It’s not the spot they wanted, but Bob and Val Yagos drew Post Position 1 for their 3-year-old Archarcharch in Saturday’s Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville.
The Derby is the first leg of horse racing’s Triple Crown.
The Pulaski County couple, who own JB’s Auto Salvage near Jacksonville, were in attendance along with other owners, at the drawing Wednesday afternoon in Louisville. The horse is trained by 70-year-old Jinks Fires of Hot Springs, Ark. The jockey is Jon Court, 50, of Louisville..
The drawing was televised by Versus cable network.
The Morning Line established Archarcharch as a 10-1 shot. Dialed In, at No. 8, was named the favorite at 4-1. Uncle Mo, starting from No. 18, was the second favorite at 9-2. Nehro, who nearly caught Archarcharch when he won the Arkansas Derby at Oaklawn Park on April 16, will start from No. 19, with odds set at 6-1. Midnight Interlude, trained by media favorite Bob Baffert, also opens as a 10-1 bet and will start at No. 15.
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The Sun Belt Conference men’s and women’s basketball tournaments conclude today at Summit Arena in Hot Springs.
The University of Arkansas-Little Rock Trojans edged the Western Kentucky Lady Hilltoppers in the just-concluded women’s title game, and the UALR men will face the North Texas Mean Green in the men’s championship at 6 p.m.
I went over for the UALR quarterfinal games in each division on Sunday and got to see part of the Arkansas State women’s team’s win over top-seeded Middle Tennessee State in the first quarterfinal that day in Summit Arena.
For Middle Tennessee, it was the first game since the murder of the Blue Raiders’ Tina Stewart earlier in the week. Clearly, the MTSU players were hurting, but the Red Wolves played well for a relatively easy win. ASU women’s coach Brian Boyer did a nice thing late in the game. He called a late timeout, which, on the surface, looked unnecessary with the Wolves’ healthy lead. But later, it leaked that Boyer took the stoppage to remind his players that they would NOT be celebrating their victory when the final buzzer sounded. He said the team would politely congratulate the MTSU players on a good effort and then quietly walk to the dressing room before raising their voices or showing their joy in any visible way.
It was a thoughtful and respectful response to the game effort by the women from Murfreesboro just four days after they learned that they had lost a key part of their championship unit. Stewart, a Memphis junior, was found in her Murfreesboro apartment by her boyfriend; she had been stabbed numerous times. She was declared dead at a nearby hospital. Her freshman roommate was arrested and charged in the case.
ASU fell in the semifinals Monday afternoon against Western Kentucky.
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From Joe Angolia, UALR media relations director:
Tuesday’s UALR Basketball Coaches Luncheon has been cancelled due to inclement weather conditions in the Little Rock area. The next coaches luncheon will take place Tuesday, Jan. 25, at 11:30 a.m. in the Legends Room of the Jack Stephens Center, followed by the final luncheon of the season on Tuesday, Feb. 15.
Doors will open at 11:30 a.m. for each luncheon, with head coaches Steve Shields and Joe Foley on hand with a player from each of their teams to talk about the season at noon.
Parking for the luncheons will be available in Lot 16 (stop light at University Avenue and the cooperative extension building) or in Lot 13 at the southwest corner of the Jack Stephens Center.
The luncheons will be catered by Corky’s and cost $10 for Tip-In Club members and $15 for non-members. Interested parties are asked to RSVP to Andrea Duc by phone (501.569.3393) or e-mail her at alduc@ualr.edu.
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Odds are great that I shouldn’t go there, me being shaped the way I am — round in the middle and bald as an egg on the back of my head — but I have to address the sights I encountered Saturday:
I helped with our Razorbacks coverage of the Louisiana-Monroe game that day at War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock. My wife dropped me off on Markham and Fair Park near the stadium. Coming in from the west, we ran into the backed-up traffic just before Markham intersects with University and crept on in from there.
Lots of people were walking toward — and for some reason away from — the stadium and a bunch more were partying along the way from St. Vincent Infirmary Medical Center over to the stadium, mostly at the expense of the War Memorial golf course.
Because traffic was creeping, we could see the walkers headed both ways and the partygoers they were passing.
First, apparently, the latest fashion trend for women is to wear jean cutoffs with various forms of cowboy boots. Some of the jeans were “torn” and some were hemmed. The younger the woman, the more likely it was that her jean shorts had fringe unraveling. Scores of women were wearing that combination, many with some type of Razorbacks T-shirt or sweatshirt as a top.
A handful of them were attractive in their outfit. A few more were cute, but likely lacked the proper tan to be showing off their legs in front of 55,000 people. Many more were not properly toned to be showing their legs at all. The rest should not have worn clothes that showed they lacked a workout routine.
Second, some of the guys were just as bad. They were dressed in shirts and pants that didn’t fit them — by several sizes in some cases. Some of them showed every lump in their roly-poly bellies and backsides. But I wasn’t noticing them as much as the women. My wife, Nancy, who is an equal opportunity fashion critic, confirmed that both sexes were looking pretty paunchy in their U of A duds.
Of course, these people have every right to dress how they want to for a party before a football game and, possibly, for the game itself. I’m not saying they shouldn’t dress just as they did.
I’m just saying that maybe they should consider how they appear to a casual observer who happened to go by them at a slow pace on Saturday. I don’t mind if they dress that way.
Maybe they should know, though, that if they are wearing the latest trend because they hope to be ogled in a big crowd, they are having a different effect than desired. Chances are good that they’re being noticed for their portliness and not their pulchritude.
A longer version of this post may appear in this week’s editions of The North Little Rock Times, Cabot Star-Herald, Maumelle Monitor, Carlisle Independent, Sherwood Voice and the Lonoke Democrat. You can find online editions of our newspapers at www.pulaskinews.net and www.lonokenews.net.
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UALR Associate Athletic Director Gary Hogan was announced as the unofficial winner on points 39-37 of the boxing exhibition against former American League MVP Jose Canseco at Dickey-Stephens Park on Friday before the Texas League baseball game between the Arkansas Travelers and the Midland (Texas) RockHounds. Technically, the hometown judges may have been able to account for Hogan having more points, but mercy points apparently were not being awarded to the 1986 AL Rookie of the Year.
Hogan, 60, was game and tried to get the former big bopper and tell-all author to slug it out with him after a two-minute first round in which the two “fighters” felt each other out.
Canseco, 46, threw few punches until the fourth and final round. In rounds 2 and 3, he measured Hogan with left-hand jabs to the face a few times, but seemed content with that. What those jabs showed was that Canseco still was much the quicker athlete and could have landed blows of a much more serious nature if he felt like it.
Neither man was wearing protective headgear as advertised before the match. That fact seemed to be on the mind of the much taller, bigger and faster Canseco as he held off the feistier Hogan except for a few harmless blows to the midsection.
Both men picked up the pace in round 4, but Hogan was unable to do damage and the former Oakland Athletic, Texas Ranger, et al, seemed unwilling to do so.
The crowd booed the author of “Juiced” and “Vindicated” from the beginning of announcer Phil Elson’s introductions. The unruly patrons then jeered at both boxers for their lack of activy until the fourth round. By the third round, some wiseacres were chanting for Travs’ GM Pete Laven to bring on the midget wrestlers, an exhibition not scheduled at D-SP until August.
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My daughter Molly just called to report that she and her boyfriend, John, are on the way to their first Rangers baseball game of the 2010 season. They live in Austin, Texas, and were north of Round Rock when she called.
There is nothing like that feeling of attending your first ballgame of the new season.
John is an avid Mavericks fan, but loves all sports. I told him that I expected more allegiance from him in regard to the Cardinals than I did to my favorite teams in other sports. He replied that the Cardinals were his second favorite major-league team. I told him that I could accept that.
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A rather embarrassing 30-17 loss by the Arkansas Razorbacks to the Ole Miss Rebels on Saturday in Oxford has limited the talk by Hogs fans about “cheating” officials in the Southeastern Conference.
Such complaining was all the rage in the Natural State/Land of Opportunity/Wonder State after the gallant effort by the Hogs of Bobby Petrino in their 23-20 loss to top-ranked Florida on Oct. 17.
The fact that Ryan Mallett and the Razorbacks offense were inside the Florida 40-yard line three times in the third quarter and came away with three points didn’t seem to interest the whiners and moaners as a possible reason for the loss. It was all about “those SEC officials.”
When league “suits” admitted the mistaken call against a Razorbacks linemen who whistled for a personal foul during the Florida game, the glee almost could be felt from Piggott to Foreman. Later in the week, when the SEC suspended the crew for its Arkansas-Florida performance, it was like tossing a bloody arm in a tank of sharks. Think “frenzy.”
But this Monday … officials, as in the black-and-white-shirted variety, aren’t so much a topic of conversation.
With their beloved 22-year-olds losing soundly to a team coached by Houston Dale Nutt, who had fled these environs, Woo-Pig-Soooie-ans were a bit close-lipped. Could be that their jaws were tired from producing hot air for referee flambé or could be that they mouthed off too much to Ole Miss fans on message boards, once they got around to remembering the Mississippi game … long about Friday.
Whatever the reason, Hog Central Station is a bit quiet this Monday night.
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The announcers for this Arkansas-Mississippi football game in Oxford (for the so-called SEC Network) act as if they arrived about 15 minutes before game time.
I don’t know who they are and I don’t think they’ve favored one team or another, but the play-by-play guy has already confused his quarterbacks, calling Mississippi’s Jevan Snead “Ryan Mallett” during that opening drive. He has on numerous occasions mentioned that the ball carrier gained “two yards or maybe up to the line of scrimmage.”
I would rather he get it right by waiting another second than guess badly and then change it within the same sentence. … Maybe it’s just a personal thing, but if he’s reporting what’s happening to me, I would rather he get it right.
One more thing, why do so many announcers think they have to jump on the bandwagon when someone “creates” a cute word for another perfectly good term such as a receiver “runs well in space” instead of “runs well in the open.” It strikes me as just trying to show that he’s “cool” or “with it.”
Oh, they now have reminded me that the play-by-play announcer is Dave Neal and the color commentator is former Heisman Trophy-winner Andre Ware.
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The first drive in the 11:21-start football game between the University of Arkansas and the University of Mississippi at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium in Oxford, Miss., leads one to believe that the Razorbacks defense possibly thought that because the Hogs nearly beat Florida last week the Mississippi offense would just lie down before them in this game.
It turns out that Ole Miss quarterback Jevan Snead and his crew didn’t believe the Arkansas press clippings and went on a long opening scoring drive for a 7-0 lead. Two drives later, it looks they’ve done it again. Ole Miss 14, Arkansas 0.
If this goes the way most Razorbacks comebacks go, they fall behind early, then fall just short.
That strategy Hogs fans had of “teaching Houston Dale Nutt a lesson” isn’t working out so well so far.
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Nancy and I spent a cool but calm weekend at the lake. (Our dog, Daisy, a Lhasa apso we keep cut short, also came along.) The leaves are starting to change colors and Ouachita is up to its upper banks. No TV, no Internet. Beautiful.
It was almost a blast from the past — we listened to the Arkansas-Florida football game Saturday afternoon on the radio, via a sports station at 96.3 FM out of Fort Smith, then switched to the American League Championship Series between the Angels and the Yankees on XM Satellite Radio. We worked in a DVD of “Friday Night Lights,” the movie, in between.
It was nice. We didn’t get involved in the “blame the referees” stuff about the Razorbacks game because we couldn’t see if they were bad calls or not. The radio announcers (Chuck Barrett and Keith Jackson) said there were some bad calls, but both of those guys DO work for the University of Arkansas, so what do you expect?
I know that the Razorbacks were much-improved over previous games this year, yet they had three chances to score from inside the Gators 40-yard line in the third quarter and managed only three points. So, yes, we scared the top-ranked Gators, but we had chances to win and didn’t — we lost 23-20. That’s it. Whine all you want, but if you want to be Hog-crazy, worry about the Ole Miss game.
The rest of us will get on with our lives or continue to watch the baseball playoffs — football doesn’t really start until the World Series is over. That’s what matters to me, after my family.
Meanwhile, it’s back to work in the midst of some wonderful fall weather.
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The announcers for this Arkansas-Mississippi football game in Oxford (for the so-called SEC Network) act as if they arrived about 15 minutes before game time.
I don’t know who they are and I don’t think they’ve favored one team or another, but the play-by-play guy has already confused his quarterbacks, calling Mississippi’s Jevan Snead “Ryan Mallett” during that opening drive. He has on numerous occasions mentioned that the ball carrier gained “two yards or maybe up to the line of scrimmage.”
I would rather he get it right by waiting another second than guess badly and then change it within the same sentence. … Maybe it’s just a personal thing, but if he’s reporting what’s happening to me, I would rather he get it right.
One more thing, why do so many announcers think they have to jump on the bandwagon when someone “creates” a cute word for another perfectly good term such as a receiver “runs well in space” instead of “runs well in the open.” It strikes me as just trying to show that he’s “cool” or “with it.”
Oh, they now have reminded me that the play-by-play announcer is Dave Neal and the color commentator is former Heisman Trophy-winner Andre Ware.
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