If you are looking for information about schedules and events, jerseys or other apparel, or just general information, the University of Arkansas’ www.Hogwired.com is the best source for Razorbacks fans. There are links to all the different athletic teams, football, basketball, baseball, track, golf, and tennis with information on Coaching staff so you know just about anything person would like to know about pigs. In the link for the Athletic Department, you can find out about the program’s traditions such as how the teams came to be known as the Razorbacks in 1999.
The original name was the Cardinals, and at the end of the 1909 football season, then Coach Hugo Bezdek said after winning the first undefeated school involving the second season that the team “played like a pack of wild Razorbacks,” a wild boar found in the southern state. The name stuck and the rest is history.
News about the resurgent basketball team, now 7-1 on the season, led by Coach Stan Heath. The baseball team is also on the rise. You can read about the dominant track program that won so many National Championships under the tutelage of Coach John McDonnell. With the newly renovated outdoor track that recently hosted the NCAA championships adding to the already first-class facilities, you can take a virtual tour of any of the venues. From basketballs’ Bud Walton Arena, built in 1993, to Baum Stadium for baseball, founded by Baseball America the #1 it is. college baseball stadium, to an indoor track, to the beautiful Donald W. Reynolds Razorback football stadium that had a $110 million facelift in 2002, facilities at Uof A unmatched anywhere in the world college athletics.
You can read about the incredible season of sophomore running back Darren McFadden, who returned from a serious injury and surgery just a month before the season started breaking all school records for one season. Dmac, as he was affectionately known in “The Natural State”, was healthy a little more than half the time. On Hogwired’s Home page, they put a picture of McFadden in a near Heisman-like pose with the caption reading “Darren McFadden fits the Heisman profile. Even though , McFadden finished second in the Heisman voting this year Ohio State Smith, DMac is only a sophomore will enter next season as the Heisman favorite for 2007.
There are several photos of the aforementioned facilities, all of which were built or renovated since 1993, all of which lined Razorback Road, except for Baum Stadium for baseball and the Tyson Center for Indoor Track, located nearby on the right. baseball stadium
Their links are for NCAA compliance, how to run and be a member of the Razorback Foundation, what to know and what not to do by NCAA terms used by athletes, etc. There is a link for Live Stats on games, which can be difficult. as when Darren McFadden is on the field. There is a link for SEC Sports to rank with the other eleven SEC schools, year in and year out, top college. a> Athletic talk on the ground.
There is Razorzone, an affiliate service available to paying subscribers for those who want even more information than is available for free. The site was recently renovated, and the athletic team is doing a good job of keeping it up to date. In short, whether it’s schedule or ticket information, bios about the staff playing in any game, or checking out the state of the art facilities, there’s hardly anything you can find about University of Arkansas athletics at Hogwired that’s one of the top fans. homes somewhere.
