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San Jose, Calif., is the home of this year's Pac-10 women's basketball tournament for the second straight year, and no one is happier about that than Arizona's Aimee Grzyb.

The senior guard played at Archbishop Mitty High School in San Jose and will head to the Bay Area one last time in a UA uniform with an automatic berth for the NCAA Tournament on the line.

"For me, there's no second time around. This is the last time I'm ever going to play, besides hopefully the NCAA Tournament," Grzyb said. "But if you lose the first game, who knows if you are going to play (again). Basically, every game I have to play like it is going to be my last because it could be." [Read article]

Lowe, Champion pack mighty punch atop Wildcat lineup

For an opposing pitcher, there's nothing worse than facing a team's leadoff hitter, a player who will get on base in any number of ways and rarely strikes out ÷ unless she's facing two of them.

At the top of the order for the No. 2 Wildcat softball team are freshman center fielder Caitlin Lowe and sophomore left fielder Autumn Champion, a pair of lefty slap hitters who both prepped at Foothill High School in Tustin, Calif., an All-American factory. [Read article]

Last week, I realized that I was coming down with something, but urine samples and plasma wouldn't reveal the illness that had me bedridden.

I took some time off to evaluate my situation and came out with something that possibly attacks most men from Coronado to El Rio.

I have an extreme case of the ESPNs.

That is right ÷ I love that channel.

I have ripped all the buttons off my remote control except the 2 and the 4, and I'm not that upset about it. [Read article]

Arizona softball acting associate head coach Nancy Evans may be one of the few hoping the UA's first game of its weekend tournament starts late.

Evans will throw out the first pitch of the Colorado Rockies' first Spring Training game against the Chicago White Sox tomorrow as part of "Women in Sports Day." Evans will throw out the pitch before the 1:05 p.m. game at Hi Corbett Field, the Spring Training home of the Rockies and home of the new Arizona Heat major league softball team, which Evans plays for. [Read article]

UA head soccer coach Dan Tobias announced the program's annual team awards Tuesday, with 10 Wildcats receiving honors.

Junior Candice Wilks was named both the Offensive Most Valuable Player and Team MVP. That follows on the heels of several other accolades Wilks received for her performance last fall, including first-team All-Pacific-10 Conference third-team National Soccer Coaches Association of America All-West Region and third-team Soccer Buzz All-West Region. [Read article]