The Ducks are swinging for their first Pac-10 win vs. U-Dub.
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The Arizona Wildcats baseball team wasn’t expecting to be sitting in 6th place at this point, but that’s life when you play in a conference with six ranked teams.

The best remedy is to beat one of them and the Cats have another chance at home.

Elsewhere in the Pac-10, none of the tri-leaders play each other this weekend but one of the teams tied for 4th looks to make a move.

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Kevin Parrom helped the Cats stop being ‘dogs.
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Last week, as I wrote about Arizona Basketball moving into 1st place, I used phrases like “…we should enjoy this while it lasts” and “Get swept…and the party’s over.” A reader responded with the following comment:

The expectations you are setting are too low.

Bruce, you are absolutely right.

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Trees are even scarier on the road.
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The Arizona Wildcats basketball team is back in 1st place and back in the polls. Now the Cats have to go back on the road. Can they continue draining threes in somebody else’s gym?

Here is this week’s Pac-10 TV schedule:

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Get up and dance! The first of the Pac-10 rivalry games is here!
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You can see the sand slipping through the hourglass.

Next week is Thanksgiving. Then it’s the start of December, then bowl season, then it’s gone.

Don’t let the 2010 season get away without a fight. Hold onto your football!

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Nick Foles, you're no Steve Young.
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You know what’s exciting? Conference rankings that shuffle every week. Some teams making huge jumps while others plummet to the depths.

We don’t have any of that here.

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