With Texas A&M AD Bill Byrne’s announcement that Arkansas will play Texas A&M at Kyle Field in College Station, Texas, this Fall, Arkansas’ 2012 schedule FINALLY appears to be set.
The move makes the Hogs’ difficult schedule even tougher.
The teams will meet as Southeastern Conference foes for the first time on Sept. 29, which gives A&M six home games this season. In 2013, the Razorbacks will host the contest, and then the series is scheduled to resume in Arlington with seven years remaining on the original contract, agreed upon when A&M was still in the Big 12.
Earlier this week, Arkansas announced that its matchup with LSU, which had been a post-Thanksgiving, even-numbered year staple at War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock, has been moved to Fayetteville for the 2012 season and replaced in The Capital City with the Mississippi game.
Rutgers was also added as the final nonconference opponent, sliding into the spot Texas A&M had occupied as a member of the Big 12.
Crossing the Lin: ESPN Employee Fired Over Idiotic Jeremy Lin Headline
Posted by Adam Butler on February 19, 2012
After going undrafted, bouncing around the NBA Developmental League and getting a shot with New York by virtue of a series of injuries to Knicks team leaders, Lin has captivated the sporting world’s imagination.
Lin’s meteoric rise has spawned media sensationalism that we haven’t seen since the ascension of Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow. The big difference, of course, is that Lin is actually a good player.
But, today, in an example of Bigotry Imitating Art (or vice versa?–the following day, NBC’s Saturday Night Live spoofed “Linsanity” and racial slurs), ESPN is quickly ESP*I*Nning, after firing an employee who reportedly posted the headline “Chink in the Armor” Friday with an article about concerns over Lin’s turnover ratio.
For his part Lin, seemed nonplussed today when, on ABC (a network which, like ESPN, is owned by Disney) he dropped 28 points and 14 assists in leading the Knicks to a 104-97 win over the defending NBA champion Dallas Mavericks before a raucous Madison Square Garden crowd.
Nonetheless, the use of such a racist idiom is idiotic–some might even call it wanton.
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