Sam Pittman

Arkansas Razorback head football coach Sam Pittman and the University of Arkansas have agreed on a contract extension and raise designed to keep him in Fayetteville for the remainder of his career. The UA has yet to make an official…

It’s early going, but so far the Arkansas football program is enjoying the kind of offseason you tell your grandchildren about. The Razorbacks team proper is showing up in the top 20 of the first batches of too-early preseason polls,…

Hunter Yurachek Vice Chancellor and Director of Athletics University of Arkansas Since Hunter Yurachek’s arrival in Fayetteville as athletics director for the UA men’s and women’s programs, Razorback sports has been on an upward trajectory. Last year, Razorback athletes turned…

Razorback football on Thursday announced several key dates related to the program. The Hogs, entering the third season under the direction of Coach Sam Pittman, are coming off a 9-4 season against what was considered by many the nation’s toughest…

Timing is everything. Poll most Razorback fans about the timing of Sam Pittman’s changing agents and asking for a bigger salary, and you will be hard-pressed to find an overwhelmingly positive response. Granted, Pittman is paid well below the SEC…

Two careers ago, shortly after I began my time in newspapers, fresh-faced and blissfully unaware of the industry’s encroaching doom, I learned about the most dreaded day in the sports calendar.  It’s the day after the MLB All-Star game, when…

The Arkansas Razorbacks are looking to capitalize on the misfortune of a blue blood as the landscape of college football finds itself in limbo. Recently, the game’s annual coaching carousel got kicked into high gear when Lincoln Riley left Norman…

‘Tis the season for gratitude, so let’s enumerate some of Arkansas fans’ reasons to be thankful. Sam Pittman. What else can I say? They don’t come much better than this one. Sometimes you just get lucky. Sometimes the right person…

It seems like forever since the Hogs have been competitive with Alabama on the football field. The last five games in the series have reflected the Razorback program’s fall in Bret Bielema’s final year and its utter mismanagement under the…

As Arkansans lament each November, LSU was replaced by Missouri as Arkansas’ season-ending “rivalry” game in 2012 when the latter Tigers and Texas A&M joined the SEC from the Big 12. On paper, geographically, it makes sense, I suppose, Fayetteville…