Sonoran Hot Reads: Mark Melancon signs four-year deal with Giants

The first former Wildcat to make the big bucks

As contracts continue to increase in Major League Baseball, we’ve finally seen the first former Arizona Wildcat to really cash in. Mark Melancon, who has recorded an MLB-leading 98 saves over the past two seasons, became the highest paid reliever ever (for now) by agreeing to a four-year deal worth $62 million with the San Francisco Giants. This leaves the Nationals looking for different options. Props to Melancon on getting that money though. His turnaround is quite the story

I am excited to say I am officially apart of the San Francisco GIANTS organization! http://pic.twitter.com/btcMlpil8O

— Mark Melancon (@Mark_Melancon_) December 5, 2016

- Arizona will be on TV more than any other team in the conference, getting 20 televised games this year

Basketball

- The Wildcats are still ranked, checking in at No. 20 in both major polls

- Sean Miller explained what happened in the Gonzaga loss on Monday. He also announced Allonzo Trier was cleared to travel but not play by the NCAA, and that Parker Jackson-Cartwright will miss about eight weeks with a high ankle sprain

- His best quote was about fouling though

- This week’s games feature UC-Irvine and Mizzou

Football

- Arizona was the fifth-most disappointing team this season if you go by preseason Las Vegas lines

- If you’re going to use the transitive property this year, Arizona was better than Ohio State....put the Wildcats in the Playoff!

- Nebraska made the Donte Williams hiring official on Monday. Couple other recruiting things here as Matt Leo had Oklahoma visit him, while Austin Faoliu hosted ASU

- Cody Ippolito is reportedly visiting Utah this week, and will also talk to Todd Graham about playing for ASU next year

Other sports

- Women’s basketball players are just like you and me....they play Uno on bus trips

Tucson news

- A jogger in Green Valley found a body in a wash

- The family that lives in the house that had a car end up on top of it this weekend has been forced out of their home as the investigation continues

- U of A received $1.5 million of funding to study long-term cancer effects in firefighters

- The USS Arizona Mall Memorial was officially dedicated on Sunday

Several members of the campus community look over the recently-completed U.S.S. Arizona Memorial on the mall. #PearlHarbor75 http://pic.twitter.com/VM9agNowUO

— Univ. of Arizona ⬇ (@UofA) December 5, 2016

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