Greg Hansen's Notebook: A member of Tucson High's 1962 championship basketball team who went on to coach football and softball at Sahuaro High has died. Don Bacon was 82.
Greg Hansen
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Greg graduated from Utah State University, worked at two Utah newspapers, the St. Petersburg Times, the Albany Democrat-Herald in Oregon and moved to Tucson to cover UA football and baseball. He became the Star's sports columnist in 1984.
Greg Hansen's Notebook: If you watched any of the Women’s College World Series on ESPN it was clear: college softball in the west doesn’t register in today’s national consciousness.
Greg Hansen's Notebook: The inaugural Big 12 season is all but in the books and it was neither captivating nor did it ever feel like "home."
Greg Hansen's Notebook: Arizona softball led the Big 12 in batting average, runs, home runs and had the fewest errors. It didn’t matter because the so-so pitching staff had a 2.60 ERA.
Greg Hansen's Notebook: Former Wildcat Gilbert Arenas is the main character in the Netflix documentary "Untold: Shooting Guards," a head-shaking 85 minutes that highlights Arenas’ immaturity.
Greg Hansen's Notebook: The University of Arizona's iconic cactus and sunset logo is returning to the McKale Center floor. Here's how the design came about in the late 1970s.
Greg Hansen's Notebook: Arizona junior shortstop Mason White, of Salpointe Catholic, is challenging to be one of the 10 leading Tucson players in UA baseball history.
Greg Hansen's Notebook: With limited resources Arizona track and field coach Fred Harvey somehow kept turning out All-Americans.