Sonn, Hertzog win VP positions in record turnout

The Associated Students of the University of Arizona announced last night Cade Bernsen as the winning presidential candidate in the second-highest voter turnout since 1990.

In a record-breaking election, the total of 4,452 votes was still shy of the 5,241 turnout 16 years ago, but 849 more votes than last year's general election.

Bernsen won with 2,196 votes, 2.6 percent and 111 more than Jacob Reuben, who won the primaries last week by 7.3 percent. [Read article]

They've been here before, and they've lost everything.

Two years ago, the Arizona men's basketball team was a No. 1 seed in the Pacific 10 Conference Tournament and was upset in the quarterfinal game by No. 8 seed UCLA.

This year, the No. 8 Wildcats (25-14, 15-3 Pac-10) hope history doesn't repeat itself when they take on the California Golden Bears (13-15, 6-12) today at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, with tipoff scheduled for 1:20 p.m. [Read article]

An hour before the big game versus Arizona State on Saturday, I was sitting in a bar with a few good friends on Mill Avenue in Tempe, sipping on drinks and devouring nachos. It was my first time there, and in the spirit of hating all things ASU, I decided that Fourth Avenue's diversity and culture beat Mill's disinfected shopping-mall feel any day. Our final days as UA students were nearing, and we were preparing for one final Pacific 10 Conference hurrah as students and fans of Arizona men's basketball. [Read article]