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A look at the contracts, performances of stars
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Apr 02, 2013 7:30pmLITTLE ROCK — Nitpicking the contracts of four well-compensated athletes, you can argue that one only plays in about 20 percent of his team’s games, that another will change positions in a few...
New LSU, Texas A&M coordinators on spot
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Mar 30, 2013 7:49pmLITTLE ROCK — Angst and age mean Arkansas’ Jim Chaney is more insulated from fan criticism than any of the other new offensive coordinators in the Western Division of the Southeastern Conference...
Opportunities galore for Western Amateur golfers
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Mar 29, 2013 8:36pmROLAND — Expanding on a straightforward plea for 700-plus volunteers for the Western Amateur golf tournament, 4-G is the pitch.
For those who sign up, there is golf, garb, grub, and doing a...
Unique road to Derby for Rebel winner?
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Mar 27, 2013 11:01pmLITTLE ROCK — Four rows in front of Willis Horton, D. Wayne Lukas bid $400,000 on a colt targeted by Horton during a two-day inspection of 300 horses in a sale in Lexington, Ky.
Despite a...
Bielema’s transcript reveals plenty about football coach
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Mar 23, 2013 11:07pmLITTLE ROCK — Driving when the radio talk show host cranked up the Bret Bielema cut, the Arkansas coach’s criteria for his quarterback was good stuff.
Unable to keep up with Bielema’s rapid-...
Three Kentucky starters have decision to make
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Mar 22, 2013 11:23pmLITTLE ROCK — Pass the salt, please.
Three Kentucky basketball players in their late teens say they are not ready for the NBA and that they are staying in Lexington. I’m not saying Archie...
Bull’s-eye will catch up with Cardinals in NCAA tournament
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Mar 20, 2013 7:25pmLITTLE ROCK — Rooting for a horse and a basketball team, one was never in contention and the other opened a sizable lead.
Both lost.
The animal that broke slowly and failed to improve...
Memories created at Barton Coliseum at state championships
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Mar 19, 2013 5:25pmLITTLE ROCK — Assigned to a day and night of basketball at Barton Coliseum, the young sportswriters split up the games and the luck of the draw included the first look at a highly touted team from...
SEC teams need Ws vs. power conferences
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Mar 18, 2013 7:11pmLITTLE ROCK — The carrot that convinced Southeastern Conference athletic directors to do away with division play in basketball is still out there, dangling.
So far, consolidation has not...
D. Wayne Lukas doubles up in Rebel Stakes
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Mar 16, 2013 8:19pmHOT SPRINGS — A result with concrete ramifications, the Rebel Stakes at Oaklawn Park was a welcome respite from the volatility that comes with two days of college basketball on the weekend before...
