Greg Hansen's Notebook:Â About $5 million bond funds, meant for new irrigation systems at Randolph North and Dell Urich golf courses, may instead be spent on remodeling and walking/bicycle path improvements.

Greg Hansen's Notebook: Former Arizona football coach Jedd Fisch's Washington coaching staff and roster is populated with ex-Wildcats. Last week, Fisch himself was poached.
Greg Hansen's Notebook: Over 30-plus years of coaching basketball in Tucson, Brian Peabody has seen it all. Despite going undefeated this season with the Pima Aztecs, past losses remain clear.
Greg Hansen's Notebook: Dick Tomey’s coaching tree continues to thrive, as evidenced by Wildcats' coaching success in the NFL.
Greg Hansen's Notebook: Former Arizona men's basketball player Harvey Mason is now the CEO of the Recording Academy. He's invited a former UA coach to this year's Grammys.Â
Greg Hansen's Notebook: Forty years from now, the UA basketball community will surely recall Caleb Love’s 60-foot buzzer-beater, but the 1986 "McClutch" shot is a standout moment for the Star's Greg Hansen.
Greg Hansen's Notebook: The Learfield Director’s Cup, which ranks every school’s on-field athletic performances in 19 sports year-round, is at its halfway point. Arizona is tied for No. 156, with no points.
Greg Hansen's Notebook: Newly-elected baseball Hall of Famer Billy Wagner is the second ex-Tucson Toro/Sidewinder to reach Cooperstown.
Greg Hansen's Notebook: Lute Olson required 154 games to win 100. Tommy Lloyd hit that mark in 126 games.Â
Greg Hansen's Notebook:Â Last week, Tucson high school sophomore Leila O'Dowd played five consecutive days for the Rangers: three basketball games and two soccer matches.
Greg Hansen's Notebook:Â The 10 leading Tucson prep football players of the last 75 years who chose to play elsewhere over Arizona.
Greg Hansen's Notebook: Erika Barnes, a member of Arizona’s 2001 NCAA softball championship team and a pillar of the UA athletic department for 15 years, is leaving the UA.
Greg Hansen's Notebook: Ten things learned about Big 12 basketball through Arizona’s showing-up-late-is-better-than-nothing win over Colorado on Saturday.
Greg Hansen's Notebook:Â Expecting university athletic departments to be self-sustaining a challenge amid ever-rising costs.
Greg Hansen's Notebook:Â Expecting university athletic departments to be self-sustaining a challenge amid ever-rising costs.
Greg Hansen's Notebook: During Jay Johnson’s six highly successful baseball seasons as Arizona’s head coach, 2016-2021, he produced 11 major-leaguers.
Greg Hansen's Notebook: How two high school basketball coaches have helped Tucson teams find success after years of losing seasons.Â
Greg Hansen's Notebook: Arizona football has had some great OC’s over the years: Sonny Dykes, Homer Smith and Steve Axman. Seth Doege has a tough act to follow.
Greg Hansen's Notebook: While a number of Big 12 basketball teams rank high for home court advantage, McKale Center falls short.
Greg Hansen's Notebook:Â This is probably the busiest sports weekend in Tucson, or anywhere in America this week, with youth basketball, wrestling and soccer tourneys planned or underway.
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Greg Hansen's Notebook: Revenue generation and innovation will be the focus of Arizona Athletics' next big hire — chief development officer.
Greg Hansen's Notebook: Koa Peat is Arizona’s No. 1 recruiting target, recognized as a top 10 prospect in the Class of 2025. Could Jason Gardner's son be next on the list?Â
Greg Hansen's Notebook: Salpointe Catholic boys soccer coach Wolfgang Weber, an 11-time state champion at the school from 1982-2024, won his 774th career match.
Greg Hansen's Notebook:Â Flowing Wells High School's appeal to move its football team from Class 5A to Class 4A was denied by the Arizona Interscholastic Association.
Greg Hansen's Notebook: One of college football's most capable assistant coaches, Joe Salave'a, is back at Arizona for Round 3, committed to helping save his alma mater’s cratering football program.
Greg Hansen's Notebook: Tucson baseball icon Rich Alday, who died in 2021, was inducted to the ABCA Hall of Fame. Don Saffer, patriarch of perhaps the top sports family in Tucson’s last half-century, died last week.