Investigative reporter dives down multiple strange and seemingly unconnected rabbit holes in an attempt to connect the Scorpions and their song “Wind of Change” to the CIA. Really interesting stuff. Definitely recommend.

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This will continually be updated until we get to the 2021 season. Figured it'd be good to track all of the moves in one spot, similar to our roster distribution pieces for football and basketball: https://arkansas.rivals.com/news/hawgbeat-s-2021-diamond-hogs-roster-tracker

So I’m bored and work is a little slow, so I thought I would start this thread for some discussion if there are any guitar players/gear heads on the Bert.

My wife(the best woman in the world) just gave me the best birthday present ever. A little back story. When I was in college, my idiot self lost my scholarship during my final year. I’m stubborn and independent and I wasn’t asking my parents for anything. So to pay for the last year of Nursing school, I had to sell my Gibson Les Paul and Marshall half stack to make it. I’ve promised myself for years that I would get another LP. Fast forward 12 years, and my wife found a Cobalt burst 2018 Les Paul Standard and got it for my birthday. I then immediately got myself in trouble by going out and buying a Marshall combo. But my word, what a feeling it is to have that roar back. My neighbors hate me.

So what do you guys play? I’m partial to Les Pauls as my guitar of choice (thanks Jimmy Page and Warren Haynes). @HogFanJW you still playing that moded 335/Sheraton?

I’ll try and not get into pedals, but the first person that mentions anything pedal related, I’m going off on a huge tangent. You’ve been warned.

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He hasn't visited Notre Dame or Georgia to my knowledge, those are two newer offers, he visited Missouri and Arkansas this spring, Oklahoma last summer.

Bossi posted about this late last night but all four of Arkansas's signees saw a boost to their final Rivals150 ranking. I breakdown how their rankings changed throughout the process and where they finished on Rivals, ESPN and 247: https://arkansas.rivals.com/news/all-four-arkansas-signees-see-boost-in-final-rivals150-rankings

Between rivals and 247 he’s now got 11 picks for the hogs. This will be a solid pick up, recruited as a RB. Login to view embedded media

Was last night a premature twitter post of the Utah basketball player? Someone was stating he committed to us. Sorry don’t post often and can’t find his name.

Turn on the radio while driving, Nikki will be on here soon they said. Apparently, she is in a domestic she sold the wrong pool table.

Okay, I got to here about this @nikkichavanelle

The final Rivals150 for 2020 has been posted. All Arkansas signees with slight climbs and Arkansas has the No. 8 ranked class overall, the highest put together by any staff in their first year at a school and all homegrown kids. Not too shabby.


Story/roundtable: https://basketballrecruiting.rivals.com/news/final-2020-rivals150-rankings-cunningham-stays-no-1

Full list: https://n.rivals.com/prospect_rankings/rivals150/2020

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I wanted to save my 3,000th message on here for something special (I’m a sentimental b*stard). Well, I’ve landed interviews with a pretty interesting collection of media members and former Razorbacks. I don’t even know if I’m really technically allowed to post this here (Delete this if I’m not @nikkichavanelle) but if you have any questions for: Olu Famutimi, Aaron Torres, Stef Welsh, or Alandise Harris, let me know. In the near future I’ll sit down with each of them.

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My wife and I started the process to become a foster home on Monday. Attended an info meeting, and start classes next month.

Anyone out there gone through the DCFS process to foster/adopt and have any tips or stories? We're excited to help out some less fortunate kids.

I've been trying to think of ways we can offer you guys, our current subscribers, a reward for being loyal to us and offer you a chance to maybe get a break on your payment here. It's not a lot of money, but there are a lot of people out there who either have been impacted or will be impacted in the coming months and probably looking to save every dollar you can. The fact that so many of you will continue to spend some of your discretionary income here every month or every year is not something I take lightly.

So here's what I came up with: Every week, Hutch or I will feature one of you, a Razorback fan, on the site. And the best part for me is, you're going to do most of the work. Here's how it works:

Respond to this thread. Tell me about who you are, why you're an Arkansas fan, when and how you became a Razorback fan, what your connection is to the school, what some of your best memories are, etc. You don't have to include all that, you can include all that and more. It's totally up to you. But what I'm going to do is every week I'm going to come back to this thread and pick a new post. I'm going to contact that poster via direct message or email with some follow up questions and I'm going to do a HawgBeat fan feature. This will be posted on the front page, it will be posted on the message board, it will be tweeted out and posted on our Facebook page. It will basically be a "meet your fellow Razorback fan" feature every Monday until fall camp opens.

The reward for replying and doing this? Every person who gets featured is going to get a free year on the site. The more detail you offer in your reply, the more unique your story, the better chance I pick you to feature. Once your story runs, I'll extend your subscription for a year on us. So that's probably about 15 of you who are going to get a free year. And even those who don't, this can serve as a way to meet your fellow fans, to build a little more sense of community and commonality around here. So post away.

With COVID compromising every teams' ability to practice/meetings/train/etc., will we see a shake up in the usual playoff teams?

Clempsun and Ohio State are virtual locks, especially with the schedule that both teams have.

Who are the other two?

LSU was a one hit wonder and will be 7-5 and with Myles Brennan at QB/losing 75% of their defense.

Saban seems to have lost his IT factor and it is bleeding into his team. They will lose one or two this year, for sure.

Winner of the SEC will obviously be in.. but who will it be? I think Auburn runs the table. UGA will be down a bit, without Fromm's leadership. Auburn has two true road games.. at UGA and at Bama. Other than that, pretty much a cake walk. If Florida wins the East, I see Auburn winning the title game and making the playoffs.

Oregon is always in it, but can they get over the hump?

Will the NCAA put OU in the playoffs AGAIN? If they go 13-0 the committee won't have a choice. Excited to see Rattler this year, as I think he is a lot more dynamic than Hurts and their Fresh/Soph receivers are crazy good.

All that to say, I've got: Clemson, tOSU, AllBarn, and Boomer. Who you got?

Chad Morris is the gift that just keeps giving - or whatever the opposite of that saying is... https://arkansas.rivals.com/news/arkansas-football-s-apr-takes-a-hit-under-chad-morris

Not to sound like a broken record, but there's some good stuff in here from A.J. about his decision to transfer to Arkansas + I asked him AND Robert Emery if there was any concern about DVH bringing in two grad transfer catchers... https://arkansas.rivals.com/news/ca...ed-about-2nd-chance-in-sec-as-a-grad-transfer

ICYMI: Other Newcomer Profiles
INF/OF Brady Slavens - Johnson County C.C.
C Dylan Leach - Carthage (Texas) - early enrollee
LHP/UTL Lael Lockhart Jr. - Houston graduate transfer
RHP Issac Bracken - Northern Colorado graduate transfer
C Robert Emery - San Francisco graduate transfer

ICYMI: Diamond Hogs 2020 Signee Spotlight Series
RHP Markevian "Tink" Hence - Watson Chapel (Ark.)
INF Jackson Cobb - Texarkana (Texas) Pleasant Grove
3B/OF Cayden Wallace - Greenbrier (Ark.)
LHP/OF Nick Griffin - Monticello (Ark.)
RHP Louis Stallone - St. Anthony's (N.Y.)
INF Zac White - Little Rock (Ark.) Joe T. Robinson

Coming up: OF Clayton Gray (Cabot)

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Same former HS as Andy Boykin

to start a tree farm of sorts on my land and wandering if there are any programs available for inexpensive pine seedlings...thanks in advance