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– Lafayette "Fat" Lever, who led Pueblo High School state basketball championships in 1977 and 1978 and went on to become a two-time NBA All-Star, was inducted into the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame on Friday in Denver. He played for the Denver Nuggets from 1984-90. Lever, 65, is now the director of the National Basketball Retired Players Association and lives in Phoenix. He remains No. 1 in the Nuggets' record book for steals (1,167) and is third in assists (566).

– In 2008, Tucson Sidewinders owner Jay Zucker, a Tucson businessman, sold the Pacific Coast League club to a Reno, Nevada, group, which, for all intents, killed professional baseball in Tucson. Those who bought the Sidewinders and named the club the Reno Aces, last week agreed to a deal that will keep the Aces in the downtown Reno stadium until 2050. Good for them. The Aces, however, are not a robust team when it comes to attendance. They drew 352,375 fans last year, which is fewer than the Sidewinders drew in 2006 at Kino Sports Complex, when Chip Hale’s PCL championship team averaged 3,895 per game. Reno has been eighth or ninth in PCL attendance in each of the last four years. The Albuquerque Isotopes have led PCL attendance with more than 500,000 per season.

– Unfortunate news: Jared Oliva, a starting outfielder on Arizona's 2016 national runner-up at the College World Series, broke his wrist last week and is no longer on the San Francisco Giants roster. Oliva, who has spent the last four years playing in Mexico, the Dominican Republic and for minor league teams in Nashville, Salt Lake City, Arkansas and Indianapolis, made the Giants roster in spring training and stole seven bases in the first 10 games of the year as a reserve outfielder. He played briefly with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 2020 and 2021. It would be nice for the Giants to give him another chance.

– Izela Arenas, daughter of Arizona's 2001 Final Four guard Gilbert Arenas, is now playing for Adia Barnes at SMU. Izela was ranked as the nation's No. 88 prospect after graduating from high school in SoCal two years ago, playing on the No. 1 prep team in America. She declined an offer to play for Barnes at Arizona. Instead, she enrolled at Louisville and averaged 4.2 points per game. She then transferred to Kansas State and averaged 6.7 points off the bench this year. Her star has dimmed considerably.

– For the first time in the crazy world of NIL compensation, it was confirmed last week that an Arizona athlete, quarterback Noah Fifita, has been paid more than $1 million. In a feature on ESPN.com, Noah's father, Les Fifita, said, "Money is just money at the end of the day. Noah's a homeowner and a millionaire already in college. He can do whatever he wants when his playing days are over." Now we know that it's not just Michigan and Alabama paying their athletes in once-unfathomable financial agreements.