Hogs, Tigers continue day after Thanksgiving tradition
FAYETTEVILLE - As per usual, the Arkansas Razorbacks and Missouri Tigers will close their SEC football season the day after Thanksgiving.
The SEC announced Monday that the Razorbacks and Tigers will meet on Friday, Nov. 23 on CBS national TV in a 1:30 p.m. CST kickoff in Columbia.
Arkansas and Mizzou have alternated annually between Columbia and Fayetteville since closing the SEC season against each other starting in 2014, always on the Friday after Thanksgiving.
In 2019 and 2021 when Arkansas hosts Missouri, the games will be played at War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock.
Arkansas now has four of its 12 games for 2018 set with official kickoff times.
The Razorbacks’ Sept. 1 season-opener against Eastern Illinois kicks off at 3 p.m. on the SEC Network at Reynolds Razorback Stadium.
Arkansas’ Sept. 8 game against Colorado State in Fort Collins, Colo. kicks off at 6:30 p.m. CDT
on the CBS Sports Network.
And the Razorbacks’ third game of 2018, Sept. 15 against North Texas, kicks off at 3 p.m. at Reynolds Razorback Stadium on the SEC Alternate Channel.
Arkansas SEC games with kickoff times still to be determined by television include the Razorbacks’ SEC opener Sept. 22 at Auburn in Auburn, Ala., Texas A&M, Sept. 29 at the Dallas Cowboys’ AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas; Alabama; Oct. 6 in Fayetteville; Ole Miss, Oct. 13 in Little Rock; Vanderbilt, Oct. 17, in Fayetteville; LSU, Nov. 10 in Fayetteville and the nonconference game Oct. 20 nonconference game against Tulsa in Fayetteville.
FROM ARKANSAS TO TEAM USA
Matt Cronin and Dominic Fletcher, sophomore stars of Arkansas national runner-up College World Series baseball team, barely have had time put away their Razorbacks uniforms from last week in Omaha, Neb. before donning Team USA uniforms for the the U.S. National Collegiate team in Cary, N.C.
Lefty reliever Cronin set a Razorbacks record with 14 saves for 2018 despite missing time recovering from mononucleosis.
Fletcher, acknowledged as the best defensive center since Dave Van Horn began coaching the Razorbacks in 2003 and named to the All-SEC Defensive team, hit .288 with 10 home runs and 49 RBI for the SEC West co-champion Razorbacks.
Van Horn managed the 2014 Collegiate Team USA which this season is managed by LSU Coach Paul Mainieri and features 11 SEC players.
Team USA has been playing games
since June 27 with Fletcher and Cronin joining the squad in time to play against Japan today through July 8 in a 5-game series barnstorming through Georgia South Carolina and North Carolina before finishing July 10-14 with the seventh annual USA vs. Cuba International Friendship Series July 10-14 in Havana, Cuba.
HALL OF FAME SET SATURDAY
Sidney Moncrief, the greatest Razorback of the Eddie Sutton basketball era and then a longtime NBA star is the keynote speaker for Saturday’s 6 p.m. Arkansas Sportscasters/Sportswriters Hall of Fame banquet at the Centennial Country Club in Conway.
The ASCSW Hall of Fame inducts retired longtime KARK-TV sports director and former Razorbacks play-by-play man Dave Woodman and somehow seen fit to induct this writer, too, while presenting a Lifetime Achievement Award to Cliff Garrison, the retired Hendrix athletic director and basketball coach, and posthumously honoring past Hall of Fame members Frank Broyles, for 50 years either the Razorbacks athletic director or head football coach or both and a Hall of Fame inductee as the ABC College Football Game of the Week color analyst complementing Keith Jackson’s play-by-play, and David McCollum, the longtime award winning sports editor of The Log Cabin Democrat who passed away at 68 in April, and also honors Clyde “Smackover” Scott, a Razorbacks legend as both an All-American football player for Coach John Barnhill’s 1946 Southwest Conference champions and as an NCAA Outdoor hurdles champion and 1948 Olympics silver medalist.
Tickets can be obtained by calling 501733-4011 or 501-327-0252 or any board member of the Arkansas Sportscasters/ Sportswriters Hall of Fame.