Stories by Nate Allen

  • More questions than answers for Hogs

    Over the long hauls of college basketball and baseball seasons yesterday's answers often become today's questions.

  • Don't hate on Boyd for opting out

    FAYETTEVILLE -- A candid quote from a 1980s fired Southern Illinois University basketball coach sprang to mind.

  • Big game was not to be for Hamlet

    FAYETTEVILLE -- The University of North Texas' production of "Hamlet" closed Saturday evening at Walton Arena with its hero upstaged.

  • Hogs show more defensive prowess

    In last Wednesday's 142-62 rout of Mississippi Valley State second-year Arkansas Coach Eric Musselman season debuted a far taller Razorbacks basketball team th…

  • Newcomers aplenty for hoops Hogs

    For perhaps the only time this basketball campaign, Arkansas Coach Eric Musselman in tonight's season opener totally determines the Razorbacks' starters and ro…

  • From hammer down to slow down

    Blessedly without "Hammer Down" slogans, Kendal Briles' 2020 version of Arkansas uptempo offense otherwise opened resembling Chad Morris' 2018 and 2019 uptempo…

  • HOF inductee class all hall-worthy

    FAYETTEVILLE — Congratulations to Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame voters for their nine selections to the 2021 class announced Sunday.

  • Pittman connects with Morris holdovers

    Players on losing teams with fired coaches know the next staff comes charged with recruiting better than they inherited. They also sometimes enter obsessed ins…

  • UA cross country title hopes on hold

    FAYETTEVILLE -- Normally off winning last week's SEC Cross Country Championships, Arkansas Men's Coach Chris Bucknam and Arkansas Women's Coach Lance Harter wo…

  • Boyd looks like his old self at A&M

    FAYETTEVILLE -- Arkansas lost a football game but regained a running back last Saturday night at Texas A&M's Kyle Field in College Station, Texas.

  • Happy Razorback retirements abound

    FAYETTEVILLE -- Here's hoping the retirement packages prove deservedly ample for seven longtime integral to University of Arkansas athletics retiring at this m…

  • 2020 redshirt season would aid Hogs

    FAYETTEVILLE -- If they play bowl games in this covid-19 affected college football season, and if these 2-2 Razorbacks qualify for one, they can do in pre-bowl…

  • Boyd key for Razorbacks' stretch run

    FAYETTEVILLE -- These next two weeks the Razorbacks owe it to Rakeem Boyd and Rakeem Boyd owes it to himself reviving Arkansas' premier running back excelling.…

  • Hogs, Rebels are must-watch TV

    No SEC game, or any other college football game today, rivals nationally No. 2 Alabama vs. No. 3 Georgia tonight on CBS.

  • Hog progress measured in bogus call

    FAYETTEVILLE - If success can be measured by controversial heartbreak, Arkansas progressed by continents last Saturday in Auburn, Ala.

  • HOG CALLS: Hogs guard against overconfidence

    Hard to imagine a football program losing 20 consecutive conference games then ballooning with soon to be punctured overconfidence the game immediately after f…

  • Pittman proud for Hog fans after win

    FAYETTEVILLE - Growing up a Razorbacks fan in Grove, Okla. near Arkansas' border, Sam Pittman remembers those Frank Broyles and Lou Holtz years when Arkansas v…

  • Gleaning positives from opening loss

    Encouragement accompanying a 37-10 season-opening defeat describes how low this Arkansas Razorbacks football program plummeted recently.

  • Noncon slip-ups can be fatal for coaches

    FAYETTEVILLE -- Off the Big 12's sadly Sunbelted Saturday comes ghostly advice from Arkansas' head football coaching career graveyard.

  • Hogs' QBs use legs as much as arms

    The two quarterbacks that this Sam Pittman Arkansas Razorbacks staff signed plus the inherited quarterback operating as top backup come armed to pressure a def…

  • Track coaches not happy with NCAA decision

    Arkansas women's Coach Lance Harter and Arkansas men's Coach Chris Bucknam view the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships they host next March undermined b…

  • LB Harris will be missed by new staff

    New Arkansas Coach Sam Pittman and his new defensive staff knew they would miss two Razorbacks they couldn't coach.

  • RB Smith excited to be a Razorback

    FAYETTEVILLE - Considering how Arkansas running back Trelon Smith loves his head coach and running backs coach they seem lucky to be alive.

  • Standards are high around Pittman

    Most first-year college football head coaches enjoy a honeymoon with their new teams at least into their first game.

  • Gridiron hopes remain high for fall

    Here's hoping by late August when this column resumes from hiatus that there will be football to write about.

  • Razorbacks keep eyes on the size

    Just because he now has a full 13 Razorbacks basketball scholarship roster doesn't mean Eric Musselman must choose to play them all.

  • Track season left sitting in the blocks

    Today in Austin, Texas the Arkansas Razorbacks men's and women's track and field teams were to conclude at the NCAA Outdoor Championships what they anticipated…

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