Arizona Marvelous Ideas: Sonoran Hot Reads (6/8)

We've got a new guy in charge of Arizona baseball

It's certainly a baseball kind of day, as the MLB Draft is set to get underway, and Arizona has a new head coach.

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- Nevada head coach Jay Johnson is heading to Tucson to take over the Arizona Wildcats. This is a really good piece on when he was first hired at Nevada. Check out his UNR bio, and the bio of pitching coach Dave Lawn, who has plenty of Pac-12 experience, and will be interesting to see if he joins Johnson at Arizona. Here's the Daily Star's post on the hiring. The Reno Gazette-Journal provides some of the monetary numbers.

- His introductory press conference will be streamed here at 1 PM PT on Monday.

- The MLB Draft starts Monday night. Here's how to watch, along with the latest projections for Scott Kingery and Kevin Newman.

- Speaking of Newman and Kingery, be sure to check out my photo gallery of both of them from the past two seasons.

- Former Arizona swimmer Amy Van Dyken-Rouen threw out the first pitch at the Diamondbacks game on Sunday as she continues to recover from a serious spinal injury.

.@UAAA reunite @Dbacks ChipHale @amyvandyken & I ready for @FOXSPORTSAZ intv @AZATHLETICS @WildcatBearDown http://pic.twitter.com/lkHmF1B0jT
— Kate Longworth (@KateLongworth) June 7, 2015