– The ongoing U.S. Senior Women’s Open is blessed with elite golfers with Tucson ties, including historic LPGA Tour superstar Annika Sörenstam and her Arizona All-American teammate Leta Lindley, who won the Senior Open in 2024. Also in the field is Tucsonan Christa Johnson, a UA grad who won nine LPGA Tour events, and former Arizona Wildcat head coach Shelly Haywood, who is now a teaching pro in Laguna Hills, Calif., who was the 2005 LPGA national golf coach of the year. Haywood was the UA’s head coach from 2007-10.
– Former Salpointe Catholic all-state tackle Bruno Fina is in training camp with the Buffalo Bills, hopeful he can stick with the Bills and become the 41st football player from a Tucson high school to play in the NFL. What’s more, Fina would then join his father, ex-Salpointe and UA standout John Fina, who played for the Bills for 10 seasons, 1992-2001. Bruno, a left tackle in college, is listed as a guard on the Bills roster. An undrafted free agent, Bruno started 34 college games at Duke and UCLA before signing with the Bills. Bruno’s best chance to stay with the Bills is likely to be part of the practice squad that will be announced next week.
– There have been 19 head coaching changes in Tucson-area prep football in the last two years, an exhibit of the overall decline in local prep football in the last decade. The two longest-tenured coaches are Mica Mountain’s Jay Campos, the defending state champion, who got his start as a head coach at Sabino in 2003. Mountain View’s Matt Johnson also got his start as a head coach in 2003, at Rincon. He won a state championship at Ironwood Ridge in 2012. How’s this for a statistic: Campos and Johnson both have won 145 games as head coaches here, the most of any active coach in Tucson.