Richard Bearden

Father, Rabid Razorback Fan, Non Tea Party Republican, Reformed Catholic, Proud Hendrix Grad, Lobbyist SOB, IMG Partner, Boy from Smackover kind of guy

[Uncle Cocktail @StillRadNotaFad]

I will not tolerate any Dave Van Horn slander. The only thing missing is the ring. Everyone knows this, including Dave. I believe there needs to be some changes this off-season but the Head Hog is still the man. You guys sound like a bunch of spoiled Kentucky fans wanting to get ride of a Hall of Fame coach. And look how that worked out for them. Nope, in DVH I trust. WPS!

✅ 933-492 record at UA (2nd-most wins in program history)
✅ **8 College World Series appearances** (2018 runner-up)
✅ 21 NCAA Tournaments • 3 SEC titles • 3× SEC Coach of the Year
✅ DII National Champion (1994) • 1,518 career wins (2nd among active D-I coaches)
✅ Developed 39 All-Americans, 155 MLB Draft picks, 66 MLB players (24 World Series rings) & 3 Golden Spikes winners

[Arkansas Baseball @RazorbackBSB]

Still alive and kickin' 🐗

[Arkansas Baseball @RazorbackBSB]

HOGS WIN!

[Arkansas Baseball @RazorbackBSB]

HOGS WIN!

[The Field of 68 @TheFieldOf68]

Billy Richmond is withdrawing from the NBA Draft and returning to Arkansas, his agent Bill Duffy told @TheFieldOf68.

[Arkansas Softball @RazorbackSB]

Let's make our presence known 🐗

🎟️ https://t.co/RLbXa6elHO

[Arkansas Razorbacks on SR @SRArkansas]

BEAT NEBRASKA!

[PaintWireCBB @PaintWireCBB]

TOUGHEST PLACES TO PLAY IN COLLEGE BASKETBALL

#CollegeBasketball

[Alex Ward @alexbward]

Lincoln’s letter to Mrs. Bixby, always worth a read on Memorial Day

[Frank Luntz @FrankLuntz]

A letter from President Abraham Lincoln to the mother of five fallen Civil War soldiers.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

Most Americans have no idea where Memorial Day actually came from.

It was not invented by Congress. It was not handed down by a president. It was built from the ground up by ordinary citizens standing over the graves of men who gave everything for this country.

The Civil War ended in April 1865. It cost roughly 750,000 American lives, more than every other war this nation has fought combined. Every town had empty chairs at the dinner table. Every county had fresh graves. The wounds were everywhere.

And out of that grief, something uniquely American happened. Without any federal order, communities across the country, North and South, began visiting cemeteries in the spring of 1866 to lay flowers on the graves of fallen soldiers. Waterloo, New York. Columbus, Mississippi. Boalsburg, Pennsylvania. Carbondale, Illinois. Charleston, South Carolina. Dozens of towns later claimed to be the birthplace of the tradition, because the tradition rose up in dozens of places at once.

That is the point. Nobody told Americans to honor their dead. They just did it.

On May 5, 1868, a Union general named John A. Logan, then commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, recognized what the country was already doing and made it official. He issued General Order No. 11, designating May 30th as a day "for the purpose of strewing with flowers, or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion."

He chose May 30th for a simple reason. It was not the anniversary of any battle. He wanted a day that belonged to all the fallen, not to any single victory or defeat.

They called it Decoration Day.

The first national observance was held at Arlington National Cemetery, on land that had been seized from Robert E. Lee's family and turned into the resting place of Union dead. 5,000 people showed up. James Garfield, a future president, gave the speech. Children from a nearby orphanage for the children of dead soldiers walked through the rows of graves placing flowers on every single headstone, Union and Confederate alike.

That last detail matters. From the very beginning, Americans understood that the dead belonged to the country, not to a side.

After World War I, the holiday expanded to honor the fallen of every American war. In 1971, it officially became Memorial Day and was moved to the last Monday in May.

But the core never changed. It is one of the only holidays in the world founded not by decree but by grief. A nation of citizens who chose, on their own, to remember.

This Memorial Day, remember what it actually is. Not a long weekend. Not a sale at the mall. A promise. That the men and women who died for this country will never be forgotten by the country they died for.

Pass it on.

[James E. Thorne @DrJStrategy]

Memorial Day weekend: remember the fallen.

[Jeremy Carl @realJeremyCarl]

For Memorial Day, do yourself a favor and take three minutes of your time to listen to this Civil War letter from Maj. Sullivan Ballou to his wife.

I just started re-watching the Ken Burns series, which debuted in 1990 to a record-breaking audience of 40 million, for the first time since it originally aired.

While I had forgotten all of the specifics of the show over the years, I NEVER forgot this letter or this moment, which closed the first episode.

Burns kept a copy of the letter in his wallet for 25 years.

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

🇺🇸 Just in case you forgot why you have a three-day weekend…

This is it.

Not the barbecues. Not the beach trips. Not the sales.

This is the reason.

The folded flag. The final salute. The ultimate sacrifice so the rest of us could be free.

This Memorial Day, we honor the fallen.

We remember their names. And we never take this freedom for granted.

[Will Roth @willjroth]

Two things that are true:
1. There is no adjective strong enough to describe the coaching job of @CoachDeifel over the last 11 years at Arkansas. As a program, from the valley to the mountain top.
2. There is no adjective strong enough to describe what a great person she is.

[Random SEC @therandomsec]

The arkansas dugout just caught a massive moth and they immediately hit a home run lol.

“The rally moth” is now being kept in the hog dugout and is getting yelled out lol.

That is a huge moth and is the newest member of the hog baseball team 😭😭

Just Hoover things.

[Arkansas Baseball @RazorbackBSB]

HOGS WIN!

[Arkansas Softball @RazorbackSB]

CALLIN’ THE HOGS IN OKC FOR THE FIRST TIME IN PROGRAM HISTORY 🐗‼️

[Arkansas Baseball @RazorbackBSB]

HORNS DOWN SAY IT BACK

[ESPN Insights @ESPNInsights]

CALL ’EM THE RUN-RULE RAZORBACKS 🐗

Arkansas joins 1995 Arizona as the only teams in NCAA tournament history to win each of their first four games in a single tournament via run rule 🔥