Hansen's Sunday Notebook: Johnson No. 1 among incoming UA athletes
Arizona Daily Star sports columnist Greg Hansen offers his opinion on recent sports news of interest to Southern Arizonans.
One man’s look at the 10 leading newcomers in UA sports, 2014-15:
In today’s sports market, Lee Carey would’ve left Tucson High School with a $2 million signing bonus from the Cleveland Indians instead of the…
Six years after she helped Team USA to an Olympic silver medal in China, ex-UA outfielder Caitlin Lowe was selected to the National Pro Fastpi…
Eight-time NCAA distance-running champ Lawi Lalang hit the motherlode for pro runners last week when he accepted an endorsement offer as part …
Yoichi Tomita, a former Olympic gymnastics coach who operates Tucson Gymnastics Worlds training facilities, is in Pittsburgh this weekend as p…
Favored to win the Pan-Pacific swimming championship in the 100 breast stroke last week in Brisbaine, Australia, UA senior and six-time NCAA c…
Does anyone else get the irony of ex-Arizona quarterback Nick Foles starting at QB for the Philadelphia Eagles over two ex-USC All-Americans, …
Amphitheater will properly honor Hall of Fame coach Vern Friedli at Friday’s opener against Pueblo. It will be Amphi Alumni Football Night at …
Former UA forward Jesse Perry is on the move again. After playing in the Euroleague in Finland, Lithuania and Lebanon last year, Perry has sig…
Santa Rita grad Terrell Stoglin will play for his sixth Euroleague team in three years in 2014-15. Italy’s Cimberio Varese declined to renew h…
Arizona State AD Ray Patterson has announced the Sun Devils will debut their 10th football helmet design this season, copper, which triggered …
Given the recent Little League World Series success of Philadelphia pitcher Mo’ne Davis, it’s cool for girls to play baseball. That applies in…
Arizona’s chances to successfully defend its 2013 Pac-12 women’s cross country championship (the UA finished No. 2 in the NCAA) took a hit thi…
The curious career of ex-ASU point guard Jahii Carson gets stranger and stranger. After failing to get drafted in June, Carson last week signe…
Former Canyon del Oro, Santa Rita and Mountain View linebacker Blake Martinez is likely to start at inside linebacker for Stanford against UC …
Sean Miller’s announcement that Arizona will play a home-and-home basketball series against UConn in 2017 and 2018 continues to set the pace i…
Rich Rodriguez’s third Arizona football season swings on three factors:
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