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Retired. Family is it. Free press. Worked in UA Athletics for 30 years.

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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
9 months
Heard tonight at McKale Center that @CoachJeddFisch and the UA coaches he took to @UW_Football are having improper contact with Wildcat players they'd like to lure to Seattle. Once they're in the portal, swell, otherwise keep your cheating mitts off our guys.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
4 years
Lute Olson took so many of us along with him on a ride to greatness. With huge talent, love and generosity that we all took for granted because he made it look easy. Bless you, Coach O.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
3 years
I think I have more hair than he does, but mine's white so I keep it shorter. Plus he's been crying more than I have the last 24 hours. Love you @CoachCandreaUA . You're the best. (Photo by @Dave_Heeke .)
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
3 years
A tour of @ArizonaMBB rotation in 37 seconds of today's media access leading to NCAA Tournament action this week in San Diego. These guys are good. #BearDown
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
2 years
Worked about 15 Women's College World Series with @ArizonaSoftball . The club didn't win it every time. (I got six of the eight.) But it got there and had a chance: Coach @CaitlinLowe did that in her first year. #BearDown
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
1 year
Went to McKale Center today. Guy who’s been at practices says Tommy Lloyd’s @ArizonaMBB team is alarming. Will play really good defense; freshmen don’t look like it; deep; exciting. The rest of us see tomorrow at Red-Blue.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
3 years
WCWS. 24 times. That's a career. @CoachCandreaUA
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
7 years
Saddened, but uplifted by the life of Jerry Kindall, a man with a plan who never wavers from his moral code. Ever.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
2 years
Awesome postseason work by @ArizonaSoftball . Coach Caitlin Lowe takes her first team to the #WCWS . The legacy is more than intact.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
6 years
@RudyGiuliani 'I will be on a TV talk show demanding that a government-sanctioned investigator talk about his investigation before it's concluded.'
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
2 years
Assoc AD Suzy Mason said @ArizonaSoftball put in an aggressive bid to host Super Regionals. Who knows? BTFD.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
3 years
Fighting without panicking is a winning trait. @ArizonaMBB is not your casual opponent. #BTFD
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
5 years
@NVGOP @GOP @ewarren @realDonaldTrump ..Yeah, TEN Nevadans. What a joke.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
3 years
Hope the arena in San Antonio is mostly for Houston tomorrow (as it should be three hours from home.) @ArizonaMBB needs to generate its own energy to win. It can. It has. Bring it on.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
7 years
Beth Dudd gets a spot next to Keith Smith, Tedy Bruschi and Kevin Sumlin. #BearDown One gathering for the late Warner Smith, Wildcat exemplar, this weekend.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
4 years
Wish peace for Lute Olson's family, the only people who matter tonight. #PapaLute XOX
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
1 year
They’re refinishing the floor in McKale Memorial Center, but they’re on hold for the conference logo…
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
4 years
Went to McKale Center to get some historical information. Afterward checked out the Lute Olson statue. @wildcatphotog Mike Christy was nice enough to take this photo and later pass it on. RIP, Coach O.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
9 months
Went to @CoachBrennan news conference. No coachspeak. Explained everything clearly. He's jacked to get on with it and it's evident. #BearDown @ArizonaFBall Jedd Fisch sparked something that this guy is well equipped to keep rolling.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
7 years
Arizona doesn't have to keep explaining because its fans buy tickets and show up for the Pac-12 Tournament. Six other teams could easily drive down the highways and boost their squads. Okay, the rabid people BTFD.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
7 years
No longer sit in McKale Center meetings to ponder strategies/posture for public disclosure. And my general glass-half-full mentality (naivete) makes me feel Bobby Robbins, Dave Heeke and their staffs know what they're doing. Slow it down.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
2 years
Coach Tommy Lloyd puts @ArizonaMBB in such good position to win, game after game. Coaches the shit out of the boys M-W, then they play some ball. Love it and #BTFD
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
9 months
Look forward to seeing him again, and his little brother, Brad still has one of the important game-changing receptions in school history. #BeatTheCornhuskers
@Dave_Heeke
Dave Heeke
9 months
Got our guy! Let’s Go! Great Future! Bear Down! ⁦ @AZATHLETICS ⁩ ⁦ @ArizonaFBall
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
7 years
Nick Foles, quarterback, a real man with dreams. So they're often measured against the realities of the NFL. Backup QB. Whatever. Bear down.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
2 years
#TBT , kicking it back 21 years with ballcap from @ArizonaSoftball title winners Finch, Bauer, Toni, Lemke, Collins, Leneah, Andrade, Mack, Gio and Hollywood Hanson among other winners.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
6 years
Haley Moore, #APuttersProgram
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
3 years
Nice day. @ArizonaMBB does what it does, and my little sister Amy Dudd @phantomframe wins a top editing award - the EDDIE - for her work on "Mare of Easttown." That's a lead-up deal by the American Cinema Editors... to the Oscars. Bring it on! #BTFD
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
3 years
Insider reminded that @ArizonaFBall has no margin for error. Penalties, turnovers, busted plays just doom this team which otherwise has a spine and is not a bad dose of college football spectating. Winning beats losing but you still bear down and watch.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
2 years
Great job by C-Lowe, T-Mo, H-Bo and Pach-O (and all the rest) to give @ArizonaSoftball a leg up in Supers.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
4 years
My wife and I got dressed up to go out this afternoon... then went out and sat on the back porch for a couple of pops, and turned on a little electric heater and blocked off the wind with some cardboard and it was special.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
8 years
That moment when a news outlet and reporters get something right and the rest catch up... #Journalism . @TucsonStar . Buy newspapers.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
5 years
I talked enough shit under my breath in 36 years working UA-ASU games. Tonight just watching at home with my wife -- screaming at the TV. #TerritorialCup
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
9 years
25-9. In polls for 28 years straight. Articulate, impassioned, talented coach. Recruits in wings, NBA ambassadors. No disaster.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
2 years
Confidence will be the greatest gift this @ArizonaFBall team should get if it closes it out in Mission Valley. #BearDown fellas, it ain't over.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
8 years
Sickened that Sean Rooks has died. Did as much as any Cat to make Arizona Basketball relevant. @APlayersProgram refers to guys like him.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
6 years
Wife and I just spent three hours with three dozen players and coaches from 12-1 Arizona football team from 1998. At a bar owned by quarterback G. Raetzman. Awesome group of men. Those guys could Bear Down. Passion.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
9 months
This says more than you can know. In the locker room @CoachBrennan will just kill it - and it won’t be horseshit jingles.
@MarkHarlan_AD
Mark Harlan
9 months
Excited for my friend of 20 plus years who has worked tirelessly for this opportunity. An exceptional leader of young men who will thrive under his leadership. He also has thick enough skin to lose to the Utes each year 😁Congrats to you and the family @CoachBrennan -go be great!
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
2 years
.. @tarynemowatt gets nods for turning @ArizonaSoftball pitching into nasty people at the right time. It's a great feature for post-season success. Game-by-game grind it and believe.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
7 months
Been married to an amazing woman for 47 years next week. It’s not been boring. I love her. XOX.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
7 years
Kevin Sumlin. Bear Down.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
4 years
Watched #Gronk throw these in McKale Center trash can in 2008 and then ask equipment director Wendell Neal for some new ones. I pulled them out asked, "Hey, sign them?" Hello.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
7 years
Used to be the communications director for University of Arizona athletics. Incredible dynamism for years and years, met lifelong friends. Now, I just worry about our household plumbing and stuff. #OblivionIsFine
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
2 years
Nice to have that same old feeling of emotional certainty - in November - that @ArizBasketball has a chance to be special.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
1 year
Believe in my soul that President John Schaefer worked to get Arizona into the Pac-10 for one reason - the nexus between the Pac-8 and the Association of American Universities, which UA was invited into five years later. Sports was 2nd to research.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
7 years
@JoelOsteen Joel Osteen, the televangelist, is a worm. Wait, worms are noble creatures. He's a roach. Wait, roaches got on the Ark.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
1 year
Two days removed from its team being eliminated, a great crowd showed why, at 9:30 p.m., @ArizonaSoftball ’s Rita Hillenbrand Memorial Stadium is the best.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
3 years
Devastated to say former colleague and free spirit Matt Rector died this week in Indiana, days before heading to California for the holiday with his parents and brother, and then back to Tucson to start life anew. Love you, Matty.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
8 years
Amazing how UA hoop fans travel. Attendance SRO 19,000 and almost McKaleful for Cats.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
4 years
No one cares what I think or would have been asked. Fred Snowden started UA’s ascension and let his players play the game. Money, Norman, Fleming, Elliott, Myles, Gladney, Brown, Rappis etc. Your eyes would pop to see them. Recruiting. Do it.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
6 years
Among things I miss -- and never guaranteed -- was coming back after round of 32 to spend all night at the office with @Richard_D_Paige or @bretthansen5 and work the goods for the Sweet 16. #BedBusters . Then, #backrow with @uaryno at the practice-day meeting.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
2 years
Talked to some once-insiders about @ArizonaFBall over lunch today... Not a one of us has a clue about opening week but we're hopeful. #BearDown "Once-insiders" means coaches of eras past used to tell us WTF was up if we asked.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
4 years
#BearDown Final Four
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
4 years
Stupdendous season for @ArizonaWBB . This is just a start.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
7 years
ASU hoop squad has an admirable trait. No demonstrative trash, just flying all out. Meantime, Hurley has designated grabbers to keep his ass back some. Good times in McKale, bear down.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
1 year
Just think of Kerr Kriisa as a super senior coming to McKale in early 2025 with the WVU Mountaineers...
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
8 months
Know he and Tina @tcandrea aren't eager for an AD lifestyle but, damn, he sure could do it. Listen to him. (Give them a break, they already had professional careers.)
@AZATHLETICS
Arizona Athletics
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🎙️ Interim Athletic Director Mike Candrea Press Conference
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
7 years
Telling when a network has to show the previous president talk about gun violence in a realistic manner since the current president is a fucking blockhead.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
4 years
Always can take Sean Miller's 17 victories (71%) over ASU. Thanks, it mattered. Fork who? #BearDown
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
8 years
Arizona is 32-4. Don't sell the Young Savages from the desert short.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
3 years
One can celebrate @ArizonaFBall for its internal vision. Implausible losing streak but the boys look forward and fight. BTFD.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
1 year
The recruiting for @ArizonaMBB under Tommy Lloyd and staff is phenomenal. Mostly because the guy is not given to bullshit. It is what it is. He's able to say #BTFD aloud.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
7 years
College football is a liquid thing in the Pac-12. You do what you do if you're not USC. Kevin Sumlin at Arizona rocks. K-Tate spin your mind in '18.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
6 years
Opening night at the new beautiful Rita Hillenbrand Memorial Stadium gets closed by rain. Folks stick around for ribbon-cutting. @ArizonaSoftball has some digs befitting the program's rich past and future.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
3 years
...Barry Tompkins and Dan Belluomini on the TV call for @ArizonaMBB game... Like, those dudes were doing this stuff before the Internet, or at least dial-up stuff
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
6 years
We took 93-year-old dad to scatter some of mom's ashes joining her parents' and baby brother's gravesite, then went for some Mexican street food. Dude had a caramello and full-sized grilled jalapeno plus all the sides. Bueno. Generations.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
3 years
Always appreciate visiting this place, where two distant cousins earned the right to interment. The national cemetery on Point Loma. We met them here. Every stone has a name.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
5 years
After watching on site, now catching some recorded action of Arizona's victory over UCLA, in a double Pac-12-After-Dark move. @bethmowins is as prepared a play-by-play principal as anyone, ever. Not a surprise if you ever watched a WCWS game.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
8 years
Pretty remarkable that @CoachCandreaUA can pile up 1500 wins in 30 years on the field. Do the math: average 50 victories per annum. Yikes.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
9 years
Carolina info dude, adjacent to me, said, 'Nice season' at halftime. Then Simon, Bibby, Dickerson boatraced his ass back to Chapel Hill. '97
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
7 years
Here's the deal on reporting the news. Some agencies - newspapers, television stations, news-angled radio stations - work on gathering news and reporting it professionally. The other part of the interweb universe sits around in chat rooms doing shit.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
7 years
When your eldest grandchild gets official admission to @UofA you simply count the other grandkids and think they just might have a chance in this shithole landscape. Bear Down is important thinking. #BearDown
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
7 years
Here's to care givers worldwide who sacrifice a piece or all of their time with loved ones. Try teaching your 94-year-old father how to put a diaper on your mom. The complexities of the moment are transformative.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
7 years
Every school has them but Foles and Gronk doing a rep of note for Arizona. #BearDown
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
9 months
Can't fault a guy for taking his 15th job in 24 years. That's what he does, look it up. Professional PE teacher. Some would first want the 10-win deal once more to prove he's worth a $50M gamble.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
7 years
Wish there was a nearby college softball game I could walk over and watch to get my mind off this shithole president.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
9 months
Tough fact. Jeff Fisch's family never has had to deal with head-coach-moving-on syndrome and all it entails. Scrutiny. Anger. Relief. The money helps but the shock at the reactions never goes away. Farewell and good luck!
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
3 years
Sitting on the patio in early February, short sleeves. Listening to @catspbp Brian Jeffries and @ReggieGeary on the radio with @ArizonaMBB .
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
9 years
Steve Kerr worked Arizona SID office one summer long ago: 'database project' for a class... Enter football rosters into a computer. Got A.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
4 years
Thanks to @azpublicmedia for spinning out Linda Ronstadt's only live album on the tube just now. Got to see her and the Stone Poneys live on Sixth Street when I was 16. The Cup is now covered by a UA parking garage.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
7 years
Pardon me but anyone against public education is an asshole. Figure it out. We need all children to have the support to succeed.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
8 months
Every time University of Arizona teams went on the road to so-called "altitude" cities, the media folks and I had no difficulty drinking and consorting just like we did at sea-level places. That elevation stuff is overrated.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
4 years
Cut ties with home delivery of daily newspaper after 46-year subscription. Sad day. My family had a daily (or two) newspaper delivered to homes in this town since 1960. We always could start a charcoal fire, for sure.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
7 years
ASU's @DougTammaro sent nice card thanking me for helping his staff at the Final Four. I publicly declare him to be a fine man. #BeatTempe
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
7 years
Serendipity: ride bike to end @UA_Softball game, OF entrance, meet all-CWS Katie Swan and her kids, Cats beat Oregon seconds later. #BTFD
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
6 years
@SecretaryPerry @Scaramucci We forgot you were even working in the cabinet. Meh.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
8 years
34 years courtside for @APlayersProgram games does not get old. You just Bear Down and move on.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
4 years
@AdiaBarnes ..It's now the Fucking A, a new tradition. Do you think Pop McKale told the team that Button told them to "bear down?" Really? Like, huh? He was talking to a football team, for crissakes.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
3 years
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
4 years
Thoughts and karma for the family of friend and former AP newsman Art Rotstein, who's in TMC on a ventilator. We wish we could visit him.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
6 years
Nice to see another UA grad, @Mike_Schmitz , work ESPN coverage of the NBA Draft in a big way. Daily Wildcat 2009-12.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
7 years
Love March basketball, but when you no longer travel with the lads, you do yard work and stuff instead of going to open practice day and news conferences.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
6 years
Yeah, NBA Draft is cool, but word from Archie, Peyton and Eli -- passing camp -- is promising, too. (Photo courtesy the Manning camp.)
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
5 years
Educational first responders - teachers and school administrators on duty at 6 p.m. to potentially get instruction to kids and families. Across the street from our house. Thank you for your service.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
4 years
He's a good man but nice to see 11-seed UCLA send @Greg_Byrne and the Bama squad out of Indy and homeward bound for some spring football. Not even dark outside where I live.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
3 years
If we didn't have other lives now, @AGWildcatReport and I would soon be going to Flip's Trattoria in Oklahoma City for the umpteenth time for some spags. And again. #WCWS
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
7 years
Born in Buffalo, so there's some hometown pride on the line in NCAA action tonight in Boise. Wait, moved to Tucson in 1960... so #BTFD .
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
8 months
Old friend Richard Fabel died today after a fight with diabetes, We go way back, and his detailed recollections of times we’ve forgotten will be lost. I miss his red hair from 50+ years ago. XOX.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
7 years
All the breathless angst over college basketball still hasn't made me forget that @realDonaldTrump is a slapdick. Read the news. Even the fake stuff.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
7 years
Always fun time of year when open locker rooms give voices to many more college basketball players. The kids have the best perspectives.
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@TomDudd
Tom Duddleston
4 years
In last four-plus years so many young journalists have emerged as trusted voices. A lot of women. Extremely important development. Watch, listen, read and believe.
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