St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The Tigers put together their most complete performance of the Eli Drinkwitz era — and maybe even longer than that.

✏️Eli Hoff, Post-Dispatch
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Missouri quarterback Austin Simmons just looked like a pro out there in the emphatic win against Florida. He anticipated receivers' routes with perfect pigskin placement.

He zipped throws across his body to the other side of the field, ho-hum. He launched a couple deep balls. And he threw a couple passes that looked like Max Scherzer fastballs.

✏️Benjamin Hochman, Post-Dispatch
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A century ago, there was no TV broadcast to watch. So when the Cardinals played the first World Series game in franchise history, St. Louisans crowded around radios and loudspeakers downtown.

A front-page story on Oct. 3, 1926, begins: "The big double play, Yankee Stadium to KSD to Cardinal fans, clicked beautifully yesterday afternoon and some 19,000 rooters of the Cards, jammed into downtown St. Louis streets, heard their first report by radio of the first world's series baseball game in which a St. Louis team has participated."

The Post-Dispatch reported that business was “virtually suspended” as fans followed a 2-1 loss to the Yankees. It was only Game 1. The Cardinals would ultimately win the 1926 World Series in seven games.

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Kym Birkenkamp inherited her childhood home in South City with plans to sell it. Then she began to see what she and partner Shannon Hill could make of the 1935 gingerbread house.

Their renovation preserved stained glass, original doors and a stone fireplace while creating a home that feels entirely their own. “It doesn’t feel at all like the house I grew up in,” she says.

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After the implosion of FanDuel Sports Midwest, St. Louis Blues games will now be produced by the National Hockey League and distributed by the team, similar to what the Cardinals did this past season.

Main Street Sports Group, the parent company of FanDuel, shut down at the end of the 2025-26 NHL and NBA seasons, forcing the Blues to go a different direction.

The outfit broadcasting Blues games will be known as Blue Note+.

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Quarterback Mason Thacker threw for four touchdowns Friday to lead the Crusaders to a 41-25 win over Mater Dei in a Metro Valley Conference game in northern Breese.

Althoff (5-2 overall, 4-0 league) won its fourth in a row and clinched the championship in the first year of the new five-team loop that also includes Alton Marquette, Roxana and Madison.

"He got the opportunity, and kid has thrived," Althoff coach Austin Frazier said of Thacker.

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The more points the Breese Central football team gives up in a game, the more pushups it has waiting. It's a bill the coaches collect on Mondays.

Carter Boeckman and his Cougars teammates were determined to limit that bill as much as they could Friday night.

"We told ourselves, no more pushups on Monday," said Boeckman, a Breese Central senior.

The total is basically the bare minimum after host Breese Central's 35-7 victory over Freeburg in the "Roots Rivalry" game between the Cahokia Conference Mississippi Division rivals.

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📰 📸 Paul Halfacre, Post-Dispatch

Chaminade senior safety Gus Ramthun intercepted four passes and also added a fumble recovery in a defensive effort for the ages Friday night to help lead the Red Devils to a 51-29 victory over host Vianney in a Metro Catholic Conference game at Don H**b Field.

“The ball came my way and I made some plays. It was a good game of football,” he said.

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"This idea that Congress would swoop in like a savior and 'protect' college sports always felt absurd," writes sports columnist Lynn Worthy.

"Now, we have a clear and undeniable statement about what the U.S. Senate deemed necessary to protect.

"By passing the Protect College Sports Act, the U.S. Senate told us it was important to protect schools from overspending, protect coaches, limit the movement of athletes and bolster the power of the NCAA."

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