Most of the time in this business you don’t cheer for anything or root for anyone. That’s written in stone in Journalism 101.
But human nature sometimes intervenes. You root for the best story. And the best sports story in Tucson this spring would be walking into a McKale Center press conference this week to see Greg Byrne standing next to Pima College women’s basketball coach Todd Holthaus.
“I scoured the country looking for a coach,” Byrne would say. “And I found him right under my nose. Todd Holthaus is the new women’s basketball coach at Arizona.