“The Dirt from the Den.” Bruce Pascoe / Arizona Daily Star 

While UCLA students chanted at Trier from the moment he hit the court for warmups 90 minutes before the game started — “P-E-D! P-E-D! P-E-D!” and “CHEAT! CHEAT! CHEAT!” were among their favorites — coach Sean Miller, the UA program and the city of Tucson all took some heat on a “dirt” sheet distributed in the student section.

“The Dirt from the Den” introduced UA’s coach as “SEAN MILLER, WHO IS THE HUMAN EMBODIMENT OF CAPS LOCK.”

Of UA’s program, it wondered: “Has any team in the history of organized sports gained so much prestige with so few actual accomplishments? … Both Kentucky and Zac Enfron’s East High School team in High School Musical have more basketball championships than Zona.”

It also claimed that the residents of Tucson “compete to illegally dump more garbage in their backyard than anyone else.” 


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