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Recent Articles
- ASU baseball opens critical season with 46-run series
- B.J. Burries ends prep hoops career as state’s top scorer
- Do 5 straight losses show deeper problems for UA hoops?
- Liberty, Sunnyside win state titles in D-I, D-II wrestling
- Local prep grads setting records in GCU track program
- ‘Super Bowl’ will decide best AZ prep football team in 2019
- Chandler has a new football coach…a break for Hamilton?
- Paul Moro’s death closes historical chapter in prep football
- Lawsuit is latest effort to save community college football
- Xavier’s Shannon Shields is Gatorade AZ volleyball POY
- Sunnyside wrestling defends Flowing Wells Invite title
- College basketball is dying a slow death in Flagstaff
- ASU’s QB Manny Wilkins…how will he be remembered?
- Prep football: interesting coaching hires as 2018 closed
- They’re for real…UA women get hoops upset of #17 ASU
- Stroke sidelines HS football coaching legend Paul Moro
- Desert Mtn. only AZ hoops team to win a title at Nike TOC
- Bobby Hurley gets signature win at ASU, stuns #1 Kansas
- Merry Christmas, Herm…elite QB recruit signs with ASU
- Eno sets ASU rushing record, but Devils lose bowl game
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SportZine Magazine Archive
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B.J. Burries ends prep hoops career as state’s top scorer
Posted on February 18, 2019 | No CommentsB.J. Burries tried to squeeze out a couple more wins, but his history-making high school basketball career ended Saturday in the 2A state quarterfinals. Worse yet, it ended with […] -
Do 5 straight losses show deeper problems for UA hoops?
Posted on February 14, 2019 | No CommentsThe heavy load of bricks that has been steadily piling up on the University of Arizona basketball program since an assistant coach was swept up in an FBI probe […] -
Bobby Hurley gets signature win at ASU, stuns #1 Kansas
Posted on December 23, 2018 | No CommentsYesterday’s game was over, but the Arizona State basketball fans weren’t ready to leave. Most of them had stormed the court when the final buzzer sounded. The scoreboard in […] -
GCU christens Colangelo Classic, challenges #6 Nevada
Posted on December 10, 2018 | No CommentsOscar Frayer went high for the opening tip in yesterday”s basketball game between Grand Canyon University and Nevada, but the ball ended up in the hands of one of […] -
Local prep star enters ASU basketball record books
Posted on December 4, 2018 | No CommentsIt’s always uplifting whenever we’re treated to a new version of the “Hometown boy makes good” story. The latest comes to us courtesy of the Arizona State men’s basketball […] -
Despite FBI hoops probe, Miller has rebuilt UA’s 2019 class
Posted on October 10, 2018 | No CommentsCan that Sean Miller recruit, or what?! With all the distraction of an ongoing FBI investigation into college basketball recruiting swirling around him, the 10th-year head basketball coach at […] -
Nico Mannion will stay in AZ, enroll in Point Guard U
Posted on September 15, 2018 | 1 CommentEven a call from John Calipari wasn’t enough to entice the hottest prospect in college basketball recruiting to leave his home state of Arizona. Nico Mannion said he enjoyed […] -
GCU basketball reunites former Shadow Mountain stars
Posted on August 13, 2018 | No CommentsCarlos Johnson (23) and J.J. Rhymes (0) have a lot in common. They both had a former NBA player as their basketball coach in high school, and both won a state championship. […] -
Corona del Sol loses another elite hoops player to Hillcrest
Posted on August 7, 2018 | No CommentsWith the latest high-profile basketball transfer, Corona del Sol High School is beginning to resemble a feeder school for Hillcrest Prep. Unfortunately, that’s become a sign of the times these days, […] -
Brandon Williams’ re-commit revives UA hoops recruiting
Posted on May 8, 2018 | No CommentsSeven weeks ago, the University of Arizona men’s basketball program was mired in the muck of a recruiting scandal that has rocked the world of college basketball. An assistant […] -
Bracket buster: Here’s how 13-seed Buffalo upset #4 UofA
Posted on March 17, 2018 | No CommentsEven the casual sports fan could tell by halftime of the University of Arizona vs. Buffalo men’s basketball game Thursday night that the Wildcats were in trouble. Arizona was […] -
Is Sean Miller’s coaching career over? Jay Bilas says it is
Posted on February 25, 2018 | No CommentsThat loud Clunk! we heard down in Tucson… That was the other shoe dropping on the University of Arizona men’s basketball program. Ever since UofA assistant coach Book Richardson was […] -
Arizona keeps popping out top-ranked college prospects
Posted on February 23, 2018 | No CommentsIf college recruiters haven’t put Arizona on their travel schedules, then they just haven’t been paying attention to what we’ve been growing out here in the middle of the […] -
Ahwatukee rivals could upset 6A basketball title race
Posted on February 21, 2018 | No CommentsThe much-anticipated match-up of top-seeded Brophy Prep and No. 2 Pinnacle High School in the 6A boys’ basketball state championship game could be just a week away. Or it […] -
Hoops rivalry is back! UA beats ASU in final minutes
Posted on February 16, 2018 | No CommentsBobby Hurley has yet to beat the University of Arizona since taking over as head basketball coach at Arizona State, losing his sixth straight against the Wildcats last night. […] -
Numbers don’t lie…NAU basketball is dying at the gate
Posted on February 14, 2018 | No CommentsNumbers matter in sports competition. Won-loss records. Shooting percentages. Defensive statistics. Those are all important. But in college athletics, there is another number that is perhaps even more important, […] -
UA basketball, on long climb back, takes over Pac-12 lead
Posted on January 23, 2018 | No CommentsBased on the latest Pac-12 standings, the University of Arizona men’s basketball team is finally beginning to realize the potential it carried into the season when the Wildcats were […] -
New AD may face tough call on NAU men’s basketball
Posted on January 6, 2018 | No CommentsMike Marlow hasn’t even had time to settle into his new office yet at Northern Arizona University and already the new athletic director has to be thinking about whether […] -
ASU basketball vaults to No. 5 after upset of No. 2 Kansas
Posted on December 13, 2017 | No CommentsI remember watching the legendary John Wooden during the days he was coaching his UCLA basketball teams to 10 national championships. He would sit there, with a rolled-up sheet […] -
ASU, Holder playing like the hottest hoops team in town
Posted on December 2, 2017 | No CommentsWhen Bobby Hurley was hired just 2 1/2 years ago to take over an under-performing Arizona State men’s basketball program, it was hard to envision a time when the Sun […] -
After 3 losses, #2 UA basketball drops from nat’l rankings
Posted on November 27, 2017 | No CommentsFor the University of Arizona basketball players, it was hard to be thankful this Thanksgiving season. While the Tucson campus cleared out for the holiday break, the men’s basketball […] -
UA offers support for Coach Miller in Richardson scandal
Posted on October 4, 2017 | No CommentsThe fallout from last week’s revelation that University of Arizona assistant basketball coach Book Richardson has been indicted on bribery charges in a federal investigation of high school recruiting […] -
UA hoops coach Richardson indicted in FBI bribery probe
Posted on September 27, 2017 | No CommentsMarch Madness has come early this year for college basketball. And, unfortunately, the madness that began yesterday with federal indictments of four assistant coaches at prominent universities has nothing to […] -
‘Thunder Dan’ gets Arizona HOF nod, GCU gets D-I status
Posted on September 15, 2017 | No CommentsIt’s an interesting intersection of events that Dan Majerle‘s invitation into the Arizona Sports Hall of Fame came at almost the same time that Grand Canyon University got its formal acceptance […] -
UA loses out; Marvin Bagley III picks Duke basketball
Posted on August 15, 2017 | No CommentsArizona has just made a major contribution to the Duke basketball program. And one of the state’s Pac-12 programs is the loser in the deal. Marvin Bagley III, who […]