Sharp "Tusk" Williams
SharpTusk is a featured blogger on Hog Database. He won "2009 Blog Of The Year" as voted by members of SportingNews.com and has posts referenced by local and national sports writers. Sharp began writing about Arkansas Razorbacks Football during the coaching change in 2007 and hasn't stopped. He has an eye for interesting stats, and an occasional penchant for creative writing. He's sure to keep you coming back for more.
The old maxim that defense wins championships isn’t simply just an old maxim. We’ve shown before (Performance Standards of BCS Champions and Evaluating the Hogs’ Chances for a BCS Championship) that defensive statistical categories, more than offensive ones, are more consistent with championship teams. […]
From the National Football Foundation and the College Football Hall of Fame: IRVING, Texas (Aug. 6, 2014) – Since 2011, The National Football Foundation (NFF) has partnered with Rogers Redding, the national coordinator of College Football Officiating (CFO), to help generate awareness for the rule changes […]
Matt Hayes is the senior college football writer at SportingNews. In what has become an almost annual event (sorry about that, Matt!), he graciously agreed to answer a few questions from fans at Gatorchatter.com and Sharp Williams at hog database. You can follow Matt on twitter […]
With the addition of DirecTV and Suddenlink to the providers list today, very few people should have to switch providers now to see the Arkansas Razorbacks and the SEC games and content carried by the new SEC Network. Package upgrade may be needed. Here […]
Coaching Staff and Direction No legitimate Arkansas preview can start without understanding the Razorbacks’ coaching situation and overall purpose. Despite 2013 resulting in the school’s worst winning percentage in sixty-one years, second year HC Brett Bielema is expected to make a number of stay-the-course […]
This is a word-for-word press release from Bill Hancock, the Executive Director of the College Football Playoffs. The method of selecting the teams for 2014’s College Football Playoffs starts to take shape with UA’s Jeff Long at the Committee helm. Committee rankings will be […]
To describe the 1994 University of Arkansas’s NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship win with adjectives such as exhilarating, cathartic, or redeeming would serve you little more than what you were already told by a beat writer. It was Our Arkansas Razorback NCAA Basketball Championship Experience. […]
Arkansas’ new football helmets are Riddell SpeedFlex Helmets which feature engineering designed to redirect and absorb the force of impacts. The graphic introducing and describing the new Speedflex helmets is below. The previous helmet was a Riddell 360 which is shown below along […]
Hearing the debate on the hurry-up-no-huddle offense and injuries, facts seem to be scarce. To support any contention, facts need to support the proposition. In order to say that the hurry-up-no-huddle offenses create more injuries, there needs to be a link BY CAUSE between […]
The University of Arkansas will retire basketball jersey #42 in honor of Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States, as being the “sixth man” as part of the celebration of the 1994 Arkansas Razorback National Championship squad. The ceremony is believed to occur at […]
