Wally Hall is the managing sports editor for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. A graduate of the University of Arkansas-Little Rock after an honorable discharge from the U.S. Air Force, he is a member and past president of the Football Writers Association of America, member of the U.S. Basketball Writers Association, past president and current executive committee and board member of the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame, and voter for the Heisman Trophy. He has been awarded Arkansas Sportswriter of the Year 10 times and has been inducted into the Arkansas Sportswriters and Sportscasters Hall of Fame.
Recent stories by Wally Hall
Forte should be favorite in Belmont Stakes
It is hard to call it a short field but there are three fewer entries for Saturday's Belmont Stakes than there are Republican Presidential candidates.All of the horses but one will get a paycheck ...
June 8, 2023
OPINION | WALLY HALL: Hogs couldn’t stop TCU’s red-hot offense
A week ago everything seemed right in the world of college baseball.The Arkansas Razorbacks had gotten knocked out of the SEC Tournament by Texas A&M, 5-4, a team they were 4-0 against on the seas...
June 7, 2023
OPINION | WALLY HALL: Europe trip was five years in the making
At 6:30 a.m., 79 years ago today, 150,000 American, Australian and Canadian soldiers stormed the Normandy beaches with one goal, to give France its freedom back.There were other countries involved in ...
June 6, 2023
Normandy trip a somber reminder of sacrifice
NORMANDY — This column is not about sports, which seemed like games the day before Memorial Day, which is one of the most visited days of the year for this famous stretch of Europe known for Oma...
June 4, 2023
OPINION | WALLY HALL: Hostile venues: Rating the SEC stadiums
When you are going on vacation and you have one more column to write before three weeks off, there’s only one thing to do: Rank the SEC football stadiums based on toughest road game in the leagu...
May 14, 2023
OPINION | WALLY HALL: SEC dealing Hogs bad hand with schedule
Surely someone in the Southeastern Conference will take a harder look at football schedules when Texas and Oklahoma join the league.Maybe it is since the covid season when Arkansas got stuck playing G...
May 11, 2023
OPINION | WALLY HALL: Bama betting probe shows risk for athletes
Alabama fired its baseball coach Brad Bohannon in late April after allegations he had been involved in wagering on a Crimson Tide baseball game against LSU.A bet was made in Ohio that drew the suspici...
May 10, 2023
OPINION | WALLY HALL: Mage put on solid performance at Derby
There were some really smart bettors Saturday for the Kentucky Derby.Mage, No. 8 in the program, qualified for non-winners of two races. His only win was when he broke his maiden in January. He had ne...
May 9, 2023
15-1 horse dug deep to win fastest 2 minutes
It was still more than 40 minutes before the start of the 149th Kentucky Derby when the last pieces of the drama came as the horses walked over from the barns to the paddock.The Derby, with all its sp...
May 7, 2023
OPINION | WALLY HALL: Get ready for another drama-filled Derby
One thing is absolutely certain about the winner of the 149th running of the Kentucky Derby, nobody knows who it is.In a 20-horse field, anything can happen. The best horse in the world can get blocke...
May 4, 2023
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