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SEC Baseball: Hogs, Gamecocks square off in Fayetteville

Plenty of must-wins fill the eighth weekend of Southeastern Conference baseball action, including a do-or-die series in Knoxville, Tenn., between slumping Tennessee and suddenly-hot Vanderbilt to decide which squad might join Alabama on the outside looking in on the 10-team SEC Tournament in Hoov

Thu, 05/03/2012 - 12:14pm

SEC Baseball: Hogs head to Gator country

With just four weeks left in the Southeastern Conference baseball season, the race for Hoover and the SEC Baseball Tournament is starting to take shape.

Thu, 04/26/2012 - 4:05pm

UA names new head Hog football coach

Less than two weeks after Head Razorback Football Coach Bobby Petrino was fired for lying to a lot of people about a lot of things, the University of Arkansas has hired former Razorback assistant John L.

Mon, 04/23/2012 - 7:24pm

SEC Baseball: Razorback road trip highlights busy baseball weekend

Last weekend, we passed the halfway point in the Southeastern Conference baseball season. If the SEC Tournament were held today, only Mississippi State and Alabama would miss the 10-team field in Hoover.

Thu, 04/19/2012 - 8:47am

‘Courageous’ move nets UA $1.25 million; Dorrell resigns

University of Arkansas Athletic Director Jeff Long on Tuesday received a $1.25 million pat on the back for his “courageous leadership” during the recent scandal that resulted in the firing of Head Razorback Football Coach Bobby Petrino.

Tue, 04/17/2012 - 6:32pm

SEC Baseball: Top 10 matchup headed to Fayetteville

After a month of Southeastern Conference baseball league play in the books, we hadn’t had a weekend quite like last week’s crazy results.  

Thu, 04/12/2012 - 4:36pm

Petrino fired as Razorback football coach

Just a few minutes after the news hit that Bobby Petrino was fired as the head football coach at the University of Arkansas, the modern incarnation of the 1970s-1980s rock band Foreigner took the stage at the Walton Arts Center with one of the opening songs being “Dirty White Boy.”

Wed, 04/11/2012 - 1:15am

25-year-old female with Petrino during wreck (Updated)

Arkansas head football coach Bobby Petrino has been placed on paid administrative leave while University of Arkansas Athletic Director Jeff Long investigates details of an April 1 motorcycle wreck involving Petrino and a female staffer of the athletic department.

Thu, 04/05/2012 - 4:56pm

SEC Baseball: Gators seek to break slump against hot LSU squad

With Kentucky’s eighth national championship on the hardwoods clinched Monday night, the Southeastern Conference can now claim the reigning national champions in all three men’s major sports (Alabama – football, Kentucky – men’s basketball, South Carolina – baseball).

Thu, 04/05/2012 - 12:00pm

Busy March leads way into critical period for Arkansas football

As the calendar makes its way from March to April, it’s time to take a monthly look at what’s happened with the University of Arkansas football program.

Mon, 04/02/2012 - 3:23pm

SEC Baseball: Hogs looking to keep up hot start in Red Stick

How crazy has the first two weeks of Southeastern Conference baseball action been? If the SEC Tournament, featuring the top 10 overall squads of the 12 league institutions, were held today, the two-time defending national champions would not make the field.

Thu, 03/29/2012 - 1:57pm

Missouri’s season gives hope to Arkansas basketball fans

Now that the Final Four lineup has been set, most of America’s focus is turned towards next weekend’s big event down in the Big Easy.

Mon, 03/26/2012 - 6:29pm

SEC Baseball: Road challenges await top-rated squads

It’s going to feel like Memorial Day’s right around the corner this weekend as some very important series take place on the diamond within the Southeastern Conference.

Thu, 03/22/2012 - 9:07am

Lion Rifles ranked 5th in nation

Lion Rifles, the air rifle sport club at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith, earned 5th place in the country in the Intercollegiate Rifle Club Championship at Fort Benning in Columbus, Ga.

Wed, 03/21/2012 - 7:15pm

Championship revisited with 1997 Airedales

Head Coach Frank Vines of the Alma Airedales had already built quite a legend by the time the 1997 season rolled around. He’d come close a number of times, and even won the school’s only state championship in 1980, but 17 years later, there was no repeat.

Tue, 03/20/2012 - 5:45pm

UAFS officials remember Bert Wright

Legendary Westark College men’s basketball coach Gayle Kaundart and his longtime assistant Jim Wyatt built the Lions into a junior college power in the late 1970s and early 1980s by tirelessly crisscrossing the Arklahoma area in search of talented players.

Thu, 03/15/2012 - 7:52pm

SEC baseball play trumps March Madness this weekend

While most of America’s attention will be glued to CBS and its partner networks to find the bracket busters on the hardwoods this weekend, this is a very important three-day window for all 12 Southeastern Conference baseball teams as conference play begins.

Thu, 03/15/2012 - 3:30pm

Gatling leads Rebels for seven winning years

The Fort Smith Southside Rebels have seen many great coaches come through in their nearly 50-year history, from Jim Rowland, the man responsible for handing perennial powerhouse Northside its first defeat, to Barry Lunney, who won multiple state championships before building a nationally ranked p

Fri, 03/02/2012 - 12:51pm

Gordon named SEC team doc of the year

Dr. Alfred Gordon Jr., the head team primary care physician for Razorback Athletics will be honored as the 2011-12 Southeastern Conference Team Physician of the Year by the Southern Orthopaedic Association (SOA) next week.

Wed, 02/29/2012 - 4:20pm

Arkansas Football welcomes 24 in signing class

February was a relatively quiet month for Arkansas football, with two major newsworthy items to report. The more important of the two would be the 23 members that made up the 2012 Arkansas signing class, which ranked No. 33 nationally according to Rivals.com.

Tue, 02/28/2012 - 8:12pm