COLUMBIA, MO. • More than 75 former University of Missouri football players and alumni have thrown support to former Mizzou player and former Anheuser-Busch executive Michael Owens for the school’s athletics director job. A list of former players and other alums endorsing Owens is growing by the week, sources confirmed.
In conjunction with the list of supporters, the Post-Dispatch obtained a letter to MU chancellor Hank Foley dated July 16 that endorses Owens, written by former A-B colleague Joseph Castellano.
Owens, 61 and retired in St.