COLUMBIA, Mo. • There’s this room in his house and he doesn’t know what it’s called.
Is there a fancy word for a living-room-type-room connected to a bedroom? Something French? I bet it’s French. Anyway, in Barry Odom’s house, “There’s one specific place where I make phone calls like that,” the Mizzou football coach said of this room with a recliner and chairs. “It’s an extension of the master bedroom, a quiet spot in the house — I have three kids running around, so I know I can go back there and shut the door. There’s a lamp.