Hansen's Sunday Notebook: Utes have talent, schedule to win Pac-12

Utah drew 14,140 to Friday’s Pac-12 opener against USC, a night when students were on winter break, and it was brutally cold in Salt Lake City.

Arizona will use Pac-12 resources to stir some unprecedented interest in its spring football game: Rather than be played on a (too) warm after…

It has been a good holiday season for Jason Terry. The former Arizona point guard became just the third NBA player ever to make 2,000 three-po…

Here’s a name to keep in mind in the future of Tucson basketball: 14-year-old Majok Deng, a 6-foot-5-inch eighth-grader in the Flowing Wells S…

Austin Nehls, the Star’s 2014 Southern Arizona basketball player of the year, is now playing for the Cheshire Academy in Connecticut. He score…

The Gregory School grad Frankie Mgbolu, one of the top all-around athletes in Tucson the last decade, is starting at point guard for undefeate…

Tucsonan George Cunningham, a freshman at Arizona, tied for first place (he lost in a playoff) at the prestigious Patriot All-American Golf Cl…

Salpointe Catholic junior defensive lineman Justin Holt was chosen to the U.S. Army All-American Combine all-star team Saturday in San Antonio…

Another name to watch: Derrick Silva won the USATF Junior Olympic National Cross Country Championships late last month in Myrtle Beach, S.C. T…

One of the reasons Pima College women’s basketball coach Todd Holthaus has been among the leading coaches in Tucson for the last 10 years is t…

Shelley Duncan, the UA’s career home run leader, will be leaving his position as an Arizona undergraduate baseball coach to become manager of …

The Pac-12 this year, for the first time in 20 years, has eliminated a weekly teleconference with its men’s basketball coaches. Why? There was…

My lasting concern about the Fiesta Bowl was the excessive spending on unnecessary items. For example, bowl volunteers had eight vans availabl…

Pitcher Taylor McQuillin and power hitter Alyssa Palomino, considered to be two of the top Arizona softball recruits in years, are in Los Ange…

It wouldn’t be much of a surprise if an NFL owner, playing off the success of ex-Pac-12 coaches Pete Carroll and Chip Kelly, pursued Rich Rodriguez.