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Greg Hansen: Re-brand El Rio golf course

At 8:30 Wednesday morning, I punched the gas in golf cart No. 68 and took a lap around the 114 acres of El Rio Golf Course. I did not count sh…

Arizona track and field Greg Hansen: Barrett has a higher calling

These are the three most unassailable records in UA women's sports history:

Greg Hansen: Livengood lost battle to UNLV president

When Jim Livengood announced he would be leaving college athletics last week, done in by a series of conflicts with UNLV president Neal Smatre…

Hansen Sunday Notebook: Family still holding court

About 40 years ago, Tucson engineer R.E. "Bob'' Lee built a tennis court in his backyard. Here's what happened:

Greg Hansen: On Pima College Aztec softball

Armando Quiroz walks to softball practice cradling a bucket of Eegee's in his arms. It's neither a reward for a job well done nor a bribe to g…

Greg Hansen: On golfers Ted Purdy, Brian Prouty, Jonathan Khan

Ted Purdy has won a personalized version of the grand slam of golf - tournaments on the PGA Tour, the Asian Tour, the Latin American Tour and …

Greg Hansen: UA's Tedy Bruschi elected to shrine

The way it used to work in college football, before You Tube and video-on-demand, a high school coach would mail taped highlights of an under-…

Hansen Sunday Notebook: Have skills, will travel

The changing dynamics of college sports, roster movement at unprecedented levels - free agency, actually - was rarely more apparent than it wa…

Greg Hansen: Age-old excuse not reason for downfall

In its final issue of the semester, the Arizona Daily Wildcat asked: Is UA softball coach Mike Candrea too old?

Greg Hansen: Smith looks at life, UA days in book

Anyone who writes a book and calls it "The Cornerstone of Arizona Basketball" either has an XXL-size ego, an NBA contract worth tens of millio…

Greg Hansen: Sahuaro pitcher is next can't-miss kid

At a school that has won three state championships and produced major-league ballplayers Jim Olander, Sammy Khalifa, Tom Wiedenbauer and John …

Hansen Sunday Notebook: Carey compares well

The Pac-12 is so deep in draft-eligible prospects that the 2014 NFL draft could include 10 first-rounders from the league.

Greg Hansen Pac-12: Lude started spending spree

Mike Lude carries a black briefcase into a Tucson restaurant and slips unnoticed into a corner booth. It may sound like a mystery. It isn't.

Hansen Sunday Notebook: QB battle takes flight

Since leaving Lakewood High School as one of the most highly rated SoCal quarterbacks of the last decade, UA junior Jesse Scroggins describes …

Greg Hansen: Jerrett would be one-and- done-for

As the clock ticked from 28 to 27 to 26, a three-point shot by UCLA's Jordan Adams bounced off the rim. Game tied at 64.

Hansen Sunday Notebook: Dream big, and win big

It has been 15 years since the Arizona Wildcats went 12-1 and beat Nebraska in the Holiday Bowl. In terms of branding, presentation and financ…

Greg Hansen: Pac-12 basketball in 2013-14 will be undeniably improved

A day before Oregon opened the NCAA tournament against Oklahoma State, UO coach Dana Altman arranged for the Ducks to practice at San Jose's A…

Hansen Sunday Notebook: Hiring Rush in first place comes back to haunt Scott

Ed Rush is gone, but the collateral damage is widespread. It has taken a toll on Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott and Arizona athletic director…

Greg Hansen: Miller's T a rarity in Pac-12; coincidence?

Until referee Michael Irving called a technical foul on Arizona coach Sean Miller in the Pac-12 semifinals, he had worked 27 games involving c…

Greg Hansen: Kevin Cordes is in fast lane to greatness

UA swimmers have been so good for so long, on every conceivable stage, that you don't often call the boss and say, "Forget the Final Four, I'v…

Hansen Sunday Notebook: Ashley won't disappear

Late last month, after being swept by USC and UCLA, Arizona freshman Brandon Ashley and his mother, Lashiem Clark, had a long meeting with the…

Greg Hansen: If this is the worst thing with Arizona basketball, things are OK

LOS ANGELES - The clock was ticking again on Grant Jerrett, four minutes and counting, before the NCAA-mandated 30-minute open locker room per…

Greg Hansen: 16 candles for Arizona basketball

In Tucson, the Sweet 16 lost its innocence 37 years ago, or at least that's when it lost its ability to awe and intimidate.

Greg Hansen: Arizona basketball will need luck, skill to make Elite Eight

LOS ANGELES — Sometimes the other guy is so good that you leave the gym aware you could've gone no further. Bad draw, bad luck, bad day to be …

Greg Hansen: NCAA tourney brings old pals Whitford, Matta and Jay John together

The truth, the whole truth, half-truths, shades of the truth and other items admissible as Sweet 16 munchies:

David Fitzsimmons: Giggles and gratitude for first-time summer camper, chaperone

The first time I ever went to summer camp was just last week. I was a chaperone for my son Matthew, and a billion of his fellow Harelson fifth…

Greg Hansen: Re-brand El Rio golf course

At 8:30 Wednesday morning, I punched the gas in golf cart No. 68 and took a lap around the 114 acres of El Rio Golf Course. I did not count sh…

Tim Steller: VA backlog keeps wounded Tucson vet from getting the surgery he needs

At 26, Reno Roethle is going through a time of life when people make big decisions - about careers, lovers, moves.

Daniel Gaona: High school triumphs put San Manuel over the top

For a few hours Saturday night, San Manuel may have been the happiest place in Arizona.

Sarah Garrecht Gassen: The 'wouldn't have prevented' gambit on gun-safety laws

Few words are worth less in the campaign to make our communities safer from gun violence than "But it wouldn't have prevented …"

Arizona track and field Greg Hansen: Barrett has a higher calling

These are the three most unassailable records in UA women's sports history:

Tim Steller: McSally 'a proven candidate,' but for what office?

For more than half an hour Tuesday, former Republican congressional candidate Martha McSally spoke enthusiastically to Pima County GOP activists.

Greg Hansen: Livengood lost battle to UNLV president

When Jim Livengood announced he would be leaving college athletics last week, done in by a series of conflicts with UNLV president Neal Smatre…

Patrick Finley: Old Toros uniforms make one last comeback

One day at the start of the Tucson Toros' 1980 season, the team's clubhouse manager ran into then-general manager Jack Donovan's office.

Tim Steller: Picacho Peak Park already has noise problem, so rail yard plan deserves careful attention

PICACHO PEAK STATE PARK - As you climb the northeast side of Picacho Peak, distant noise accompanies you: Interstate 10 traffic, the long pass…

Neto's Tucson: At 82, he recalls a life in border baseball

While the boys and girls of summer play out their dreams on the diamond-shaped fields, Jesús Terán Montaño can only reminisce about his baseba…

The Minivan Momologues: Too much to ask for? Kittens, doves, no dirty socks on kitchen counter

Stupid Mother's Day. The older I get, the crankier I get about the - let's put it in quotes, shall we? - "holiday."

Hansen Sunday Notebook: Family still holding court

About 40 years ago, Tucson engineer R.E. "Bob'' Lee built a tennis court in his backyard. Here's what happened:

David Fitzsimmons: Arizonapithecus tribe, found at Capitol, frets about fluoride, Kenyans

"By injecting Stone Age genes into a human embryo it will soon be possible to create a living Neanderthal."

Greg Hansen: On Pima College Aztec softball

Armando Quiroz walks to softball practice cradling a bucket of Eegee's in his arms. It's neither a reward for a job well done nor a bribe to g…

Tim Steller: Column about Basis, UHS hits nerves on both sides

No school arouses passions around Tucson like Basis does.

Greg Hansen: On golfers Ted Purdy, Brian Prouty, Jonathan Khan

Ted Purdy has won a personalized version of the grand slam of golf - tournaments on the PGA Tour, the Asian Tour, the Latin American Tour and …

Sarah Garrecht Gassen: Share-everything culture forgets there's a time, place for living out loud

It's amazing how inanity can pierce through amplified sound. The whispers, and then the emboldened blah blah blahs must possess some kind of s…

Tiffany's Table: Mom's cooking lessons

"Dinner is ready when the smoke alarm goes off."

Tim Steller: Dialogue about border deaths now based on data

June 8, 2002 was the day when, for me, border-crosser deaths changed from an issue into a crisis.

Patrick Finley: Arizona golfer Kendall Prince perseveres in fairway of life

Kendall Prince started to feel funny somewhere over the Pacific Ocean.

Greg Hansen: UA's Tedy Bruschi elected to shrine

The way it used to work in college football, before You Tube and video-on-demand, a high school coach would mail taped highlights of an under-…

Tim Steller: Let's keep the top ratings for Basis, University High schools in perspective

It's an annual rite of self-congratulation. U.S. News and World Report ranks Basis Tucson and University High School among the best in the country.

Centsible Mom: Cash gifts from graduation? Pay off debt, save, invest

If you have kids graduating this year, chances are they're going to receive cash gifts from family and friends. And they'll more than likely w…

Neto's Tucson: Bissell, Packard acclaimed for work to help homeless

They didn't know how it would all turn out when the first homeless people lined up at the soup kitchen, over the objections of city officials …

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