Ryan Hansen, left, coordinator of basketball operations for the UA, and Brian Jeffries commentate on the Arizona vs. Stanford basketball game in Palo Alto, Calif., Saturday, Feb. 2, 2002. Photo by Renee Sauer / Arizona Daily Star

 Renee Sauer / Arizona Daily Star

He began his career as an old-style disc jockey in Washington and Idaho. 

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