AS360: Recapping a Thrilling Week 2

by ArkansasSports360.com Staff  on Monday, Sep. 8, 2008 10:50 am  

This story is from the archives of ArkansasSports360.com.

If you are an Arkansas Razorback or UCA Bear fan, your heart was pounding all the way to the finish. If you're a fan of the Arkansas State Red Wolves, you're walking around proudly for a second-week in a row and wondering what took them so long to change the name to Red Wolves.

ArkansasSports360.com was all over the state for coverage of high school and college football over the weekend. Here are the links to revisit some excitement on the state's football fields in case you missed them Saturday and Sunday:

AS360.com columnist Jim Harris writes off the next four Hog games and urges fans to hang in there after the Hogs proved exciting and battling but nevertheless pretty average in a 28-27 escape against the Sun Belt's Louisiana-Monroe.

Jim was also blogging thoughout the game. It's interesting to see how the game unfolded in real time.

Chris Bahn's game coverage and his "Two-Minute Drill" tell the tale succinctly. Bahn comes back with Sunday's post-mortem Grading of the Hogs.

Phil Seaton was in his seat at Conway for the UCA Bears' big win over perennially tough Cal-Davis, but he was probably the only one in his seat at the end as the Bears withstood at last minute drive.

We've got the pictures are more from Arkansas' and Arkansas State's wins. ASU scored more points that its basketball team managed against a D-I level team last year in walloping Texas Southern 83-10.

Jim Harris was at our High School Game of the Week, Lake Hamilton's 30-22 loss to the always strong Texarkana Texas High on Friday night, while Phil Seaton did the pregame tailgate and the in-game coverage from Conway as the Wampus Cats were whomped by Barry Lunney Sr.'s Bentonville Tigers. We've also got the full wrap on the High School top 10.

And if that wasn't enough, former Arkansas Razorback running back Felix Jones scored on his first carry in the NFL, helping the Cowboys to an opening day 28-10 win over Cleveland. Check out updates on Jones and other hometown friends in our Arkansas in the NFL feature.

 

 

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