The Arkansas Razorbacks suited up just 48 scholarship players for their Liberty Bowl matchup with Kansas last month. The NCAA, of course, allows for 85. In this new era of college football, such postseason attrition is normal. NIL, the transfer…
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- December 2022Magazine
Liberty, Biberty: Hog Fans Can Make Memphis Feel Like Dallas
by Mark Carterby Mark CarterAnd so it will be Memphis and the Liberty Bowl, War Memorial’s slightly more successful and questionably better-looking big brother, on Dec. 28, for the hard-luck Arkansas Razorbacks. The Hogs will face a capable team in Kansas, which limped to…
- December 2022MagazineManufacturing
Diamond in the Rough: Arkansas Emerging Onto Manufacturing Radar
by Mark Carterby Mark CarterThe announcement from U.S. Steel in January that it would build a $3 billion “next generation” companion mill to its Big River Steel plant in Mississippi County kick-started a robust year for manufacturing in Arkansas. U.S. Steel’s decision to double…
- December 2022MagazineSports/Outdoors
So Far, Muss Bus Keeping Up with Hype Train for Hog Hoops
by Mark Carterby Mark CarterJunior Davonte Davis, freshman Anthony Black, freshman Jordan Walsh, sophomore Trevon Brazile and junior Ricky Council IV gather on the court at the 2022 Maui Invitational. The timing of Eric Musselman’s arrival in Fayetteville was opportunistic, given the impending…
It’s no jumping frog from the High Sierra, but the Sonoran desert toad is causing people to behave like characters from a Mark Twain tale. Every once in a while, a headline invokes a double take, and “Park Service: Please…
NASA recently got its closest look at Europa, the Jovian moon that scientists believe hides an ocean of liquid water under its icy crust and has a thin atmosphere of mostly oxygen. The smart guys in lab coats speculate that…
- MagazineNovember 2022
Conway Woodworker Strives to Make ’Em Like They Used To
by Mark Carterby Mark CarterSelf-taught woodworker Richard Eberle is a throwback to artisans of old. The 35-year-old furniture maker and small business owner completes every aspect of a job himself — with an occasional tweak from his wife’s eye for design — from finding…
- MagazineSeptember 2022Sports/Outdoors
Touchdown in Little Rock: David Bazzel Oversees Little Rock Touchdown Club Growth, Success
by Mark Carterby Mark CarterTouchdown in Little Rock: David Bazzel Oversees Little Rock Touchdown Club Growth, Success David Bazzel’s “baby” turned 18 last month, and Gov. Asa Hutchinson, Razorback Football Coach Sam Pittman and several hundred more Arkansans joined the proud papa in…
The Last Word: All About the Journey Recently, I took the opportunity to drive a box truck from Little Rock to New Orleans. I choose to use “took the opportunity” here, instead of the more accurate “had to,” because,…
- August 2022MagazineSports/Outdoors
Hogs Rolling Under Pittman, but Next Step Could Be the Hardest
by Mark Carterby Mark CarterHogs Rolling Under Pittman, but Next Step Could Be the Hardest A mere two seasons removed from the worst stretch in Arkansas football’s 128-year history, the Razorbacks will open the 2022 season with an upwards trajectory and higher expectations.…