The Arizona football team is trying to get over last week's 27-24 loss to Utah, and the Wildcats are hoping a home opener tomorrow night against NAU will have the squad focusing on victory rather than defeat.

"It's a long season, and we have 10 more games, so we have to focus on that and not dwell on what happened last week against Utah," said senior safety Darrell Brooks.

Arizona (0-1) opens its 2005 home schedule tomorrow at 7 p.m. against the cross-state Lumberjacks (1-0). [Read article]

Tomorrow the Arizona football team will face an in-state rival in a heated matchup sure to divide the state in half.

OK, so maybe "rival" is a bit more than a stretch, "heated" would only be an accurate description of the weather and that part about dividing the state in half is a tad more than mouse manure.

But before Arizona and NAU played in 2002, the last time they played was in 1945. Games in 2003 and 2004 only happened because San Diego State pulled a Dave Chappelle on Arizona and backed out of scheduled games. [Read article]

Senior midfielder Nikki David started her first game of the season for the Arizona women's soccer team against Princeton yesterday.

If she keeps being in the right place at the right time, she may force the coaching staff to leave her in the loop.

David finished with a goal and an assist to lead the Wildcats (2-1-1) to a 2-1 win over the Tigers in the Princeton Invitational.

"(Arizona assistant coach) Harold (Warren) said to me, 'She's a difference maker," said Wildcat head coach Dan Tobias of David. "(It's) just her presence in the attack. She's got speed and she's a tough player for people to match up with." [Read article]

The No. 15 Arizona women's volleyball kept its early winning streak alive yesterday in Santa Clara, Calif., in the first round of the Bronco Invitational, but not without paying a price.

The Wildcats (4-0) swept No. 18 University of California, Santa Barbara (2-2) in three games, in a match Arizona head coach David Rubio said "wasn't pretty," to remain unbeaten in 2005.

However, junior setter Stephanie Butkus suffered a knee injury that Rubio said would sideline her for the remainder of the weekend tournament. [Read article]