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8 episodes
since Feb. 24, 2023
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The Next Verse

As the Missouri/Kansas rivalry shifts to the post-Big 12 era, and the two athletic departments begin to schedule more matchups, a new generation of fans is cropping up. The ways in which students at each of the schools keep the rivalry alive are vastly different. However, whenever the two get toget…

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No Sure Deal

In the early 2010s, instability in the Big 12 began to shake up the conference. As a result, four schools left the Big 12 to join other conferences, including Missouri. This effectively ended their century-old rivalry with the Kansas Jayhawks, seeing as the two schools would be out-of-conference op…
From the late-1980s to the late-2000s, Kansas and Missouri competed in some all-time classics on the men's basketball court and the football field. Multiple matchups between top 5 teams, including a legendary 2007 football game that left both sides feeling sour. Missed opportunities for Missouri re…

Clash in Peril

Mizzou and Kansas fans and players may not like each other now, but the matchups between the two are largely absent of extracurricular activity. That was not the case during a basketball game just over 60 years ago. Over the span of four months, a point of controversy bred resentment that was so in…

To Build a Rivalry

In the shadow of the Bleeding Kansas, stories of the conflict fueled a new athletics rivalry. In the early years, the Tigers and Jayhawks played often, largely due to the geographic constraints of travel at the time. This proximity, along with the violent history between the citizens of each of the…

No Man's Land

The modern iteration of the rivalry between the Kansas Jayhawks and Missouri Tigers often hearkens back to the 19th century conflict between the two states, Bleeding Kansas. This conflict is complicated and violent, with Missouri's bloody defense of slavery putting them on the wrong side of history…

Why Kansas?

Missouri border 8 states, tied for most of any other state in the union. Why is Kansas the focus of their anger? The answer to that question lies in the foundations of rivalry. The attitudes of fans and how they perceive the opposition is what shapes any rivalry, but in this one in particular, thos…
Missouri and Kansas have one of the most storied rivalries in college athletics. "Beyond Mr. Brightside" is an exploration of the past, present, and future of the 150-year-old rivalry. It is a collection of stories from those who have studied the states' 19th-century armed conflict, to those who li…
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