Sonoran Hot Reads: Diamondbacks fire Chip Hale

The UA alum is no longer in charge of the local MLB club

After putting up a 69-93 record for the Arizona Diamondbacks this year, and a total record of 148-176 in two years, Arizona alum Chip Hale was fired as the team’s manager. He, along with GM Dave Stewart are now out of jobs after the team came nowhere near to living up to high expectations this year. According to Baseball Reference, Hale had a 22-15 record in replay challenges, and was one of the better challengers in 2015. That’s all he has going for him though. He wasn’t a very good manager, but maybe he’ll get another shot somewhere else

Football

- Is Arizona doing all it can to attract as many fans to the games as possible?

- The Pac-12 Championship Game may find its way to Phoenix (probably Glendale) in the future

- Check out one of our reader’s advanced stats, and what they say about the conference after five weeks

- I went to watch 2018 commit Jamarye Joiner on Friday, and walked away impressed with him on multiple levels

- Gabe talked to 2018 WR Mark McMillian Jr. about his current status with the Wildcats

- The USC game is actually gonna happen while the sun’s up...on the East Coast!

- All those Washington jokes from the last ten or twenty years might have to go away now

Basketball

- Michigan State/Arizona is apparently the best non-conference game in all of college basketball this year. The Gonzaga game is 25th and the Texas A&M game is 38th

- Rondae Hollis-Jefferson has been spending a ton of time on his jumper

- Solomon Hill says his favorite website is Nike.com so there’s that

Other sports

- Samantha Czarniak rallied to take home the Wildcat Invitation singles title. Now Lauren Marker starts her season in Pacific Palisades on Tuesday

- Men’s golf is T-14th after two rounds in Texas. Women’s golf is T-8 in Chicago

- Volleyball is 38th in the first RPI rankings of the year

- Janice Yu found out more about cross country catching a thief on their recent road trip

Tucson news

- The Roadrunners held their first practice at the arena on Monday

- You can now fly from Tucson to Mexico again

- A guy shot at an Uber drive early Monday morning near Grant and Columbus. He’s being held without bond

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