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Charlie Cooper’s 138th Preakness Stakes picks

Updated: May 17, 2013 7:37pm

Here are handicapper Charlie Cooper’s picks for the 138th Preakness Stakes on Saturday, May 18, at Pimlico.

Best Bet: Race12 Orb

Best Long Shot: Race 11 Doubles Partner

Race 1: 6...

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Pro-Am enjoyable for LR’s Ralston

Updated: Aug 07, 2012 12:03am

Bob Ralston said it is always a pleasure to play at Harbor Oaks Golf Course. Many of his opponents probably wish he would enjoy the course a little less.

The 62-year-old won the Harbor Oaks...

<p>LATechSportsPix.com/Tom Morris</p><p>Louisiana Tech offensive guard Willie Roaf tears off the helmet off of Alabama right defensive end Eric Curry (80), while blocking for quarterback Sam Hughes on a play during Tech’s Sept. 26, 1992, game in Birmingham, Ala. Alabama won the game 13-0, but NFL scouts said his performance in this game solidified Roaf’s reputation as a potential high NFL draftee after going head to head with Curry, an All-America player himself.</p>

Path to Hall started in Pine Bluff, went through Ruston

Updated: Aug 05, 2012 6:00am

This fall, students at Pine Bluff High School will have their own Hall of Fame celebration for Willie Roaf.

NFL representatives will place a bronze plaque honoring him inside his alma mater...

<p>Commercial File Photo</p><p>Willie Roaf played his final four professional seasons with the Kansas City Chiefs.</p>

Roaf: Time with Chiefs helped him get in Hall

Updated: Aug 05, 2012 6:00am

A torn anterior cruciate ligament injury during the 2001 season put Willie Roaf’s football career in check. The offensive tackle was playing his ninth season in the NFL with the New Orleans Saints...

<p>Cortez Kennedy, a former Seattle Seahawks defensive tackle and Arkansas native, is enshrined as a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2012 on Saturday in Canton, Ohio. (Canton Repository/Bob Rossiter)</p>

Arriving At The Hall

Updated: Aug 04, 2012 11:54pm

CANTON, Ohio — Cortez Kennedy played a part in Rivercrest’s 15-6 victory over Dollarway in the 1985 AAA state football championship game.

Rivercrest also played in the finals two years...

Former Saints, Chiefs standout enters pro football’s shrine

Updated: Aug 04, 2012 11:07pm

CANTON, Ohio — “Normally the father is the hero to the son, but in this case, the son is the hero to the father,” Clifton Roaf said with emotion during his videotaped presentation of his son...

<p>Willie Roaf receives his gold jacket from his father Clifton Roaf, left. (Canton Repository/Scott Heckel)</p>

‘My Super Bowl’

Updated: Aug 04, 2012 12:02am

CANTON, Ohio — Willie Roaf recalled the first time he visited the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

He was somewhere between 10 and 12 years of age, looking for any Pittsburgh Steelers great that...

Digest for 08-02-12

Updated: Aug 01, 2012 11:00pm

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Razorback fans can pledge allegiance to school

FAYETTEVILLE — The University of Arkansas is participating in the inaugural “Pledge Your Allegiance for College Colors Day”...

Dalton’s dream continues in Olympic gymnastics

Updated: Jul 30, 2012 10:11pm

LONDON — It is not the culmination of a dream. It is the continuation of one. Jake Dalton’s journey carries on.

Youth can be both an advantage and flaw at the Olympics and Dalton has...

<p>Longtime White Hall Little League coach Dickie Lunsford sits in the press box overlooking the field named after him on Friday as White Hall prepares for the Southwestern Regional in Waco, Texas. (Special to the Commercial/Bo Rogers)</p>

Lunsford’s League

Updated: Jul 28, 2012 12:13am

WHITE HALL — Dickie Lunsford made a promise … and he kept it.

At 11 years old, Lunsford was asked to play baseball by Theo James. The only thing James required of Lunsford was that when he...

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Opening Ceremonies impressive and long

Updated: Jul 27, 2012 11:35pm

LONDON — Think of it this way: If the Opening Ceremonies of an Olympics are designed to celebrate the concepts of friendship and peace while also paying tribute to a host nation’s history and...

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