Five former University of Arkansas at Fort Smith student-athletes were inducted into the Lions Athletics Hall of Fame during the third annual honorary banquet Friday (Feb. 3) at the old UAFS Fieldhouse.
Five former Razorbacks and the entire 1994 University of Arkansas 1994 NCAA men’s basketball championship team were inducted into the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame on Friday night at Verizon Arena in North Little Rock.
ROGERS — With so much focus on rankings, the University of Arkansas Athletic Department highlighted some other important numbers for its student athletes — grade point averages and hours of community service.
By all accounts, the Arkansas football program is off to a great start to 2012 with an eventful January that was highlighted by the announcement of new coaches, players returning for their senior seasons and a much-needed 11th win acquired on Jan. 7.
Colby Hale, hired last month as Arkansas’ head soccer coach, has completed his staff with the addition of Ben Strawbridge and Mario Rincon as assistant coaches, he announced on Monday.
In the school’s long history, they are considered the best to ever field a team. The offense averaged a dominant 29 points per game while allowing less than two.
Wedding planners throughout the southeast can get to work now with all those fall weddings after Wednesday morning’s unveiling of the 2012 Southeastern Conference football schedule.
Arkansas will host at least seven in-state games, including conference showdowns with Alabama, Kentucky, Ole Miss and LSU as part of the 2012 football tentative schedule released on Wednesday.
When Arkansas State athletic director Dean Lee introduced Gus Malzahn as the new ASU head coach last week, he informed Malzahn and the standing-room only audience that “he is my Cam Newton.”
Many argue that the Bowl Championship Series rankings did just what it was intended to do by pitting the two best teams in America together in the BCS Championship Game on Jan. 9. I won’t argue with them because they’re entitled to their opinions, just as I am entitled to my own.
Of the six state champions, three hailed from western Arkansas with two — Charleston and Greenwood—representing the Fort Smith region directly. However, the area had a lot more to be proud of than just these two teams.
In St. Anne’s glorious run through the ranks of Arkansas high school football, no year may have been as pivotal to the program as 1957.