FAYETTEVILLE -- Once a year, the defending SEC champion Arkansas Razorbacks men's and women's cross country teams willingly defer to high school and recreational athletes.
Not only willingly deferring but bending over backwards to accommodate describe the mutual efforts that Arkansas men's Coach Chris Bucknam and women's Coach Lance Harter and the Chile Pepper Festival board have made for Saturday's 27th annual Chile Pepper to fit each other's schedule.
Chile Pepper's annual mid-October Saturday date started conflicting with two major college races attracting national fields, the Wisconsin Invitational, which Harter's women will run Oct. 16, and the NCAA Preview that Bucknam's men will run Oct.