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Archive for March, 2010
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ASU, UA on collision course to determine softball supremacy
There’s a storm brewing between the baselines. A match-up between Arizona State and University of Arizona is just down the road and both softball teams are on course for a collision in the first few days of April. You can see the early signs now. Kenzie Fowler is one of the much-heralded young pitchers in [...] -
Wells Fargo Arena goes ‘green’ to power ASU game with solar
Wells Fargo Arena at ASU is going ‘green’ tonight. And hopes that it has purchased enough solar and wind energy that it doesn’t go dark before the game against USC is over. The university has purchased 2,000 kilowatt-hours of solar and wind energy from Arizona Public Service and figures that should be enough to power [...] -
Good grief, Charlie Brown! Tolleson does it again in 5A finals
Jackie Clayton must have done something to really tick off the basketball gods. Or maybe they were just looking the other way during last night’s 5A-II girls basketball high school state championship game. After all, wasn’t this supposed to be a story book ending for the Pinnacle High School team that has let the crown [...] -
GCU’s Hutchins is a ‘killer’ against top volleyball teams
Talk about a tough early schedule! The men’s volleyball team at Grand Canyon University took on the No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3 teams in the NAIA – all in the span of four days. The Lopes dropped a couple of matches to No. 1 Cal Baptist over the weekend, but felt they had [...] -
Pac-10 expansion. Why? When?… and WHO will be invited?
It’s been about a month now since word got around that the Pac-10 conference was thinking about adding a couple more teams. Since then, there has been rampant speculation about whether it’s a good idea, when it might actually happen, and which schools are being considered to help the conference grow to the Pac-12. Some [...] -
Mesa CC, CAC pull down conference hoops honors
A couple of local basketball players decided to stay home after high school and lend their talents to Arizona colleges. And now it has paid off handsomely for each. And for their schools. And for their coaches. It’s called the ‘trickle-down’ effect. Olivia Major, a sophomore who arrived at Central Arizona College from Washington High [...] -
Tennis is just the latest sport to fall under the Aztec spell
The gods must be smiling on the Aztecs. The Corona del Sol HS Aztecs won the Kiwanis tennis tournament over the weekend, repeating as champions. Brophy Prep was the boys’ champion, not a surprise since Brophy enters this season as the defending high school 5A-I state champions. Corona’s girls finished in a three-way tie for [...] -
UofA men’s swim team makes long climb to No. 1
One week at a time. That’s how the Cats clawed their way to the top of the polls. It took wins over the top three men’s college swimming and diving teams, but University of Arizona has gradually ascended to the top of the College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) national poll. The Wildcats [...] -
Cal gets first Pac-10 basketball title since 1960. But now what?
OK, the ‘Big Game’ is over. ASU fell a second time this season to Cal, this time in a 62-46 rout at Haas Pavilion. The Golden Bears locked up at least a share of the Pac-10 men’s basketball crown with the win Saturday – their first title in 50 years. But what happens now? The [...]
