McFadden: The multi-million dollar man

Nothing is official yet, but the San Francisco Chronicle is reporting that former Hog Darren McFadden is requesting a six-year deal worth near $50 million from the Oakland Raiders.
The fourth pick in this year’s draft, McFadden may get no less than $20 million in guarantees.
This comes one year after giving No. 1 overall pick JaMarcus […]

Draft Hogs

A couple of Hogs dropped quite a bit in the NFL Draft on Sunday, but Arkansas has six former Razorbacks going to the NFL next season.
Darren McFadden (No. 4 to Raiders) and Felix Jones (No. 22 to Cowboys) made the biggest splashes, of course. On Sunday, in the final rounds, four more Hogs got picked […]

Spring game sets attendance record

There’s really no way to count the crowd today, as there are no tickets to this event, but the crowd is fairly thick on the lower bowl. The UA Sports Information Department just alerted us here in the press box that 40,200 are in attendance today. That’s an Arkansas spring game record, if there is […]

McFadden’s mom hates New York

Does mom really know best? In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Darren McFadden’s mother, Mini Muhammad said she’d like to see her son drafted by Dallas, Atlanta or “whatever team they’ve got there in Tennessee.”
Blurg.
If McFadden didn’t have enough to worry about with his “character issues,” his mother’s past cocaine addiction spoiling […]

Jets may trade up to land McFadden

The New York Daily News is reporting this morning that the Jets may trade up for the No. 2 pick to land Darren McFadden, who has fallen in love with the franchise and city.
The Jets have the sixth pick of the draft, but growing concerns that the Oakland Raiders may snag the former Hog […]

Report: Beverley wanted transfer to USF

Arkansas guard Patrick Beverley was contemplating a transfer to the University of South Florida but will stay at the University of Arkansas, according to a report.
Last week, we alerted you of Beverley’s peculiar status messages on his Facebook page and rumors of his possible departure from the University of Arkansas. We also spoke with […]

UA’s McDonnell announces retirement

Longtime UA track and field coach John McDonnell announced Monday his intentions to retire after the 2008 outdoor track season.
The University sent out a release earlier this morning to announce the scheduling of a 4 p.m. press conference today for “a major announcement pertaining to Arkansas head cross country and track and field coach […]

Bye-bye Beverley?

I’ve been out at the Real Deal on the Hill the last couple of days checking out the AAU action and doing a few stories for the Times. I bumped into UA sophomore guard Patrick Beverley Friday night after a Real Deal game involving the Arkansas Hawks. He was there as a spectator. As was […]

UA recruit breaks Gators’ BCS trophy

Talk about getting off on the wrong foot. A Plant High School (Tampa, Fla.) tight end broke the Florida Gators’ 2006 BCS National Championship trophy over the weekend at a NIKE football camp.
I kid you not.
Orson Charles, who is being recruited by Arkansas and at least 10 other schools including Florida, bumped into the […]

McFadden Mania hitting fever pitch

The NFL Draft is fast approaching. The machine behind mock drafts are churning out differing results for fans to gobble, chomp and spew. Scribes are continuing to pump out the Darren McFadden dirt. The former Hog is gracing covers of magazines and video games, and his smiling mug is on television sets across the country […]