If you live in NW Arkansas you know the news by now. If you don’t, here it is: Things are changing in the newspaper industry in this region. The merger between the two major newspaper companies is producing a new venture — Northwest Arkansas Newspapers LLC — which will begin distributing its new product beginning Sunday. [...]

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Unfortunately, I’ve been running around most of the afternoon and have not been able to get in front of the laptop and get this up. But finally, here is the story we put together on the request for a special prosecutor in the fraternity party case: By Robbie Neiswanger & Ron Wood THE MORNING NEWS FAYETTEVILLE — The [...]

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We interrupt the SEC officials/Ole Miss conversation to bring you some basketball nuggets. Arkansas coach John Pelphrey met briefly with the media Wednesday to discuss the first week of practice and the Red-White Game, which is scheduled for Friday. Pelphrey and Arkansas guard Rotnei Clarke will be talking to the SEC media at SEC Basketball Media [...]

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I just polished off a couple of stories on the Arkansas basketball team, which begins practice tomorrow night. Plenty of news, notes and quotes were crammed into the space. Most of it dealt with the offseason turmoil surrounding the program. But while I was working on all that, Arkansas did release two news items worth mentioning here [...]

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It’s hard to believe, I know, but Arkansas basketball tips off preseason practice tomorrow night. Most of the talk this week has centered on Arkansas playing top-ranked Florida in Gainesville on Saturday, but there is hoops news to share, mainly because we haven’t been able to talk at length to players and coaches for quite some [...]

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It has been awhile since we’ve gotten to talk to Arkansas men’s basketball coach John Pelphrey. Actually, it has been four months if my math is correct. Wow. That’s a long time. But Pelphrey was the guest speaker at the Northwest Arkansas Razorback Club banquet at Rogers Heritage High on Tuesday night, giving us a chance to [...]

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Wanted to start this morning off with a correction. I made a mistake in today’s notes with several Auburn offensive statistics. The problem, it seems, is I looked at the wrong Auburn notes package I had downloaded onto my laptop. Instead of Auburn’s Arkansas game notes, I looked at Tennessee week. Not good. So Auburn’s rushing average [...]

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We just got through talking to Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino for the last time before Saturday’s game at No. 3 Alabama. The question on everyone’s mind: Will the Razorbacks really be playing Anthony Oden on the offensive line? Yes. Petrino did not name a starter, but said both Oden and Ray Dominguez split reps at tackle in practice [...]

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So what do we know about the basketball team after today’s news? Let’s try to connect the dots. None of the players were named by the school because of student privacy laws. But the incident report tells us there were three players involved in the incident — Marcus Britt, Glenn Bryant and Nick Mason. Courtney Fortson [...]

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John Bass, the Springdale attorney representing the female who claimed that three Arkansas basketball players raped her at a fraternity house on Aug. 27 has responded to the disciplinary measures taken by the athletic department. Here is Bass’ response, which was e-mailed to me a little while ago: “I have seen the press release regarding the disciplinary [...]

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