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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tucson.com | Greg Hansen
Arizona men’s tennis coach Clancy Shields last week used social media to say that UA senior Colton Smith, the Big 12 Player of the Year, “is probably the first in program history to be a conference player of the year.”UA record books for tennis are and have been void of any history before 1998. I’ve tried for years to find out more about the rich 1960s period when Hall of Fame coach Dave Snyder transformed Arizona into a Top 10 program.
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tucson.com | Greg Hansen
The much-publicized, draft-day prank phone call to Colorado QB Shedeur Sanders last week wasn’t the first of its kind. Hardly. On an early May morning in Tucson, 1968, former NAU Lumberjack linebacker Rusty Tillman, who went on to be a 16-year NFL assistant coach, disguised his voice and called UA tackle Bill Lueck, telling him he was the player personnel director of the Cleveland Browns and that the Browns had just drafted him in Round 1.
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tucson.com | Greg Hansen
Berry Roberts belongs in a high class of Tucson sports officials that includes his mentor, Boyd Baker, and distinguished long-time referees Bobby Rauh, Ralph Deal, Bud Grainger, Jim Fogltance, and on and on. Last week, Roberts became the first Tucson sports official to receive the AIA’s Gary Whelchel Award, an honor named after the former commissioner of officials of the Arizona Interscholastic Association.
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tucson.com | Greg Hansen
Jim Mentz traveled from New York City to Tucson in the spring of 1981, hoping to get a tryout with the Cleveland Indians at Hi Corbett Field. The tryout fizzled, but Mentz stayed in Tucson, earned a degree at the UA and got a spot in the 1989 movie “Major League,” as an extra, filmed at Hi Corbett Field. Since then, you could film a movie or write a book about his coaching career at Palo Verde High School.
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tucson.com | Greg Hansen
The truth, the whole truth, half-truths, shades of the truth and other items admissible as UA basketball news:ITEM I: Until now, the most daunting non-conference schedules at Arizona were shouldered by, among others, Dick Tomey, who in his first season, 1987, agreed to a wicked set of arrangements to play what turned out to be No. 1 Miami, No. 2 Miami, No. 2 Ohio State, No. 4 Oklahoma, No. 6 Oklahoma and No. 11 Illinois in his first five Arizona seasons.
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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