Dave Van Horn

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…

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…

The Arkansas Razorbacks will take on North Carolina in game 1 of the Chapel Hill Super Regional on Saturday at 10 a.m. CST. The Hogs’ hard-fought series win in Stillwater, Okla., over the weekend qualified the Arkansas baseball team for…

“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…

There was so much to love about the 2021 Arkansas Razorback baseball team that it’s still hard to negatively obsess over the season’s finish. Kevin Kopps captivated everyone’s attention and admiration with a scintillating individual effort. That carried the Hogs…

The glorious overlap for college sports that envelops the weeks of late October and early November is my favorite part of the year. Football season is in high gear, preparing for stretch runs that will determine championships, bowl invites and…

Razorback baseball coach Dave van Horn has been signed to a new contract that will keep him in Fayetteville for at least 10 more years, the University of Arkansas announced Thursday. Van Horn, the 2021 Southeastern Conference Coach of the…

Gov. Asa Hutchinson has done it. Members of the Arkansas media have done it, and your fellow Hogs fans have done it. They are all trying to point out the silver lining in the dark cloud of gloom that is…

Darren McFadden, Sidney Moncrief, Andrew Benintendi and Kevin Kopps? As the senior Arkansas pitcher, Kopps dominates college baseball like few pitchers ever have. His name can be tossed around with the immortals in Arkansas Razorbacks sports such as McFadden, the…