A nationally known women’s basketball team, the All American Red Heads formed in 1936 in Cassville, Missouri...

On December 22, 1956, War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock (Pulaski County) hosted the Aluminum Bowl football g...

An All-American football player at the University of Arkansas (UA) in Fayetteville (Washington County) in 1961...

Glen Daniel Andrews Sr. is considered one of the all-time great professional bass anglers. Bobby Murray, two-t...

The Arkansas Derby is the most lucrative thoroughbred horse race in Arkansas, currently offering a “purse”...

The Arkansas Diamonds professional football team competed in the Continental Football League in 1968 and 1969....

The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission (AGFC) manages wildlife and natural habitat and sets hunting, fishing, a...

The Arkansas Intercollegiate Conference (AIC) was an athletic confederation of Arkansas colleges and universit...

The Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the history of sports in ...

The Arkansas Swimming Hall of Fame is a body that recognizes swimming excellence in the state. The induction o...

The Arkansas Track and Field Hall of Fame (ATFHF), which began honoring athletes in 1995, is dedicated to reco...

For parts of three centuries, the Arkansas Travelers baseball team has used only one nickname, played on only ...

Longtime women’s basketball coach Karen Aston first had a successful high school and college playing career....

ATA Martial Arts, previously known as the American Taekwondo Association, was founded in 1969 by Haeng Ung Lee...

Miller Barber was a successful professional golfer who played on both the Professional Golf Association (PGA) ...

Velvet James (Jim) “Bad News” Barnes was an American basketball player and Olympic gold medalist originall...

John Henry Barnhill was a successful head football coach both at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and ...

The game of baseball developed in the nineteenth century and became, along with hot dogs and apple pie, a clas...

Basketball, a uniquely American invention in the history of sports, is one of the most popular sports in Arkan...

Raymond Henry Bass was an Olympic gold medalist, Gymnastics Hall of Fame honoree, and decorated World War II h...

The Battle of the Ravine is the name most frequently used for the annual football game at Arkadelphia (Clark C...

David Bazzel is an Arkansas media personality, public speaker, and sports promoter who came to Arkansas at age...

Gene Bearden was a major league baseball player in the late 1940s and early 1950s. After serving in World War ...

Earl Holmes Bell of Jonesboro (Craighead County) is one of the most renowned U.S. men’s pole vaulters and co...

Jesse N. “Buddy” Benson earned statewide recognition in Arkansas athletic circles, first as a football pla...

Bill Bergey, who was a top-rated football player at Arkansas State University (ASU), is considered by many to ...

As head coach of the football team at the University of Arkansas (UA) in Fayetteville (Washington County), Hug...

The Big Dam Bridge 100 (BDB100) is a 100-mile bicycle tour that takes place each fall in central Arkansas, tra...