Onward Christian soldier.

We make enough mistakes of our own that we don't mean to single out a major faux pas in print by someone else, but this one couldn't escape notice. The Little Rock Touchdown Club sent out a press release about its postseason awards banquet coming Jan. 10, and in the list of recipients, the winner of the Most Valuable Player Award for the University of Central Arkansas was listed as Nathan Christian.

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It even skipped past our faulty eyes at first glance and was repeated on our Web site until a more able copyediting hand at another publication brought it to our attention. The name, of course, should have been Nathan Brown, the star junior quarterback of the Bears and one of the best quarterbacks in the region.

As for Nathan Christian, he would be one of the trio of morning voices on KMJX-FM, Magic 105, and a regular commentator on the local sports scene. He also probably deserves an award this season, maybe for Craziest Stunt Pulled During the Arkansas Coaching Search.

It seems that things were going so silly in the UA search process, with prospects coming and going, that Christian decided in protest to camp out on a little sandbar in the Arkansas River just west of Interstate 430 until the Razorbacks came up with their man. Christian's campout finally ended on Dec. 11 with the hiring of Bobby Petrino.

Christian might want to thank Petrino for cutting his sandbar stay short and for the coach not sticking it out with the Falcons until the NFL's season ended after Christmas. Or Petrino could have given that excuse to the national scribes who blistered him for leaving with three games left on the Falcons' schedule. Petrino could have said: "Some poor sap would have frozen to death on the Arkansas River, or at least missed Christmas, had I not taken the job now."

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