Are you ready for some football? You better be. Missouri’s football team totally altered the course of events at its university. The threat of a game boycott (that would’ve cost the school a million dollar fine, for starters) was a game-changer. And it was a strategy we may see used again.

+ The Daily Beast: Mizzou’s fight for justice started on the football field more than 50 years ago. (That’s a really long drive.)

+ In a bizarre sequence that will make you question if they teach the First Amendment in college (and wonder what the hell they could be teaching in Mass Comm class), protesting students (and a communications professor) at Missouri tried to stop a journalist from reporting.