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At least seven people, including three members of the same family, were killed Friday and at least 13 people were injured as severe weather swept through Arkansas, emergency officials said.
Violent storms rolling across the nation's midsection unleashed tornadoes, high winds and hail in four states and killed at least seven in Arkansas on Friday
Severe storms that rolled across Arkansas early Friday killed at least seven people, including a teenager crushed by a tree while she slept in her bed
Is it just me, or have an increasing number of college football teams misinterpreted when spring supposedly begins? The calendar says it's March 20, but more than half the nation's BCS schools open spring practice before then. Texas, Auburn and LSU did not even wait for February to end.
Here is a list of the top running back prospects. This list was compiled through a series of conversations with scouts, and through game tape evaluations.
The rankings for this week, straight up.
Tornadoes that roared through parts of Arkansas, Kentucky and Tennessee killed at least 23 people and injured nearly 100 more Tuesday night, authorities said.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Bobby Petrino has already landed a major recruit for Arkansas -- former Michigan quarterback Ryan Mallett.
Former five-star quarterback Ryan Mallett has left Michigan and is taking classes at the University of Arkansas today making his transfer official, according to sources close to the situation.
A rare winter outbreak of tornadoes hammered the Midwest on Monday night and Tuesday, killing at least three people and leaving a path of destruction, authorities said.
At least seven people, including three members of the same family, were killed Friday and at least 13 people were injured as severe weather swept through Arkansas, emergency officials said.
Violent storms rolling across the nation's midsection unleashed tornadoes, high winds and hail in four states and killed at least seven in Arkansas on Friday
Severe storms that rolled across Arkansas early Friday killed at least seven people, including a teenager crushed by a tree while she slept in her bed
Is it just me, or have an increasing number of college football teams misinterpreted when spring supposedly begins? The calendar says it's March 20, but more than half the nation's BCS schools open spring practice before then. Texas, Auburn and LSU did not even wait for February to end.
Here is a list of the top running back prospects. This list was compiled through a series of conversations with scouts, and through game tape evaluations.
The rankings for this week, straight up.
Tornadoes that roared through parts of Arkansas, Kentucky and Tennessee killed at least 23 people and injured nearly 100 more Tuesday night, authorities said.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Bobby Petrino has already landed a major recruit for Arkansas -- former Michigan quarterback Ryan Mallett.
Former five-star quarterback Ryan Mallett has left Michigan and is taking classes at the University of Arkansas today making his transfer official, according to sources close to the situation.
A rare winter outbreak of tornadoes hammered the Midwest on Monday night and Tuesday, killing at least three people and leaving a path of destruction, authorities said.
Surging in polls in Iowa, Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee finds himself increasingly under attack from rivals over his record as governor of Arkansas, particularly on taxes and immigration.
A bus hopped a highway median and crashed into a pickup truck before being broadsided by an 18-wheeler, Arkansas police said, killing the pickup driver and two bus riders.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Pittsburgh athletic director Jeff Long will replace Frank Broyles in the same position at Arkansas, a person with knowledge of Long's decision said Monday.
Officials closed a major Mississippi River bridge between Tennessee and Arkansas for nine hours Monday after a pier under a small approach span settled several inches overnight.
If you happen to run into a member of the NCAA selection committee this week, be sure to shake his hand or pat him on the back. A few complimentary words would be nice, too. Considering how much flak these guys usually take this time of year, a rare acknowledgement of a job well done will undoubtedly be appreciated.
SPOKANE, Wash. -- USC has not been kind to Arkansas the last few years. The last two years the football team handed the Razorbacks back-to-back humiliations (combined score 120-31). The Trojans' 77-60 win tonight was more of the same, making the Hogs' unlikely trip to the tournament a short one. While Arkansas had a significant height advantage, they didn't take advantage of it. Taking coach Tim Floyd's keys to the game -- defense and rebounding -- to heart, the Trojans held the Razorbacks, 35 percent 3-point shooters, to 15 percent shooting from the arc. Most significantly, they outrebounded them 39-26, a stat that Floyd admitted surprised him.
1. The NCAA selection committee unveiled the brackets on Sunday evening. As of press time, the exclusion of mid-major stalwart Drexel still had Billy Packer inconsolable.
I've been compiling Selection Sunday bracket projections for SI.com for eight years, and this one was by far the hardest due to mass uncertainty at both the top and the bottom of the bracket.
Stan Heath was enjoying the spoils that come with being a winning coach at the SEC tournament. The Arkansas coach completed a quick television interview on the stage at one end of the court, then made his way back down the sideline and on toward the Arkansas locker room. His Razorbacks had just won for the third time in three days and he gave enthusiastic waves to the Arkansas sections on his way off the court.
Welcome to SI.com's real-time Bubble Watch. The following chart will be updated continuously between now and Sunday to reflect the results of the conference tournaments.
1. Hush that mushing: I was reading some of the Iditarod coverage Tuesday morning because, well, it was on SI.com's front page when I came to a realization. There is no sporting event that I could even plausibly enter that I would want to avoid more than the Iditarod. (The "plausibility" clause eliminates things like fighting for the heavyweight championship of the world.) I would much rather, for instance, enter an ultramarathon in Death Valley than the Iditarod, and not just because I have run two marathons and have at least an inkling that I might finish. Basically, I really hate the cold, and what sporting event is colder for longer than mushing 12-16 dogs for 1,150 miles across Alaska for 10-17 days? Consider Tuesday's news item that four-time champ Doug Swingley has withdrawn from this year's race after a fall left him with potentially broken ribs and a possibly dislocated thumb. Read further down the story and you'll note that Swingley scratched from the 2004 race because he suffered frostbite on h
A possible tornado shredded several businesses and homes in a small Arkansas town Saturday, injuring about a dozen people, some of them seriously, police told a local TV station.
For the past two months, the state of Arkansas has been witness to one of the strangest soap operas this side of General Hospital. An ostensibly successful SEC football program appears to be unraveling.
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Dear Annie: Recently on a talk-radio show I heard some people discussing "insourcing," which is not a term I've heard before. I tuned in too late to catch most of what was said, but I'm curious: Is insourcing like outsourcing, i.e., another threat to American jobs? -Kansas Kid
Moral issues sometimes drive voters to the polls not only to support or oppose a candidate, but also to make their voices heard on dozens of ballot measures dealing with issues like same-sex marriage, abortion or stem cell research.
For another approach to easing small companies' health-care burdens, look to Arkansas. Governor Mike Huckabee is launching a new program that will offer limited health benefits to low-income employ...
The seven-year, $70 million Whitewater investigation that toppled an Arkansas governor and dogged Bill Clinton for most of his presidency officially drew to a close Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the last remaining appeal.
Storms moving across the South on Thursday brought winds strong enough to rip off roofs and blow apart barns. At least two deaths were attributed to the weather, and thousands of people lost power.
No matter what I do, I blow whatever money I have each month. I just can't seem to save. How can I teach myself to put something away for long-term goals rather than spending everything right now?
An ivory-billed woodpecker -- widely believed to be extinct and whose last confirmed sighting was 60 years ago -- is alive in Arkansas, according to a research paper released Thursday.
A mobile home fire Wednesday night in the rural Arkansas town of Humphrey killed six people, including five children, authorities said.
"The Wedding Singer," that celluloid celebration of the 1980s starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, has been transformed into a Broadway musical and booked for a New York opening -- for April 2006.
"Goodbye, Princess. We love you." Flush.
I've always thought owning a home is a great investment for tax purposes, but I have yet to see the advantages. I've owned a home for five years now and pay between $6,000 and $7,500 a year in mortgage interest, but I don't seem to get much back at the end of the year. My refund is only about $200. Is owning a home worth it from a tax standpoint?
The line between TV and the real world gets even blurrier in 2004 as reality television turns its cameras on the corporate world. Can you pick the fakes from the real shows?
The lowest-rate credit cards have long come from banks in Arkansas, where state usury laws held rates to no more than five percentage points above the federal discount rate, or 6.5% today. In Octob...
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If you tried to rent office space or hire a worker in a major U.S. city recently, you have some idea of just how hot this economy really is. Cities are booming across the U.S., and that means risin...
For the third year in a row the Empire State reigns supreme, with 61 of America's 500 largest companies calling it home. But that margin of victory is eroding: Sunny California, this year's runner-...
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A new round of military base shutdowns is about to be announced, adding to the 70 facilities earmarked for closure since 1988. Since then, defense activities have ceased at 31 installations, causin...
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Once Bill Clinton moves from the Governor's mansion in Little Rock to the White House in Washington, which jurisdiction will tax his $200,000 salary? Well, here we go again. Like President Bush wit...
At the moment later this month when, barring a disaster, Bill Clinton gets formally crowned as the Democratic presidential nominee, Madison Square Garden will erupt into the predictable, exuberant,...
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Each year more than 250,000 Americans retire and move to another state. Many, however, end up relocating with regrets. Perhaps 10% of people who pick up stakes for retirement are so unhappy where t...
Pinched by the recession, consumers are whipping out the plastic with increasing frequency, as evidenced by a $137 spurt in the average monthly credit-card balance to $1,626 since January 1990. Thi...
THINK OF the great American business centers, the kinds of places where the entrepreneurial spirit thrives and tremendous wealth blossoms. Go ahead. Name a few. Columbus, Ohio? Northwestern Arkansa...
NEWT L. GINGRICH, 48, U.S. Congressman (R-Ga.): ''A conservative is a person who comes to Bentonville, Arkansas, to study Wal- Mart to learn how to fix the post office. A liberal is a person who co...
The salary is fat, the benefits generous, and the office has a terrific view. Sounds tempting, but nowadays a growing number of executives are insisting on something more before taking that new job...
There's no better time to rediscover America. Not only will your U.S. dollars buy more in the U.S. than in Europe or the Orient, but you'll find an oversupply of bargain-priced hotel rooms, less ex...
ON VACATIONS, THE RUOSS ((ROO-oss)) family likes to mix fun with schoolwork. The four Ruoss kids don't go to a regular school -- they are ''home taught.'' Maya, 15, Anya-Maria, 12, Lara, 10, and Tr...
Geneva Green is turning a hobby into a moneymaker. She now sells the silk flowers and dried-grass arrangements she makes in the housing project where she lives. She and other low-income entrepreneu...
The Stephens fortune -- reckoned at $1.7 billion -- ranks around 34th in the U.S. and second in Arkansas after that of Wal-Mart's Sam Walton. The brothers made their pile by scouring the country fo...
DOWNTOWN Little Rock, Arkansas, a handful of office buildings scattered like poker chips at the feet of the Ozark Mountains, is an unlikely spot for the richest investment bank off Wall Street. But...
Government regulators are at last dealing with the disaster area known as the savings and loan industry. The enactment in August of the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act, ...
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