Greg Hansen
Sports Columnist at Arizona Daily Star
Contributing columnist to Arizona Daily Star. Aggies, Golf, Yankees, Colorado, my 3 sons, my wife, Nursenifty, and No. 7, Mickey.
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1 week ago |
tucson.com | Greg Hansen
One could label Arizona a golf school, right? The Wildcats have produced PGA and LPGA Tour champions Annika Sorenstam, Jim Furyk, Lorena Ochoa, Rory Sabbatini, Leta Lindley, Ted Purdy, Don Pooley, Dan Pohl, Nate Lashley and U.S. Amateur champion Ricky Barnes. If not golf, what about distance running? Arizona’s NCAA distance running champions include Lawi Lalang, Amy Skieresz, Martin Keino, Aaron Ramirez and Abdi Abdirahman, among others.
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1 week ago |
tucson.com | Greg Hansen
Fred Harvey has always been a sprints/hurdles coach but after 37 years at Arizona, he really didn't have a marquee men's sprinter to embrace. Finally, Friday evening at the NCAA championships in Oregon, Harvey cashed in. Junior hurdler Zach Extine of Chandler's Perry High School finished second in the NCAA finals in a school record 13.13 seconds. Extine was a walk-on on four years ago but used Harvey's coaching to become an All-American.
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2 weeks ago |
tucson.com | Greg Hansen
Spring 1980: In his first varsity at-bat for Campolindo High School, freshman Chip Hale hit a home run — first pitch — off future Hall of Fame pitcher Randy Johnson of Northern California rival Livermore High School. "I couldn’t wait to get to the plate," Hale told me in a 2016 interview. January 1984: After Hale turned down a Congressional appointment to attend and play football at the Naval Academy, as well as an offer to play baseball at USC, he enrolled at Arizona.
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2 weeks ago |
tucson.com | Greg Hansen
UA head coach Larry Smith is carried off the field on Oct. 10, 1981, after Arizona beat USC, 13-10, in Los Angeles. Respond: Write a letter to the editor | Write a guest opinion Subscribe to stay connected to Tucson. A subscription helps you access more of the local stories that keep you connected to the community.
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2 weeks ago |
tucson.com | Greg Hansen
Arizona athletic director Desireé Reed-Francois was prepared for the House committee settlement last week, one that allows each school to pay athletes up to $20.5 million next year. She has arranged for the UA main campus to offer a class (one-hour credit) in financial management for athletes. The class will be designed to teach athletes about taxes, legal implications of NIL contracts and personal finance. Maybe they should add one more.
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Pat Flood, one of the leading figures in Tucson football history, died Sunday. He QB'd Tucson High to 1951 and 1952 state titles, played at Notre Dame and Navy and was the Pac-12's top football referee for almost 40 years. A Phoenix attorney, Flood was 88.
Going to Beach Boys concert tonight at Casino del Sol. First saw them in 1965 at Lagoon near Salt Lake City. Remember it like yesterday. Fun, Fun, Fun.
12 Tucson sports figures, 2 teams to be inducted into Pima County Sports Hall of Fame | Greg Hansen https://t.co/x37rW8ryNu via @tucsonstar