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UALR women drop Sun Belt final to MTSU
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Mar 11, 2013 11:33pmHOT SPRINGS — An empty chair on each side of him, UALR coach Joe Foley sat quietly, hands clasped. The confetti falling from the ceiling was for the other team.
A classy guy, he got up to...
Home court is inexplicable
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Mar 08, 2013 9:07pmLITTLE ROCK — Hop-scotching the Country Club of Little Rock course during a Razorback-related scramble, Lou Holtz caught up with our group in time to take a crack at a birdie putt on the short...
Baseball’s a long season, so there’s time to improve
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Mar 05, 2013 7:19pmLITTLE ROCK — Razorback baseball fans, don’t panic.
The baseball season lasts for months and losing four in a row in late February and early March does not preclude an appearance in Omaha in...
SEC teams retreat on road
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Mar 04, 2013 6:31pmLITTLE ROCK — One hundred and twenty-six games are not going to be enough to sort out which Southeastern Conference teams get into the NCAA Tournament, which ones land in the NIT, and which ones...
How a long putter saved one player from quitting
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Feb 28, 2013 6:17pmLITTLE ROCK — Before a putting green was built to the right of the first tee at War Memorial Park, a hump bisected what is now the 18th green. To the left was the pin for the final hole; to the...
Football is more than Combine numbers
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Feb 26, 2013 8:36pmLITTLE ROCK — Crafted as a promotion, Leon Sandcastle’s ad for the NFL Combine is more of a parody.
Wig-wearing Deion Sanders and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell shake hands after Sandcastle...
Arkansas holds key to Kentucky, Missouri
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Feb 25, 2013 6:30pmLITTLE ROCK — Halfway through the ninth and final SEC overtime of the day, 7-foot, 245-pound Willie Cauley-Stein dove for a loose ball and gained possession for Kentucky. During the next 2 1/2...
Hoping Portis, Hall reach Barton Coliseum
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Feb 23, 2013 7:15pmLITTLE ROCK — Curious about the skills required to get invited to the McDonald’s All American game, scores from the 6A boys championship at Greenwood will have my attention.
If Little Rock...
FCS schools might get squeezed
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Feb 22, 2013 7:02pmLITTLE ROCK — A move to upgrade the football schedules of Big Ten schools by eliminating Football Championship Subdivision schools has the attention of the athletics director at Central Arkansas...
Derby points good for fans and tracks
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Feb 20, 2013 6:20pmLITTLE ROCK — In the graded earnings days of thoroughbred racing , trainer Bob Baffert would be making Kentucky Derby plans for Super Ninety Nine, confident the smashing winner of the $300,000...
