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Recent Articles
- The Tigers will win both 5A state hoops titles. Count on it
- 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
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UA’s Candrea notches 1,500 softball wins; GCU up next
Posted on March 29, 2017 | No CommentsIf you want to know what it’s like to coach against a legend, just wait until tomorrow and ask Ann Pierson. Her Grand Canyon University softball team plays the […] -
Hamilton softball, Queen Creek baseball win key tourneys
Posted on March 23, 2017 | No CommentsNow that we’re beginning the descent down the back side of the high school baseball and softball schedules, it’s a good time to take note of the various tournaments […] -
ASU women ousted in NCAA 2nd round by old nemesis
Posted on March 21, 2017 | No CommentsThere’s just something about South Carolina that bedevils the Devils. The South Carolina Gamecocks knocked Arizona State out of the NCAA women’s basketball tournament on Sunday, ending the Sun […] -
New pitch-count rules mean big changes to prep baseball
Posted on March 20, 2017 | No CommentsIt will be interesting to see if the new rules limiting pitch counts for Arizona’s high school baseball pitchers will have an effect on game scores. More rest should […] -
With 23 wins so far, GCU softball living up to the hype
Posted on March 17, 2017 | No CommentsAfter the Grand Canyon University softball team finished the 2016 season with a 35-15 record, the Antelopes were honored as the sixth-ranked breakout program among all D-I schools, based […] -
Coaching milestones cap off historic year for prep hoops
Posted on March 15, 2017 | No CommentsMiner Webster was the first this year to turn a page in the history books of high school basketball in Arizona. In late November, the girls’ head coach at […] -
Trent May out after 10 yrs directing GCU women’s hoops
Posted on March 13, 2017 | No CommentsGrand Canyon University women’s basketball coach Trent May no longer has to work in the shadow of the wildly-successful men’s coach, Dan Majerle. Somebody else will now face that […] -
Hot bats, strong pitching has UA softball ranked No. 5
Posted on March 11, 2017 | No CommentsForty games. That’s how many the University of Arizona softball team won last year on the way to advancing to the program’s 11th Super Regional in 12 years. Twenty […] -
Upset of UA is first Pac-12 win for ASU gymnasts in 3 yrs
Posted on March 8, 2017 | No CommentsIt’s been a tough first season for Arizona State‘s new gymnastics head coach Jay Santos. But on Sunday afternoon, rival University of Arizona gave the Gym Devils a reason […] -
Year-round team practices…what were they thinking?!
Posted on March 7, 2017 | No CommentsThis should have been a no-brainer. Instead, the members of the AIA legislative council apparently left their brains at the door. That’s perhaps the best explanation for what happened […] -
Beach Volleyball: No. 6 Arizona stunned by ASU
Posted on March 5, 2017 | No CommentsHere’s a good way to start off a new coaching job….beat your in-state rival in just the third game on the schedule. …and on your rival’s home court…when your […] -
Sunnyslope’s 2OT win highlights 5A basketball finals
Posted on February 28, 2017 | No CommentsTonight’s 6A state championship basketball games have a tough act to follow after yesterday’s 5A finals. The Mesquite High School girls played in the undercard game of the twin […] -
Hot bats: UA hitters averaging 10 runs a game for 8-0 start
Posted on February 27, 2017 | No CommentsThis year’s University of Arizona baseball team is just a handful of games into the new season. These early games are designed to get a look at who’s ready […] -
Dave Heeke returns to Pac-12 to take Arizona AD job
Posted on February 26, 2017 | No CommentsAmong other key attributes of a good athletic director, the University of Arizona was looking for a track record of staying put for awhile in their search for a new […] -
Pac-12 hoops ‘game of the year’…#4 UA vs. #5 UCLA
Posted on February 24, 2017 | No CommentsESPN’s College Game Day will be broadcasting tomorrow from McKale Center on the University of Arizona campus. Tucson surely welcomes the national exposure, but there’s no need to promote that […] -
‘Deep & strong’ NAU ready for indoor T&F championships
Posted on February 19, 2017 | No CommentsAfter posting the best performance of her college career in the long jump on Friday, former Arizona state champion Kaitlyn Wayne is expected to move up into the ranks […] -
Unbeaten prep wrestlers add ‘star power’ to state finals
Posted on February 15, 2017 | No CommentsAs the sport of wrestling at the high school level in Arizona continues to improve each year, attending a state wrestling tournament in this state is like sitting under […] -
Gilbert HS, Xavier bury 2016 ghosts with 6A soccer titles
Posted on February 13, 2017 | No CommentsThe ghosts of the past were hanging over both the boys’ and girls’ 6A high school soccer championships. Two of the four teams playing Saturday in the finals were […] -
Todd Graham needs a timeout; another assistant leaves
Posted on February 12, 2017 | No CommentsThat gust of wind coming out of the Arizona State football offices is the revolving door taking another revolution as yet another assistant coach leaves the building – and […] -
Basha HS regrouping after Perry ends 26-game win streak
Posted on February 11, 2017 | No CommentsSam Duane, Jr., knows what it’s like to build a high school basketball dynasty and, in the process, put together a record-setting run of consecutive wins. In this case, 70 straight […] -
Girls’ soccer semis: Xavier v. Perry rises from the chaos
Posted on February 8, 2017 | No CommentsYou only have to look at the Final Four results for all four conferences in the girls’ state soccer tournament to understand what a cluster bomb has gone off […] -
Chandler HS becoming a pipeline for GCU track team
Posted on February 7, 2017 | No CommentsThe Grand Canyon University track & field program is getting a big boost this year from a handful of recruits the Phoenix school found right in its backyard. And […] -
Big in-state recruiting haul for ASU football: 4 of top 10
Posted on February 4, 2017 | No CommentsUntil this year’s National Signing Day on Wednesday, Todd Graham‘s best recruiting job among local athletes was the four he picked up in the 2013 class. That was Graham’s […] -
ASU football gets new OC and top recruiter in Billy Napier
Posted on February 1, 2017 | No CommentsTurnabout is fair play, they say. That works for Arizona State football coach Todd Graham, who lost his offensive coordinator less than two weeks ago to Auburn. Graham just […]