For nearly two years, Missouri basketball assistant Matt Zimmerman has recruited Bishop Miege point guard Trevor Releford.

Countless calls, check-ins, updates, how-ya-doin’s. So perhaps there was nothing really special about the telephone conversation between Zimmerman and Releford last Monday night.

K-State lineman arrested

Kansas State senior defensive lineman Jeffrey Fitzgerald was arrested early Sunday morning by the Riley County Police Department and charged with driving under the influence.

The Wednesday tutoring session began like so many others. Lee’s Summit High School quarterback Corbin Berkstresser threw pass after pass.

Then he popped the question.

Missouri has finished a best-ever 36th nationally in the Learfield Directors’ Cup standings, a measure of overall athletic success.

The MU athletic department improved by one spot its finish in 2002-2003.

Sunday was another day of triumph for Christian Cantwell and another day of coming up short for Muna Lee.

Cantwell, a former Missouri shot-putter who won the silver medal in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, won the event Sunday in the U.S. Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Ore.

Leo Lyons, not selected Thursday night in the NBA draft, has agreed to play for the Indiana Pacers’ summer-league team.

“Then we’ll see where we go from there,” said Mark Bartelstein, the Chicago-based agent who represents Lyons and Missouri teammate DeMarre Carroll.

Leo Lyons, not selected Thursday night in the 2009 NBA draft, has agreed to play for the Indiana Pacers' summer league team.

"Then we'll see where we go from there," said Mark Bartelstein, the Chicago-based agent who represents Lyons and Missouri teammate DeMarre Carroll.

Poor Blake Griffin. The biggest day of his life up to this point became a footnote.

On the day the entertainment world lost Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett and the NBA saw Shaq and LeBron James united by trade, Griffin became the No. 1 overall pick Thursday night in the NBA draft.