The most recognizable man in the 50-year history of McKale Center is Lute Olson. Joe Cavaleri, the Ooh Aah Man, who died Saturday, was probably No. 2.
One of the last times I talked to Joe Cavaleri he told me he had gotten an email from a UA basketball fan who called him a “middle-aged clown.’’He wore an old T-shirt with the words “Woody’s Sporting Goods’’ on the front and “OOH AAH’’ on the back. The shirt must’ve been 10 years old. Maybe more.
People are also reading… As long ago as 1982, UA basketball coach Fred Snowden told me “Joe is a momentum-changer; nobody else has anything like him.’’Joe Cavaleri, born in Pawling, New York, in 1952, died Saturday at St. Joseph’s Hospital. He was 71. The NCAA allowed each school complimentary travel for 12 cheerleaders to the Final Four. Cavaleri was always one of the 12.He soon found out.
After Arizona beat Hawaii to clinch a berth at the College World Series, UA players Clark Crist, Terry Francona and Wes Clements raised Cavaleri to their shoulders and carried him around the infield. “Joe had gone to Spain with his community college group from Poughkeepsie and came back with all these Spanish phrases,'' Terry remembers."He told me that in Spanish, the UofA was ‘Ooh Aah.’ So when he started cheering at UA baseball games, that was his rallying cry.’’Joe stopped his cheerleading act in 2013, yielding to his aching back and knees, and acknowledging that Parkinson’s Disease made it difficult for him to spell “A-R-I-Z-O-N-A’’ and maintain his balance.
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