Kick Off Coverage

It’s been 87 days since a hard-fought Liberty Bowl victory, and now it’s time for Bobby Petrino and the Razorbacks to kick it off once again.

Of course, the 2010 season really started for this team long before today’s first spring practice.  With regular weight room sessions and early morning workouts, there really is no such thing as an offseason anymore.

And, like the players and coaches, the media and HogBlogosphere have been preparing early for spring practice with some great preview articles.

We told you last week what we’d be eyeing closely when attending practice and that’s a theme that Brandon Marcello of WholeHogSports.com has been running with, as well.

In his “Three 2 Watch” series, Brandon has been previewing the potential impact players and “situations” to watch for this spring.  There’s good stuff here on running back Ronnie Wingo, tight end Chris Gragg and the Hogs’ wide receiving corps.  On defense, a profile of new assistant Steve Caldwell, an update on cornerback Isaac Madison’s return from injury and the search for impact linebackers are also thoroughly covered.

Robbie Neiswanger of the Arkansas News Bureau has been running his position-by-position previews lately, including the quarterbacks, running backs, wide receivers, tight ends and offensive line.  On the other side of the ball, Robbie gives us updates on the defensive line, linebackers and defensive backs to complete the preview.

As for Chris Bahn of ArkansasSports360.com, he paired up with our friends at ArkansasExpats.com for a joint Q&A session yesterday.  And Chris also wrote up a helpful “primer” on “who and what will matter this spring.”

And finally, the folks on the mothership at ArkansasRazorbacks.com have produced what is basically a spring practice media guide with nearly 50 pages full of information, including links to video content.

Collectively, that’s just about as much information as any Hog junkie could possibly process.  And the best part?  Our sidebar News Stream linked to every single one of these articles over the past week.

And, as you may have noticed, we recently added Razorback Nation video and the new CallingtheHogs.com web site to make the Stream even better!

So keep it tuned right here to RBN for regular updates as well as links to all the latest spring practice coverage.  GO HOGS!