Sonoran Hot Reads: NCAA recommends less contact in practice during season

Are we moving towards no hitting throughout college football during the year?

As people try to reduce the risk of injuries in the game of football, namely concussions, the NCAA came out with a new rules recommendation regarding full contact practices during the season. The proposition is to drop the number of live-contact practices from two to one during each week of the regular season. This isn’t entirely new to the sport. Back in March, the Ivy League voted to totally eliminate hitting during the season after a revolutionary system at Dartmouth produced positive results for the Mean Green. Frankly, if all teams can come up with something similar to what Dartmouth does, I don’t see a down side to it. Arizona has greatly reduced the amount of hitting in practices the past few seasons, as has the rest of college football. Limiting hitting to just Tuesdays or Wednesdays could keep the team fresher late in the year

- Another college football news thing to come out on Thursday was the College Football Playoff moving several years of semifinals off of New Year’s Eve

- In this ESPN Insider piece, Marcel Yates comes up as a potential rising head coaching candidate

- Current head coach Rich Rodriguez was in Glendale for Arizona Cardinals training camp

- Want a new rivalry trophy? Here’s a way to come up with good ones

- Arizona seems to have the worst Week Two opponent in the Pac-12

- The Register-Guard takes a look at how the Wildcats are looking to rebound from a down year

- People keep asking about why RichRod doesn’t recruit Pima kids. Well, here’s one

- It seems like Thomas Graham is becoming a bigger target as the coaching staff looks to closer out this big 2017 class with some big bangs. We also chatted with three of the players that were in town for last weekend’s recruiting event

Basketball

- The more we learn about Lauri Markkanen, the more it seems like he’s going to be a dominant and unique player at Arizona this year

- Here’s another incoming dude to get excited about: Rawle Alkins and his willingness to end people’s lives at the rim

- Another day, another top list of schools for a prized recruit that UA finds itself on

Baseball

- Kevin Newman is now 53rd on the new Top 100 prospects list. Tucson native Alex Verdugo is 58th, and former Arizona signee Michael Kopech is 83rd

Other sports

- No surprise here, but Pau Tonnesen was chosen to represent Spain in the decathlon at the Rio Olympics

Tucson news

- Get in all your votes for the Sweet Sixteen of the Tucson Restaurant Tournament

- It was a crazy day in Tucson, with a bank robbery in Marana ending with a couple of cop car carjackings and the suspect dead just south of campus. It shut down roads and highways all over the Old Pueblo, from Marana, to I-19 and Irvington, to Campbell and 6th. Just nuts

- Tucson is the 25th-best city in the country for renters. Every major city in the Phoenix area is ranked in the top 13

Car chase ends in reported gunfire at 8th St/Campbell. TFD medics render aid, @Tucson_Police and @MaranaPD on scene. http://pic.twitter.com/0mCuO70lLb

— Mike Christy (@wildcatphotog) July 28, 2016

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