It's a Long Way From Fayetteville

By CHRIS DUFRESNE

Dec. 21, 2000 12 AM PT

You call this Hog Heaven?

The Arkansas Razorbacks were looking for a little wholesome entertainment Sunday night when they went to see Carrot Top perform at the MGM Grand.

Instead, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, school administrators were shocked when the redheaded comic broke into a profanity-laced act.

The Razorbacks, in town to play Nevada Las Vegas tonight in the Las Vegas Bowl, were originally supposed to see Danny Gans.

Hey, it could have been worse: Arkansas could have walked in on Andrew Dice Clay.

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Chris Dufresne

Chris Dufresne was the Los Angeles Times’ national college football/basketball columnist from 1995 to 2015. He also covered skiing at the Winter Olympics and wrote extensively on most sports. He is a multiple national award winner and was named 2011 California Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Assn. A Los Angeles native, he started at The Times in 1976 as a truck loader and literally worked his way up (two floors to be exact).

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