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Arizona Women's Basketball head coach Adia Barnes talks about her team's 92-75 loss to the Northern Arizona Lumberjacks (Photo courtesy: Arizona Athletics).
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The Wildcats have had a week to stew over, recover and get better from their 56-12 shellacking at Central Florida. D.K. and tight end Glenn Howell ('85) dive into where they most want to see improvement as UA gets set for what will now be a three-game gauntlet to try and get to bowl eligibility (Photo courtesy: Arizona Athletics).
David Kelly and tight end Glenn Howell (UA '85) finally have some game balls to give out again as Arizona ends it's five-game losing streak with a 27-3 home victory ove rthe Houston Cougars
D.K. on the Sports Tip 3 p.m. hour (11-19-24): The countdown has begun for one of the biggest home basketball games in recent memory for UA as the Wildcats get set to welcome in Duke to McKale Center this Friday night (Photo courtesy: Imagn Images).
D.K. on the Sports Tip 4 p.m. hour (11-19-24): The Fall is not sizing up well for Arizona Athletics in terms of the Learfield Directors' Cup, soccer and cross country failed to qualify for their NCAA Championships and football and volleyball are facing up hill climbs as their seasons wind down.
D.K. on the Sports Tip 5 p.m. hour (11-19-24): There's a lot of GREEN popping on the Boston Celtics special NBA Cup floor at TD Gardens as the Celtics try to derail the undefeated Cleveland Cavaliers (Photo courtesy: USA Today).
The Oslo Norway native scored with just three second left in regulation on Sunday to force overtime and help propel Pima Soccer to a comeback 3-2 win in their pool play opener at the Division II National Tournament (Photo courtesy: Pima Athletics).
D.K. on the Sports Tip 3 p.m. hour (11-18-24): When you recover a fumble, intercept a pass. batted down a ball on 4th down and dominate on special teams punt coverage like Genesis Smith, you are worthy of being tapped as one of the best this week in Big-12 (Photo courtesy: Arizona Athletics).
D.K. on the Sports Tip 4 p.m. hour (11-18-24): Breaking News as piece of the roof comes falling down from at AT&T Stadium prior to the Dallas Cowboys Monday Night Football game plus will the Hurricane damage force a decision on a new stadium for the Tampa Bay Rays (Satellite imagery from Maxar).
D.K. on the Sports Tip 5 p.m. hour (11-18-24): This year's season of Broadway in Tucson opened with the childhood board game Clue and did indeed Colonel Mustard whack someone in the Study with a Candlestick holder.
UA grad Brody Dryden ('21) is on the call with Lamont Lovett as the Wildcats end their five-game losing streak with a 27-3 drubbing of the Houston Cougars.
David Kelly, tight end Glenn Howell (UA '85), the captain Kelvin Eafon (UA '98) and J.W. Madden recap an exciting Friday in which Arizona Football broke their five-game losing streak with a win over the Houston Cougars while the Wildcats' men's basketball team lost for the 1st time this season, falling on the road to the Wisconsin Badgers.
The Tucson football legend from Salpointe Catholic to the Arizona Wildcats to the Super Bowl with the Buffalo Bills joins the pregame show to discuss offensive line play and what the Wildcats need to bust out of their slump and get back on the path to a bowl game.
It's a big weekend for UA's band as the Pride of Arizona has been bestowed with the Sudler Trophy, an award given every two years to the best college marching band in the country. Band Director Chad Shoopman stopped by our tailgate to discuss this honor and what it means to the band.
The Captain is in his element with big games coming up Friday night for both Arizona Football and Men's Basketball.
D.K. on the Sports Tip 3 p.m. hour (11-14-24): The game this week is on Friday so D.K and Company are getting you ready on Thursday with all the festivities down on University Blvd.
D.K. on the Sports Tip 4 p.m. hour (11-14-24): Victor Wembanyama continued his otherworldly play by scoring a career-high 50 points in a win over Washington but is he shooting too many three-point shots (Photo courtesy: Imagn Images).
UA 2021 graduate Brody Dryden has called Wildcats softball, baseball and women's basketball games in his young career but now he'll get the chance to step up to the main stage as he will be on broadcasts for UA Football's home game Friday against Houston and travel with men's basketball to their upcoming trip to a tournament in the Bahamas (Photo courtesy: Arizona Daily Star).
D.K. on the Sports Tip 5 p.m. hour (11-14-24): Kricket picks the game this week and caller Ted has a chance to pick the winner and take home a $100 gift card in the Miller Lite Pigskin Challenge (Photo courtesy: Imagn Images).
Desireé Reed-Francois makes her weekly visit to D.K. on the Sports Tip and talks about her trip with the UA Triathlon team to Florida where the ladies came back with a national championship.
Reggie Geary is with the Wildcats' basketball team in Madison as UA gets ready for their 1st big game of the season.
Salpointe Catholic grad and Atlanta Falcons running back Bijan Robinson joined the Rich Eisen Show on Wildcats Radio 1290 to discuss his 2nd season in the NFL.
Mark Stewart is in his third season covering Wisconsin Badgers Basketball and gives you the low down on this year's Greg Gard team that the Wildcats will face when they arrive to play in Madison on Friday night.
D.K. on the Sports Tip 3 p.m. hour (11-13-24): Freshman Lauryn Swann scored all 19 of her points in the second half to lead Arizona Women's Basketball to a come from behind victory over UNLV (Photo courtesy: Arizona Athletics).
D.K. on the Sports Tip 4 p.m. hour (11-13-24): UA will play a football game on Friday night at the same time as high school football state playoffs games all across the state. There's something that just is not right about that.
D.K. on the Sports Tip 5 p.m. hour (11-13-24): Arizona continues to wait on the NCAA to decide the fate of Jacory Croskey-Merritt. Is there a point where you stop waiting and just play the kid.
The World Baseball Classic qualifiers are coming to Tucson in 2025. This event was initially supposed to happen here in 2021 but was cancelled due to the Pandemic, Blake Eager says this version is a much bigger deal for Southern Arizona.
Joseph Duarte has all you need to know on the resurgence of Houston Cougars Football plus a little preview of what's happening with Kelvin Sampson's hoops squad.
D.K. on the Sports Tip 3 p.m. hour (11-12-24); Jordan Wilson and Avery Scoggins are on top of their new conference after the Wildcats took down No. 8 Kansas (Photo courtesy: Arizona Athletics).
D.K. on the Sports Tip 4 p.m. hour (11-12-24): Jordan Montgomery is a quality big leaguer starting pitcher who with a full off-season and spring training could be a valuable asset to the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2025 (Photo courtesy: USA Today).
D.K. on the Sports Tip 5 p.m. hour (11-12-24): Tobe Awaka dominated the low-post in scoring 18 points and grabbing 15 rebounds in Arizona's win over Old Dominion (Photo courtesy: Arizona Athletics)
The Pima Aztecs won the Division II Region I championship in dramatic fashion over rival Phoenix and it has earned Dave Cosgrove and his team the No. 1 seed in the National Tournament.
Ixta Mendez-Jimenez was not at all surprised that the Pima Women's Soccer team earned an at-large selection to the National Tournament in Alabama and the sophomore is ready to lead her team on the road to a title (Photo courtesy: Pima Athletics).
Cathy Guy discusses her club securing for Tucson the Indoor Football League Championship game for the next three years, how she hopes this is another step to springboard the Tucson Sugar Skulls to success in the league and how she and her husband Kevin navigate being executives in the same league but with different teams (Photo courtesy: Tucson Sugar Skulls).
D.K. on the Sports Tip 3 p.m. hour (11-11-24): In just their second season of existence, Kelly Wetteland and the Arizona Triathlon team beat 7-time national champion and rival Arizona State to win the school's 23rd title in a team sport (Photo courtesy: Arizona Athletics).
D.K. on the Sports Tip 4 p.m. hour (11-11-24): Arizona Cardinals tight end Trey McBride is emerging as Kyler Murray's go to guy, and he's showing his athleticism and pass catching ability for a Bird's team that has rolled off four straight wins (Photo courtesy: Imagn Images).
D.K. on the Sports Tip 5 p.m. hour (11-11-24): Pittsburgh goes down to DC and beat the Washington Commanders making David Ahumada a very happy man but making keeping money out of the hands of Jody Luna in the Miller Lite Pigskin Challenge (Photo courtesy: Imagn Images).
Kelly Wetteland came to UA to swim but was looking for something more when the sport of Triathlon came around. She joined D.K. on the Sports Tip and says making the switch from being a swimmer to being a triathlete was exactly what the doctor ordered (Photo courtesy: Arizona Athletics).
The longtime beat writer for Arizona Basketball Bruce Pascoe shares his thoughts on this 4th Tommy Lloyd team, where they are built to succeed and where the Wildcats might find pitfalls in this early part of the 2024-25 campaign.
D.K. and Glenn Howell (UA '85) take a look at how the Citronauts attacked Emmanuel Karnley, dissect the impressive second-level blocking by UCF and why the Wildcats aren't utilizing more quick pass options to Tetairoa McMillan and the rest of the Wildcats receiving core (Photo courtesy: Arizona Athletics).
Longtime UA play-by-play man Brian Jeffries and analyst Lamont Lovett (UA RB '93) describe a rough rough afternoon for the Wildcats in their first-ever meeting against the Knights or should we say Citronauts in UCF's annual Space Game (Photo courtesy: Arizona Athletics).
D.K. on the Sports Tip 3 p.m. hour (11-5-24): It's best the biggest competition in America and it happens every four years. It's the battle for the White House and D.K. and company diving into voting, the ease and comfortability of the process, how to rate judges and how to decide on lower-level candidates when you don't really know who they are.
D.K. on the Sports Tip 4 p.m. hour (11-5-24): UA has had some tremendous long-term runs on the coaching side and patience along with consistency are going to be the keys to building a football program capable of long-time success here in the desert (Photo courtesy: Arizona Athletics).
D.K. on the Sports Tip 5 p.m. hour (11-5-24): The first official 12-team bracket for the College Football Playoff is being announced as we speak. Will the Big-12 have more than one projected team that will have a chance to compete for the national championship under this new format (Photo courtesy: Imagn Images)
Jerry Stitt joined the show to talk about the death of his longtime friend and colleague Jim Wing who he spent 18 years coaching alongside with the Wildcats under Hall of Fame head coach Jerry Kindall.
On this 56th edition of the show, our David Kelly chats with J Russell, a news, sports and entertainment host who is heading to Southern Arizona this week to see if two places you may love to eat are worthy of being dubbed as one of America's Best Restaurants plus Jason Aldridge from Turf Tank explains the process that led him to making a robot that can paints lines of play on athletic fields.
The captain knows a thing or two about going from a losing environment to a winning one and tells you want the Arizona Football players need to be focusing on right now in the midst of a four-game losing stretch.
