Bobby Petrino, the Arkansas football coach, has been put on leave after admitting he had an "inappropriate relationship" with a woman named Jessica Dorrell. She is a former volleyball player for the school and currently works in the athletic department. Their relationship came to light after Petrino, who's married and has four kids, crashed his motorcycle last week and first said he was the only one involved in the accident. It later came to light that he was not alone, and in fact had...Read Full Story
Arkansas head coach Bobby Petrino was fired yesterday following the fallout from a motorcycle accident that unraveled a scandal that involved everything from adultery to shady hiring practices. Last month, Petrino crashed his motorcycle while riding with former Arkansas student Jessica Dorrell, who he had hired as the football program's student-athlete coordinator. Petrino initially insisted that he was alone on the motorcycle, but when he realized the police report of incident would become...Read Full Story
Bobby Petrino is front and center in today's news cycle as more details have come to light about his motorcycle crash over the weekend. The Arkansas football coach now admits he was riding with a Jessica Dorrell at the time, a woman who is not his wife, Becky Petrino. Petrino first tried to cover up the fact that he has not alone when he crashed Sunday. He and Becky have four children together and he explained that he wanted to keep the "inappropriate relationship" away from his loved ones...Read Full Story
Josh Morgan is making headlines today for his past relationship with Jessica Dorrell, the woman who was having an affair with Arkansas football coach Bobby Petrino. Morgan was the director of swimming and diving operations for the school and may or may not be with the university any longer, following the flood of publicity surrounding the scandal. Josh Morgan and Jessica Dorrell (via Yahoo.com) Morgan and Dorrell were apparently engaged at "one point," according to reports, and neither has...Read Full Story
It seemed nice. Proper. Ethical. When the University of Arkansas fired coach Bobby Petrino last week for his actions with another woman and helping her get a job inside the school, it looked like Athletic Director Jeff Long and the school were taking the high road. Appearance is all it was.
John L. Smith will be named the new head coach Tuesday. He will be working under a ten month agreement and be paid a paltry $850,000. According to many, unless Arkansas wins the National Championship...Read Full Story
Enlarge Wesley Hitt/Getty ImagesFormer Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino made himself the easy choice as ... Nine days later, athletic director Jeff Long dismissed Petrino, putting the dignity of the university ahead of winning football games.
But there are always exceptions, and this year Arkansas happened to be on the wrong end of this unfortunate situation when Bobby Petrino took that infamous ... new leadership under interim coach John L. Smith. Players have vowed to complete the journey ...
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Real estate documents show former Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino has broken even on the $600,000 sale of his house at Beaver Lake in Benton County. A warranty deed filed in the Benton County Courthouse on Tuesday shows ...
Bobby Petrino was on top of Arkansas' football nation when he decided to take a casual motorcycle ride on April 1. Now, many wonder how quickly Petrino and the Arkansas Razorbacks can recover from that day. Arkansas had finished as the fifth ...
The University of Arkansas Tuesday fired football Coach Bobby Petrino, who was caught up in a scandal involving a young female employee. Athletics Director Jeff Long announced the decision at an evening news conference in Fayetteville. Long said assistant ...
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Former Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino's damaged motorcycle that he was riding during the crash that led to his ouster is for sale online. The 2007 Harley-Davidson's vehicle identification number matches that of the ...
Same thing with football coaches. For years, we wondered when Bill Belichick was just going to say “the hell with it” and slug Eric Mangini. Last fall Arkansas’ Bobby Petrino was visibly upset at LSU’s Les Miles for, in Petrino’s view ...
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Arkansas athletics director Jeff Long won Hogs fans over with the hiring of Bobby Petrino. Long won them over again with Petrino's firing. Long is denying a report he is being linked to the same opening at Stanford University.
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If you're into making investments you have no chance of recouping, have I got a deal for you. Bobby Petrino's 2007 Harley Davidson, the same one the former Arkansas football coach allegedly crashed while riding with ex-university employee Jessica Dorrell, is up for auction at Copart.com, and while the five-year-old bike has an estimated value of $16,000, it will evidently...
Then it all changed when Bobby Petrino crashed his motorcycle on April Fool’s Day and later lied about the details of his accident. Petrino was later fired and replaced by former special teams coach John L. Smith. [Timeline of the Bobby ...