Sybil Dosty, a Salpointe Catholic graduate, is one of three women's basketball players to leave the Tennessee program this year.

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Lute Olson has gone back to Seattle in an attempt to get more basketball talent. This time his target is 6-foot-8-inch Clarence Trent of Gig Harbor, a power forward who emerged on the national radar at last week's Las Vegas Easter Classic.

Olson and UA assistant coach Miles Simon, however, had been recruiting Trent months before he was "discovered" in Las Vegas. And now the UA will get what amounts to a bonus visit from Trent; he will accompany his AAU team, Total Package, to Tucson on May 19-21 for the inaugural Arizona Cactus Classic.

Almost all of Arizona's pool of recruits from the 2008 and 2009 classes are expected to be on campus. The tournament was put together by Tucson businessman Jim Storey, a member of the Tucson Fiesta Bowl committee.

The ACC will be a three-day AAU basketball tournament for perhaps the nation's top 32 summer teams, and a showcase of the elite high school players. Trent's team will play at least four games at McKale. Others scheduled to appear include the Atlanta Celtics, Hal Pastner's Houston Hoops, the Oakland Soldiers and the Arizona Magic, which features point guard Jerryd Bayless, who committed to Arizona five months ago.

Olson and most of his staff will be out of town on a European tour during the ACC, but it's likely at least one Wildcat staff member will remain behind to conduct unofficial campus visits.

Short stuff

● Baseball commissioner Bud Selig was in Phoenix last week and told reporters that the All-Star Game is soon headed to Chase Field. Bad move. Why put baseball's midsummer classic in downtown Phoenix where it is insufferably hot? Baseball is meant to be played outdoors, not in a dreary warehouse in downtown Phoenix. … Most Pac-10 basketball coaches applauded the retirement of supervisor of referees Lou Campanelli, an incommunicative type who ruled by intimidation. He was replaced Friday by Bill McCabe, a former Pac-10 ref who worked as an NFL instant replay official recently. … Cienega High School receiver Bryce Burnett was invited to the prestigious Nike Blue Chip Combine last week at USC. At 6-2 and 185, Burnett has emerged as a Division I recruit under coach Nemer Hassey. Burnett has been receiving a weekly correspondence from Cal, Oregon, Washington and Arizona State, and last week alone, he received 20 recruiting letters, which included Michigan State and Michigan. Coaches are not allowed to make personal contact with recruits until next month.

● Sun Devils basketball coach Herb Sendek quickly began his most important task at ASU — recruiting. He got a visit last week from Los Angeles Leuzinger High School guard Russell Westbrook. As soon as Sendek offered Russell a scholarship, so did UCLA's Ben Howland. Westbrook signed with the Bruins on Thursday. I cannot recall Rob Evans getting that kind of reaction. Sendek then brought in unhappy Duke center Eric Boateng, who is leaving the Blue Devils' program. Boateng, from England, is a 6-11 player who averaged just 0.7 points at Duke this season. Evans never recruited as aggressively. … Sybil Dosty left Tennessee last week, one of three Vols to bail out of the program this year, and becomes perhaps the No. 1 recruit on the market in women's hoops. The former Salpointe Catholic center is almost sure to wind up in a Sun Devils uniform, sitting out 2006-07 and playing two final seasons. … The Diamondbacks' 2005 No. 1 draft pick, center fielder Justin Upton, left Tucson's extended spring training facility Wednesday and made his pro debut at Class A South Bend (Ind.) on Friday. He could be in a Sidewinders uniform by August. … Sidewinders shortstop Stephen Drew has not been daunted by Triple-A pitching. He hit six home runs through Friday, second in the Pacific Coast League.

● UA offensive coordinator Mike Canales, who scored big with Wildcat QB recruits Willie Tuitama and Tyler Lyon, already has targeted Griff Robles of Spanish Fork, Utah, as the next in the chain. Robles is 6-5 and 210. Arizona's top competition is expected to be Cal and Utah, which are already aggressively recruiting Robles. Canales has ties to the Spanish Fork High School coaching staff via his days at Snow College in Ephraim, Utah. … Mike Stoops last week said that senior strong safety Michael Johnson is so talented that he could be "the first safety picked" in next year's NFL draft. Big, physical and fast, Johnson is the type of player Stoops coached at Oklahoma. If you want an example of how football has changed at Arizona, Johnson is Exhibit A. … Marquez Tadeo, who helped Douglas High School win the 2001 state 4A baseball title, and was an all-region football player for the Bulldogs, is batting .435 at Jackson State.

● Channing Frye's left knee injury, suffered six weeks ago, is such that he is not expected to resume running until mid-June. But he can walk, and Saturday he took part in the National Multiple Sclerosis Walk in Staten Island, N.Y. Frye walked the first mile of the fund-raiser. Channing has developed a "Small Fryes" charity program for children living with MS, in which he provides tickets to Knicks games and then provides activities for the kids. Frye's injury prevented him from challenging New Orleans guard Chris Paul for NBA Rookie of the Year honors, but it is likely Frye will make the All-Rookie team, with Paul, Utah guard Deron Williams, Toronto big man Charlie Villanueva and Milwaukee center Andrew Bogut. … Four Cochise College basketball players signed with Division I schools this month, including ACCAC player of the year Andre Smith, who will join Final Four participant George Mason. Former Tucsonans Ken Carrillo and Jesse Mermuys, assistant coaches at Southern Utah, signed Cochise's Orlando Griego. … Former Salpointe Catholic basketball coach Brian Peabody is back in coaching. After a year off following his departure from Western Carolina, Peabody last week coached an AAU all-star team from Tucson and Phoenix in the Las Vegas Easter Classic. Peabody's team went 4-1. His roster included Lancers Malcolm Dombrowski and Stevie Ledesma and Sierra Vista Buena's Schuyler Witt.

● Loyola Marymount sophomore Josh Escobedo finished fourth in the West Coast Conference golf championships last week. The Salpointe graduate, with rounds of 76, 69 and 74, went from a walk-on to All-WCC in two seasons. … Tucsonan Evan LeBlanc, who initially signed to play baseball at Arizona, is leading the ACCAC with a .439 batting average at Yavapai College in Prescott. LeBlanc has signed to play next season at Santa Clara. The outfielder from Salpointe is part of a team ranked No. 3 nationally in the NJCAA. … Amanda Duran, a Pima College freshman catcher from Salpointe, is leading the ACCAC in all triple crown softball statistics. She leads the league in hitting at .538 and in home runs (17) and RBIs (87). Cyndi Duran, a sophomore outfielder from Flowing Wells, is third in batting at .508 and fifth in steals with 38. … Former Sahuaro all-state basketball player Ivory Price is conducting a college recruiting football camp for Direct Connect Sports on May 13-14 at Pima College from 9 a.m. to noon. He estimates about 100 college coaches from all divisions will attend. Workouts will include 7-on-7 passing drills, timing over 40 yards and in shuttle runs, a vertical jump and one-on-one drills (no contact). The cost is $125. For more information, call 1-480-252-9075 or e-mail dcsports@qwest.net.

● Among those attending the Parseghian Foundation benefit golf tournament May 5-6 at La Paloma will be Dick Tomey, who just completed his second spring football season at San Jose State, and former Arizona All-Pac-10 football players Ricky Hunley, Randy Robbins, Lamonte Hunley and Glenn Parker. Former executive director of the NCAA Cedric Dempsey also will be involved in the charity event. … Tucson tennis whiz Dominic Bermudez reached the semifinals of the U.S. Easter Bowl tournament last week in Palm Springs, Calif. The 14-year-old Bermudez went 4-1 and equaled the best finish ever in the Easter Bowl tournament by a young Andre Agassi. … Tucson gymnast Yewki Tomita will interrupt his training for the 2008 Beijing Olympics to undergo a pair of shoulder surgeries (his fifth and sixth). Both surgeries are to repair minor tears. Tomita will miss the 2006 World Championships but is expected to resume training in September and begin his final push to make the USA Olympic gymnastics team 20 months later.

My two cents

● UA director of athletics Jim Livengood has approved the dissolution of the late-December Fiesta Bowl Basketball Classic at McKale Center.

After 21 years and a 41-1 UA record, the tournament became stale. It was too difficult to attract worthy competition. In effect, Arizona season ticket holders were not getting much value for the money they spent on a diluted home schedule.

In recent years, the "championship game" pitted Arizona against Richmond, Louisiana-Lafayette, Boston, Valpo and Western Kentucky. Not much sizzle there.

Beginning next season, Arizona will attempt to schedule a Top 25 team over the holidays, but keeping the Fiesta Bowl involved to give it a special feel. The first to visit will be Memphis, a No. 1 seed in this year's NCAA tournament.

It is a long overdue move.