OPINION | WALLY HALL: It's time to embrace the UA, UAPB game
It is more than just a football game Saturday. When the Arkansas Razorbacks host Arkansas-Pine Bluff, history will be made. Monumental history.
Stories by Wally Hall
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OPINION | WALLY HALL: Dick Vitale diagnosed with cancer
There will be no Dickie V. this basketball season.
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OPINION | WALLY HALL: Orange is a fitting color for some Vols fans
If you are driving through Knoxville, Tenn., in the near future and you see dozens, maybe hundreds, of young people wearing what looks like Tennessee orange je…
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OPINION | WALLY HALL: Ailing Hogs going through tough patch
At one point a year ago, the University of Arkansas football team was 3-4 and fans were ecstatic.
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OPINION | WALLY HALL: Nix a pest to still-improved Razorbacks
On a glorious afternoon without a cloud in the sky, it appeared the Arkansas Razorbacks were headed for a homecoming victory.
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OPINION | WALLY HALL: Hogs had the offense but lacked the points
The most important statistic in football, the only one that really counts, is the score on the scoreboard. For the second week in a row, the Arkansas Razorback…
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OPINION | WALLY HALL: SEC East flexing some early league muscle
It is a little intriguing that the Arkansas Razorbacks opened as 3 1/2-point favorites over Auburn and that went to 4 1/2 on Thursday.
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OPINION | WALLY HALL: Holey Moley, it was him
Last week we arrived in Oxford at 8 a.m., three hours before kickoff.
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OPINION | WALLY HALL: Recent Auburn football history a hit, miss
As an institute of higher education, Auburn is a first-class university. It was founded in 1856, and it became the first land-grant college in the South. It…
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OPINION | WALLY HALL: Musings from time well-spent at the Little Rock Touchdown Club
Sitting across the table at Monday's Little Rock Touchdown Club was a long-time acquaintance who is a dyed-in-the-wool Arkansas Razorback fan.
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OPINION | WALLY HALL: Wild and crazy loss earned respect for KJ
A week of everyone saying the SEC had Georgia, Alabama and then everyone else died Saturday night in College Station, Texas.
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OPINION | WALLY HALL: Hogs took shots, needed one final bullet
OXFORD, Miss. -- It was absolutely the right call.
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OPINION | WALLY HALL: Razorbacks come up short in 52-51 loss to Ole Miss
Time had run out on Arkansas' final touchdown, and Razorbacks head coach Sam Pittman decided to go for the win with a two-point conversion. It was an incomplet…
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OPINION | WALLY HALL: Alabama, Georgia on a collision course
It is hard to believe it is just 56 days until the horses start running at Oaklawn, and it is harder to believe SEC football is hitting midseason Saturday.
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OPINION | WALLY HALL: Jefferson primed for happy homecoming
Matt Corral seems to be the big storyline for this week's showdown between the University of Arkansas and Ole Miss.
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OPINION | WALLY HALL: Oxford is great place for pregame
For those making their first trip to Oxford, Miss., for the Arkansas-Ole Miss football game expect to have fun.
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OPINION | WALLY HALL: Walker shouldn't be on the bottom of any list
By now every member of the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame should have received the link to vote for the next class of inductees.
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OPINION | WALLY HALL: Clyde Horton left profound impact on many
He never tried to do it, he couldn't help himself.
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OPINION | WALLY HALL: This one was all but decided after coin toss
Arkansas won the coin toss and nothing else. The team that beat ranked Texas and Texas A&M to go to 4-0 was dominated from start to finish by the Georgia Bulld…
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OPINION | WALLY HALL: Georgia shuts out Razorbacks, 37-0
Arkansas didn’t play well, but the Razorbacks may have met the best football team in the country today in a loss to the No. 2 ranked Georgia Bulldogs.
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OPINION | WALLY HALL: SEC schedule packed from start to finish
There are still five undefeated teams in the SEC, and that will change Saturday when 4-0 Arkansas takes on 4-0 Georgia and 3-0 Ole Miss plays 4-0 Alabama.
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OPINION | WALLY HALL: Smart's elusive national title within reach
It seems most coaches who have spent time at Alabama under Nick Saban have adopted some of his methods and personality.
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OPINION | WALLY HALL: That chip on Hogs' shoulder isn't going away
So far it has been a magic carpet ride. A September to remember forever. The Arkansas Razorbacks didn't just turn a corner in Sam Pittman's second year, the…
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OPINION | WALLY HALL: Yurachek made the right hire at the right time
Less than an hour into his first meeting with Sam Pittman, Arkansas Athletic Director Hunter Yurachek got it.
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OPINION | WALLY HALL: Nothing's bigger than beating a Texas team
ARLINGTON, Texas -- Call them the undisputed heavyweight champions of the state of Texas.
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OPINION | WALLY HALL: Arkansas' defense steps up in 20-10 victory over A&M
It almost looked hopeless as Arkansas desperately clung to 17-10, after leading 17-0.
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OPINION | WALLY HALL: Poor Bama relegated to SEC Network
A few good games are on tap for the SEC this week, but there are also several that could be blowouts.
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OPINION | WALLY HALL: Fisher has life back on track with Aggies
Jimbo Fisher was not run out of Florida State.
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OPINION | WALLY HALL: A&M defense will give Arkansas supreme test
All indications are it will be a low-scoring, head-knocking game Saturday when the Arkansas Razorbacks host Texas A&M in Arlington, Texas.
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OPINION | WALLY HALL: Southwest Classic drawing to a close
Unless Jerry Jones does some shrewd negotiating, the Arkansas-Texas A&M game in Arlington will return to campuses in 2025.
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OPINION | WALLY HALL: Now McFadden just wants to be a great dad
Darren McFadden sounded more proud talking about his children than he did his considerable accomplishments on the football field.
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OPINION | WALLY HALL: Pittman says the magic words at halftime
Sam Pittman was not happy at the half and he told an SEC Network audience the Razorbacks had a lot to clean up.
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OPINION | WALLY HALL: No. 20 Arkansas pounds Georgia Southern, 45-10
The Arkansas Razorbacks passed only seven times in the second half as they rolled over Georgia Southern, 45-10.
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OPINION | WALLY HALL: I love football Saturdays
I love football Saturdays.
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OPINION | WALLY HALL: SEC teams to start feeling the burn of losing
Going into the third week, 10 of the 14 SEC schools are undefeated, but that's about to change.
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OPINION | WALLY HALL: Move along USC; there's nothing to see here
Chad Morris' name has not come up for the Southern Cal job, but he's apparently got his hands full at Allen (Texas) High School.
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OPINION | WALLY HALL: Game to be remembered must be forgotten
Somehow, someway, Sam Pittman will get it done before Saturday. His team will be mostly focused on Georgia Southern. On the other hand, the fans can continu…
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OPINION | WALLY HALL: Crowd reminder of another orange victory
Maybe it is the color orange. On the elevator after Arkansas' 40-21 victory over Texas on Saturday night, a young man remarked the only time he remembered a cr…
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OPINION | WALLY HALL: Arkansas win comes across loud and clear
FAYETTEVILLE -- Turn the damn jukebox up.
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OPINION | WALLY HALL: A great newspaper
It is not too late to get a look (probably need a subscription but it it worth every penny) at one of the greatest newspaper efforts in America.
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Arkansas fans know burnt orange well
A few good games in the SEC and a bunch of those games ESPN hates -- and for good reason.
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OPINION | WALLY HALL: If memory recalls, Longhorns aren't all bad
It was 1974 and your scribe was barely a year out from his honorable discharge from the Air Force and trying to decide if my lifelong dream of being a sports r…
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OPINION | WALLY HALL: Memories of my dad and Razorback football
My dad was not a huge sports fan. In fact, he discouraged me from playing sports when I was a kid and helped me get my first paper route when I was 12.
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OPINION | WALLY HALL: Texas animosity skipped a generation of fans
Maybe there is no explaining it.
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Despite optics, Razorbacks will take victory
FAYETTEVILLE -- It is widely known that an ugly win is better than a pretty loss.
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OPINION | WALLY HALL: Finally, game time
FAYETTEVILLE _ It is 55 minutes until kickoff for the Arkansas Razorbacks and Rice Owls.
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OPINION | WALLY HALL: SEC opens play with pair of headliners
Finally, football is here and the SEC has a full slate of games.
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OPINION | WALLY HALL: Razorbacks' belief in themselves is reassuring
Going into the Arkansas Razorbacks' season opener against Rice at 1 p.m. Saturday, fans can expect to see a lot of familiar faces.
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OPINION | WALLY HALL: Rice is even overlooked in its own city
In the heart of Houston, the fourth-largest city in the U.S. with almost 2.4 million people, sits an academic giant with less-than-glamorous sports programs in…
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OPINION | WALLY HALL: Lundquist's stories included ties to Arkansas
Verne Lundquist was definitely worth the price of admission. For a little more than 50 minutes, the national play-by-play sportscaster kept more than 400 peopl…