Daly team good bet at PNC
There’s lots of compelling football to watch Saturday as league championships are decided, but forgive me for starting my winter golf viewing a little early.
There’s lots of compelling football to watch Saturday as league championships are decided, but forgive me for starting my winter golf viewing a little early.
It’s better to be lucky than good, but plain old good is best.
The way to simplify the game of football hit me when I was scanning the Arkansas connections on Jeremy Pruitt’s coaching staff at Tennessee.
Do you want your head coach to call the plays? That seems to be an integral part of the plot Saturday as Arkansas heads to Texas A&M after a bye week.
How many times have you heard it? One call by an official does not determine a football game.
What’s more important, fly fishing or football?
Mike Leach the football coach is often over shadowed by Mike Leach the entertainer.
In college football, the more you know, the easier it is to make predictions. Never has there been a time anyone has known less than the start of the 2020 seas…
All my life I've heard that the key to playing football was blocking and tackling. It's boring stuff to most. They'd rather draw up plays and pretend to be the…
Arkansas football fans have seen the good, the bad and the ugly over most of the last two decades, but it's hard to remember much good. Mostly, they have found…
Down to my core, there are two things that I think lead to football victories: line play and special teams.
Coaches talk about what it takes to compete on the athletic field in the eye of the storm. They preach messages of toughness.
When the list of new members for the University of Arkansas Sports Hall of Honor was released this week, some may have been surprised to see Corey Beck's name.…
Earlier this spring in a Zoom one-on-one interview, Quinn Grovey raised his eyebrows as the word came there is a notable Frank Broyles tie with new Arkansas de…
Talent is important, but leadership and character are just as important. Establishing the right culture in the locker room is just as important as having the b…
Most of the White River system lakes have been near capacity for most of the summer. There's been little wade fly fishing in my backyard, the Norfork River in …
There is a reward to a glass-half-full philosophy.
Normally, fishermen do not detail their favorite spots. I like to say I caught them below Bull Shoals Dam when I’m on the White River.
Generally, in sports, bigger is better. Big trumps little.
The scouting report on Mataio Soli is all about speed with his feet and his hands. Arkansas' sophomore defensive end exudes explosive talent.
You know what Forrest Gump says about a box of chocolates: You never know what you are going to get.
The light bulb went off midway through the interview with Arkansas defensive coordinator Barry Odom.
I lived in Tornado Alley for 14 years. There was a pole in the front yard of my Tulsa home with a siren. It seemed to blare once a week in the early 1990s.
The text from Jimmy Dykes was clear and concise. It matched his work as an ESPN basketball analyst.
Brad McMakin pushed back in his desk chair at Blessings Golf Club and rubbed his crewcut when a reporter asked to go back to the day then-University of Arkansa…
Kayla Green has the typical scars of an SEC softball catcher. She has marks on her hands from the foul tips.
Arkansas and Oklahoma announced a basketball series scheduled to begin in December at BOK Center in Tulsa. It makes perfect sense.
Arkansas baseball fans may have problems trying to figure out if Brady Slavens reminds them more of Heston Kjerstad or Robert Moore.
Sometimes the sharpest people you know make dumb decisions. I’m talking about you, Dr. Steve Graves.
Jimmy Dykes has time to write a book these days. Wait, ESPN’s basketball analyst already did that.
Gas prices have dropped to the point that $20 fills my truck for the 550-mile first leg of my dream fishing trip.
Jim Counce offered plenty of thoughts about his former coach Eddie Sutton’s selection to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
The phone interview took place at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday and lasted 45 minutes. The time and place indicated something normal was not happening for new Arkansas foo…
Casey Opitz did not grow up a Univeristy of Arkansas baseball fan. His memories of college baseball were tied to road trips to watch an older brother play for …
A fun game is to match the nicknames with some of the cool nicknames in the annals of Arkansas Razorback sports.
The phone interview was the fruit of perfect social distancing. Gary “Sweet P” White sent a Facebook instant message – quite a bit more than a “like” – that he…
Fortunately, what I do for stress release is also safe from the coronavirus. I fly fish, mostly solo.
“It’s a Small World” was the song Nolan Richardson could have been humming Sunday afternoon when he revealed an amazing chain of connecting ties.
The mission was to gain material for a spring football advance for Hawgs Illustrated, but what it really turned into was a chance to get to know how Sam Pittma…
You don’t want to be up close and personal with football. It is a violent, nasty game.
What has to happen to count a trout as caught? Do you have to put it in the net and take the fly out? Or can you count it if you fought it for eight seconds li…
Over the last decade, three times Arkansas baseball players have called their coach by his initials or simply by his last name in the interview room.
The hit with veteran high school football coaches at their annual clinic was the same when Sam Pittman’s new coaches met with the media for an hour.
It was a chance to meet Sam Pittman’s 10 new assistant football coaches, the first day they had a spare moment after playing catchup ahead of Wednesday’s Natio…
The yells for “Daddy” were in the background, a sweet reminder that James and Jessica McCann don’t get one minute off with twins Christian and Kane scrambling …
FAYETTEVILLE -- The Arkansas football team had a bad experience with graduate transfer quarterbacks last year with both Ben Hicks and Nick Starkel bombing out.
Dre Greenlaw is the obvious Arkansas connection in the Super Bowl.
The arrival each winter of the Arkansas-Kentucky basketball game means different things to different people.
You know the great line from Field of Dreams -- "Build it and they will come."
Two Arkansas natives with Division I head coaching experience applaud Eric Musselman's work over his first eight months as Arkansas basketball coach.