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Arizona Sports (AZCentral)
Archive for April, 2011
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Conference tourneys capping long college golf season
Is it any surprise that college golf teams do well in the state of Arizona? More than 400 golf courses ooze out of every pore of the state, they’re open year-round, and you’ve got eight months a year with average temperatures of 88 degrees or less to get in plenty of practice. The results at [...] -
AZ high school track teams flock to Sun Angel Classic
Arizona State has opened its track facilities to some 2,500 high school and college athletes from around the country this weekend. But tomorrow’s events in the 32nd Sun Angel Track Classic could get a little water-logged. For the colleges, the chance of inclement weather didn’t keep many of the best track squads from showing up [...] -
ASU’s baseball wins over Arizona mean more this season
The ASU-UofA baseball rivalry has taken on a new significance this season. At least for Arizona State, it has. The Sun Devils just beat Arizona, 10-5, to post their third win in four games against the Wildcats already this season. They meet one more time, on the 26th of this month in Tucson. For ASU, [...] -
NAU basketball coach gets unwanted media ‘exposure’
The Northern Arizona’s men’s head basketball coach got some media exposure he was probably expecting today by getting called out for being the only coach that voted Ohio State as the No. 1 team in the final ESPN/USA Today college poll – immediately after the University of Connecticut won the NCAA Tournament Championship. The other [...] -
Football spring practice proves costly for both ASU, UofA
A run at a championship in college football is often as fragile as a knee ligament. And, believe it or not, a rash of injuries to the anterior cruciate ligament in the knee, better known as the ACL, has afflicted both the Arizona State and University of Arizona football teams as they work through spring [...] -
Arizona teams start Pac-10 softball in a winning way
Surf’s up for Arizona’s Pac-10 softball teams! Arizona’s representatives took to the road over the weekend to open conference play in California. Both swept their respective series, with No. 4 ASU taking two-of-three from the No. 8 Cal Bears and No. 9 UofA sweeping their three-game series against No. 12 Stanford. Arizona State won both [...] -
UA assistant hoops coach, Archie Miller, hired by Dayton
It looks like they’re breaking up another brother act at the University of Arizona. This time, Arizona’s head basketball coach, Sean Miller, is saying goodbye to his little brother – just as Mike Stoops did after the 2009 football season. In a press conference in Ohio this afternoon, Ryan “Archie” Miller, the Wildcats’ associate head [...] -
NAU football begins spring practice in search of a QB
While college football coaches generally want to avoid a pre-season quarterback controversy, NAU’s Jerome Souers might actually be sorry he doesn’t have one this year. His Northern Arizona Lumberjacks are going through the paces of spring football practice, enjoying a roster that is both deep at the skill positions and experienced overall. They return 44 [...] -
AZ teams fail to make finals of Big League Dugout Invite
Some of the top high school baseball teams in Arizona were in the field for this year’s Big League Dugout National Invitational Tournament. Four of them had top-10 AIA power rankings. But it was Corona del Sol High School in Tempe, No. 20 in the power rankings, that was the lone Arizona squad reaching yesterday’s [...]
