
Matthew McFarland
Student ReporterMatthew McFarland is a junior at the University of Missouri studying writing and reporting. He comes to the J-school from Ohio, and hopes to pursue a career in investigative journalism.
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In 1996, Rexroy Scott was a 19-year-old soccer player in a small, hard-working community on the northeast coast of Jamaica.He quickly found himself facing American culture head-on after a Jamaican professor gave the soccer coach at Lincoln University a tip about a young defender worthy of a scholarship.
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With a forecast high of 74 degrees Wednesday, temperatures in Columbia could break records.Wednesday’s expected spike in temperature comes amid a trend of unseasonably warm weather that has lingered in mid-Missouri for much of December.