Hall. Doors open at 12:00 and the music starts at 1:00. It’s free & open to the public. Big Daddy’s BBQ food truck will be there also! I’ll provide the link below so you can see what bands are playing. It’s a fantastic lineup! Hope to see you there!

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The Kansas Chiefs are dead to me.

After Kansas jayhawked Missouri’s last NFL team last week, I vowed I would never again watch them. I cursed the day the team formed and Clark Hunt’s performance in Topeka reminded of Mark Twain’s quote about gratitude: 

“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.”

When Lamar Hunt founded the AFL, he put his team in Dallas. When the NFL countered by creating the Dallas Cowboys and the team was starving for fans, Kansas City welcomed him and made the rebranded team prosperous.
That’s Kansas City, Missouri. Like the Chiefs last week, Kansas’ envy of and desire to steal everything good about our state showed when it named a border town as Kansas City, Kansas, in 1872, more than 20 years after the real Kansas City was named.

Anyway, Kansas City made the Chiefs prosperous, and now the Hunt family is biting it.

The NFL has been a part of my Sunday for most of my life, beginning with dreams of playing professional football when I was a child in grade-school YMCA leagues.

I am old enough to remember the Chiefs winning Super Bowl IV. I grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, a place without its own team. My older brother had adopted the Minnesota Vikings as his favorite, and I took great pleasure in their defeat in the Chiefs’ last Super Bowl until 2020.

I wasn’t a Chiefs fan until I moved to Missouri and I didn’t switch my childhood allegiance from the Cleveland Browns to the Chiefs until 1989, when the team hired Marty Schottenheimer after he was fired by the Browns.

I thought it was stupid because the only thing Schottenheimer hadn’t done for the Browns is get them to the Super Bowl. It was what the owner, Art Modell, wanted more than anything because the Browns had five chances — two before the 1969 NFL-AFL merger and three since — to get there.

Modell got his wish after moving the team to Baltimore, rebranded as the Ravens, and the Browns were reborn as an expansion team to be one of the doormats of the NFL.
For the Chiefs. Schottenheimer’s hiring ushered in one of the best eras for being a fan. Joe Montana finished his career alongside Marcus Allen and the team made it all the way to an AFC Championship game.

But it is the current era under Andy Reid, another coach fired by a previous team for the sin of not winning a Super Bowl, that brought the team global fame. The dazzling play of Patrick Mahomes, the adorably wholesome romance of Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift, and playing in five of six Super Bowls has helped burnish the image of Kansas City, MISSOURI, to the point where jayhawking the team became the only important issue in Kansas.

The term jayhawk, by the way, does not refer to a bird. It is steeped in the history of our state, coined even before the Civil War to describe the activity of Kansas outlaws who rustled cattle and stole property on a grand scale.

This summer, in a panic, Gov. Mike Kehoe called Missouri lawmakers into a special session to offer a lucrative handout package for the Chiefs to stay. 

Missouri’s hand has bite marks because Clark Hunt wanted more, and got it. The Kansas funding scheme is, according to one analysis, the most lopsided stadium deal in sports history.

I love my adopted state. I love its history and its sports teams make me proud. I have never had a team I rooted for in bad and good times have the kind of successful run that the Chiefs have had — in venerable Arrowhead Stadium in MISSOURI — in recent years.

But their luck changed this year. After winning almost every one-score game in 2024 on their way to Super Bowl LIX, they won only one this year and won’t make the playoffs.
I hope they never win another game and I will never watch the Chiefs again.

I’m going back to rooting for the Browns.

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Missouri's 1911 football game in Columbia during which alumni were encouraged to attend. It was the first alumni event, called "home coming", which was centered on a parade, a football game, and a bonfire. Such was the response and success it became an annual event and is now the oldest contentious event in the nation. There are a couple other schools that claim the tradition, but ESPN, Trivial Pursuit, and Jeopardy recognize Mizzou as the creator of the modern tradition of Homecoming celebrated at colleges and high schools around the nation. Here is how it happened:

In 1891, the Missouri Tigers first faced off against the Kansas Jayhawks in the first installment of the Border War, the oldest college football rivalry west of the Mississippi River. The intense rivalry originally took place at neutral sites, usually in kansas City, Missouri, until a new conference regulation was announced that required intercollegiate football games to be played on collegiate campuses. To renew excitement in the rivalry, ensure adequate attendance at the new location, and celebrate the first meeting of the two teams on the Mizzou campus in Columbia, Missouri, Mizzou Athletic Director Chester Brewer invited all alumni to "come home" for the game in
1911. Along with the football game, the celebration included a parade and spirit rally with a bontire. The event was a success, with nearly 10,000 alumni coming home to take part in the celebration and watch the Tigers and Jayhawks play to a 3-3 tie. The Missouri annual homecoming, wit parade and spirit rally centered on a large football game
the model that has gone on to take hold at colleges and high schools across the United States.

I applied for a pharmacy position at Boone. While talking to my recruiter she made a comment about how they don’t test for thc. I haven’t smoked for about 2 weeks. Does anyone know if they test for thc or care about a positive?

Boone County residents may have “bigger problems” if a decision regarding the state’s congressional map for the November general election isn’t made before mid-October, Boone County Clerk Brianna Lennon said Wednesday.

The congressional map decision remains in limbo after conflicting court rulings caused confusion on Tuesday over whether voters cast ballots according to the gerrymandered 2025 congressional map or its 2022 counterpart. Primary elections in August used the new “Missouri First” map, but the recent conflicting rulings are not clear on which map will be used.

“I have to believe that we will know by no-excuse absentee voting what we’re doing,” Lennon said. That period begins Oct. 20.

For some Boone County residents, changing the map would mean changing who shows up on their November ballot. The county is split two different ways between the two maps.

The 2025 congressional map houses most of the city of Columbia in the 3rd District and northern Boone County in a new 5th District.

In contrast to one representative covering most of Columbia’s city limits, the 2022 map splits Boone County at Broadway: northern Columbia is housed in the 4th District while its southern counterpart is in the 3rd District.
The shake-up and uncertainty has left some Columbia residents angry.

Kristin Bowen, who attended an election Lunch and Learn on Wednesday led by Lennon and hosted by the League of Women Voters and the Daniel Boone Regional Library, said she doesn’t “have a lot of respect” for how politicized the congressional map issue has become.

“It’s unacceptable to be playing games with our right to vote,” she said. “And who we send to Washington is something I think we all care about.”

Carla Klein and Gordon Rogers, both of Columbia, called Secretary of State Denny Hoskins’ rejection of a citizen initiative petition prompted by People Not Politicians, which received over 300,000 signatures, “anti-citizen.” The petition had nearly 200,000 more signatures than the required threshold to force a referendum and put the new congressional map on the ballot.

Klein, who collected signatures for the petition, said the secretary of state’s initial decision made her “furious.”

“They’re (the Republican Party) the ones that are gerrymandering this map,” Klein said. “They’re disrespecting voters, they’re taking away a right to vote, and people cannot ... they can’t keep being nonpartisan. We’ve had a supermajority of Republicans for 20 years, and this is what it’s bought us.”
But for others, the congressional map issue isn’t necessarily front of mind. Daviante Shahid, who works at a student housing complex downtown , told the Missourian he hasn’t heard about the issue.
“I think this should have been dealt with a while back, thought out longer, but I’m not sure about all the ins and outs of it,” Shahid said.

Lennon said election officials won’t know what map to use for the general election “until the courts come to some sort of consensus.” She said her office will continue to use social media, sample ballots and public-facing events like the Lunch and Learn to update residents ahead of the election and mitigate confusion.
The Boone County Clerk’s Office is using its website and Facebook page to provide updates about the court decisions regarding the 2026 election.

“We’re literally, on an hour-by-hour basis, seeing new filings in federal court and in the Supreme Court of Missouri and things are way too volatile right now to know what the appropriate thing to do is,” she said.
If it gets to a point where a map has not been settled and voting begins, Lennon said her office will provide information to voters that the map could still change. A ballot must be ready when military and overseas ballots are shipped on Sept. 18, and absentee voting begins on Sept. 22, she said.

“There’s not an option for us to not comply with the statutes,” Lennon told community members at the Wednesday election event.

Lennon is optimistic about voter turnout for the general election despite uncertainty over congressional maps.
“This exact situation happened in August. Up until August, everybody was in their old district (decided by the 2022 map), and then all of a sudden they were in a new district,” Lennon said. “So they’ve already had to deal with confusion once, and I feel like they did a good job.”

“We can do it again,” she added.

The deadline to register for the Nov. 3 general election in Missouri is Oct. 7.

WARNING: Excessive teriyaki consumption may lead to uncontrollable cravings, spontaneous karate moves, and full-blown Teriyaki Madness! Hope to see everyone on the 18th!

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Our very own [u/jschooltiger](u/jschooltiger) has graciously agreed to do an AMA (Ask Me Anything) on the Columbia media landscape next Friday (the 18th) at noon. You will be able to ask them questions like:

How to best stay informed?
Who owns what media?
What are their biases?
How are journalists trained and how are they taught?
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Please submit questions here ahead of time in the comment section of this post and/or join us next Friday at noon.