Michael Sam, an All-American defensive end at the University of Missouri, announced that he was gay, setting him up to be the first openly homosexual player in the NFL.
A Columbia, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today (Jan. 23) for two arsons that caused more than $1 million in damages to the Ellis Library at the University of Missouri–Columbia and a building on the Stephens College campus in Columbia.
Turns out the latest viral video sweeping the web has a Missouri tie-in. The star of the video, 25 year old writer Marina Shifrin, is a graduate of the University of Missouri. I wonder if that's where she learned her dance moves too?