🚨LIFE UPDATE 🚨
After three incredible years at
@WMBBTV
, I’m moving on to another job. I’m so excited to announce I’ll be joining the
@PigTrailNation
crew as their weekend sports anchor for
@KNWAFOX24
and
@KARK4News
!
My last day on air in the Panhandle will be Feb. 16.
"I keep telling these guys if we continue to come in practice with great energy, ready to practice, wanting to get better, 1% better every single day, I think the sky's the limit for this team."
How can you not love Devo Davis??
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I asked Coach Cal, with an empty roster, how does he plan on hitting the ground running in recruiting? His answer "I can't tell you that, I'd be telling everybody else that." 😂
In all seriousness, I think I'm gonna have a whole lot of fun covering Coach Calipari!
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Jerry Jones is reportedly offering DOUBLE whatever the Kentucky commits were making to come to Arkansas, per
@trillydonovan
Jerry Jones is an Arkansas booster, and reportedly helped them hire John Calipari last week.
"The foul thing has gotten out of hand, they started doing over/under on my fouls."
Jordan Walsh cracked me up with this comment in the post-game presser today😅😅
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"I'm glad it's over, it's finally baseball season right?"
Sam Pittman was asked if he followed the basketball coaching search this morning, so of course Dave Van Horn was asked about it tonight too, and you gotta listen to what he says at the end 😂😂
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This is great.
@EricPMusselman
said in the post game press conference that Barry Dunning Jr. handed him a scouting report on their opponent Orange1 Basket today.
He's the first player he's had that has done that. Here's
@BarryDunning6
talking about it:
I have three radio show appearances around the country today. Why?
Because Arkansas is the talk of the nation today. Not the national championship game, not the eclipse, but because of Arkansas’ new head men’s basketball coach. What a time to be alive.
Remember Steve Spurrier's hilarious reaction to Feleipe Franks throwing his second interception late in the game Saturday against Miami?
Well,
@WMBBTV
had the chance to ask him about it today. Here was his reponse:
“The President of the United States could tell me to stop shooting the ball, I'm still gonna shoot the ball to be honest.”
This goes up there in the soundbite Hall of Fame 😅😅
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"Is there a way to actually mimic a guy who's 6'3' and 240 like he is?"
Shane Beamer on KJ Jefferson: "No. There's not. We would have to take, I don't know who, one of our defensive ends and make him a quarterback." 👀👀
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LIFE UPDATE: I will be moving to Panama City, Florida in January to be the new sports director at WMBB News 13. I am so excited to start this journey, but so sad I will be leaving Gainesville. Don’t get too mad if you see some FSU stories on my feed! Thanks again and
#GoGators
John Tyson just got a standing ovation and a huge applause here at Bud Walton.
Also, Chicken Fried played in the background. You can’t make this up. Amazing stuff.
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Now that Arkansas' basketball season is officially over, time to focus on next year's team.
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You can watch this guy, 6'10' center Baye Fall play in the McDonald's All-American Game tomorrow night on ESPN. Here's what he said today about joining the Hogs next season:
Check out my daughter
@MimsCourtney
doing her thing at the John Calipari Arkansas press conference yesterday on SEC Network!! She hit him with this great question!! 👏🏻🤩
@SECNetwork
should think about adding Courtney Mims to their team 🤔
BOOM! 2024 Nat'l No. 22 / 5-star Karter Knox (6-6 wing, Overtime Elite) is 2nd Arkansas commitment for new Head Hog John Calipari ... McDonald's All American recently de-committed from Kentucky ... explosive scorer, dynamic talent
FREE article @ Hogville:
So in a true full circle moment, Bobby Petrino is coming back to Arkansas as the Hogs offensive coordinator.
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How do you all feel about this news? Bonus points, if you react with a gif.
Still seeing a lot of people freaking out over no basketball commits (besides Big Z), and I’m gonna say what I did a week ago, people need to breathe.
Spoke to quite a few college coaches last week (who know Coach Cal well) and all of them said the same thing: the fans don’t…
When I was younger I thought going to the NBA Draft was the absolute coolest thing and now I’m here in New York covering it 😱 somebody pinch little Courtney!!
HOGS WIN! ELITE EIGHT BOUND FOR THE FIRST TIME IN PROGRAM HSITORY!!
The Volleyhogs punch their ticket with a five-set win over Kentucky (a team this senior class has never been able to beat before tonight). AMAZING.
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A lot of Hogs fans don’t like being on the side of the bracket with Kansas.
I think it’s actually not too bad. Arkansas can beat Kansas, won’t be easy but they do match up well.
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Something you don’t see everyday, but Santa Clara bringing in their seniors to the press conference tonight after their loss to the Hogs.
Gotta love that.
Wow, Arkansas fans are the best. Just started a Hog call when Dylan Leach was up to bat for Missouri.
Leach then walked it off for the Tigers. So so cool.
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Duke vs. Arkansas will be the biggest game in Bud Walton ever hopefully because Duke needs to know what the best atmosphere in college basketball is like.
Yeah, I said it.
"I'm not worried about my job security at all. I think I'm the guy for the university and I want to stay here a long time."
Here's Sam Pittman's full answer on blocking out the noise when two SEC coaches were fired within the last 48 hours:
This. Right. Here.
You can criticize all you want, but there’s a point where it does cross the line. There’s constructive criticism and then there’s just being mean.
Also, I’m gonna remind everyone that recruits do have Twitter (or X) and they read what fans say. It does…
"Mental health is a big deal... there's a lot more going on in their lives than when I was a kid."
Poignant bite to finish Pittman's presser on the dark side of social media.
Passionate fans are what make college football great. There's a point where it crosses the line.
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BREAKING: 7-foot-2 Kentucky transfer center Zvonimir Ivisic AKA “Big Z” has committed to Arkansas, following John Calipari to Fayetteville, he tells
@On3sports
.
Been seeing a lot of people freaking out that there hasn’t been a basketball commit yet.
Take a deep breath, this is why Coach Cal said in his press conference it wasn’t going to be immediate. Trust the process!
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Tennessee transfer Jonas Aidoo picking up a crystal ball to Arkansas from two sites now in On3 Sports and 247 Sports.
Will he commit to the Hogs soon?? 👀👀
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Sorry everyone, I won’t be able to talk about Dre Greenlaw on the Pig Trail Show tonight since I’ve been informed I cannot speak on players that I have not covered in person while I have been at Arkansas. Sorry I was just informed of this by this X user and was unaware of the…
My favorite quote of the day came from
@isaiahsategna1
after the spring game.
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"They're throwing great passes and stuff, like I said in my earlier interview, I just gotta do the easy part, I just gotta catch the ball, they are doing the hard part."
Your quarterly reminder on this app to be nice to people. I read so much negativity all the time, and it’s exhausting this time of year.
You never know what someone is going through and everyone has bad days.
Make someone smile today if you can, you never know, it could just…
Can’t be too sad because this Arkansas team went further than anyone thought they would, battled through so much adversity and still the only SEC team to make it to the Elite Eight.
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I think I speak for everyone when I say, the Hogs really really needed that win
Makhi Mitchell with a stellar birthday performance: 19 pts, 14 rebounds
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So I might be in Arkansas now, but I am incredibly honored to have won the 2021 Sportscaster of the Year for a Small Market Award from the Florida Association of Broadcast Journalists last night!
I couldn’t do what I do without everyone’s support. Thank you! 😊
BREAKING: Arkansas sophomore forward Maryam Dauda has entered the transfer portal, a source tells
@TheNextHoops
.
She averaged 10.1 ppg and 6.3 rpg last season.