For many Arkansans, life begins anew again this week after a summer dormancy. It’s Razorback game week. The Hogs, coming off a 7-6 season capped by a win in the Liberty Bowl, open the 2025 campaign Saturday in Fayetteville at …
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How does one even begin to compress into mere words the journey of the Arkansas Razorback football fan, especially since Hog Nation left a comfortable life in the old Southwest Conference? The answer, of course, is one doesn’t. Since the …
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Growth Brings Big Names: Little Rock Touchdown Club Gears Up for 2025 Season
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffBy Mark Carter, Sarah DeClerk and Mary LeSieur. Photos by Ryan Parker. Feature photo above: Ray Lewis, left, with David Bazzel Every Monday during football season, like clockwork, Arkansas football enthusiasts flood the DoubleTree by Hilton in downtown Little Rock, …
Sam Pittman wasted little time getting down to the heart of the matter during his turn at the dais at this year’s SEC Media Days. Coach-speak and Pittman are distant acquaintances, if that. “We look like an SEC team,” he …
After a one-year hiatus, Arkansas is back in the postseason again — and has a familiar destination. The Razorbacks are heading to Memphis to face Texas Tech in the Liberty Bowl. The game is scheduled for 6 p.m. on Dec. …
The Arkansas Razorbacks will play a historic schedule in 2025 with a first-ever matchup against Notre Dame. After opening the season in Fayetteville against Alabama A&M (Aug. 30), the Razorbacks begin a four-game stretch that features games in four different …
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From the Editor’s Desk: Remembering Alex Collins
by Mark Carterby Mark CarterMy favorite memory of Alex Collins comes from the Liberty Bowl in December 2015, his last game as a Razorback and the Hogs coming off big road wins over Ole Miss and LSU. This was the best of Bret Bielema’s …
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Changes, Afoot and Afoul: College Football’s New Wild West
by Mark Carterby Mark CarterThe Arkansas Razorbacks suited up just 48 scholarship players for their Liberty Bowl matchup with Kansas last month. The NCAA, of course, allows for 85. In this new era of college football, such postseason attrition is normal. NIL, the transfer …
And 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 …
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Simmons Bank to be Title Sponsor of Liberty Bowl Stadium
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffSimmons Bank, in partnership with the City of Memphis, has announced that it is in advanced negotiations to be title sponsor of Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium. Opened in 1965 by the City of Memphis as Memphis Memorial Stadium, it serves …
