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Kentucky-based trainer Phil Sims may never have another one like Don't Tell Sophia, but then, how many horsemen do?
Kentucky-based trainer Phil Sims may never have another one like Don't Tell Sophia, but then, how many horsemen do?
Ken McPeek fits the bill as Mr. December at Oaklawn, if the track needs one. He probably could double as Santa Claus during the holidays.
Andre Braugher's passing no doubt left many fans of the police drama "Homicide: Life on the Street" thinking of the 1996 episode in which his character enteredā¦
Kevin Kelley just couldn't stay away from football Friday nights in the fall, which his Pulaski Academy teams came to dominate. Now, to keep it going at anotheā¦
Bob Baffert, for whom Churchill Downs has become a closed shop, is developing contenders for the 150th Kentucky Derby even if not welcome personally.
After some extra time to catch one's breath, or jump-start one's bank account, Oaklawn is back for its first three-day week of racing today through Sunday.
Arkansas and Texas first met in football in 1894 and played as early as Labor Day (Sept. 1, 1980) and as late as New Year's Day (Jan. 1, 2000). They have opposā¦
All it took was one afternoon in Tulsa for the afterglow of Arkansas' biggest basketball victory of the new season to wear off.
Arkansas-Pine Bluff's women's basketball team escaped Sunday from the witness-protection program that surrounds Golden Lion athletics in general.
Oaklawn's racing season started, and high school basketball season continued in Garland County.
Pencil in Tejano Twist as a way-too-early horse to watch in the 2024 Breeders' Cup Sprint.
Arkansas people take pride when a native son does something special on a large stage, whether it be Mary Steenburgen winning an Oscar or Hunter Henry scoring tā¦
Oaklawn's December stakes races are current enough that, after two years, not every racegoer may know their names without help.
Steve Asmussen had reason to expect greatness from a horse whose sire and maternal dam never lost a race.
Trainer Chris Hartman has two horses starting side-by-side in the $150,000 Ring The Bell today at Oaklawn, one a local stakes winner last season and the other ā¦
Charles Cella speaks again for Oaklawn, proving some things never change at the horseyard on Central Avenue.
Their names may not yet be known to the masses -- give them time -- but the 12 horses in Oaklawn's first stakes race in a new season hail from some familiar baā¦
Twice a top-10 rider at Oaklawn, Chris Landeros found the way back to Hot Springs.
Ten Oaklawn races Friday equals an opening-day record for a track that held its first meeting in 1905.
More than ever, integrity is a big word among horsemen with one of the nation's leading tracks on the cutting edge.
Deep on an inside sports page in the state newspaper, one could find buried an item that nutshelled Sunday's game perfectly.
I never played the game -- don't worry, I'm often asked how that qualifies me to write about it -- but as a fan and later as a sports journalist, I've been to ā¦
Though this was a rare year without a Triple Crown or Breeders' Cup winner from the track, Oaklawn remains a major player in thoroughbred racing.
In good times or bad, most Arkansas sports fans march behind a flag bearing the image of a Razorback running free. Whether it should be salivating or not is opā¦
Before any of his horses run at Oaklawn, Ron Moquett is off to a winning start. Racing season starts just as football season for a favorite sports team ends.
One trainer at Oaklawn is looking beyond two early local stakes races for 2024 Kentucky Derby hopefuls.
Local high school and college basketball teams continued solid starts to their seasons.
Can't speak for anyone else, but this journalist needs time -- not just a 20-second break, either -- to rehash the week that was in Arkansas sports and consideā¦
The term "hundred-grander" once held a certain charm when applied to a six-figure purse in horse racing. Now, they're as common as a trainer's smartphone.
They partied Wednesday night in Fayetteville like it was 1994, and Bill Clinton resided in the White House and led cheers for the Arkansas basketball team one ā¦
While Donald Trump attempts to emulate Grover Cleveland by earning a second term in the White House in different presidential elections, Bobby Petrino returns ā¦
Both with November losses, Arkansas and Duke are somewhat tarnished before their first Fayetteville meeting Wednesday night.
Football fans who like geography -- must be a half-dozen of us -- get a kick at this time every year when Arkansas high schools determine state champions.
Two names that should be prominent at Oaklawn next season topped the standings in the Churchill Downs fall meeting, which ended Saturday.
By the time Thanksgiving Saturday night rolled around, after no telling how many helpings since Thursday, television viewers might have been stuffed.
Garland County athletes signed to play sports in college, and local athletes competed in a holiday 5K.
David Watkins, the former Hot Springs city manager, and a college friend, both departed, treated the Iron Bowl as a high and holy day of football.
Northwest Arkansas is home of one losing football team, the 4-8 Razorbacks (no bowl for them but an offseason of uncertainty), and two high school squads that ā¦
What might the viewer have learned from a holiday filled with football, hopefully teeming with food and family?
When Craig O'Neill graduated from Little Rock's Central High School in 1968, Arkansas had a Republican governor and the Razorbacks a football coach with a Georā¦
My blessed mother might have turned off the game at halftime, if not sooner, but would be right about one thing: At least the Razorbacks weren't shut out.
David Mamet authored "Glengarry Glen Ross," an R-rated saga about work-place strife. An uncredited Alec Baldwin portrays Blake, sent from Mitch & Murray downtoā¦
Football, on whatever level It is played, is one itch that a sports fan can't help but scratch over this holiday weekend upon us.
On Thanksgiving Friday 30 years ago at Claude Mann Stadium, Madre Hill staged a one-man show for Malvern in the state football playoffs.
If Georgia ever plays 60 minutes like it finishes a game, the Kansas City Chiefs should watch out.
Hunter Yurachek did the right thing regarding Sam Pittman even if there's more to the story.
Basketball season started to pick up in Garland County, and football season officially ended for the county's teams.
Even on the local level, the athletic seasons frequently overlap. That's one thing about working in Hot Springs that I've always enjoyed.
Lakeside and Jessieville each had a winning record supported by a playoff victory, about which no other Garland County football teams could boast this season.
Oklahoma Baptist won a marathon first set and the last two games against Henderson State Saturday for the Great American Conference volleyball championship.