There were two causes for celebration Monday at the Little Rock Touchdown Club -- one scheduled, the other impossible to predict.
The planned program was the induction of nine former Arkansas athletes into the Southwest Conference Hall of Fame.
The audience at the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock warmly greeted an induction class that included former Arkansas football Coach Ken Hatfield, former Arkansas football players Bill Burnett, Chuck Dicus, Wayne Harris, Wayne Martin and Billy Ray Smith Jr., along with basketball stars Todd Day (1991 SWC player of the year) and Bettye Fiscus, along with the late distance runner Niall O'Shaughnessy.