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Vanderbilt began the 2011-12 season with its highest preseason national ranking ever, and the proceeded to throw it all away with four bad losses. Now, barely back in the rankings at No. 25, it's as if hardly anyone outside of the Southeastern Conference has noticed that Vanderbilt has begun showing the form everyone else expected before this season — the Commodores enter Tuesday night's game at Arkansas having won 10 of their last 11 games. The only lost was a 78-77 overtime setback at the hands of talented but up-and-down Mississippi State. Part of the improvement has been due to the return of 7-foot post Festus Ezeli, a preseason All-SEC pick who missed some of the nonconference slate with a knee injury. With Ezeli's post presence, the Commodores' defense has improved, and it's also taken some of the offensive pressure off All-SEC picks Jeff Taylor and John Jenkins. read more >

Gary Blair is the personification of the adage that life begins at 40. He's won 610 basketball games, all since the age of 40. He won a national championship with Texas A&M last year at 65, when most people have considered retiring. Blair won't be retiring anytime soon, he insisted Monday after speaking at the Downtown Tip Off Club at North Little Rock's Wyndham Riverfront ballroom. He'll coach, and he'll continue to maintain a commuter marriage between College Station, Texas, and Fayetteville, Arkansas. read more >

It’s hard to believe Arkansas’ high schools could provide fewer than the five football players who signed national letters of intent with the Razorbacks in 2010, but by all accounts this 2012 class will have only four. However, the difference for this Arkansas recruiting class and the 2010 haul is that — should all the commitments hold and one or two difference makers jump on board by Feb. 1 — the out-of-state signing group could be the best the Razorback football program has brought in since joining the Southeastern Conference in 1992. read more >

As SEC expands geographically, more cities want in on tournaments. read more >

Razorback pole vaulter claims SEC Athlete of the Week in season debut. read more >