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Hope Watermelons on the Razorback Field
When Hope native, David Johnson, would run the Arkansas Razorback practice field, all he could think about was Hope Watermelons. Johnson said that every time he would run back to the huddle, he would tell his teammates Scott Bull (Quarterback), Jerry Eckwood and Ike Forte (Running Backs), “It’s so hot out here! I would give ANYTHING for an ice cold Hope Watermelon right now!” Johnson, an Arkansas Razorback Full Back from 1974-1976, thought long and…
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Razorback News
FAYETTEVILLE – From Monday through Wednesday this last preseason week, the Arkansas Razorbacks shift their daily practices from morning to late afternoon into the early evening. Following Wednesday’s scrimmage, the last full scale scrimmage of preseason, they will practice Thursday morning and have a completely closed Friday practice with some contact before Saturday’s dress rehearsal at Reynolds Razorback Stadium precedes game week preparations for the Aug. 31 season opener against Portland State. The Portland State…
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Razorback News – August 17 Scrimmage
FAYETTEVILLE – After Saturday’s closed 110-play situational scrimmage, Arkansas Coach Chad Morris insists his mind stays open through Wednesday’s scrimmage and perhaps beyond before announcing the Razorbacks’ starting quarterback for their Aug. 31 season-opener against Portland State. “I don’t know the exact time we’re going to name a starter,” Morris said post scrimmage. “I want to go through definitely Wednesday and see where we’re at. We’ve got some work that we’ll do later in the…
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Razorback Kickoff Luncheon
ROGERS – Kicking off the Razorbacks annual Kickoff Luncheon Friday at the John Q. Hammons Center, second-year Arkansas Athletic Director Hunter Yurachek kicked out visions of last year’s 2-10 team. “This is not the same football team that sat in this room last year,” Yurachek said. Second-year Coach Chad Morris took over selling the premise of a Razorbacks resurgence to the packed house. It included a large contingent of Razorbacks alums including just retired…
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Razorback August 10th Scrimmage
FAYETTEVILLE – From the all you’ve got is their word Arkansas Razorbacks closed scrimmage Saturday, Arkansas quarterbacks Ben Hicks, Nick Starkel, John Stephen Jones and KJ Jefferson all fared well after redshirt freshman Jones jump-started the offense. “John Stephen got in on the second series and he led his team down, his group down and scored,” Arkansas Coach Chad Morris said. “He showed just his ability to make plays happen when the pocket breaks down…
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Razorback Player Feature-Colton Jackson
FAYETTEVILLE – An illustrated dictionary defining “no good deed goes unpunished,” could post Colton Jackson’s picture. Because for returning just three games into the 2018 season off July 24 back surgery, it seems left offensive tackle Jackson got punished for the Razorbacks’ 2-10 record. According to his University of Arkansas media guide biography, Jackson, starting eight of Arkansas’ last nine games, “allowed just one sack over the course of 305 pass blocking plays.” That stat does…
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Razorback Player Feature-Austin Capps
FAYETTEVILLE – Austin Capps hasn’t ridden the two-way street for the Razorbacks as easily as he did starring for Star City. Still, Capps persists plowing first through one football facet and then another at the University of Arkansas like he plowed through the fields of the cotton and soy beans farm back home. Farm boy Capps starred at Star City as a 4-star recruited defensive lineman also known to shine on the offensive line. It’s…
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Razorback Player Feature – Deon Stewart
FAYETTEVILLE – If he were a boxer instead of a 5-11 Razorbacks wide receiver, it could be said that Deon Stewart once ate his way from welterweight to light heavyweight. Beginning his final University of Arkansas season, Stewart weighs a middleweight. The 161-pound fifth-year senior from Hardy finds that’s hard to stomach. “I had a goal weight and I didn’t meet that weight,” Stewart said “That was kind of a downer for the summer for…
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Arkansas Razorbacks Jordan Jones Interview
By Nate Allen FAYETTEVILLE – Starting Year Two, the Chad Morris Arkansas Razorbacks regime added team speed it desperately sought. But it didn’t add to its top speed. Jordan Jones, the receiver recruited out of Smackover and redshirted in 2016 by Arkansas’ former Bret Bielema regime and lettering in 2017 as a reserve for Bielema and for Morris in 2018, remains the fastest Razorback, second-year strength coach Trumain Carroll confirmed at the outset of Arkansas’ …
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Arkansas’ 2020 Football
FAYETTEVILLE – The Arkansas Razorbacks’ 2020 football vision doesn’t include War Memorial Stadium and Little Rock for the first time since before the stadium opened in 1948. Every other year of the University of Arkansas’ SEC home and home contract with the Missouri Tigers putting Arkansas in Little Rock only for next spring’s Red-White intrasquad game reflects in the Razorbacks hosting all their seven home games on campus at Reynolds Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville in…
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D’Vone McClure plucked from nickel back to linebacker
By Nate Allen FAYETTEVILLE – Calling Arkansas Razorbacks junior D’Vone McClure plucked from nickel back to linebacker becomes not only an accurate summation but a timely pun. For the native of Rixey and graduate of Jacksonville High has been “Pluck” the vast majority of his life. “My auntie gave me the name and it stuck,” McClure said. “I go back to Jacksonville and nobody calls me D’Vone. Everybody calls me Pluck. Literally, that’s all I’ve…
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Nate Allen – Feature on Linebacker Grant Morgan
By Nate Allen FAYETTEVILLE – Missing their best in the spring prepared Arkansas’ linebackers for among the worst that could happen to them and their defense this fall. And even if the best holds forth healthy all year, his spring absence created more autumn depth. Arkansas’ best senior middle linebacker and 2018 SEC leading tackler, De’Jon “Scoota” Harris, missed spring ball for surgery repairing a chronic foot injury. Harris returned full tilt starting with Arkansas’…
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