Hansen's Sunday Notebook: Kindall's UA baseball legacy goes deep

Four days after Chip Hale was hired as manager of the Arizona Diamondbacks, he drove home to Tucson and sat for an interview inside McKale Center.

Records in college football are broken with such frequency that you rarely pause to absorb the silly numbers posted week to week.

Former Tucson Toros, Sidewinders and Padres general manager Mike Feder has such deep baseball roots that he connects to both World Series mana…

When new D-backs manager Chip Hale set the UA career record for games played, 255 consecutive starts from 1984-87, he was not always the first…

Tucsonan Dan Reynolds, a retired school administrator, will be inducted into the USA Track and Field Hall of Fame (officials’ division) on Dec…

Justine Schluntz, a former UA NCAA champion swimmer and the 2010 NCAA Woman of the Year, completed her doctoral work at England’s famed Oxford…

Steve Kerr’s $1 million gift to the UA athletic department last week was not the first time he has donated to his alma mater. Athletic directo…

Flashback: Kerr’s first income after his UA basketball days was $5,000 to film a TV commercial for the Lakeside Sports Club on East Golf Links Road.

One of Kerr’s first tough decisions as head coach of the Golden State Warriors has been to use ex-Wildcat Andre Iguodala in a sixth-man role. …

Josh Pastner “came out of retirement” Saturday and played in the Memphis Tigers’ version of “Midnight Madness.” Now 37, Pastner joked that he …

Former UA power forward Grant Jerrett signed a guaranteed $816,000 contract with the Oklahoma City Thunder this year. The Thunder have the opt…

Matt Johnson’s 2012 state football champion Ironwood Ridge Nighthawks were a physical, run-first force. His 2014 team, which is now 7-1 and pl…

UA freshman swimmer Trey Cashion, a two-time state champion at Walden Grove High School, did not swim in the UA’s opener against Wisconsin. He…

Before Catalina Foothills swimmer Matt Lujan accepted a swimming scholarship from Arizona a week ago, he took recruiting visits to Ohio State …

Antonio Pierce was an honorable mention All-Pac-10 linebacker at UA in 2000 who went on to become a Pro Bowl linebacker for the New York Giant…

Tailback Nic Grigsby, who gained 2,957 yards at UA from 2007-10, quit the Winnipeg Blue Bombers last week, even though he led the team with 74…