FAYETTEVILLE -- Niall O'Shaughnessy only stands 5 feet, 6 inches.
But in the 1970s, during O'Shaughnessy's days the Razorbacks, most of Arkansas and apparently Ireland, too, looked up to John McDonnell's pioneer leprechaun.
The Southwest Conference still does. The SWC on Nov. 9 in Little Rock will induct O'Shaughnessy as one of nine former Razorbacks greats from track and field, football and men's and women's basketball into its Hall of Fame.
O'Shaughnessy likely won't be there. He is too ill to travel though courageously exceeding the doctors' prognosis of his battle against the brain cancer afflicting him at his Atlanta home.