Hansen's Sunday Notebook: Hard to pinpoint Scooby's place in history
Star sports columnist Greg Hansen offers his opinion on recent sports news.
It will take at least another football season, maybe two, to put Scooby Wright’s prodigious 2014 season in proper context.
I can’t recall many more impressive local victories in 2014 than a 94-91 Pima College’s men’s basketball triumph over undefeated and No. 16-ra…
Nick Johnson continues to get more playing time for the Houston Rockets; he played 103 minutes in six games between Nov. 29 and Dec. 11, but h…
The UA’s eye-popping new basketball locker room and kitchen at McKale Center didn’t entirely zoom forward into 21st century appointments. Sean…
Ken Burmeister, who was the ace recruiter during Olson’s formative years at McKale Center, registered his most important victory in eight year…
File this one under, “How did Rich Rodriguez win 10 games this season?” The Wildcats finished the regular season with a 56.8 passing completio…
Tucson’s Maddie Pothoff, the leading age-group tennis player in Southern Arizona, has made a verbal commitment to play for the Alabama Crimson…
Opening his first season 20-2 as coach of the Golden State Warriors, Steve Kerr isn’t in foreign basketball territory. Arizona opened 20-1 in …
Tom Wiedenbauer was a seventh-round draft pick, a quarterback-outfielder-pitcher from Sahuaro High School in 1977 who went on to play 636 mino…
In Oregon State’s brief search for a football coach last week, it interviewed Tucson High grad Osia Lewis, who played linebacker for the Beave…
Tucsonan Lawi Lalang will be in Phoenix on Wednesday, one of three finalists for the Bowerman Award, the Heisman Trophy for track and field. L…
Salpointe Catholic defensive lineman Justin Holt, who is likely to be Southern Arizona’s leading football recruit in 2015, is now being recrui…
Boise State director of basketball operations Jeremy Harden, a former Tucson High and Pima College standout, had a mini-reunion with ex-Tucson…
Since Greg Byrne committed about $600,000 annually to pay for a morning brunch for Arizona athletes, the school has served 18,300 brunches sin…
Lost among the Scooby Wright Across America Awards Tour last week was the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame banquet in New…
Another reunion: Adia Barnes, who is probably the leading women’s basketball player in Arizona history, part of a long run of excellence under…
How do you beat this camp for baseball expertise: Cleveland Indians manager Terry Francona, Arizona Diamondbacks manager Chip Hale and ex-majo…
The Arizona Interscholastic Association last week decreed that all future playoff games, in all sports, will be played on neutral fields to he…
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