Sonoran Hot Reads (7/8)

Good football things are happening

Football

- Arizona's 2016 recruiting class is up to eight commits with the addition of three-star linebacker Jacob Colacion

- Here's a free Rivals article on Colacion's commitment

- Plenty of Arizona players are going to find themselves on watch lists this preseason. Four of them were named to major award watch lists on Tuesday

- Pat Forde offered up 40 college football schedule thoughts, and there are Arizona tidbits in numbers 10, 11, 29 and 36

Basketball

- Aaron Gordon continues to do well in the NBA Summer League, while T.J. McConnell might have been a little too unselfish

- Rondae Hollis-Jefferson did a Twitter Q&A on the official Nets account

- Arizona commit T.J. Leaf is going to play on Israel's U-18 team later this summer

- "The Basketball Tournament" starts on Friday, and there's an ASU/UA matchup coming

- What in the world is Josh Pastner doing at Memphis?

Baseball

- Bobby Dalbec and Team USA continue to struggle

- Joey Rickard set a Southern League record by walking six times in a game for the Montgomery Biscuits. Here's video of his sixth walk

@MiLB @Rags2Rickard let them know you just didn't want to run standards after

— Josh Garcia (@JoshGar) July 8, 2015

Other sports

- Watch the Arizona soccer coaching staff break down the Women's World Cup

- Arizona and Fox Sports 910 in Phoenix extended their partnership for three more years

- Arizona senior Lindsey Weaver will be in the U.S. Women's Open this week

Tucson news

- I don't know why this is a big deal, but a Sun Tran bus drove through a flooded intersection. If you fixed your streets Tucson, your buses would be able to go everywhere when it rains.

- Get these animals at PACC reunited with their families

Sgt Sheldon calming a small pup that was rescued from a car involved in a rollover collision-Dog & owner are ok. http://pic.twitter.com/t9vzP5Qnq2

— Sergeant Pete Dugan (@SgtDugan) July 8, 2015

- For the 8th time since 2012, a UA frat has been shut down

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