Hansen's Sunday Notebook: New McKale experience brings fans into 21st century
Star sports columnist Greg Hansen offers his opinion on recent sports news.
McKale Center is no more. Not on game night. The name is the same, but all has changed. Little things. Big things. Even the shade of red on th…
After setting scoring records at Pima College last season, Tucson High grad Shakir Smith made his Division I debut before 13,000 people at New…
I wrote last week that former Palo Verde golf standout Ben Kern was among the top Tucson golfers never to win a state championship. That is wr…
ASU found a loophole in the NCAA rule book and has appointed alumnus Phil Mickelson as a volunteer golf coach. Mickelson then helped ASU late …
One local letter-of-intent day signing that got little attention was that of tennis standout Robert Seby signing with Santa Clara. Seby has be…
UA baseball coach Andy Lopez did his homework during the fall recruiting period. He evaluated and signed Cochise College shortstop Louis Boyd,…
Lopez similarly was in the right place at the right time to sign two almost totally unknown prospects from Mark Chandler’s Sahuaro High School…
UA women’s soccer coach Tony Amato, whose Wildcats won the NCAA tournament opener on Friday at Oklahoma State, was one of six interviewed by G…
New Canyon del Oro baseball coach Keith Francis – who coached the Dorados the 2002 state championship before moving on to college coaching – i…
The Tucson Soccer Academy produced 11 players who are competing (or have competed) in this year’s NCAA soccer tournament. Much like the CDO ba…
After he signed what some view as the nation’s top recruiting class, UA basketball coach Sean Miller said incoming guard Allonzo Trier “gets t…
ASU has mostly stumbled and bumbled as an athletic administration for the last 25 years, so it’s refreshing to see new Sun Devil AD Ray Anders…
ASU recently announced it is engaged in a litigious war of finance against IMG College, the in-house media rights and marketing firm that repr…
Pima College’s men’s soccer team begins play for the NJCAA national title Tuesday in Prescott, and Hall of Fame coach Dave Cosgrove’s roster o…
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