The 2004 Arizona football season could depend as much on what happens this summer as what happens this fall.

The Wildcats closed out Spring Football April 17 with the annual Spring Game. The team will now focus on summer workouts.

"Our goals over the summer are to become a faster, stronger football team so we can execute with a more violent attitude," head coach Mike Stoops said.

Last season, Arizona had about 25 players ÷ about half the roster ÷ participating in voluntary workouts. The Wildcats then suffered one of the worst seasons in school history, going 2-10 and winning only one Pacific 10 Conference game for the second straight year. [Read article]

The Arizona men's golf team opened the Pac-10 Championships in as hot a manner as it has the entire spring ÷ hot enough to put itself in a first-place tie after the first day.

The opening competition featured the 10-team field completing 36 holes at The Gallery at Dove Mountain in Marana yesterday.

The Wildcats ended the first and second rounds yesterday with four teams remaining on the course. Arizona is tied with Arizona State for the lead, with UCLA in a distant third, trailing by 13 shots. [Read article]

Arizona softball sophomore pitcher Alicia Hollowell's middle name is Kay. How appropriate: She is first in Ks for the UA, again.

Hollowell (32-1) and the rest of the Wildcats (45-2, 9-1 Pacific 10 Conference) finally lost a Pac-10 game Sunday, nearly going through the first half of the league's schedule unscathed. The good news: Hollowell reached 400 strikeouts for the season, breaking her own record of 394 set last year. [Read article]

The Arizona football team could be the most publicized 2-10 team in the nation.

In the last month, the Wildcats have been featured in two national sports magazines. Head coach Mike Stoops was featured in a multiple-page story in the most recent issue of ESPN The Magazine and in this week's Sports Illustrated. There was also a two-page picture of Arizona players stretching before their Spring Game and a brief story about the Wildcats' coaching change. [Read article]

The Arizona women's golf team found out yesterday where it will be playing in the NCAA Regional tournament, and the destination is pretty Normal.

The Wildcats will be teeing it up at the 6,500-yard Illinois State University Golf Course in Normal, Ill., beginning May 6, as the third seed in the Central Regional.

Head coach Greg Allen said even though the Wildcats have to travel over a time zone, at least they aren't heading all the way to the Atlantic. [Read article]