Livengood tells Board of Regents athletic budget looking 'pretty good'

UA athletic director Jim Livengood told the Arizona Board of Regents yesterday he projects the athletics department to have a surplus of more than $1 million at the end of the year.

Athletic directors from the UA, Arizona State University, and Northern Arizona University presented reports on their financial status as well as how their student-athletes are faring to the regents yesterday. [Read article]

Cats head to N.Y. next week for NIT semifinals

Salim Stoudamire scored 17 of his 24 points in the first half to lead the Wildcats to an 83-66 win over Wright State in the second round of the Preseason NIT last night in McKale Center.

The Wildcats (2-0) extended their lead to as much as 33 points with 14:22 remaining in the second half, but the Raiders (1-1) cut the lead to 15 by the 7-minute mark.

The Raiders were able to get back in the game on the shooting of Zakee Boyd, who scored 14 points in that stretch, including four consecutive 3-pointers to make the score 65-50. [Read article]

Students at the UA have been using the SafeRide service provided by ASUA since 1994, and it's been a prosperous venture that has helped many students. Although SafeRide is one awesome little advantage for UA students, there are many more features that can be altered or added that would make SafeRide a lot safer.

Numerous times have I heard from friends or fellow colleagues that they have almost been run over by SafeRide cars (which is rather ironic), been rejected for a pick up or that the drivers just aren't very pleasurable. [Read article]