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Tucson Turf 13U & 15U boys teams in contention for NFL Flag Championships titles
Tucson Turf’s 13U boys flag football team will play for a championship Sunday while its 15U boys team is in the semifinal round of the NFL Flag Championships at Canton, Ohio. Both teams are representing the Arizona Cardinals. The 13U boys team defeated South Fulton (Browns) 14-6 in the...
'You don't need the best equipment to be the best': Tucson BMX Olympian shares her story, how she got to the top
TUCSON, Ariz. — Those watching the 2024 Olympics can tune in to see some Arizona faces racing in the BMX competition. Daleny Vaughn, a 23-year-old Tucson native, will compete in her first Olympics this year. "I'm super blessed and thankful for the opportunity," Daleny Vaughn said. "I'm excited to...
Yogi Roth on Y-Option, New Big 12 Landscape
Yogi Roth provides a perspective unlike anyone else in the college football landscape. While his time with the Pac-12 Network has ended, he still will be a crucial voice in the sport while broadcasting Big Ten games and in his newest venture Y-Option. It’s a podcast, a Substack and would have videos as well to talk college football from a West Coast lens.
Canyon View holds on to beat Rincon, advances to state Little League winners bracket final
SIERRA VISTA — Canyon View manager Jeff Casper knows all too well from his background at Salpointe and Arizona — a player and later an assistant coach with the Wildcats under Andy Lopez — that his team needs to maintain its focus after achieving a significant victory over juggernaut Rincon on Saturday here in the state Little League winners bracket semifinals.
2024 Arizona football season countdown: 41 days to kickoff
A LOOK BACK — NO. 41 MARK JACOBS. With it being the 41st day until kickoff between the Lobos and Wildcats, the best player to wear No. 41 for Arizona is linebacker Mark Jacobs, a Flowing Wells graduate who played with the Wildcats from 1974-76. Jacobs unofficially holds the Arizona record with 200 tackles in 1974. The Arizona record book does not officially list the category for most tackles in a season. It does list the annual tackling leaders since 1975 and notes that until 1987 the tackles listed were from observation of “coaches film.” The NCAA did not officially begin to collect defensive statistics until 2000, believe it or not. So a way to look at it: Jacobs unofficially holds the Arizona record with 200 tackles, achieved as a sophomore, while Scooby Wright III has the most in the eyes of the NCAA with 163 in 2014, Wright’s junior season. Jacobs supposedly had more tackles than what the NCAA lists as the record-holder today: Texas Tech’s Lawrence Flugence with 193 in 2002. Jacobs went on to coach at Flowing Wells and was a pillar in the community, with the Sports Park naming itself the Mark Jacobs Sports Park. He earned his secondary education degree at NAU in the early 1980s and coached and taught in Flagstaff before returning to Tucson in 1987 to coach at Flowing Wells. Jacobs, now 69, returned to Flagstaff in 2002 to be with his family and to pursue a career in public-school administration. He is retired in Flagstaff.
Josh Pate on Arizona: ‘They Could Win the Big 12 or Finish Bottom Half’
While Brent Brennan and the Arizona Wildcats received three first-place finish votes in the preseason Big 12 Media Poll, the Late Kick’s Josh Pate believes there could be a wide range of outcomes for the first-year Big 12 team. Pate dubbed the team one of the nation’s most volatile...
Incoming Arizona freshman Emma Kavanagh wins national catching award
Emma Kavanagh is one of the most decorated incoming freshman for Arizona softball in recent memory, and the awards haven’t stopped. Kavanagh, one of five players the Wildcats signed in the 2024 recruiting class, has been named NFCA High School Catcher of the Year. From Barrington, Ill., Kavanagh was...
Olympic Champion Amanda Beard Retained for New Arizona Swimming Staff
University of Arizona assistant Amanda Beard will be the lone holdover on the Wildcats' revamped swimming coaching staff next season. Archive photo via Arizona Athletics. The University of Arizona swimming & diving team has confirmed that assistant coach Amanda Beard will be retained under its new coaching staff. She is the program’s lone swimming coach who will be retained under new head coach Ben Loorz, who was hired in the offseason after former head coach Augie Busch did not have his contract renewed.
From walk-on at Oakland to Arizona portal pickup, Trey Townsend has gotten the full college experience
Trey Townsend officially committed to Arizona in late April, three weeks after entering the transfer portal and just over a month after he helped lead Oakland to only its second NCAA Tournament win in school history. But the groundwork for his eventual arrival in Tucson began a year earlier. Going...
Tracking former Southern Arizona & Arizona Wildcats baseball players in pros (7/20)
NOTE: This is a compilation of stats involving players from Southern Arizona and the Arizona Wildcats’ program in MLB-sanctioned leagues (MLB and minor leagues). The list does not include players in foreign leagues or independent leagues in the US. LOCAL BASEBALL PLAYERS IN THE PROS. Listing of local baseball...
Rattlers could wind up No. 2 or out of IFL playoffs in final weekend of regular season
The Rattlers could wind up as high as the No. 2 seed and hosting next week or completely missing the Indoor Football League playoffs. There are many scenarios playing out in this final weekend of the regular season. ...
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