Fires: Checking in on Arkansans in pro basketball
Are you following the NBA, where the season begins before Halloween and finally concludes a few days before July 4?
Are you following the NBA, where the season begins before Halloween and finally concludes a few days before July 4?
Georgia’s 63-3 beatdown of Florida State hadn’t even finished when a friend called to say he was right about the selection process for the College Football Pla…
Wow, what a surprising turn of events.
I’m ready to come clean and hold myself accountable for the preseason predictions I made for the Razorbacks.
Detroit’s win over Green Bay last Thursday was the incentive I needed to check on a few NFL players with Arkansas ties.
While you’re focused on football, I’ve got baseball on my mind with names that should be familiar to sports fans in Northwest Arkansas.
I received an email from a die-hard Arkansas football fan who predicts 8-4 for the Hogs during the regular season, and possibly 9-3 with a few breaks.
Big man, big personality. That’s how Coach Coleman Joiner describes incoming freshman defensive lineman Ian Geffrard.
Razorbacks fans all over the country wish the program's three NBA draftees nothing but the best as they begin their pro careers. Will they rank high among othe…
Expectations are everything and we see the latest examples of it in the baseball programs at Arkansas and Arkansas State, the two largest universities in our s…
Some stories during my time as the Arkansas baseball beat writer for this newspaper for 15 years, beginning in 1999 when the Hogs captured their first SEC titl…
It’s time for a bit of baseball jeopardy, if you don’t mind.
They moved about quietly with candles in the darkness at Champions Stadium while soft music played from a speaker in the background.
Question: Why should college football fans care about bowl games when the players, apparently, do not?
Hello sunshine, here come the Razorbacks. I’m embarrassed to admit it, but that was the last sentence I wrote in August while making my annual predictions on A…
Arkansas women’s basketball Coach Mike Neighbors continues to add local stars to the Razorbacks’ roster.
If you weren’t touched emotionally by the video of Dan Skipper in the Detroit Lions’ locker room, then I don’t want to know your cold, cold heart.
From 2-10 in 2018 and 2019 to 10-2 in 2022?
Blake Parker is back home in Fayetteville, but he may not be for long.
There are certain moments in the recent history of the Arkansas Razorbacks that stick out, regardless of the sport. For Rick Fires, there’s three.
The transfer portal was meant for players like Connor Vanover, who announced last week he was leaving Arkansas after two years and joining the basketball progr…
I dated a woman who made our weekend plans with her friends once without even asking me, plans of which I quickly rejected.
What do you do when your dream has been shattered and everything you’ve worked for is taken away?
Are you surprised Jaylin Williams has emerged already as the Razorbacks’ best overall player in less than two years at the college level?
So, let me get this straight.
Arkansas fans aren’t the only ones impressed with the job Sam Pittman has done in his short time as coach of the Razorbacks.
I refuse to move forward as a sports columnist before cleaning up the mess I made with my preseason predictions on Arkansas football in August.
I should’ve known something was up when I asked Fayetteville coach Casey Dick about Isaiah Sategna.
I made the mistake of listening to a call-in show on the radio shortly after Arkansas lost 52-51 to Ole Miss on a failed two-point attempt.
I don’t have a crystal ball fortune tellers have claimed for generations they use to peer into the future.
While lawyers argue over when Texas and OU can leave the Big 12 and join the SEC, we can begin right now to prepare for the move.
Ben Tschepikow stood alone in the parking lot at Baum Stadium after the 2008 baseball season and thought about his next move.
His cap tells his story and he was eager to share it hours before the start of the Fayetteville Regional.
What do Blue Jays, Bison, Sod Poodles and Jumbo Shrimp have in common?
What’s in it for us? For years — no, for decades — that’s all I heard from University of Arkansas fans.
I can’t move on with column-writing in 2021 without holding myself accountable for the predictions I made about the Arkansas football team in 2020.
I’m guessing the same thing jumped out at you as it did me when Grant Morgan and Hudson Clark earned SEC Player of the Week awards.
The best response I read after Georgia and Florida were added to Arkansas’ schedule came from Ross Dellenger of Sports Illustrated who tweeted: Dear God.
Elite recruits mostly choose college programs that’ll help them get to the NFL and no one does better than Alabama, which has 56 former players on NFL rosters …
Here’s some college coaches with Arkansas ties you’ll likely see on the sidelines as you search desperately for games this fall on your TV.
It is true Major League Baseball players and owners have put aside their differences to actually begin playing games this week?
Trey Holloway was an all-around athlete who showed Booneville could win state championships in other sports besides football.
Spending two years in tiny Wilburton, Okla., helped Tyler Johnson resurrect his baseball career.
Arkansas baseball fans hope to see more of what Cullen Smith showed Wednesday during action from the Perfect Timing College Baseball League.
Jesse Barker of Benton thought he had seen the last of Baum-Walker Stadium after playing in consecutive state championship games there in 2018 and 2019.
Tell me again why Missouri is in the SEC East and not in the SEC West.
Stretching for throws and fielding ground balls at first base isn’t a big deal for most players, but it’s a sign of progress for Matt Goodheart.
Are there better words for what’s happening Monday than “Perfect Timing” baseball?
Desperate for some good news amid the despair of covid-19, I found it in our sports pages under the headline “Wolf’ in UA clothing’.
Under normal circumstances, Jalen Beeks would be in Florida preparing for another season as a pitcher for the Tampa Bay Rays.