Gators Dish Out Payback For Pelphrey

The Razorbacks Bud Walton Arena win streak was shattered Saturday evening by a talented and experienced Florida team that used Gators assistant coach John Pelphrey as their battle cry.

MIKE'S BLOG: 40 Minutes of Hell

It was fitting that on a day when the ESPN documentary 40 Minutes of Hell premiered on the big screen at Bud Walton Arena Mike Anderson's Razorbacks extended their home court winning streak to 17 straight.

Surviving Green-Beckham (and other signing day observations)

College football fans who were glued to ESPNU's wall to wall coverage of national signing day didn't see Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino. On a day when Texas coach Mack Brown was lauded on camera (by a talking head from The Longhorn Network) for another...

Reconnecting With A Longtime Razorback Fan

Two college buddies of mine probably had more to do with me ending up covering the Razorbacks for almost four decades than any other single factor.

Anderson & Petrino Say Thank You

On a day when Bud Walton Arena was filled with fans like in the old days under Nolan Richardson, Mike Anderson's young Razorbacks made a statement on national television. Hogball is back. You don't win in our house.

Bad Questions, Good Answers Some friends of mine have been engaging me in a debate about the quality of the media questions at some of the Cotton Bowl week press conferences. One... Read more...	Oden's Arrest Won't Derail Hogs Summer is a time when college football fans dream of upcoming championships and coaches pray they don't get that dreaded late night, game changing... Read more...
MIKE'S BLOG: Like Old Times in Bud Walton--Almost There are a bunch of Razorback fans who've been sitting on the fence this season waiting for something to happen before they make an effort to see the... Read more...	The Curse of Preseason Expectations The '77 Razorback football team started the season off the radar screen. Frank Broyles last team had finished 5-5-1 the year before. New head coach... Read more...
Happy 2012 Okay 2012 is supposed to be the end of it all, right? A stone tablet in Mexico says so, right? Read more...	Say Bye to Team Clarke Little did Razorback basketball fans realize that when John Pelphrey signed hot shooting Rotnei Clarke out of Verdigris, Oklahoma Arkansas was getting... Read more...
A Christmas Story The photo is old and faded but I still keep it at home on top of a bookshelf in the family den. Captured for posterity are the 22 members of the... Read more...	Stop the Cheaters Imagine the scenario. As a Razorback fan you're dreamed of a football national championship as long as you've been a fan of the Hogs. You believe... Read more...
Pass the Pie Please Something extraordinary happened on December 14th of this year. For one day the total focus of the media in this state was not on the Razorbacks but... Read more...	Van Horn Needs to Get Ficociello Some Help It says a lot about Dominic Ficociello and a lot about the 2011 Diamond Hogs that a freshman lead the team in batting. Read more...
MIKE'S BLOG: Paul & Paul The Razorback football team has two new coordinators, Paul Petrino and Paul Haynes. Read more...	NCAA Rewards Rule Breakers FAYETTEVILLE, Ark--One of the reasons so many Razorback baseball fans believed that the Hogs would be hosting an NCAA baseball regional this week is... Read more...
Young Lives Up to " Road Warrior" Reputation In high school former East St. Louis McCluer North point guard B.J. Young developed quite a reputation as a so called "road warrior." The way Young... Read more...	Van Horn's Best Coaching Job The 2011 SEC West baseball race will certainly go down as the tightest in the history of the league's expanded conference. With one game still... Read more...
MIKE'S BLOG: Learn and Move Forward Senior receiver Jarius Wright said it after LSU's punishing win over Arkansas in Saturday's SEC West showdown game: "All you can do is learn from it... Read more...	Like Old Times Longtime Razorback Track & Field fans have been none too happy with University of Arkansas Athletics Director Jeff Long these days. Add to that... Read more...
Hogs Get Their Shot I'm not sure very many Hog fans realized it at the time but if the 2006 football Razorbacks had beaten Florida in the SEC Championship game that... Read more...	The Wild, Wild West The SEC West isn't loaded with top 25 teams this season. Going into the final two weeks of the regular season Arkansas is the only team in the West... Read more...
MIKE'S BLOG: Hogs Finally Deal Misery to Vols Some Hog fans may have forgotten but Tennessee was a permanent opponent for Arkansas in the team's early years in it's new conference. Read more...	Mallett & Williams Land Softly in NFL Draft Conspiracy theories were spreading like wildfire among Razorback Football fans as Ryan Mallett did a free fall though the first two rounds of the... Read more...
MIKE'S BLOG: Petrino's Bus I had a friend in high school who was infamous for the adventures he managed to create driving a beat up '63 Ford Falcon. I can't repeat word for word... Read more...	Who Can Figure SEC Baseball? Last Thursday when Dave Van Horn called Kentucky "a dangerous team" I fought off an urge to snicker. Dangerous? Really? Read more...
Tyler Freaking Wilson It happened near the end of the first half of the Arkansas-Vanderbilt football game. Quarterback Tyler Wilson was desperately trying to cut into a 21-... Read more...	Wilson In Control at QB Hogs offensive coordinator Garrick McGee, who coached the Red team in Saturday's Razorback spring football game, said he felt Brandon Mitchell was... Read more...
Dodging The Bullet Houston Nutt is running out of bullets as Ole Miss continues its downward spiral saddled with a school record 10 game SEC losing streak. He fired... Read more...	RSVP Plan Loved/Hated. Depending on who you talk to Jeff Long’s RSVP plan to dramatically increase revenues from season ticket holders at Reynolds Razorback Stadium is... Read more...
Emotion vs Preparation Saturday's Arkansas-Ole Miss game will provide a study in contrast as to the philosophies of the two head coaches. Read more...	Please, No More Coaching Searches (for a while) With Bobby Petrino and Mike Anderson each locked up by contract in the foreseeable future it could just be that I've had to report on my last head... Read more...
MIKE'S BLOG: Gus And His Arkansas Kids When Michael Dyer and Kiehl Frazier each scored first quarter touchdowns to give Auburn a pair of early leads over the Razorbacks in Saturday's SEC... Read more...	UA Confirms Mike Anderson as New Head Basketball Coach Mike Anderson has been named the University of Arkansas’ head men’s basketball coach it was announced by Vice Chancellor and Director of... Read more...
Those Aggies And Other Stuff In the video room at Cowboys Stadium following the Razorbacks' 42-38 come from behind win over Texas A&M I found myself working next to a crew... Read more...	Mike Irwin on Why Anderson is The Guy If an expected a press conference is held in the next few days to announce Mike Anderson as Arkansas basketball coach, Jeff Long will be able to say... Read more...
The Sky is Not Falling In the wake of the Hogs 38-14 loss to Alabama I was rather shocked at what the message board people were posting. Yes, there were the usual freak... Read more...	Arkansas Prepared to Offer Coaching Job To Mike Anderson Sources tell 5NEWS that Mike Anderson will likely be named the new head basketball coach at the University of Arkansas. Read more...
Thankfully 'Bama Week is Here Coaches tell players to take 'em one game at a time all the time. Fans can and do ignore that coaching axiom. Many Razorback fans have been playing... Read more...	Sources: Mike Anderson Considering an Offer to Coach at Arkansas FAYETTEVILLE--Former Razorback basketball coach Nolan Richardson says he doesn't know if Missouri coach Mike Anderson is negotiating with Arkansas... Read more...
Time to Rethink The Wave I like games in War Memorial Stadium. While some fans continue to insist that off campus home games are a thing of the past I have no problem with... Read more...	What's Next for Long? I’m told that Razorback athletic director Jeff Long went to extraordinary lengths to retain now fired head basketball coach John Pelphrey.... Read more...
Wilson Sharp in Debut; Swan Dive Not Appreciated Bobby Petrino saw a lot of things from his new starting quarterback that made him happy in the Hogs season opening blowout win over Missouri... Read more...	The Clock is Ticking If John Pelphrey has been told he’s coached his last game at Arkansas he’s putting up a good front. Pelphrey was extremely... Read more...
Wilson Gets His Shot Frank Broyles once told me that he spent many a sleepless night in the summers when the Razorbacks were going to have to replace an established... Read more...	Diamond Hogs New Stars When Zack Cox, Andy Wilkins and Brett Eibner signed professional contracts last spring Hog fans were left asking themselves who would step up at the... Read more...
Preseason Jitters A friend of mine who has been watching the Hogs practice over the past two weeks claims that the defense is so restricted (for fear of getting... Read more...	Malzahn's "Band of Brothers" In late July of 2006 I was crossing a sidewalk outside the Northwest Arkansas Mall in Fayetteville when a young man in the back seat of a... Read more...
Forbidden Tweets Threaten Hogs Open Practices I grew up in a town with a weekly newspaper and no radio station. If anything "big" broke in the way of news it slowly spread all over town by word of... Read more...	Peterson Speaks Out Generally I think it’s a bad idea for players to criticize their own fans but considering what’s been going on with the Hog basketball... Read more...
Hogs Spread Out at Preseason Camp While it's common for NFL teams to establish preseason camps away from their regular practice sites the Razorbacks haven't done it in the time I've... Read more...	Classic Move by Van Horn The Hog Pen area at Baum Stadium was packed for last Friday’s season opener. The Razorbacks won the game in a 5-0 shutout of Delaware... Read more...
August Camp is Upon Us There are things I like about the summer months but endless talk and speculation about the upcoming Hog Football season is not among them. By the time... Read more...	The New/Old John Pelphrey A lot of Razorback fans think that basketball coach John Pelphrey has been trying to reinvent himself or at least his image over the last... Read more...
Crazy Days in Hoover The Southeastern Conference issued over a thousand credentials for the 2011 SEC Media Days in Hoover, Alabama last week. I don't know how many... Read more...	Has Hog Hoops Finally Become Long's Problem? Heretofore the sinking fortunes of the Razorback basketball program has largely been the fan’s problem. Read more...
Chizik Hits the Wrong Target I have said for years that college football head coaches should be fully schooled in the principles of public relations before they make public... Read more...