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Greg Hansen: UA's Lalang has a real chance to be the best

As Lawi Lalang ran the homestretch at celebrated Hayward Field, winning the NCAA 5,000 meters championship June 8, Nike co-founder and distanc…

Hansen Sunday Notebook: It's about now, not then

Damon Stoudamire says the reason so many wealthy ex-NBA stars don't pursue a career in college coaching is because "it's hard. … it's a grind.''

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: UA's Lalang has a real chance to be the best

As Lawi Lalang ran the homestretch at celebrated Hayward Field, winning the NCAA 5,000 meters championship June 8, Nike co-founder and distanc…

Tim Steller: 2 carpetbaggers hang their hats in Tucson

Embrace the carpetbaggers. That's the message sent last night by the boards of Tucson's two biggest school districts, both of whom made new co…

Tim Steller: More questions on reintroducing bighorns

You could imagine the eye rolls around Tucson when it emerged June 7 that Arizona Game and Fish may end up killing some mountain lions in orde…

Neto's Tucson: Music from south of the border created bond between father, son

I think it was Antonio Aguilar who first helped connect me with my father. I did not know him when he began weaving a connection between the t…

Centsible Mom: Creativity, planning can invite big savings to your child's party

Celebrating your kid's birthday should be fun. But if you're strapped for cash, it can be stressful and overwhelming.

David Fitzsimmons: Privacy, Prism, phone records: making (non)sense of NSA data-gathering

Edward Snowden looks like the kid behind the counter at Starbucks eyeing me right now. The one who wants to know what I'm writing on my laptop…

Tim Steller: Public locked out of trial in former ATF agent Jay Dobyns' suit

I walked into a "sealed" courtroom in downtown Tucson Thursday afternoon and saw something interesting: six Justice Department staffers at one…

Sarah Garrecht Gassen: Using moms to argue equal pay same as using dads to justify unequal wages

So it turns out that the Equal Rights Amendment had nothing to do with laundry detergent.

Tim Steller: It's Isquierdo or (not and) a budget override

The majority on the Sunnyside school board seems to want it both ways.

The Minivan Momologues: Why not tell him? Pssst! It's Father's Day June 16

Father's Day is coming up - only a week away. This is news to the one dad who resides in my house.

Tim Steller: Getting help for mentally ill is a grind

Jeri Taylor didn't hesitate to take charge of her son's medical care when University Medical Center discharged him in February.

Neto's Tucson: Tucson 'Dreamer' follows promise of job, driver's license to California

When we last left Carlos Martinez, the Tucson "Dreamer" who last year received a work permit and two-year temporary residency under Deferred A…

Tim Steller: Eagle shows sharp legal talons to patent bullies

An attorney general, three photocopier manufacturers and the White House all are confronting patent trolls, but what really demonstrates the t…

Sarah Garrecht Gassen: Let's pin the issue of sexual assault where it belongs: on the attackers

Let's talk about the rapists. Conversations, including in those in Congress, about how to get thousands of military women who have been sexual…

Tim Steller: At this coffee shop, being a Commie is cool

Talk of "proletarian revolution" may sound antiquated, but it remains topical every two weeks at a Tucson coffee shop.

Tim Steller: Infant's death leads to tragedy for 5 kids

The death of a three-month-old Tucson baby named Izayah Garcia was tragic in itself. But the tragedy has deepened in the aftermath, leaving fi…

Arizona Track and Field Patrick Finley: For Barrett, finale is leap of faith

Brigetta Barrett graduated on a Friday last month and then flew to Los Angeles for the Pac-12 track and field championships.

Centsible Mom: Express yourself without depressing your wallet

"It's difficult in today's world to feel like you can't support your creative soul because of finances," says Kaitlin Meadows, owner of Kaitli…

Neto's Tucson: Account of 5-year-old fire hero in Sonora moves Tucson students to action

Matthew Bryson and Alan Fernando Parra were excited as they prepared to meet a hero Friday morning.

David Fitzsimmons: When people start hallucinating about talking turtles, summer is here

Waiting to cross at Stone and Pennington, he stood there in the sun wearing a dark-charcoal, herringbone suit. He looked miserable.

Sarah Garrecht Gassen: Great expectations for 'kids' of NY Times Student Journalism Institute

Connecting the dots of decisions made and circumstances encountered may be an exclusively human experience. We crave meaning, resolution, a st…

Patrick Finley: Club has Opportunity of a lifetime

Hang around sports enough, and you hear the word almost every day: Opportunity.

Tim Steller: Arbiter of proper prayer showed arrogance

If you want to know The Truth, you know whom to ask. Steve Smith, a talent agent from the town of Maricopa, apparently has a corner on it.

Tim Steller: Misbehavior at firehouses needs to stop

Children learn quickly that it isn't a valid excuse for misbehavior to say "Everybody was doing it."

Neto's Tucson: Pharmacist retires after serving El Rio clients for nearly 40 years

In 1974, three years out of the University of Arizona's pharmacy college, John Arredondo took a job dispensing medicines "in a little hole."

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