Hot Springs Local Sports

J une is barely upon us, and already that sick-of-summer, middle-of-August heat has us chained to our air conditioners.

BLYTHEVILLE, June 8, 2010: Returning to Blytheville just a week after the Tire Rack SCCA Solo National Tour saw its competitors take to the grippy concrete of the Arkansas Aeroplex, the Tire Rack SCCA ProSolo National Series saw hot - and occasionally fiery - action as the 146 competitors fought to make their way into the Gumout Super Challenge.

Entertainment , To-Do List , Jun 3, 2010 To-Do List: June 3-9 by Lindsey Millar, and John Tarpley Entertainment , A&E Feature , May 27, 2010 Local love A survey of the can't-miss Arkansas acts appearing at Riverfest.

" FLW Outdoors and the Hot Springs Convention and Visitor's Bureau announced today that the Walmart BFL All-American presented by Chevy will return to Hot Springs and DeGray Lake.

Aaron Westlake hit a home run in his fourth consecutive game and Sonny Gray threw seven shutout innings as Vanderbilt beat Arkansas 2-0 Wednesday night in the first round of the Southeastern Conference tournament.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Let's get to the point: The FLW Bass Fishing League's All-American, a long-standing pillars of tournament bass fishing, kicked off its three-day stand for 2010 in clear, calm conditions on Arkansas' beautiful DeGray Lake.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. -- As D. Wayne Lukas sat in a tiny office in his Oaklawn Park barn, the conversation turned to the horse track's newest attraction -- a large gambling parlor featuring games from blackjack to Texas Hold 'Em. After joking that he has never seen anyone in the room hit a jackpot, the Hall of Fame trainer and video poker aficionado ...

" FLW Outdoors and the Hot Springs Convention and Visitor's Bureau announced today that the Walmart BFL All-American presented by Chevy will return to Hot Springs and DeGray Lake.

This week in Monett: At Mocha Jo's, 404 E. Broadway, Chelsea and the Miller Boys will perform at 7 p.m. on Friday.

Hosted by the Hot Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Chevy Open will feature as many as 300 top bass anglers casting for top awards up to $125,000 cash in the Pro Division and up to $25,000 cash in the Co-angler Division.

Thursday, May 13, 2010 at 12:32 p.m. HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - As D. Wayne Lukas sat in a tiny office in his Oaklawn Park barn, the conversation turned to the horse track's newest attraction - a large gambling parlor featuring games from blackjack to Texas Hold 'Em. After joking that he has never seen anyone in the room hit a jackpot, the Hall of Fame ...

The FLW Tour will visit Lake Ouachita in Hot Springs May 26-29 for the fourth stop of the FLW Tour circuit.

BLUE RIBBON DOWNS, where the sport of horse racing was nurtured in Oklahoma, quietly faded into history this spring.

When it comes to card playing, says Saadiq Kamail, Senator Carol Moseley-Braun got game.

The Greenbrier School Board was recently treated at their monthly meeting with the skillful demonstration of cup stacking by fourth- and fifth-grade students from Eastside Elementary school.

The tails side of a new batch of quarters scheduled for release this year will sport the image of towering El Capitan, in Yosemite National Park.

The California quarter, showing El Capitan at Yosemite National Park, is one of 56 being created.

Horse racing has been around for centuries, requiring no more than two or more horses, a stretch of ground and a desire for bragging rights.

Conwaya s Most Valuable Player of the Class 7A state tournament, senior Preston Purifoy, along with Wampus Cats coach James Bates, joined elite company in the Catsa historic state championship run.

Sometimes it takes a special horse, or two, to change the rules. For several years, many of us on the nominating and voting rolls of the National Museum and Racing Hall of Fame, have been lobbying for a system where more than one candidate from the categories of contemporary male or female horse, jockey, or trainer could be inducted into the Hall ...