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After two days of the NCAA tournament, with 68 teams on Tuesday down to 32 as of midnight Friday, the Southeastern Conference looked like it had invested with …
After two days of the NCAA tournament, with 68 teams on Tuesday down to 32 as of midnight Friday, the Southeastern Conference looked like it had invested with …
Two Oaklawn stakes winners are among the 10 horses entered in Saturday's Grade $1.5 million Arkansas Derby.
Both Oaklawn stakes winners Saturday rode in stable silks colored like first-place ribbons at the county fair or actor Paul Newman's eyes.
The 2023 Arkansas football season may be remembered, if at all, as one to purge from memory, like the man from Impossible Mission Forces assured Peter Graves e…
For a couple of months last spring, I despaired of ever composing again the living, breathing journalism that I hope readers have come to expect from this corn…
With the retirement of Herald-Leader beat man Jerry Tipton, whose book "Deja Blue" came out in time for March Madness, Lexington columnist John Clay rightly se…
After plastic surgery in the racing office, the Hot Springs Stakes looks brand new, not a line on its face.
Voters looked past Bob Baffert and Todd Pletcher, two usual stand-bys, when selecting the nation's top 3-year-old in the weekly National Thoroughbred Racing As…
Brad Cox might need an armored car to tote home the money his horses are in position to win Saturday.
The fortnight of Arkansas Derby Week is upon racing fans.
Duke, of the 68 schools entered, might be the team in the NCAA men's basketball tournament under the most scrutiny.
A friend in the media with even more years in racing left a voice-mail message with Jason Milligan at Oaklawn offering congratulations on a star-kissed Saturda…
Some University of Arkansas basketball seasons one hates to see end. This was not one of them.
Mickey Doyle joined our newspaper family during a crucial moment in the history of local journalism. The Arkansas Gazette was still breathing, though new owner…
The Old Boy himself led the post parade for the third Whitmore Stakes and Jaxon Traveler later Saturday entered the Oaklawn winner's circle.
Ever get the feeling that Hollywood, paraphrasing Sally Field's words after winning her second Academy Award, "really, really" doesn't care so much for Martin …
Unlike last time, a photo finish was not required to determine if a filly trained by Randy Morse prevailed in the $200,000 Purple Martin Stakes.
Look out, ol' Mac is back with those two Xtreme horses for some prized Minnesota clients.
What could be more fitting than for the man who trained Whitmore, one of the greatest horses to run at Oaklawn, to win the Whitmore Stakes?
In yet another Kentucky Derby without Bob Baffert, racing fans look elsewhere for the May 4 winner at Churchill Downs.
The team that formerly played in Freedom Hall and toils on Denny Crum Court at its spanking-new downtown arena hard by the Ohio River is job hunting in its hig…
That the South Carolina-LSU women's rematch devolved into Ali-Frazier IV should not be held against college basketball.
Jade Cunningham had some special horsemen in the cheering section after the trainer's first career victory.
The second jockey to win 100 races in a season at Oaklawn is halfway there again.
Dallas Stewart had more faith in his Azeri Stakes starter Saturday than the betting public that the name of Tiny Temper goes on the list of race winners with t…
Like the Arkansas Derby, Championship Weekend belongs in Hot Springs.
Just once, Tyler's Tribe would like to recapture the form that sent him to the Breeders' Cup at 2 and briefly on the road to the Triple Crown.
Suddenly, Championship Weekend in Hot Springs became a possession of Pulaski County.
On Oscar night in 1978, when Hollywood surprised itself by honoring a movie about his beloved New York, Woody Allen stayed away. It was on a Monday and Allen's…
Leave it to Steve Asmussen to have an in-form closer in a race with more speed than a stock-car race or a convention of hopheads.
The Bergman and Salem girls' basketball teams kicked off the 2024 Centennial Bank State High School Basketball Finals, Thursday, in a Class 3A showdown that sa…
One day before the Grade 3 race winner vies in the Azeri, the Houston Ladies Classic runner-up is on display at Oaklawn.
Three Oaklawn winners and a horse with local connections appear in this week's Derby Dozen compiled by turf writer Byron King for Bloodhorse.com.
Nikki Haley lasted longer on the road to the White House than any local basketball team pursuing Bank OZK Arena.
After an especially doleful week for his team, Mike Neighbors took on paper tigers in the press Sunday.
Too bad that two girls' basketball teams with 74 combined victories cannot be crowned co-state champions.
With a different post position for the show horse, trainer Randy Morse sees how a $150,000 stake that went his way could have gone to his other starter.
With apologies to T.S. Eliot and his remarks about April, March is becoming the cruelest month, at least in Garland County basketball.
Tommy Vance's sense of timing is good, an Oaklawn stakes victory coming on the 50th anniversary of one of his father's greatest training feats.
Too bad that Eddie Sutton isn't around to admire the job Darrell Walker's doing with the Little Rock men's basketball team.
Though she left us in 2011, rich beyond her means, the actress who played Maggie in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" remains alive on screen.
The guest list in one Arkansas-bred stake today is almost as familiar to Oaklawn racing fans as the cast of "Cheers."
It's good to have Wayne Lukas back even if he didn't go anywhere.
Who expected Murfreesboro to be the only remaining Pike County school playing basketball in March?
For the Razorbacks, this was the basketball equivalent of the Mississippi State game last football season. As someone might ask limbo dancers, how low can you …
With No. 1 South Carolina coming to town, Sunday's game with Vanderbilt is the last thing the Arkansas women's basketball team needed.
The Arkansas Activities Association's open-door policy ensures more teams play in state tournaments, not that it's always good for competition.
Five basketball teams from four Garland County high schools enter state tournaments this week.
Timberlake's 3-year-old debut Saturday may not have been brilliant but got the job done and came without apparent setbacks.
The winner's mile-and-sixteenth time broke no stop watches, but the moral of the 66th Rebel Stakes Saturday amounts to a subjective analysis.