The Star's longtime columnist on what's in story for the next 50 years for McKale Center, the rare air Azuolas Tubelis' 40-point night actually puts him in, UA football's local recruiting efforts, the legacy of former UA hoops coach Fred…
50 more years at McKale? 'I think it's a possibility'At 50, McKale Center’s merit and cache has never been greater, never held in higher esteem.
The reason McKale Center remains the Pac-12’s state-of-the-art basketball venue is that Arizona’s last three athletic directors – Jim Livengood, Greg Byrne and now Heeke – have been proactive in remodeling everything from locker rooms, offices, meeting rooms and spectator seating to video boards, restrooms and concession amenities.
Stanford’s Maples Pavilion , Cal’s Haas Pavilion , and UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion all spent tens of millions of dollars to remodel the bones of their aging basketball arenas. Over the years, I’ve been fortunate to cover Arizona games at the nation’s two most revered college basketball arenas: Duke’s 83-year-old Cameron Indoor Arena and Kansas’ 68-year-old Phog Allen Fieldhouse.
As you might expect, some of the elite names of league history are in the 40 Point Club: UCLA’s Reggie Miller and Don MacLean, USC’s Harold Miner, Stanford’s Casey Jacobsen , Oregon’s Luke Jackson, Oregon State’s Gary Payton , Washington’s Chris Welp, WSU’s Klay Thompson , ASU’s James Harden and Arizona’s Damon Stoudamire and Khalid Reeves.
Short stuff I: UA football's eye for local talent wide open; Akina could have bigger impact on UA football than past analystsMost college football coaching staffs kick back and get some rare time to relax in the week or two after national signing day, which was last Wednesday. But one of the reasons UA coach Jedd Fisch has recruited so well the last two seasons is that he and his staff are grinders, far different than the staffs of his predecessors Kevin Sumlin and Rich Rodriguez.
Arizona grad Ricky Barnes, 41, who won the 2002 U.S. Amateur while a Wildcat All-American, received a sponsor’s exemption into the Phoenix Open. He has not played in a PGA Tour event since October. ….
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