Season football preview to air on FSN outlets

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. –- A 2008 Arkansas season preview football special will air on Fox Sports Net Southwest, FSN South and SportSouth nine times from Aug. 3 to Aug. 27.

The show was produced by FSN Southwest and was shot on campus.

The broadcast schedule is as follows: FSN Southwest – Sunday, Aug. 3, 2 p.m.; Tuesday, Aug. 12, 1:30 p.m.; Monday, Aug. 18, 3:30 a.m.; and Saturday, Aug. 23, 9:30 a.m. FSN South – Monday, Aug. 18, 7:30 p.m.; and Tuesday, Aug. 19, 12:30 p.m. SportSouth – Wednesday, Aug. 27, 10:30 a.m., 4:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. All times are central.

The Arkansas special features interviews with first-year head coach Bobby Petrino and senior quarterback Casey Dick.

The Razorbacks were 8-5 last season and earned a spot in the Cotton Bowl. Dick passed for 1,695 yards and 18 touchdowns. The yardage is the 10th-best season mark in school history while the touchdown total ties for third-best. He enters the season eighth on Arkansas’ all-time chart with 3,270 passing yards, third with 34 touchdown passes and seventh with a .544 completion percentage.

FSN South, the nation’s largest regional sports network, reaches more than 12 million cable and satellite homes in seven states in the Southeast. SportSouth reaches more than nine million cable and satellite homes across a six-state region.Through its affiliates and other Fox Networks Group-owned networks, FSN reaches more than 70 million homes through 16 owned-and-operated networks.