Yes, another T-Shirt post

No ma'am, I don't. And neither will you for much longer I imagine. You coach is an asshole. Before all of this Houston Nutt/Bobby Petrino drama occurred, I really had no major qualms with Arkansas. Of coruse, they're an SEC Western Division foe and they've come out on top more often than not lately (the last 4 straight, to be precise) but I never really got riled up about them like I would for LSU or State. Now, Arky has shot up that list simply because of their horrible, horrible, horrible fans. You've likely seen these idiots on our message boards bashing Houston Nutt like some sort of recently divorced 40-something while clamoring on and on about the merits of Bobby Petrino.

Residents of Fayetteville, get this through you head: Bobby Petrino is a fraud, a coward, and a whore. We all know that Houston Nutt has his occassional bouts with the crazies but I'd take crazy-stupid-wacky over callously greedy any day.

Ok, rant's over. I don't know why, but that t-shirt really set me off big time.

Internets Available in Arkansas; Accessed by Hog Fans

Lanny Beavers, owner of a very unfortunate name, as well as, on a more relevant note, the popular Arkansas athletics site Hogville, sat down with some no-shoed cave-dweller from Arkansas Democrat Gazette for an interview (conducted at Lanny's house which he, reportedly, calls "The Beaver Trap") published today.

The Arkansas Democrat Gazette asked Beavers if he would rather that his Razorbacks beat Ole Miss or Texas in the 2008 season, and he responded, after realizing that the reporter was there for an interview and not a scandalous Cinemax-style sexual encounter and pushing the button that hid his fully-stocked bar and heart-shaped velvet bed behind a false wall, that he would rather beat Ole Miss in the 2008 season.

That's an easy one for me - Ole Miss. I never really liked Ole Miss, anyway, and now that "The Coach That Was Fired"is there, I want them so much that I bought a boatload of tickets for that game from Ole Miss, and am going to give them away on our sites. I wish the game was tomorrow.

Though I really appreciate the legitimate hate - I'm honored really - Lanny must be a sexual deviant AND a complete moron. For a football program with a historic rival that will no doubt be ranked in or near the Top 10 in virtually every pre-season poll to direct its primary hate-beams at Ole Miss is, really, very flattering.

It's either flattering or thirteen tons of Petrino-grade crazy.

Tennis Update

This weekend, while without apparent sources of sporting excitement in God's Country, finds itself the host of the SEC Tennis Tournament (i.e. one that we can feasibly win). This blogger would certainly be there, were it not being held in the farthest farther major city in Arkansas from Oxford.
The team is almost, if not completely, back at full strength. Bram was actually listed to play this morning but was pulled out in favor of senior Jakob Klaeson just before singles. Perhaps he didn't feel well enough to play; perhaps Chadwick knew that we wouldn't need him to beat Kentucky. Well, we didn't need him, as the Rebs took doubles and then swept the bottom three games for a 4-0 win to take us to the semis against Tennessee.
Of note in the match--Kalle double-goose-egged his opponent on court 5. Jonas took his match with ease also (0,3). Jakob fought hard to clinch the match (7-5,6-2) for the Rebels. Everyone likes to talk about how well he plays in the postseason; I would love to see that manifest itself while Bram is out of the lineup.
On the top two courts, Erling and Matthias dropped their first sets before the match was suspended. They absolutely have to play better against Tennessee and (probably) Georgia if we're to have a chance to win it all. Yeah, winning courts 3-6 will get us through every time, but I'd like to not have to count on that.
There will be more to come as the tournament progresses. For those of you keeping score at home, live updates are available here.