Sonoran Hot Reads: Elliott Pitts transferring to Diablo Valley College

Pitts is going home and will redshirt this year

After leaving the Arizona Wildcats after being accused of sexual assault and being suspended from the school, former guard Elliott Pitts has apparently found a new home. According to Verbal Commits, Pitts will transfer to Diablo Valley College, and will redshirt this upcoming year. Diablo Valley is just inland from Berkeley, near Pitts’ hometown of Dublin, CA. The Vikings went 14-14 last year

- Alex Barcello chatted with Corona del Sol’s newspaper about his decision to commit to Arizona

Football

- Rob Gronkowski was named the 2nd-best player in the entire NFL by Pro Football Focus

- Arizona currently has verbal commitments from three of the top four high schools in the country

- Drew Dixon goes to Sabino, is an Arizona commit, and is quite impressive on a football field

- BYU will be missing star defensive lineman Travis Tuiloma for the Arizona game and longer

- Here are five storylines for this weekend according to Wildcat Sports Report

- Kalani Sitake seems concerned about the speed that Arizona’s offense plays at

- BYU will have more fans than Arizona at Saturday’s game, which shouldn’t surprise people, but it will anyway. We also chatted about these neutral site games and other stuff in this week’s roundtable

- Our twitter followers were really concerned about the Arizona offense this week, particularly the receivers

- Thanks for contributing to our first Reader Pac-12 Power Rankings! Stanford took the top spot, Oregon State was last, and everyone else was somewhere in between

- Bookmark this page for all of our BYU/Arizona coverage, including our By the Numbers preview and BYU basics. You won’t find more info in one place than in that StoryStream

We'll be in red helmets Saturday night when we take on BYU in Glendale! #BearDown #Forever65 http://pic.twitter.com/izesKo4Jyg

— #Forever65 (@ArizonaFBall) August 30, 2016

Baseball

- 2018 LHP Blake Peyton pledged his verbal commitment to Arizona. According to Perfect Game, Peyton hit 89 MPH on the radar gun this past month. He was a 2016 underclassmen high honorable mention by PG as well

- There are no Arizona commits among the Top 25 2017 HS MLB Draft Prospects

- Kevin Newman is now a top ten shortstop prospect

Ever wonder how you throw 16 scoreless IP in Omaha? You work in August! #BearDown #MLBTrainingGround @Bigclone27 http://pic.twitter.com/o51br6nNoV

— Arizona Baseball (@ArizonaBaseball) August 30, 2016

Other sports

- Freshman Maddie Bennett is excited to be part of Arizona soccer’s rise

Tucson news

- Donald Trump’s campaign denied the Daily Wildcat’s credential requests for his event in Phoenix on Wednesday

- As I was writing this on Tuesday night, a shooting situation was happening at the TMC parking garage

- A man was stabbed on the south side

- Increasing the state’s minimum wage will be on the ballot in November

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