Swanson makes Rimington trophy watch list again

FAYETTEVILLE — To no one's surprise, Arkansas senior center Travis Swanson was named to the Rimington Trophy watch list Tuesday for the third consecutive year.

The Rimington Trophy, presented in offseason, annually goes to the nation's outstanding center.

Starting every Arkansas game since his redshirt freshman season of 2010, Swanson last season was voted secondteam all- Southeastern Conference behind Alabama graduate Barrett Jones, the 2011 Rimington winner and 2012 Outland Trophy winner.

So far this preseason Swanson has been consensus firstteam all- SEC on teams released by variously publications going into next week's vote of SEC media at Media Days in Hoover, Ala.

The Rimington, named for former Nebraska Outland Trophy wining center Dave Rimington, was won in 2007

by Arkansas' Jonathan Luigs, who cleared paths for two- time Doak Walker Award- winning running back Darren McFadden and fellow All- American running back/ kick returner Felix Jones.

On Monday, Arkansas senior defensive end Chris Smith was named to the watch list of the Bednarik Award voted postseason annually to the nation's best defensive player.

* The University of Arkansas athletic department is making gazebos available for rental at Fayetteville football games this year.

Five gazebos are available on a per- game basis, each including five parking passes in Lot 56. They are available for every Fayetteville game except Texas A& M, which has sold out. Prices for the two other SEC games on campus, South Carolina Oct. 12 and Auburn Nov. 2, are $ 750; the two nonconference games, Louisiana- Lafayette Aug. 31 and Southern Mississippi Sept. 14, are $ 600.

All gazebos are located in The Gardens, each including a picnic table and the ability to accommodate up to 60 guests. For more information, contact Razorback Marketing at 479575- 6055 or mkthogs@uark.edu.