Star sports columnist Greg Hansen offers his opinion on recent sports news.

The power has shifted in Tucson prep basketball. The boys teams at Cholla, Pueblo and Sunnyside are a combined 39-8, thriving under new or rel…

Tucsonan Bryanna Caldwell averaged 216 over five days (and 30 games) to make the Team USA bowling roster for the Pan American Games this summe…

During the NFL playoffs this weekend, Santa Rita High grad Ron Gould will be a proud man. Now the head coach at UC-Davis, Gould was the runnin…

On Friday night at Kino Sports Complex, FC Tucson held open tryouts for the 2015 season, and more than 100 prospects attended. Some drove from…

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Don’t be surprised if Palo Verde grad Bryce Cotton is recalled by the San Antonio Spurs at some point this season. He had back-to-back games s…

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It wasn’t an accident that UA senior point guard T.J. McConnell scored a UA-career high 21 points Thursday at Oregon. The Ducks chose to open …

Shelley Duncan’s annual youth baseball clinic, held Saturday at Kino Sports Complex, drew almost 500 kids aged 7-16. That’s got to be a record…

The Greg Byrne-returns-to-Oregon scenario was short-lived. West Virginia last week hired Alabama deputy AD Shane Lyons as its new AD. Some had…

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UA senior shortstop Kellie Fox was selected to USA Softball’s national team after a tryout camp last week in San Diego. So was Pueblo High Sch…

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Four-time Tucson Olympic distance runner Abdi Abdirahman last week told Deadspin.com that his long-time coach, UA Hall of Famer Dave Murray, i…

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UA football coach Rich Rodriguez is getting a lot of mileage (and deservedly so) from Arizona’s 2013 and 2014 victories over Oregon. Friday wa…

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NBA analysts suggest that LeBron James’ basketball odometer is nearing an end. He has played 34,364 minutes. Is that valid? Jason Terry, now a…

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When Craig Victor, looking for more playing time, left Arizona to transfer to LSU last week, it wasn’t much of a surprise. But remember this: …

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Not much was said last week when Hank Peters, 90, died. He was the Cleveland Indians GM when the club decided to end a four-decade stay at Hi …