As has become custom, expectations are high for college baseball in Fayetteville, and first pitch for the 2024 Arkansas season is scheduled for 2 p.m. Feb. 16 at Baum-Walker Stadium. Coming off a 43-18 season that included an outright SEC…
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Arkansas baseball has suffered yet another blow on the mound, as Koty Frank will miss the rest of the year with an injury, Dave Van Horn announced Tuesday night. The right-hander left Sunday’s game against Wright State after throwing only two pitches,…
With only two starters returning from last year’s College World Series team, Dave Van Horn entered the offseason looking for answers on how to fill out his lineup card for the 2023 Arkansas baseball season. In addition to Peyton Stovall…
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4th & 25: Another Near-Miss For Hogs Baseball is Only Further Proof of Program’s Elite Status
There’s a photo of Joe Dimaggio on the wall in my office. It was taken sometime in 1969, nearly 20 years after he’d hung up the spikes. He’s 55 years old, salt overtaking pepper, the paunch of late middle age…
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4th & 25: Entering Super Regionals, We’re Still Learning About the Hogs
A baseball diamond, according to Bill James, is a field of ignorance. What we know about the sport could maybe fill the infield, he says. The rest is an enigma. This, coming from the originator of what we know as…
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Schedule Announced for Hogs’ Super Regional Matchup with Tar Heels
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffThe Arkansas Razorbacks will take on North Carolina in game 1 of the Chapel Hill Super Regional on Saturday at 10 a.m. CST. The Hogs’ hard-fought series win in Stillwater, Okla., over the weekend qualified the Arkansas baseball team for…
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4th & 25: Is the Hogs Baseball Team ‘Special’? Better Say Your Prayers
“Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand.” — Leo Durocher “More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.” — Thomas Boswell The paradox created by the two preceding quotes,…
When I was a kid, I idolized the stars of my local high school’s sports teams, and we had a couple of genuine articles come through my small hometown in south Arkansas in those days. One was Julian Frazier, who…
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Razorback Baseball: After Jarring End to ’21 Season, Hogs Look to Once Again Compete for Titles
by Beau Wilcoxby Beau WilcoxThere was so much to love about the 2021 Arkansas Razorback baseball team that it’s still hard to negatively obsess over the season’s finish. Kevin Kopps captivated everyone’s attention and admiration with a scintillating individual effort. That carried the Hogs…
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Editor’s Letter: Football, Basketball Provide A Glorious Overlap
by Mark Carterby Mark CarterThe glorious overlap for college sports that envelops the weeks of late October and early November is my favorite part of the year. Football season is in high gear, preparing for stretch runs that will determine championships, bowl invites and…