Draft prospects
These 2010 Hogs did much for the program.
Stories by Evin Demirel
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The life of a high school basketball recruit
What’s it like to be a highly recruited prep sports star?
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Pigskin pipeline
Step aside, me.
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Hypocritical NCAA
Last Thursday, the NCAA got a head start on its Christmas giving, presenting each college football fan with a stocking full of hypocrisies, each gift-wrapped i…
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Can Corliss shift from player to coach?
It was the most heartwarming blowout I’d ever seen.
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Back in the fight
NCAA rules forbid Scotty Thurman, the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville men’s basketball team’s director of student-athlete development, from on-court ins…
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Higher and higher
Bobby Petrino was 14 years old and looking forward to playing spring baseball when his father informed him that he would instead spend that time flipping burge…
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View from the sidelines
Marshawn Powell is stuck in basketball purgatory. Sort of. As college basketball season starts, the Razorback power forward has all the makings of a star — a…
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Big game breakdown
It will shock you should No. 12 Arkansas’ Saturday showdown with No. 5 Louisiana State not set a new attendance record at War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock. …
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To hell and back
Nolan Richardson spoke last at the annual Arkansas Induction Ceremony of The Multi-Ethnic Sports Hall of Fame in Little Rock. He didn’t wrap it up quietly.
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Haunted history
Watching the pristine yellow trolley glide past perfectly tended flower gardens, chiming at smiling pedestrians toting bags of locally grown produce, it’s hard…
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Let the good times roll
It happened in a blink. Arkansas had stuffed the second quarter fake punt attempt South Carolina had desperately launched from its own 38-yard line.
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Arkansans in the NBA
Coming into the 2010-11 season, Arkansan NBA players bolster backcourts on title contenders and challengers to the throne.
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From Kosovo to OBU
No more than a dozen spectators stood beside the soggy soccer field where Ouachita Baptist University’s men’s soccer team kicked off against Central Baptist Co…
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High definition in real life
Huddled among carts selling overpriced corn dogs in the bowels of Reynolds Razorback Stadium as walls of rain fell unrelentingly outside, I couldn't help but r…
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Newton’s laws
You don’t have to look far to see a heavy dose of the unexplainable permeates our lives. For instance, why does “Republican Doug Curtis,” a candidate for Sali…
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Equal but still separate
In his newly released Carry the Rock, former Sports Illustrated writer Jay Jennings does a masterful job of weaving the history of race relations in Little Roc…
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Thirty minutes of misery
Last week, astronomers announced for the first time they’d discovered a planet that likely harbors life in a faraway solar system. The planet, felicitously tag…
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What might have been
Hundreds of thousands of Razorback fans went to sleep Saturday night dreaming of what might have been.
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Hogs avert disaster against Georgia
One of the most pivotal plays in Arkansas’ 31-24 victory over Georgia on Saturday didn’t show up in the box score.
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College football a world away
There I was, in a gaggle of reporters, standing beside a professional club team's basketball arena tucked into the Istanbul neighborhood of Besiktas. Inside, …
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Happily neverafter
Yes, it’s cliche. But I can’t help feeling it anyway. Stories don’t always have good endings, as much as we feel they should because we’re a part of them — or…
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Of Arkansas, basketball and Turkey
Buried in the avalanche of college football and NFL coverage you've likely spotted a few words about the world's biggest basketball tournament.
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Media aporkalypse
Sorry, reader. I pulled one on you.
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Porcine predictions
This time last year, I pegged Arkansas to finish 7-5, break all types of offensive records and set the tone for more serious BCS bowl contention in 2010.
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Can UCA be the next Troy?
Prologue: In late July, the University of Central Arkansas in Conway became a full-fledged member of Division I, capping an arduous four-year process for admin…
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Keys to UCA football success
Sports are a fickle pastime, as anyone who enjoys their games well knows. Like the UCA football team, who went 10-2 in 2008 while winning five of six games de…
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Super summer basketball buffet
For local basketball gluttons, it’s the equivalent of Super King Buffet.
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On top again
Nearly six years ago in Athens, Greece, it seemed U.S. basketball had been dethroned.
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New life in Midtown
Nearly a decade in the works, a new Target is set to open Oct. 10 in central Little Rock.
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Preview of pigskin previews
Every summer, it seems more and more college football preview magazines flood our central Arkansas supermarkets, bookstores and gas stations.
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Problems could be worse
I couldn’t help but grimace at the bad timing.
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Vaccine dream team
Since 2002, hundreds of thousands of students have entered the annual Imagine Cup, a global technology competition, with visions of a better future.
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Soccer scene heating up
Every time the United States is defeated in the World Cup, a predictable stream of stories flood from the national media centering on the same interrelated top…
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World Cup watchers
In retrospect, it couldn't have been a good sign that a car engine exploded before the U.S. played its first-ever extra time in a World Cup match.
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Wet but not wild
A recent weekday trip to Willow Springs triggered gauzy recollections of the 1993 movie The Sandlot.
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Movin' on up
Sorry, Arkansas. There will be no Hayden Simpson in this year's NBA Draft.
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World Cup quiz bowl
Pop quiz, sports fans: Who's the best soccer player ever?
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Of legends and legacies
John Wooden, widely regarded as the best college basketball coach of all time, died June 4.
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The People’s champion
He's too big to float like a butterfly.
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Minor roles
It had been a couple of years, so I went out to the ballpark the other day.
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Rounding third
No matter how stultifying some may find televised college baseball, central Arkansans are finding there are more and more reasons to tune in this season.
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The fight over image rights
A national conference of obituary writers may be one of the last places you’d expect to trigger thoughts of college athletics reform.
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Joe Johnson then and now
The day I first saw Joe Johnson, I watched my dreams of playing high school basketball vanish.
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High Tech
On a recent Saturday night here, young men wearing green and gold huddled at mid-court to share a quiet minute amid post-game applause.
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7A-CENTRAL BOYS: Evans’ 30-second effort difference vs. Pointers
Senior Mike Evans scored four points in 30 seconds to help push North Little Rock past visiting Van Buren 51-48 on Friday night.
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Fruitful foresight
Decades ago, an elderly blind woman spotted a need in Arkansas’ Baptist community, and decided to meet it.
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5A-SOUTHWEST BOYS: Cardinals victorious on late shot
Senior Johnathan Cooper made a three-pointer with 5.6 seconds left in regulation to secure a 59-56 victory at Pulaski Academy on Friday night, and tighten Camd…
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Theology class connects girls, others
Juniors at Little Rock’s Mount St. Mary Academy take a hands-on theology class each year. The goal, borrowed from the book of Micah, isn’t just to learn. It’s …
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Charles Hicks Had doctor hopes since sixth grade
Longtime family physician Charles Hicks, who at 6 feet 8 inches tall often struggled to find clothes that fit, died Sunday at St. Vincent Doctors Hospital in L…
