1. Arkansas-Alabama: Running Diary

    “In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.” Ralph Waldo Emerson “If there’s a problem, yo I’ll solve it. Check out the hook while the DJ revolves it...

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  2. Arkansas-Auburn Running Diary

    “If you want to destroy this sweater,hold this thread as I walk away.”Weezer - “The Sweater Song”Slumps tend to get reduced to clichés, to their most basic level...

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  3. Arkansas-Mississippi State Running Diary

    With all apologies to the master and my hero, Bill Simmons, I do running diaries of most of Arkansas's home basketball games, and I thought I might share some of them here...

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  4. New Day For The Arkansas Razorbacks: A Hog Football Preview

    I woke up WAY too early this morning. Something new was going on.My windows were open and the sun broke through the blinds, orange and fresh and cool. Wet honeysuckle was in the air mixed with a faint hint of roadkill opossum...

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  5. Sidestepping: Arkansas Basketball's Journey to the Tourney

    "History is the short trudge from Adam to atom."Leonard LevinsonI was trudging through the long ER corridors today. The light was fluorescent and flickering, creating shadows that came and went in aging and unseen corners...

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  6. Turtle Dreams: NCAA Tourney Revelry

    "I dream I never know anyone at the partybut I'm always the host."-Counting Crows "Mrs. Potter's Lullaby" The fog is thick and damp and it is beading up on my windshield as I motor West on I-40...

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  7. Bubblicious: Anticipating the NCAA Tourney

    "In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air. " -John Webster- It was 75 degrees today...

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  8. Intimacy Issues: An Arkansas Razorback Fan on the Bubble

    "My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem.But they don't really know me."Garry SchandlingMy shrink was at the Arkansas-Vanderbilt game Saturday. It's a weird thing to see your psychiatrist out in public...

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  9. Arkansas-Kentucky: Recap

    Did I see a pig fly? Couldn't be. I must have been dreaming.Sunrise hit my face with unusual ferocity this morning. Or maybe it was just my strange neighbor walking his really big dog with his high intensity flashlight...

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  10. In Search of a Nemesis

    "I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion." Jack Kerouac I don't have a nemesis right now. I think to have a fully satisfying life one needs a good nemesis...

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  11. A Shoe Story

    "If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about those."The Counting Crows (Mrs. Potter's Lullaby) Somewhere in my mind I hear the squeak of my basketball shoes on the gym floor...

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  12. Bottle Cap Thieves: An Arkansas Basketball Story

    "In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods; they have not forgotten this." -Terry Pratchett- Years ago, I had two cats. I don't have them anymore. They went away one at a time...

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  13. LSU-Arkansas: A Purple Hazy Recap

    I'm driving up I-540 to Fayetteville. I just tried to spit a bitter hocker out the window and the cold rushing wind blew it back on my jacket. My body aches with residual flu...

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  14. Back Beat

    “Show me how you do that trick, the one that makes me scream, she said. The one that makes me laugh, she said. And threw her arms around my neck. Show me how you do it and I promise you, I promise to run away with you...

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