John Henderson of the Denver Post has the headline of the day talking about the Missouri Tigers: Trimmer Tigers Aim To Stay In Fat City. For a fat city like Denver, that headline seems a little critical of Columbia.
↵His story is about the nutrition program being established at Mizzou. Apparently, former Mizzou players would come back from the NFL and they would all be thinner.
↵Gary Pinkel took that as a hint that maybe he should tighten the ship around campus with a nutrition specialist.
↵↵ She taught them simple lessons. For instance, if after dinner you can use your napkin to grease an International Harvester, it won't help your performance. The players bought in. "I get phone calls at 2 a.m: 'I don't know what to have, cheese and crackers, pizza rolls or just go to bed,' " Heit-meyer said. "I'd say, 'Hang up and go back to sleep.' " Man, college wouldn't be the same without the buffets, late-night food runs and nearly all-fast food diet that I'm some (not me) employed.↵
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