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.
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.
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
.)
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Look forward to seeing him again, and his little brother, Brad still has one of the important game-changing receptions in school history.
#BeatTheCornhuskers
#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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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!
..
@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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.)
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.
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.
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.
...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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
@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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.