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Lots of good hoopin’ at MLK Classic, but little suspense
Arizona State’s Wells Fargo Arena was supposed to be center stage for the top high school basketball talent participating in this year’s MLK Classic. But, if you were looking for exciting finishes off buzzer-beating shots, the Tempe gym probably wasn’t the best place to be. The average margin of victory for the six boys’ and [...] -
Finally…Ironwood Ridge HS wins Flowing Wells Invite
The Ironwood Ridge High School wrestlers did more than win the Flowing Wells Invitational Saturday in Tucson. They exorcised the ghost of last year. Sunnyside High School dominated last year’s Flowing Wells tournament, considered the top prep tournament in the state, and blew away the Ridge, which settled for a very distant runner-up spot. Tucson’s [...] -
AZ colleges open track season at Lumberjack Invitational
They’re off and running. And winning. All three Division I colleges in Arizona gathered together over the weekend in Flagstaff to try to determine just how prepared they are for a new track & field season. The results from the Lumberjack Invitational, hosted by Northern Arizona University, seem to have pleased just about everybody. NAU [...] -
St. Mary’s girls headline top field in MLK hoops tourneys
The Martin Luther King holiday has, at least in Arizona, become synonymous with high school basketball since the school holiday is filled with great tournaments across the state. This year’s MLK Basketball Classic features high school games at three different sites on Monday and a junior college event tomorrow at Mesa Community College. Arizona State [...] -
GCU swimmers have good argument for being nation’s #1
If you knock off No. 1, shouldn’t you be the new No. 1? That’s the question the Grand Canyon University men’s swim team has to be asking after beating the country’s top-ranked University of California San Diego squad last week in one of the top dual meets in Division II this season. “We accomplished pretty [...] -
UA track teams start outdoor season with Top 10 rankings
Evidently, the track coaches around the country are not expecting much fall-off from a University of Arizona track & field program that last year finished with both men’s and women’s teams ranked in the nation’s Top 10. Pre-season rankings released yesterday by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches’ Association have both squads [...] -
Keala King dismissal is latest hit to ASU basketball hopes
Right now, the Arizona State basketball team is like a rowboat struggling to get to the other side of the lake while springing one leak after another. But Herb Sendek‘s ‘boat’ isn’t taking in water. Just the opposite. It’s being drained of something… scoring. The dismissal of Keala King, the sophomore guard who had taken [...] -
Peoria Invite title boosts Desert Vista’s wrestling status
A tournament title is always a significant accomplishment for any high school wrestling program – especially when that event is the Peoria Invitational, which is an established competition that draws some of the best teams in the state. But when Desert Vista High School won this year’s invitational, it had to be particularly sweet for [...] -
NFL-bound: Osweiler leaves behind ASU passing records
Brock Osweiler has always seen football as a simple game. “Take what they give you. I would say that is how I have always played,” he once explained at a weekly press conference. “If a guy is open, he’s getting the football; if he’s not open, I move on to the next guy. “It’s pretty [...] -
Saguaro HS makes tough call, fires football coach Sanders
John Sanders, it turns out, wasn’t bullet-proof. Some high school coaches become so successful, they begin to think they’re bullet-proof, that they can do pretty much what they want without worrying about repercussions. Sanders, the head football coach at Scottsdale’s Saguaro High School, decided to test that theory in the final regular game of the [...]
