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Archive for April, 2011
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ASU baseball at top of its game, despite post-season ban
For a baseball team that knows it won’t be playing in the post-season, the Sun Devils haven’t let that impact their game. Arizona State is 30-9 and the sixth-ranked team in the country, sitting in second place in the Pac-10, and riding an eight-game winning streak. The post-season ban was handed down by the NCAA, [...] -
NY Giants get Prince Amukamara; ASU gets sister Promise
For one Glendale family, sports is the gift that keeps on giving. Prince Amukamara left Apollo High School to pursue a college football career at Nebraska, where he was converted from a running back to one of the game’s best cornerbacks. He was just selected by the New York Giants with the 19th pick in [...] -
A new era in ice hockey begins at UA; Icecats are no more
Ice hockey at the University of Arizona is coming in from the cold. The program, run as an independent corporation for the past 32 years, will finally be aligned with other club sports on campus. The team, formerly called the Icecats, will get new uniforms emblazoned with the Arizona “A” logo. A new name. New [...] -
Bejarano leaves UA basketball; Jahii hopes ASU fits better
Daniel Bejarano‘s basketball resume suffered a serious hit this year. The former No. 1 college prospect in the state of Arizona is leaving the University of Arizona basketball team after just one season and is in search of a new program. His resume: 0.8 points and 0.5 rebounds per game, 12.5 percent in field-goal shooting, [...] -
UA track teams will be hard to beat in Double Dual at ASU
This weekend will present an opportunity for the three Arizona D-I universities to go head-to-head on the track in the annual Double Dual in Tempe. And each of the schools is bringing something to the party. Both Arizona State and Northern Arizona are coming off a successful weekend at the Sun Devil Open, where the [...] -
GCU baseball hires Andy Stankiewicz as head coach
Another prominent name in the sports world has been added to the Grand Canyon University roster of head coaches. The last ‘name’ hire in a major program was Russ Pennell, who was hired to take over the reins of the Antelope basketball program before the 2009 season. Pennell was an assistant coach at Arizona State [...] -
Catalina HS pitcher has 2 no-hitters..but are they tainted?
Nicco Blank, a baseball pitcher at Tucson’s Catalina High School, tossed a pair of no-hit games earlier this month – within a week of each other. Most pitchers, at any level of play, never experience the rare feat of a no-hit game. But Blank’s performance of putting together two in the same season has been [...] -
ASU softball sweeps UA for first time in program history
The kitchen sink was just about the only thing the seventh-ranked Arizona softball team didn’t throw at No. 2 Arizona State yesterday, trying to stave off a first-ever Sun Devil sweep. But it wasn’t enough, and the Sun Devils’ 8-3 victory clinched the first 3-game sweep of the Wildcats in program history. Arizona sent a [...] -
Spring football games have different results for ASU, UA
ASU’s Dennis Erickson liked what he saw. UofA’s Mike Stoops didn’t like what he heard. Both were the results of the spring games that wrapped up several weeks of spring football practice at the Arizona universities. Arizona State held its game this morning and Erickson seemed especially pleased with an offense that racked up 601 [...] -
After 27 matches, Flagstaff HS girls tennis finally falls
Perhaps it just got to be a little too easy for the Flagstaff High School girls tennis team. The Lady Eagles have given the folks up in the north country something to talk about the last couple of years. Theirs is a rags-to-riches story, of sorts. Four years ago, the girls tennis team struggled with [...]
