Arkansas will be back at full strength Saturday when No. 20 Florida comes to Fayetteville. First-year coach John Pelphrey said during his Thursday news conference that senior forward Charles Thomas would return after a one-game suspension. Thomas was at practice Thursday, but Pelphrey wouldn’t comment on what kind of role Thomas would take on Saturday. Sophomore Michael [...]

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  Sorry about our unusual absence last night, but we were having some Internet problems courtside and weren’t able to blog during the game. After the game, well, that’s our fault. We let you down.   Arkansas, on the other hand, turned in quite an impressive performance last night in the 78-58 win against Mississippi State. [...]

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    As the past few months have shown, anything is possible when it comes to Arkansas’ football team. That said, there is a strong possibility that Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino will not hire a defensive coordinator until after National Signing Day (Feb. 6).     Petrino is expected to be out of town until Friday, and the [...]

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  Houston Nutt’s departure to Ole Miss and Bobby Petrino’s arrival have guaranteed Arkansas of one thing: There won’t be many boring weeks on the schedule.   We’ve written about that here on the blog before, but the belief is spreading. Google Alerts, well, alerted me to this story by Heath Cline that appeared on the [...]

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  Another day, another bit of news regarding the Arkansas basketball team.   Coach John Pelphrey just announced that starting power forward Charles Thomas will be suspended for the Mississippi State game because of a violation of team rules. He said the suspension will be at least one game, but could be more. Pelphrey would not [...]

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   Arkansas faces, no doubt, its biggest challenge of the year when it plays Mississippi State in Bud Walton Arena on Wednesday night.   The Bulldogs are off to a 5-0 start in the league and just polished off an impressive, 20-point win against in-state rival Ole Miss. MSU has [...]

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Judging by a big chunk of the first half Sunday, things looked pretty awful for the Arkansas Lady Razorbacks. But after missing their first 15 shots from the field and failing on their first six attempts from the free throw line, the Lady’Backs made quite a turnaround. Down 13-1 at one point, Arkansas somehow went from [...]

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  Arkansas fans are familiar with Oakland Raiders coach Lane Kiffin.   Arkansas fans also are familiar with ESPN NFL reporter Chris Mortensen.   Well, Mortensen (father of Razorbacks quarterback Alex Mortensen) is reporting that Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis has asked Kiffin (son of former Arkansas assistant and defensive guru Monte Kiffin) to resign after just [...]

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Make no mistake, the Tennessee Lady Vols are loaded. But what’s new… The Lady Vols jumped out to an 18-0 lead — much to the joy of of their 13,270 fans in Thompson-Boling Arena — and had no problems dusting past Arkansas, 98-55 tonight. While All-American Candace Parker was her usual self, scoring 24 points, grabbing [...]

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Sonny Weems wants to play a game now. Right now. The 6-foot-6 senior swingman is sick of all this practicing, all this waiting. The sour taste in his mouth, put there by South Carolina and Georgia, hasn’t gone away. And he knows it won’t go away until Arkansas’ next victory. So, understandably, this week has been [...]

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