A reader asks about the federal gift tax, required whenever someone gives a cash gift of more than $13,000 and doesn't receive something of equal value in return.
By the time you read this, Bobby Petrino's judgment may well be wrought, and may have taken the form of outright dismissal, pecuniary loss or some hybrid penalty with a suspension and an in-house checklist by which to abide.
We go to press awaiting news from University of Arkansas Athletic Director Jeff Long on a decision about Razorback football coach Bobby Petrino's future.
Razorback football coach Bobby Petrino has been fired for not disclosing his personal relationship with a woman he hired and paid under the table with university money and for lying about circumstances of his motorcycle accident.
The line is open. Closing out:
* MAIN STREET BLUES: I wrote back in February that the Arkansas Redevelopment Authority wasn't happy about finances and tax payments on $1.8 million in redevelopment loans to Scott Reed, who had big plans for Main Street redevelopment that has so far primarily produced the troubled Porter's restaurant.
Today was the date Razorback football coach Bobby Petrino's son Nick Petrino, a sometime undergraduate assistant coach on the University of Arkansas football team, had been scheduled for trial on a drug possession and DWI charges filed last July in Huntingburg, Ind. I reported on that case in January.
The Throwing Anvils blog deconstructs Razorback football coach Bobby Petrino's statement to State Police that sun and wind caused him to be unable to motorcycle and leave the road April 1.
Discussions yesterday about the State Police role in reacting to Bobby Petrino's motorcycle wreck April 1 reminded me of a tip I got relative to who first broke the news of that incident.
As promised, the Arkansas State Police today released further information about Troop L Capt. Lance King's response to the motorcycle wreck April 1 in which head University of Arkansas football coach Bobby Petrino was involved.
No puffs of smoke from the Broyles athletic complex today to indicate if Bobby Petrino will remain pope of Razorback football despite having lied to superiors about the young, blonde co-worker who joined him for an ill-fated motorcycle ride.
A fan group is building a growing Facebook page — Team Save Coach Petrino — to support the continued University of Arkansas employment of football coach Bobby Petrino.