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Kevin Sumlin says coaching Arizona is ‘the right challenge’

Kevin Sumlin calls the head coaching job at Arizona “the right place and the right challenge.” He made the comment at a news conference introducing him as coach on Tuesday. Sumlin said that when he spoke with Wildcats athletic director Dave Heeke about the job, talk inevitably turned to the Rose Bowl. Arizona is the only one of the original Pac-10 never to play in the game. “I said, `It is going to happen,”’ Sumlin said. “`What time is that going to happen? Why not now and why not us?”’ The 53-year-old coach, fired after compiling a 51-26 record the

Cincinnati Hands UCLA Its Second Straight Loss, 77-63

Before a season-high crowd of 10,018 fans at Pauley Pavilion on Saturday afternoon, miscues on offense and a flurry of turnovers led to the UCLA Bruins 77-63 loss to No. 25 Cincinnati Bearcats. A young, inexperienced UCLA team faced potentially their toughest defensive opponent to date in Cincinnati and folded. The Bruins committed 15 turnovers in the first half.  The turnovers came in many forms. UCLA’s Aaron Holiday lobbed a pass to center Thomas Welsh in the post that was intercepted. “I turned the ball over trying to throw it in the post and then everybody else started turning it