Rayvean Moore, who was a standout receiver at Tucson High School in 2011, chose to walk on without a scholarship at New Mexico State. After redshirting in 2012 and playing in nine games in 2013, the sophomore was awarded a full scholarship after the Aggies’ practice last Sunday. At 5-10, 168 pounds, Moore has played his way into NMSU’s regular rotation. Well done. … When UA volleyball coach Dave Rubio started fall training camp this month, he began coaching freshman Jade Turner of Bakersfield, California. She is the daughter of 1988 Arizona Final Four center Joe Turner. That makes three daughters of the Wildcats’ ’88 team now playing Pac-12 volleyball: Steve Kerr’s daughter, Maddy, is a starter at Cal, and Jud Buechler’s older daughter, Reily, is a top freshman recruit at UCLA. … Palo Verde High grad Bryce Cotton last week told me he signed as a free agent with the San Antonio Spurs and will report to training camp in Texas in late September.
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Since being an All-Big East guard at Providence last season, Cotton has gotten married and returned to Tucson. Talk about a good story: On his first day at Providence, Cotton met Simone Tubman in a sociology class. They were married on July 27. He graduated in four years from Providence with a 3.1 GPA in sociology. … From 1996-98, UA football special teams player Derek Hall won the school’s “Ball Hawk” award for spirited play in practice. He went from walk-on to three-year letterman. Hall then become an assistant coach at Eastern Michigan and Delaware State and then, using his UA degree in theatre arts, got into the movie business, on directing crews for such movies as “The Best of Me” and “Pitch Perfect 2.” But five months ago, Hall was diagnosed with cancer of the kidney and is now awaiting a kidney transplant, among other health issues.
Hall has been hospitalized in Chicago and New Orleans. He is only 37.

