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AZ’s three ranked JUCO football teams stumble in bowls
Arizona has some of the best junior college football programs in the country. But this year’s bowl games took some of the lustre off the top three. Arizona Western went into the national championship game ranked No. 1 in the country, but couldn’t pull out a come-back win and lost to No. 2 East Mississippi, [...] -
Still waiting…ASU whiffs again on new football coach hire
The ASU search for a new head football coach is rolling across the Texas plains like a cyclone. Not just for the speed it’s moving, but the destruction it is leaving behind. It has been just 10 days since Arizona State fired its coach of five years, Dennis Erickson. But already the media has reported [...] -
High school hoops rankings bouncing wildly in Division I
The high school basketball season is just getting underway, but already the rankings in Division I appear to be somewhat suspect after looking at last night’s results. Mountain Pointe High School in Phoenix, which just moved into the top 10, narrowly escaped with a three-point win against Tempe’s Marcos de Niza High School – which [...] -
The changing face of UA football under Rich Rod
And so it starts. A new era has begun for the Arizona Wildcat football program – and the ride into the future is off to a bumpy start. Newly-installed head coach, Rich Rodriguez, has added an offensive coordinator to his staff, bringing in Calvin Magee from the Pittsburgh program. But it looks like Magee will [...] -
MAACO Bowl gives ASU football a chance for redemption
According to his contract, Dennis Erickson should receive a $25,000 bonus for getting his team to a bowl game. Looks like he will collect, since Arizona State has been invited to play in the MAACO Bowl in Las Vegas three days before Christmas. But Erickson, who was fired just eight days ago but is expected [...] -
Local prep stars making GCU softball a family affair
Ann Pierson isn’t settling for tapping into a pipeline of local high school talent to fill her softball roster at Grand Canyon University. Now she’s tapping into the families. Pierson, the head coach at GCU who started the softball program at the Division II college in west Phoenix eight years ago, just signed four more [...] -
ASU no longer offering football job to Kevin Sumlin?
What do Arizona and Arizona State have in common when it comes to hiring a new football coach? Apparently, very little. Both schools fired their head football coaches this season, with Arizona pulling the trigger mid-way through the season and ASU waiting until the regular season concluded. When Mike Stoops was let go at Arizona, [...] -
Rough road ahead for NAU basketball; UA Cats up next
The Northern Arizona men’s basketball team has embarked on its tour of Arizona. It got off to a bumpy start in Prescott on Wednesday when it got bounced by Brigham Young University at Tim’s Toyota Center. And tomorrow’s stop in Tucson won’t be any smoother. “We are playing everywhere in the state this year, with [...] -
Young UA volleyball squad gets NCAA Tourney invite
The Wildcat volleyball team met expectations this year. Right on the nose, in fact. Arizona’s squad was picked to finish seventh in the Pac-12 this season, and seventh is right where it has settled in. The Cats finished up with a 19-12 overall record and 11-11 in the conference. But it turns out that was [...] -
UA hoops sliding…time to bring in the young’uns?
Sean Miller is still trying to break in some new colts from a corral full of studs he picked up in the 2011 recruiting class. And tonight he may have a chance to see if the schooling has begun to take effect. The University of Arizona head basketball coach began the season with a top-10 [...]
