Saturday, November 26, 2011
Presidential politics / Arkansas Sports Of Rick Perry and Hog/Aggie/Longhorn football
Posted by Max Brantley on Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 6:54 AM
By its front-page coverage, the New York Times suggests Texas Gov. Rick Perry remains in the hunt for the Republican presidential nonmination, though his polling his dropped down to Huntsman level.
Today's feature, on his military service, bears notice from me because of the great photo from his Texas A&M days used to illustrate the piece (above). It's from the university archives.
Which reminds for those who've read this far: Talking football in Starbucks yesterday, a Hog observer wondered whether the future held a potential early end to the Arkansas-Texas A&M game in Dallas. There's some thought it hasn't been as financially productive for the schools as stadium owner Jerry Jones envisioned. With the Aggies joining the SEC, home-and-home makes more sense. PLUS: This would give Jerry Jones an opening sure enough for a BIG DEAL. Matching the Longhorns and the Aggies in Cowboy Stadium, a rivalry that otherwise seems to have come to an end because of conference complications. Good theory. And it creates a new potential creampuff date for the Hogs.
Speaking of...
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UPDATE: Arkansas's Jeff Long mentioned for Stanford athletic director
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Dustin McDaniel goes Hog wild at ASU commencement
May 17, 2012Attorney General Dustin McDaniel is getting blistered in some corners of the web for supposedly closing a commencement address Saturday at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro by saying "Go Indians" and "Go Hogs." /more/
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Turn out the lights
May 12, 2012The week's about over. The line is open. /more/
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Friday night line
May 11, 2012It's done. Slow day. /more/
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Bobby Petrino's wrecked Harley motorycle for sale
May 9, 2012A Twitter from Mallory Hardin at Channel 4 says, and I've confirmed, that this wrecked Harley now up for auction in Northwest Arkansas is the cycle former Hog football coach Bobby Petrino was riding when, well, you know the rest. /more/
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Tuesday line
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Early review on Hog coach choice not boffo
April 24, 2012University of Arkansas Athletic Director Jeff Long may lose a little of his luster in the Bobby Petrino firing for his choice of John L. Smith as interim head coach. /more/
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UPDATE: Smith to get $850,000 to coach Razorbacks
April 23, 2012AP is reporting John L. Smith, head coach at Weber State and a former assistant at Arkansas, will be named this afternoon as Razorback football coach. /more/
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Oh what a beautiful open line
April 21, 2012Have you ever experienced a more glorious day in Little Rock, Ark.? Not me. What's happening: * CLIMATE CHANGE? /more/
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Wow, Rick Perry and a book in the same picture from his college days. Too bad, the picture was obviouly staged so maybe that is just a backdrop.
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Gosh! Animal House's Douglas C. Neidermeyer really does exist! (An ROTC cadet officer and scion of a military family who hates the Deltas. He is fragged (killed by his own platoon) in Vietnam.)
I've said it before and I'll say it again. That picture proves it. Despite decades of rumors and that thing with the chef, Rick Perry is SO not gay.
All that are missing from the pic are the cop, the Indian chief, and the construction worker. Just sayin'!
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