If you’ve read here for a while you know we’ve periodically called Greg Hansen of Tucson’s Arizona Daily Star the Worst Columnist In America (we may have said that about Gregg Doyel too. If not, we meant to).
We say this because a long time ago, Hansen got into a fight with another local writer, Corky Calhoun. Hansen insulted Calhoun, who then accused Hansen of making something up about a particularly intense Arizona-UNLV game back when Tark and Midnight Luther (Tark’s name for Lute Olson) were still in their glory days.
We don’t remember all the details now but it ended up with death threats from tough guys in Vegas (on threatened to stuff a cactus down someone’s throat and the rivalry being put on ice for a while.