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The Razorbacks will play Indiana in Friday’s first-round game in Raleigh, N.C.

Let March Madness begin in central Arkansas! Eight teams will play at Alltel Arena this coming Friday through Sunday in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championships.

The bracket for the NCAA Tournament is out. Find out where Arkansas is going to be.

The Georgia Bulldogs are the winners of the SEC Championship game.

A severe storm ripped two holes in the side of the Georgia Dome during the Southeastern Conference tournament, halting the Alabama-Mississippi State and sending fans fleeing for the exits.

Darian Townes and Gary Ervin each scored 18 points and Arkansas upset No. 18 Vanderbilt 81-75 Friday in the Southeastern Conference tournament quarterfinals.

Before even hitting the field, Team Arkansas got sacked. That’s because the All American Football League canceled its 2008 season citing a failure to find new investors.

Results from an autopsy have come back for a 27-year-old Wisconsin man who collapsed and died after completing the Little Rock Marathon.

An Ethiopian native and a Kenyan native win the 2008 Little Rock Marathon.

Fans say its fun, but opponents say it's too dangerous and controversial.

Watch Daytona 500 winner Ryan Newman talk about his win, Alltel's My Circle 500, and upcoming races.

It costs more to be a Razorbacks fan these days. Tickets are going up at least $10 each.
Discuss: Are you ok with the price hike?

Souces tell FOX16 that Dickey Nutt has resigned from ASU.

Arkansas has hired Willy Robinson as its defensive coordinator.

Heart problems were behind the sudden death of Little Rock Parkview's Antony Hobbs at a basketball game.

24 days after being named defensive coordinator Ellis Johnson turns in his resignation and is now heading to South Carolina.

Darren McFadden isn't sticking around for another run at the Heisman Trophy. The Arkansas All-American announced Monday he'll skip his senior season and enter the NFL draft. Felix Jones, the Razorbacks' other talented tailback, said he'll also enter the draft a year early.

Razorback Darren McFadden was involved in a fight at a local bar and was placed in handcuffs.

Friday was the first chance for students to share their grief. The basketball team decided to go ahead with their game at El Dorado to honor Antony Hobbs wearing red ribbons with Hobbs #34.

Check out what’s being called the biggest stadium ever built. “It’s about 3 times the size of Texas Stadium so we'll have a lot more concourse space to circulate the fans,” says Director of Construction Jack Hill.

There are about 310 extra Razorback fans in Dallas Monday. The group traveling with Little Rock Tours left this morning on five buses bound for the Cotton Bowl. And as Fox 16's LaTresha Woodruff shows us this trip is more than just watching the hogs play and bring home a win.

Thousands of Arkansas fans have found their way to Dallas. A sea of red is taking over the city. We caught up with one Razorback fan who knows two of the Hogs quarterbacks better than anyone. His name is Steve but to Casey and Nathan Dick he's better known as dad.

The University of Arkansas releases statement about McFadden's eligibility.

Seventeen high school bands are in Dallas for competitions, a New Years Eve parade, and to play during the Cotton Bowl. Bearden is the only high school from Arkansas extended this invitation.

The Cotton Bowl is sold out! It says so on the official website in big red letters, but there is still a way to get tickets through other online vendors, but it's buyer beware.

Bobby Petrino calls the Hogs for the first time as the new head coach for the University of Arkansas Razorbacks.
Video: Razorback Press Conference Announcing Bobby Petrino as New Head Coach

Two worthy teams fought until the bitter end Saturday for the state 2A high school football championship at War Memorial Stadium. Only one point separated the victory between the Mount Ida Lions and the Bearden Bears.

Tebow beat out Arkansas running back Darren McFadden, Hawaii QB Colt Brennan, and Missouri QB Chase Daniel in winning college football's most prestigious award.

The Razorbacks have come close to getting a new head coach. Three times to be exact but each time the deal fell through. Now one man is so fed up he's taken his frustrations down to the river.

All these possibilities and so far disappointment that no one has been found to replace Houston Nutt.

The search continues for a new head coach for the Razorbacks.

Arkansas State senior safety Tyrell Johnson (Rison, Ark.) has been named the Sun Belt Conference Defensive Player of the Year and was among nine Indians named to the league’s postseason all-conference team, announced Wednesday by the conference office.

After mulling an offer to become Arkansas’ coach, Clemson’s Tommy Bowden has informed several members of his coaching staff he intends to stay.

On Saturday Oklahoma beat Missouri in the Big 12 title game and Pitt upset West Virginia in the backyard brawl. This put an end to both teams’ title hopes as well as one of the wildest college football seasons ever.

For the 11th time in school history, the Arkansas football team has accepted an invitation to play in the AT&T Cotton Bowl.

Reports say Auburn head football coach Tommy Tuberville is close to signing a deal to coach the Razorbacks.

An appeal in the lawsuit against the University of Arkansas over e-mails critical of former Arkansas quarterback Mitch Mustain won't end now that Coach Houston Nutt has left the school, an attorney said Wednesday.

It should come as no surprise that everyone is talking about Wednesday's press conference.

Who in Arkansas ever thought they would see Houston Nutt do the "Hotty Toddy" fight song. Forget pig sooey, an overflow crowd filled the balcony of the Ford Performing Arts center on the Ole Miss campus in Oxford welcoming Nutt as their head coach.