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The Arkansas Razorbacks have a #Uncommon standard of consistently fielding one of the top 3 or 4 teams in the SEC -- in just one of the major (and semi-major) sports at a time. This year, it's the Diamond Hogs turn. They kickoff the Road to Omaha tonight against Oral Roberts University.
Channel 8 (K-TUL) viewers of a certain age surely remember Rev. Granville Oral Roberts was one of the great televangelists of the 1960's & 70's. Back then, televangelists always had that one wayward cousin. Jimmy Swaggart had Jerry Lee Lewis. Oral Roberts had his wild cousin Anal.
Roberts was visited by a 900-foot Jesus instructing him to build a hospital or God would call him home.
Two thoughts to unpack on this:
Why would a traveling faith healer -- who claimed God could bring back the dead (if you gave enough cash to his ministry) -- need to build a hospital??? Seems like those two enterprises would be at cross purposes. But Father Oral was never a businessman. He was a business, man.
If Scott Sutton could have gotten that 900-ft. Jesus (Sr./Nazareth Junior College) to play center for ORU, he'd have coached the Golden Eagles to the Sweet-16. Just saying.
Opening pitch is around 7 p.m. Not-so-coincidentally, 7 tonight is about the last time baseball fans should count on Kyle Kellams wearing pants until the Royals are mathematically eliminated from the pennant race. It's going to be a long, hard summer.
Lastly, Saturday is Sterling Hamiltons birthday. We're pretty sure this one makes him no-longer eligible for the next National Spelling Bee. To covfefe the occasion, we will gather at Maxine's International Tap Room, welcome traveling ASDA Shareholders, and begin re-negotiations of the Paris Climate Accords.
Maxine's International Tap Room -- 4:30 to 6:30
The NATO of Fayetteville Drinking Establishments
