Hansen's Sunday Notebook: Pierson created big-game aura at Sahuaro
Star sports columnist Greg Hansen offers his opinion on recent sports news.
Almost nobody goes to a freshman football game, at Sahuaro High School or at any high school. But when Sahuaro freshman coach Tom Pierson walk…
After his team was celebrated Thursday in San Francisco, a near-unanimous choice to win another Pac-12 basketball championship, Sean Miller go…
Tucsonans Brent Strom, pitching coach for the Houston Astros, and Craig Bjornson, the Astros’ bullpen coach, have arranged to bring Houston’s …
Arizona’s 1989 All-Pac-10 outfielder Kevin Long, fired as the New York Yankees’ hitting instructor two weeks ago, was hired by the New York Me…
Sabino High grad Keanu Nelson did not catch a pass in three football seasons at Stanford. He transferred to BYU last spring and a week ago sco…
Reily Buechler, daughter of Arizona’s 1990 All-Pac-10 basketball forward Jud Buechler, was last week’s Pac-12 women’s volleyball freshman of t…
As it turns out, the high school football game of the year in Tucson will be 8-1 Cienega hosting 9-0 Sahuaro on Friday. Cienega coach Nemer Ha…
Sahuarita football coach David Rodriguez inherited an 0-10 team when he began rebuilding the Mustangs four years ago. He has since gone 33-8, …
The not-so-laughable irony of Mountain View High School’s football program being put on a one-year probation by the Arizona Interscholastic As…
Tucsonan Abdi Abdirahman, a four-time USA Olympic distance-runner, just completed his training season in Flagstaff. He told me last week that …
The UA’s “Surplus Property Office” sold 575 items, old athletic gear of every conceivable type, in an online auction Oct. 14. It produced more…
Craig Lefferts, winning pitcher for Arizona in the 1980 College World Series championship game, is working for Major League Baseball as an amb…
Arizona alumnus Chip Hale, new manager of the Arizona Diamondbacks, told me that the Kansas City Royals’ emergence as a power didn’t surprise …
Tucsonan Matt Grevers, an Olympic swimming medalist in 2008 and 2012, is favored in Saturday’s “Fastest Swimmer in Texas” swimming competition…
Arizona’s women’s basketball team received 12 votes (from 12 voters) in the Pac-12 women’s basketball preseason poll. That’s as humbling as it gets.
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