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No more Dan Jenkins covering college football, eloquently writing in December 1969 that James Street, "with few friends about", willed Texas to victory over Ar…
No more Dan Jenkins covering college football, eloquently writing in December 1969 that James Street, "with few friends about", willed Texas to victory over Ar…
Two of fictional media giant Logan Roy's four surviving children were awarded for their performances in the final season of HBO's "Succession."
Formerly anchoring Oaklawn's Presidents Day card, the Southwest Stakes has undergone another schedule adjustment, returning to a February date but a week later…
The top two horses from Oaklawn's Smarty Jones Stakes Jan. 1 are separate betting interests in Pool 3 of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager from noon Friday to 5 …
Fortunately, Arkansas has one player willing to cast himself as Scotty Thurman, U.S. Reed or Todd Day when someone needs to take the shot that will determine a…
Black coffee might not have been enough to revive certain sports fans after a lost weekend to which Nicolas Cage and Ray Milland, Oscar winners 50 years apart …
Stephen A. Smith may never stop laughing. The day that the ESPN motormouth, a noted critic of the Dallas Cowboys, must have dreamed about finally arrived Sunda…
So, what does one do on a Sunday in Hot Springs without Oaklawn racing -- once the norm in our horse-happy community -- until the Cowboys and the Packers tee i…
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Southeastern Conference victories for Arkansas teams have become rarer than rubies in the present school term: one in football, none yet in…
Midshipman's Dance took the shortest route home in the $150,000 Mockingbird, her Oaklawn stakes victory Saturday not inevitable but punctual.
When a school submits a bid for a state tournament, the assumed purpose is to play its biggest games as close to home as possible.
Home and away, these Arkansas Razorbacks are becoming known as the gang that can't shoot straight.
To not be on the stakes schedule, today's live racing card at Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort features a race filled with entries who have won previously, all ama…
Two Steve Asmussen-trained stakes winners in Hot Springs last season are Eclipse Award finalists but not the Hall of Famer himself.
What Kentucky people lovingly call Derby carries a record purse for its 150th running May 4.
For every Paul Bryant and Nick Saban who topped out at Alabama are coaches who could not succeed a legend and whose teams crashed on the launching pad.
If Jerry Jones was more fixated with labels than championships, he might have a lot of fun before the Dallas Cowboys' playoff game Sunday against the Green Bay…
Be honest, not having a Southeastern Conference team to cheer for or root against on Monday night wasn't so bad after all.
Before Brad Cox, Lindsey Schultz and John Alexander Ortiz came Tom Bohannan, Phil Hausald and the man whose wife became a TV racing personality, Joe Cantey.
Anything else going on in 2024 besides what a cartoonist called "the great geriatric rematch" of presidential candidates, the incumbent and a previous occupant…
Winter weather in Arkansas goes with a racing season in Hot Springs.
A friend on a telephone party line with other college chums begged out of commenting on the Arkansas-Auburn game early in the second half Saturday.
Brad Henry Cox trained winners of 12 Grade 1 races last year, nine of the stable's black-type triumphs coming at Oaklawn.
What better for a horse about to go on sale than the gift Misty Veil received Saturday at Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort.
Brad Cox is pushing to become the new Bob Baffert among trainers who send Kentucky Derby contenders to race in Hot Springs.
Robertino Diodoro arrived a little late at the party when the live racing season began last month at Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort, but he's here now and don't …
Whitmore and Mitole had their championship seasons in the sun, and Aloha West counts as a third recent Oaklawn-raced winner of the Breeders' Cup Sprint.
Basketball is like the backstretch in a two-mile horse race, seemingly going on forever.
Two teams whose September matchup formed the fabric of college football in 2023 were early casualties in the new year.
Until he reaches other milestones -- only 25, that appears doable -- Cristian Torres and the number 100 figure to be linked often.
By now, it should be obvious: There is no slowing down or getting around Steve Asmussen.
Skelly, High Class enjoy success at Oaklawn, while CMS football gets exciting news.
As in 2023, one of the biggest moments at Oaklawn next year is sure to occur on a Monday.
We'll see if the phrase enters the state sports lexicon, but Oaklawn's final card of 2023 offers one horse a chance to complete a December stakes double at the…
The great ones need not have a race over the track to achieve top form. Skelly put on such a performance Saturday at Oaklawn.
Skelly left Hot Springs in May with a vapor trail that hasn't gone out.
Sorry, but Country House doesn't go on the same list as Sunny's Halo and American Pharoah, Oaklawn-based horses who wore roses at Churchill Downs on the first …
Only by watching, even with casual interest, selected bowl games did the enormity of the Arkansas Razorbacks' 2023 football disaster manifest itself.
Leading owner in races won at Oaklawn has become tantamount, or close to it, to leading Arkansan.
Not for the first time on Christmas Day, the Kansas City Chiefs were run over by a reindeer.
A stocking stuffer two days before Christmas is nothing new to Steve Asmussen, certainly not in pursuit of the Kentucky Derby.
Say this much about Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort: The horse yard on Central Avenue, where a day at the races offers more than ever, knows what to do with Chris…
Several Lakeside players sign, as J'ville basketball teams enjoy success
Under the guise that old dogs should learn new tricks, I awoke before 11 a.m. on my last non-racing Saturday until early May and flicked on the TV set, just in…
Other than for obvious reasons, Christmas means different things to different people.
Even after 40 years of covering the sport, I remain baffled by high school basketball like it was written in iambic pentameter without subtitles. Think of an I…
The American Graded Stakes Committee of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association cleared up an oversight concerning Arkansas racing for 2024.
Garland County basketball teams continued their seasons, and Oaklawn showcased the Tinsel Stakes.
Little did I know 50 years ago, my freshman fling in Searcy, that humility would become as important to the Harding football fan as blocking and tackling to th…