I think I finally have some news to report! After a couple weeks waiting for my beat to start, things are finally starting to take shape. The men's basketball team is now having open practices over the weekends and the season-opening Mizzou Madness event has been officially scheduled. The open practices kind of took me by surprise, but John and I are going to meet today to get some ideas of what to do there.
At this point - more than a month before the exhibition games even start - it is hard to know exactly where to go with these stories. On one hand, I don't think we should go too in-depth on the players yet unless there is something important. Since official practice doesn't start until Oct. 12, I think it is too early to say "Player A is looking really good in practice." From my understanding, these practices are more just pick up games and conditioning.
John and I will narrow it down at the Missourian this afternoon, but I figure the kind of stories we could work on during this pre-official practice season are angles like: feature on transfer Zaire Taylor - who is he?; coach Anderson's conditioning program in the second year; DeMarre Carroll recovering from the gunshot wound over the summer.
So overall, we'll talk to Greg and see what kind of stories usually come out of these pre-preseason practices and hopefully get off to a fast start!
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