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Arizona high school track…keeping it in the family
Arizona doesn’t just send high school athletes to the big track meets. It sends families. Erwin Jones Jr. and his brother, Jamaal, nearly swept the decathlon events in the Young Men’s and Intermediate Boys competition at the USATF Youth Outdoor National Championships at Benedictine University in Illinois. Erwin, who is a senior at Shadow Mountain [...] -
Mountain Pointe HS classmates a rarity for AZ hall of fame
A couple of Mountain Pointe High School graduates were included in this year’s hall of fame class of Arizona athletes. They have also set a precedent that may never be duplicated. Nicole Powell and Sara Gorton were just inducted into the azcentral.com Arizona High School Sports Hall of Fame. They are among a group of [...] -
NCAA hands down sanctions on the program Lute built
The long wait is over. The NCAA just handed down its report on what sanctions will be imposed on the University of Arizona basketball program for violations that go back to 2007. The sanctions take a toll on today’s Wildcat basketball program. But they also put a black mark on the legacy of a truly [...] -
UA hits the road to bring the game to its sports fans
The Cat is on the prowl. The University of Arizona isn’t waiting for the rest of the state to come to Tucson to experience its sports programs. The ‘Wildcat experience’ will soon be coming to a town near you. Just days ago, UofA’s new athletic director, Greg Byrne, was shaking up the news cycle with [...] -
Keeping an eye on UA football.. who’s in, who’s out?
If you’re trying to keep track of the UofA football program, the revolving door on personnel has swung again. This time, it’s one out and two in. It was a busy time for the University of Arizona program last week. The Wildcats lost one player from the current roster and picked up two more recruits [...] -
The future of football at UofA is rapidly taking shape
Things are still percolating down in Tucson, as football players come and go at the University of Arizona. With the 2010 recruiting class well in hand, head coach Mike Stoops and his staff have been busy working on the future. The Wildcats 2011 class seems to be picking up bodies on a weekly basis and [...] -
HS grads get one last chance at All-Star football games
Six months is a long time to go between football practices. That was evident during the weekend’s high school All-Star football games. And the Arizona desert heat in the middle of the summer didn’t help. The result was lots of turnovers, errors, and penalties. But the games, put on by the Arizona Football Coaches Association, [...] -
Latest football recruit fills out UA’s backfield for 2011
When Daxx Garman stepped up in mid-February to become the first recruit in the University of Arizona’s 2011 football recruiting class, Mike Stoops knew he had the beginning of something good in his future. And now the Wildcats’ head football coach is filling out the rest of his backfield for the years ahead. The Wildcats [...] -
UA women play for nat’l softball title, but men stumble
The University of Arizona softball team dug itself out of a deep hole at the Women’s College World Series to go on to win the right to meet UCLA for the national title. The Cats (52-12) dropped their opening game of the WCWS to Tennessee, 0-9, in a bizarre contest that saw UofA’s ace pitcher, [...] -
Basketball recruiting at UA: What Would Lute Do?
The University of Arizona basketball program just got another taste of what the future might hold. But the Cats’ head coach, Sean Miller, will have to hold his breath until the fall to find out whether the five-star recruit who made an unofficial visit to the campus this weekend will come back for another look. [...]
