Hansen's Sunday Notebook: Anu about to feel the fire
Star sports columnist Greg Hansen offers his opinion on recent sports news of interest to Southern Arizonans.
According to Babylonian and Sumerian mythology, “Anu” is a “sky god,” the god of heaven and lord of constellation. Or something like that.
In an interview last week with Arizona point guard T.J. McConnell, the Star’s Bruce Pascoe asked about the progress of 5-foot-8-inch, 150-poun…
Rather than spend the weekend watching football on TV, the Arizona football coaching staff scattered to recruiting hot spots. Receivers coach …
When the Houston Astros fired manager Bo Porter last week, it put into jeopardy the roles of two Tucsonans on the Astros coaching staff: pitch…
Tucson-connected swimmers Matt Grevers, Kevin Cordes, Margo Geer and Caitlin Leverenz last week were selected to the 2014-15 USA National Team…
Sahuaro High grad Rich Barcelo, who spent three years on the PGA Tour, has been director of golf instruction at Keeton Park Golf Course in Dal…
Former CDO state championship softball coach Stephanie Nicholson is in Miyazaki, Japan, today to play for Team USA in the gold medal game of t…
Tucsonan Lawi Lalang will run the first high-profile meet as a professional on Saturday. He is among the favorites in the Fifth Avenue Mile in…
Arizona’s men’s golf team makes its season debut this week at the North Ranch Intercollegiate in Los Angeles. What makes the tournament notabl…
Pima College sophomore basketball player Murphy Gershman is one of the best stories going in Tucson sports. After graduating from Tucson High …
From the Where Are They Now file: Former UA linebacker Richard Maddox, a key part of the Desert Swarm’s origins in 1992, is now living in Nort…
Arizona assistant track coach Craig Carter, who has coached All-American Julie Labonte and Olympian Jill Camarena-Williams, among others, was …
The Houston Rockets have acquired Jason Terry from Sacramento, a salary dump of sorts, and will pay the final year of Terry’s guaranteed $5.6 …
Tucson High sophomore Delaney Schnell left for Penza, Russia, last week in preparation for the 2014 FINA World Junior Diving Championships, wh…
How time flies: Phil Mickelson played in the BMW Championship at Denver’s Cherry Hills Country Club before withdrawing Saturday. It was his fi…
During an eight-year period of Pac-12 basketball — in which Lute Olson walked off after three years of turbulence; UCLA imploded under Ben How…
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