This is the season I look forward to more than any other every single year. My friends and family will tell you I am one of “those” people who has her Christmas decorations completed the day after Halloween passes (and…
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Together, Everyone Accomplishes More: Broyles Award Supports Much Wider Cause Than Football
by Dwain Hebdaby Dwain HebdaPictured above: Former Razorback head coach and AD Frank Broyles, for whom the national Broyles Award is named. Photos provided. A filled-to-capacity ballroom hums with the chatter and excitement of a major awards event. The finalists have finished their…
Phil Parker, defensive coordinator for the Iowa Hawkeyes, was the recipient of the 28th annual Frank Broyles Award, which honors the best assistant coaches in college football. The announcement was made Tuesday, Dec. 5 during a luncheon at the Statehouse…
Jackie Sherrill is a former head football coach known for several successful years in both the Texas A&M and Mississippi State programs. Sherrill joined the Little Rock Touchdown Club at its weekly meeting on Monday, Oct. 16, to not only…
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Simple No More: These NIL Days, College Football Is Anything But
by Mark Carterby Mark CarterBack before recruiting rankings became essentially a sport within a sport and before conferences realigned like continents on top of restless tectonic plates — before NIL — college sports seemed relatively simple. Of course, the way college football crowned a…
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A Day in the Life: Jacob Arnold, Grandson of Frank Broyles, Continues Public Service Legacy
The impact of the legendary Razorback football coach Frank Broyles in helping Northwest Arkansas grow is undeniable. Broyles’s grandson, Jacob Arnold, is continuing that legacy today. Arnold, who lives in Fayetteville, is the Director of Philanthropy at Hope Cancer Resources,…
- December 2022Magazine
Liberty, Biberty: Hog Fans Can Make Memphis Feel Like Dallas
by Mark Carterby Mark CarterAnd so it will be Memphis and the Liberty Bowl, War Memorial’s slightly more successful and questionably better-looking big brother, on Dec. 28, for the hard-luck Arkansas Razorbacks. The Hogs will face a capable team in Kansas, which limped to…
- EditorialMagazineMarch 2022Sports/Outdoors
For Razorback Basketball Fans, Seems Like Old Times
by Mark Carterby Mark CarterThe Last Word Eric Musselman’s loving embrace of Arkansas basketball — its tradition, significance to the well-being of the state’s collective psyche and perhaps more importantly, its further potential — has me thinking back to the early Eddie Sutton days…
In the small hours of a late night/early morning in October 2012, I was out with some fellow Hog fans celebrating Arkansas’ win over Auburn earlier that day. After leaving the Plains in the hands of the disgruntled toilet-paper tossers,…
- September 2021Sports/Outdoors
Deja Vu All Over Again: The Return Of ‘Hate Texas Week’ Is Stirring The Echoes
by Mark Carterby Mark CarterThirty years ago, Frank Broyles led his people out from under the thumb of a burnt orange pharaoh and into the promised land, where TV cash and ESPN exposure flow like milk and honey. A generation later, it looks like…