Bayless brings `it' to the next level

By Bryan Roy

NEW YORK - Jerryd Bayless' elite performance during his one-year tenure at Arizona will soon pay off, both figuratively and literally. Using his quickness, strength and all-around athleticism, Bayless displayed the required tangibles not only to excel through rigorous Pacific 10 Conference basketball, but also to prove attractive to the next level.

Butts tours Tucson

Whoops coach gives glimpse at program's future

By Bobby Stover

Arizona's newly appointed women's basketball head coach Niya Butts is on a mission. The objective: to bring excitement back to the program, one which has suffered countless setbacks during its current three-year stretch without a winning season. Wednesday, Butts made one of a series of public appearances she has planned as a guest speaker at the Tucson Downtown Sertoma Club in an effort to raise awareness and enthusiasm for the recently restructured Arizona program.

UA can't afford to lose Jennings but he can afford to skip Europe

By Lance Madden

There was a lull on a December day between the Arizona men's basketball team's win over San Diego State and the start of the GOAZCATS.com Showdown - a mini tournament specifically designed for incoming freshman Brandon Jennings. As the Wildcats showered, changed and trickled out of the locker room in McKale Center, Jennings - ESPN.com's No. 1 ranked player in his class - and UA's then-freshman star Jerryd Bayless hung out in front of Bayless' locker and discussed whatever it is young, gifted, future NBA players talk about.

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C.A.T.S. director resigns following 1-year stint with student-athletes

By Bobby Stover

It was a short stay in Tucson for the man behind Arizona's academic improvement. After joining the Wildcats' staff in the spring of 2007, Roger Grooters, Arizona's director of Commitment to an Athlete's Total Success, resigned from the position last week.

'Cats jump to pro ranks

By Bobby Stover

It has only been a matter of weeks since the Arizona baseball team's season came to an end in Coral Gables, Fla. The distinctive ping of aluminum bats still resonates through the collegiate baseball atmosphere, however, for a few former Wildcats as their professional lives have already begun.