{"id":29701,"date":"2026-03-16T11:47:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T16:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=29701"},"modified":"2026-03-16T13:28:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T18:28:51","slug":"its-time-to-call-those-sec-champion-hogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/16\/its-time-to-call-those-sec-champion-hogs\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s time to CALL THOSE (SEC Champion) HOGS!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arkansas defeated Vanderbilt yesterday to become the SEC men’s basketball champions. The win vaulted them up to a 4 seed in the West when the NCAA tournament bracket<\/a> came out. The Hogs will face 13 Hawai’i in the first round. If they win, they’ve got the winner of 5 Wisconsin\/12 High Point in the second round.<\/p>\n

Calipari’s starting to look like a good hire!<\/p>\n

Keep your eye on Arkansas PG Darius Acuff Jr.<\/a> in the tournament… rumor has it that the Memphis Grizzlies front office is keen on him.<\/p>\n

In the Midwest, 6 Tennessee has the winner of the 11 seed play-in between Miami of Ohio and SMU. Sounds like a recipe to send the Vols’ bozo fans home early.<\/p>\n

Here’s a list of last night’s Oscar winners<\/a>. It’s the award named after a green Muppet in a garbage can.<\/p>\n

Congratulations to Peabody Hotel restaurant Chez Philippe on earning five diamonds<\/a> from AAA.<\/p>\n

From WREG: At the Memphis Zoo, a curious otter paid a gibbon a visit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

WhatNow has more info on Lost Art<\/a> cocktail bar coming to the corner of S. Main and Pontotoc.<\/p>\n

Grizzlies at Chicago Bulls, 7 tonight on FanDuel Sports.<\/p>\n

The Orpheum’s 2026-27 season reveal<\/a> is tonight. Free to attend.<\/p>\n

Any of my readers been to KUYA yet? I’m ready for some Filipino food and am thinking about going Thursday or Friday. What should I order? Email me at paul.ryburn@gmail.com and let me know.<\/p>\n

Hey, let’s ask AI! Gemini says lumpia (egg rolls), skewers, adobo, and the halo-halo shaved ice dessert.<\/p>\n

Back tomorrow with more news.<\/p>\n

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Arkansas defeated Vanderbilt yesterday to become the SEC men’s basketball champions. The win vaulted them up to a 4 seed in the West when the NCAA tournament bracket came out. The Hogs will face 13 Hawai’i in the first round. If they win, they’ve got the winner of 5 Wisconsin\/12 High Point in the second … Continue reading “It’s time to CALL THOSE (SEC Champion) HOGS!!!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29701"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29701"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29705,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29701\/revisions\/29705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}