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Hall of Honor
Nate Allen FAYETTEVILLE – A dozen former Razorbacks greats representing two different Hall of Honor classes will be inducted Sept. 17 into the University of Arkansas Sports Hall of Honor in ceremonies at the Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville. The six from inductees from the 2021 class include former Lou Holtz era Razorbacks football greats George Stewart and Robert Farrell both originally from Little Rock; Clint McDaniel, a starting guard on Nolan Richardson’s 1994 national champion men’s…
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Hogs Media Days Honors
Nate Allen FAYETTEVILLE – With one shocking best in the SEC West first-place vote given the presence of reigning 13-0 national champion Alabama but plus the 2020 nationally No. 5 Texas A&M Aggies, the Arkansas Razorbacks closed SEC Football Media Days picked sixth in the 7-team SEC West and with five Razorbacks on the various first through third All-SEC teams announced Friday and voted upon concluding the Monday through Thursdayteam sessions in Hoover, Ala. Individually, junior…
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Maloney, Lopez serve as flag bearers in Tokyo Olympics Opening Ceremony
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – THURSDAY, JULY 22, 2021 – COMMUNICATIONS CONTACT: Shawn Price UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS TRACK & FIELD Online Version: https://bit.ly/3zpDhT3 TOKYO, Japan – During the Parade of Nations portion of the Tokyo Olympics Opening Ceremony on Friday, two Arkansas alums will have the distinct honor of being flag bearers for their respective countries. Shafiqua Maloney will represent St. Vincent and the Grenadines while Gaby Lopez represents Mexico. Maloney is a current member of the Razorback…
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Akansas Media Days
Nate Allen FAYETTEVILLE – For starters, Sam Pittman told Thursday’s SEC Media Days gathering in Hoover, Ala. that he likes his Arkansas Razorbacks’ prospects. It’s the depth behind those starters most concerning Arkansas’ second-year coach about the Razorbacks in 2021 improving their 3-7 SEC 2020, a breakthrough given the Razorbacks 1-7 SEC season in Bret Bielema’s 2017 farewell followed by consecutive 0-8, 0-8 SEC campaigns under the Chad Morris regime in 2018 and 2019. “…
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Arkansas Razorback Media Days
Nate Allen FAYETTEVILLE – Seems impossible to upstage Alabama Coach Nick Saban at SEC Football Media Days in Hoover, Ala. but a Houston Chronicle story about the Texas Longhorns and Oklahoma Sooners might have done it. The Houston Chronicle Wednesday afternoon reported that the University of Texas and University of Oklahoma have expressed interest in abandoning the Big 12 to join the SEC. Citing “a high-ranking college official” it did not publicly name, the Chronicle…
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All-Region Performer Taylor Ellsworth Joins Arkansas Softball
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 2021 – COMMUNICATIONS CONTACT: JACOB PAVILACK ONLINE VERSION UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS SOFTBALL FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Arkansas softball head coach Courtney Deifel has announced the addition of Taylor Ellsworth to the Arkansas softball program as a graduate transfer from Texas. While playing for the Longhorns, the Georgetown, Texas native garnered All-Big 12 Conference and NFCA All-Region first team recognition and will have one season of eligibility for the Razorbacks. Ellsworth,…
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Smith Earns Spot on Doak Walker Award Watch List
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 2021 – COMMUNICATIONS CONTACT: OLIVER GRIGG UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOOTBALL Online version FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Arkansas’ Trelon Smith has been named to the watch list for the Doak Walker Award. The PwC SMU Athletic Forum announced its preseason candidates for the award, which is presented annually to the nation’s top college running back, Wednesday morning. Named for SMU’s three-time All-America running back Doak Walker, the award also requires candidates…
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Arkansas Razorback Media Days
Nate Allen FAYETTEVILLE – By Sept. 5 the Razorbacks will know if Oct. 2 opponent Georgia in Athens, Ga. rues or rejoices opening the season against a perpetual College Football Playoff fixture. Georgia’s Kirby Smart coached Bulldogs, the SEC’s perpetually really good but not quite national champion entrant, opens Sept. 4 at neutral site Charlotte, N.C. against the Clemson Tigers. Including winning two national championships, Clemson has qualified from 2015-2020 for every 4-team postseason playoff.…
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Padres Sign Kopps
Nate Allen FAYETTEVILLE – Kevin Kopps became the eighth of Coach Dave Van Horn’s 2021 SEC champion Razorbacks to sign a Major League baseball contract. Kopps, the 12-1, 11-saves Razorbacks relief pitcher named college baseball’s most outstanding player by its two most prestigious awards, the Golden Spikes and Dick Howser Awards, signed for $300,000 as the third-round draft choice of the San Diego Padres. Razorbacks draft choices previously signed include center fielder Christian Franklin, Chicago…
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Razorback Basketball Adds Ronnie Brewer and Jon Blake
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – TUESDAY, JULY 20, 2021 – COMMUNICATIONS CONTACT: MIKE CAWOODUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS MEN’S BASKETBALL Online Version: https://bit.ly/3wSxi7L FAYETTEVILLE – Razorback All-American and former NBA first-round draft pick Ronnie Brewer and Arkansas alum Jon Blake have been added to the men’s basketball staff, Arkansas head coach Eric Musselman announced. Brewer was named recruiting coordinator and Blake will serve as assistant director for basketball administration. Brewer, the 14th pick in the 2006 NBA Draft by the…
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Welch & Costeiu Sign
Nate Allen FAYETTEVILLE – Charlie Welch, the Baum-Walker Stadium folk hero whose game-winning pinch-hit double vs. Florida clinched the Razorbacks’ SEC championship, has played his last game for Arkansas. So has Razorbacks middle reliever Ryan Costeiu. Both announced Monday they’ve signed professional contracts. Costeiu, a hard-throwing right-hander drafted in the seventh round by the Los Angeles Angels after going 8-2 with 5.30 earned run average and 40 strikeouts vs 15 walks in 30 innings, signed…
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The SEC, All Systems Go
Nate Allen FAYETTEVILLE – If threats of serious illness and even death don’t work, perhaps the threat of forfeit will. For with the covid vaccines available that weren’t this time last football preseason, the SEC is scheduling football all systems go with a 12-game schedule and no gap weekend before and including the SEC championship game weekend. The SEC, and thus its 14 teams, intends an all systems go season starting the Sept. 4 weekend through the…
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Morgan, Catalon, Burks, & Wolfenburger Honored
Nate Allen FAYETTEVILLE – Arkansas senior linebacker Grant Morgan and junior safety Jalen Catalon and junior receiver Treylon Burks were named to prestigious college football awards preseason watch lists Monday. Morgan and Catalon were name to the Chuck Bednarik Award Watch List that in December honors college football’s most outstanding defensive player. Burks was named to the watch list of the Maxwell Award, one of several awards announced in December honoring college football’s most outstanding…
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Covid Creates Changes for Razorbacks in 2021
Nate Allen FAYETTEVILLE – Because covid-19 protocol cancelled the entire 2020 week’s gathering, then first-year Arkansas Coach Sam Pittman did no talking season debut at last year’s SEC Football Media Days. Now because of last year’s covid-19 pandemic, linebacker Grant Morgan and offensive left tackle Myron Cunningham as 2020 seniors become 2021 seniors accompany Pittman representing the Razorbacks at SEC Media Days in Birmingham, Ala. The pandemic variously altering schedules and cancelling events, including cancelling…
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Taylor Werner wins USATF 6km Championship
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – SATURDAY, JULY 17, 2021 – COMMUNICATIONS CONTACT: Shawn Price UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS WOMEN’S TRACK & FIELD Online Version: https://bit.ly/3hLO3x7 CANTON, Ohio – Arkansas alum Taylor Werner claimed the USATF Women’s 6km Championship on Saturday morning, posting a time of 18 minutes, 21 seconds to win the race by six seconds in downtown Canton. “To be able to come out here, have confidence, and know that I can run with these women it was an…
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