When last we convened here, I was hypothesizing that Arkansas’ close encounter with a five-alarm nightmare against Missouri State would shake the Hogs awake. That we’d see a team much more prepared for adversity – and ready to prevent it…
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4th & 25: After Last Week’s Near Disaster, Aggies Are No Joke
I grew up in the tail end of the Southwest Conference era – before Arkansas broke off from that storied but doomed vessel and departed for the SEC, greener of pastures, and of pocketbook. I was just old enough to…
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4th & 25: Era of Good Feelings Has Arrived For Arkansas Football — If Only I Could Remember That After Kickoff
My family goes to the beach at least a couple of times a year. It’s my wife’s doing; I don’t much care for it. I don’t like sand, I burn faster than a cheap bag of microwave popcorn, and lugging…
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4th & 25: Another Near-Miss For Hogs Baseball is Only Further Proof of Program’s Elite Status
There’s a photo of Joe Dimaggio on the wall in my office. It was taken sometime in 1969, nearly 20 years after he’d hung up the spikes. He’s 55 years old, salt overtaking pepper, the paunch of late middle age…
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4th & 25: Entering Super Regionals, We’re Still Learning About the Hogs
A baseball diamond, according to Bill James, is a field of ignorance. What we know about the sport could maybe fill the infield, he says. The rest is an enigma. This, coming from the originator of what we know as…
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4th & 25: Whether He Stays or Goes, Jaylin (and the Hogs) Will Be Just Fine
I’m afraid we’ve seen the last of Jaylin Williams in an Arkansas uniform. To be clear: I don’t really know anything. I don’t have any well-placed sources in pro basketball circles and I don’t really do reporting anymore. Years ago,…
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4th & 25: Is the Hogs Baseball Team ‘Special’? Better Say Your Prayers
“Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand.” — Leo Durocher “More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.” — Thomas Boswell The paradox created by the two preceding quotes,…
When I was a kid, I idolized the stars of my local high school’s sports teams, and we had a couple of genuine articles come through my small hometown in south Arkansas in those days. One was Julian Frazier, who…
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4th & 25: Before the Future of Hogs Hoops Arrives, A Few Words on the Recent Past
In case you’re wondering, there’s about 200 more days before Arkansas basketball returns. That’s an inexact number because the 2022-23 calendar has yet to be filled in, but a bunch of us are already counting down the days until we…
There was a time – much longer ago than it sometimes feels – when I thought I knew an awful lot about college basketball. I’d devour the preseason magazines, watch random midweek games from other conferences, and read every word…