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Arkansas First Baseman Exchanges Faceful Of Dirt For One (1) Out
Arkansas beat Oregon State in Game 1 of the College World Series finals tonight, 4-1, and they pretty much cruised through the back half of their win. But one guy who could never be accused of giving less than 150 percent tonight was Razorbacks first baseman Jared Gates. In the fifth inning, Gates m...

Former Arkansas Running Back Sues Insurance Firm For Wriggling Out Of His Million-Dollar Policy<em></em>
Former Arkansas running back Rawleigh Williams III is suing Lloyd’s, a major British insurance firm, and claims it purposely slowed the processing of his insurance paperwork and then retroactively wrote in a preexisting condition clause. Now, with Williams’s football career over after a neck injury,...
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Arkansas Women's Tennis Team Schedules Six Matches In One Day Against Cupcake Opponent To Earn Tournament Eligibility [Update]
Arkansas women’s tennis had a surprisingly strong run in the SEC Tournament last week, making it all the way to the semifinals despite finishing 11th in regular season conference play. It was enough of a run to give the school hopes of an at-large bid in the upcoming NCAA tournament, if not for one ...

Arkansas Fires Bret Bielema Immediately After Loss To Mizzou
Arkansas closed out a disappointing 4-8 season with a crushing 48-45 loss to Missouri tonight, and right after the game ended, they announced the long-anticipated firing of coach Bret Bielema. Arkansas had a two-touchdown lead in the first quarter, but they lost on a 19-yard field goal after a very ...

Frank Broyles Brought Arkansas To The Big Time<em></em>
On the heels of Frank Broyles’s first most significant moment of his career, he got foreshadowing of the second, still a quarter of a century away. It was the winter of 1965, and Broyles had just coached Arkansas to an 11-0 record and a national football championship as chosen by the Football Writer...

Arkansas Running Back Rawleigh Williams III Retires From Football After Second Neck Injury
Arkansas sophomore running back Rawleigh Williams III, the reigning regular season SEC leader in rushing yards, is retiring from football after sustaining a second neck injury; Williams made the announcement in a first-person account posted to the school’s athletic website....

Softball Fan's Spectacular Catch Overshadowed By Even More Spectacular Fall Out Of Pickup Truck
A fan taking in a Southern Arkansas Muleriders softball game this afternoon used up all of his coordination to make an incredible snag, stretching to catch a homer from the bed of a pickup truck. Overenthused and underprepared, he promptly toppled headfirst out of said pickup truck. ...

Arkansas Fans No Longer Allowed To Bring Guns Into Stadiums
Despite the best efforts of the NRA, gun owners in Arkansas will not be allowed to bring their concealed handguns to Razorbacks football games this year. The Arkansas House of Representatives passed SB 724 this afternoon with a 71-20 vote. The vote came a week after Governor Asa Hutchinson signed HB...

Arkansas Senate Attempts To Fix Stupid Bill Allowing Guns In Football Stadium
On Wednesday, Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson signed into law one of the more ill-conceived bills in the recent history of state politics, making it legal for people to carry concealed handguns in government buildings, college campuses, and even some bars. Do you think that rowdy drunk people atten...

Seton Hall Boned By Terrible Flagrant Foul Ruling
Seton Hall was down 72-71 in the final 22 seconds of today’s game against Arkansas and had to foul to try and avoid losing, so Desi Rodriguez put his hands on Jaylen Barford to extend the game. Barford hit the floor hard, but given the situation, it didn’t seem malicious—and looked as if Barford sol...

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Report: Arkansas Tight End Suspended For Trying To Shoplift Despite Having $450 Gift Card [Update]
Arkansas tight end Jeremy Sprinkle will miss his final college football game after he was suspended for his team’s matchup against Virginia Tech today in the Belk Bowl. The school announced the suspension prior to the game’s 5:30 p.m. kickoff. Head coach Bret Bielema released a statement, but did no...

Visiting Coach Scolds Arkansas Basketball Fans For Not Being Loud Enough
Barry Hinson’s Southern Illinois Salukis traveled to Fayetteville to take on the Arkansas Razorbacks on Monday night. Hinson’s squad got crushed 90-65, but that didn’t stop him from going in on the home crowd during his postgame presser....

University Professor Arrested For Yelling "Fuck You" At Arkansas Coach
Shortly after No. 16 Arkansas’s 49-30 loss to No. 1 Alabama was official Saturday night, a fan decided to make his displeasure with head coach Bret Bielema known—allegedly opting for shouting the simple and direct, “If I had your record, I’d be fucking fired. Fuck you.”...

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Bret Bielema's Tiny Dogs Cannot Be Contained
I present to you now: Bret Bielema’s tiny dogs (who appear to be silky terriers). A quick bit of Instagram snooping reveals that they are football fans; Bret Bielema’s Twitter reveals that they care little for home cleanliness. ...

Lawsuit: University Of Arkansas Tried To Wait to Expel Olympic Athlete Until He'd Graduated
A former tennis player at the University of Arkansas Fayetteville filed a lawsuit August 22 alleging the university mishandled a Title IX investigation and subsequent expulsion of a fellow student-athlete and one-time Olympian whom she says sexually assaulted her on campus in 2014. ...

LSU Baseball Game Interrupted By Baby Opossum
Saturday night’s Arkansas-LSU game suffered a marsupial delay in the seventh inning, as a baby opossum stormed the field and evaded capture by Razorbacks outfielders....

UALR Forces Overtime With Late Three-Pointer
Arkansas-Little Rock erased a late fourteen-point deficit in forcing overtime against fifth-seeded Purdue when Josh Hagins hit a three-pointer with five seconds remaining in regulation. Purdue, perhaps shocked by the play, then completely botched their buzzer-beater attempt—sending us to overtime....