Motor sports
Topless 100 postponed by weather
The 26th annual Comp Cams Topless 100 dirt late model race -- scheduled for tonight, Friday and Saturday at Batesville Motor Speedway -- has been postponed.
With the forecast for continued rain throughout the weekend on an already heavily saturated track and facility, Speedway and Series officials decided to postpone the event.
"This is not what we wanted to do," said Mooney Starr, the track's owner and promoter. "However, we did not want to get all of the drivers and fans here, and then have to cancel. With the grounds already saturated and the forecast for more rain throughout the weekend, it was best for everyone involved to postpone the event."
Officials with the track, the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series and the Comp Cams Super Dirt Series are working to find a date to reschedule the event.
BASKETBALL
Arkansas to play Texas State
The Arkansas Razorbacks men's basketball team will play Texas State on Dec. 22 in Walton Arena, according to the Bobcats' schedule released Wednesday.
The University of Arkansas is 3-0 against Texas State. The Razorbacks won the teams' most recent meeting -- 73-67 during the 2005-06 season -- when Steven Hill tied the school record with 10 blocked shots.
Other nonconference games for Arkansas include Texas on Nov. 9 as part of the Armed Forces Classic at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas; Texas-Arlington on Nov. 23 in Fayetteville; Dec. 5 at Colorado State; and Jan. 26 at Texas Tech as part of the Big 12/SEC Challenge. The Razorbacks will host Western Kentucky -- coached by Rick Stansbury, the former Mississippi State coach -- but a date has not been announced.
The Razorbacks' game against UT-Arlington is part of the Hardwood Showcase, an exempt event that also includes Indiana, California-Davis, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and Montana State, according to the News-Sentinel newspaper in Fort Wayne, Ind. The Razorbacks will host Indiana on Nov. 18, according to CBS Sports, but it isn't known what other teams from the showcase Arkansas might play.
Arkansas has not announced its nonconference schedule.
-- Bob Holt
FOOTBALL
Another list of speakers set
University of Arkansas Coach Chad Morris and Athletic Director Hunter Yurachek headline the speaker lineup for the Northwest Arkansas Touchdown Club announced Wednesday.
Morris will be this year's first speaker on Wednesday at Mermaid's Restaurant in Fayetteville. He's also speaking at the Little Rock Touchdown Club on Monday.
Yurachek will speak at the Northwest Arkansas Touchdown Club on Sept. 6.
Jack Crowe, the former Arkansas coach and offensive coordinator, will speak Aug. 29.
Other speakers will be former Razorback Brett Goode, who was a longtime deep snapper for the Green Bay Packers, on Sept. 26; Todd Graham, the former Tulsa, Pittsburgh and Arizona State coach, on Sept. 19; Gene Chizik, the former Iowa State and Auburn coach, on Oct. 3; ESPN sports anchor Matt Barrie on Oct. 10; oddsmaker Danny Sheridan on Oct. 17; ESPN and SEC Network announcer Tom Hart on Oct. 24; and ESPN senior writer Ryan McGee on Nov. 7. The Nov. 14 meeting will feature a college football panel, according to the announcement.
GOLF
Overstreet advances in U.S. Amateur
Mason Overstreet, a junior at the University of Arkansas, advanced Wednesday to the Round of 32 at the U.S. Amateur with a 1-up victory over Cameron Sisk of El Cajon, Calif.
Overstreet, of Kingfisher, Okla., and the tournament's No. 49 seed, led the majority of the match until the 16th-seeded Sisk tied it with a birdie on the par-5 14th. Overstreet regained the lead at the par-4 16th, then held off Sisk on the final two holes.
Also Wednesday, former Arkansas standout Alvaro Ortiz of Mexico lost to No. 2 seed Cole Hammer of Houston, 2 up. Ortiz held a 1-up lead after the 12th, but Hammer won the 14th and 16th before closing out the match on the 18th.
On Tuesday, Scott Purvis of Springdale and Ryan Spurlock of Maumelle missed the stroke-play cut to advance to the match-play portion of the tournament.
Sports on 08/16/2018