by Evin Demirel Time heals. This was never so evident as in Little Rock on Monday when Bobby Petrino at long last apologized to Razorback fans, more than seven years after breaking hearts statewide. “I wanted to be able to come here and to apologize to everybody, the fans, the players, and truly...
by Evin Demirel | Photography courtesy of the University of Arkansas and Arkansas State University UA breaks tradition by scheduling in-state schools, but Arkansas State? In football? ADs already discussing such a game Arkansas State Athletic Director Terry Mohajir knew better. One of the...
Brought to you by Anvil Custom Graphics Nearly three years ago, the first black Razorback died. In fall 1965, Darrell Brown broke the barrier as a tailback on the UA’s freshman football team. In those first couple weeks, Brown later recalled, no teammate or coach spoke to him. He endured racial...
In the Marianna home of 82-year-old James Banks lies a large part of the town’s athletic heritage. Trophies, plaques, yearbooks, clippings and more form a makeshift museum where alumni of the former Moten High take tours during reunions. There, at the all-black school, Banks starred as a...
By Evin Demirel In spring 1969, Hiram McBeth broke new ground by becoming the first African American in a varsity-level football game at the University of Arkansas. Few believed McBeth, who had played guard at Pine Bluff’s Townsend High School at 5-feet nine-inches and 142 pounds, had the grit to...
by Evin Demirel As the University of Arkansas publicizes it, Thomas J. Johnson became its first black basketball player in 1967 when he joined the freshman team. But that official record skips over the fact another African American, Louis Perry Bryant, walked on to the program two years before. The...
A Look at the Forgotten Corners of Arkansas History War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock has been the Razorback football team’s second home since its opening in 1948. While no African American played on the varsity Razorback football team until 1969, black fans attended Hog games in preceding...
Bentonville’s Louise Thaden (above, right in cockpit) and Frances Marsalis moments after they landed their plane at Roosevelt Field in New York on August 22, 1932, after breaking the women’s endurance record of 196 hours and 6 minutes. Louise’s name was painted on the side of the...
Protestors in Budapest, Hungary, demonstrate in Guy Fawkes masks, the official face of the international hacktivist group Anonymous, which is one of many persistent threats to computers at all levels of government. (AP file photo by MTI, Janos Marjai, February 2012) Update: Mark Myers resigned from...
Hiker found solace in solitary walks, which led to grand undertaking October 23, 2016 Nearly a dozen years ago before she took the first step of a 2,160-mile, 131-day walk, Heather Machelle had commenced a long, rewarding journey of a far different sort ~ the birth of a daughter. The young mother...