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After 39 years, LaRose steps away from UA golf program
As the University of Arizona men’s golf team prepares to begin play tomorrow in the Pac-12 Championships in Oregon, the players are focused on making a better showing than last year’s seventh-place finish. Their coach, too, is focused on the tournament – even though he’s been here so many times before. But this one is [...] -
Spring FB practice is over…how do ASU, UA stack up?
Now that Arizona State has wrapped up spring practice, fans across the state can make some comparisons between the Sun Devils and their rival down in Tucson, since Arizona finished the week before. The general consensus seems to be…What’s not to like? And that goes for both schools. An offensive display by both programs would [...] -
Sports camps as recruiting tools for HS coaches? Hmm…
Where do we draw the line for coaches trying to build good high school sports programs, but also needing to avoid the appearance of recruiting? And on which side of that line do sports camps fall? This whole ongoing issue of trying to prevent high schools from recruiting grade-school kids into their sports programs is [...] -
Arizona colleges set national marks at Mt. SAC Relays
The Sun Devils and Wildcat track squads went into the weekend’s Mt. SAC Relays with top-20 national rankings for all four teams, and left California with school records, Olympic-qualifying performances, and some of the top collegiate marks in the country. Arizona State‘s men’s team carried a No. 8 ranking into the 54th running of the [...] -
Charli’s back…adds Amanda Levens to her ASU staff
Charli Turner Thorne is returning to the basketball court – and she’s bringing an old friend with her. The head coach of Arizona State‘s women’s basketball program just hired Amanda Levens to help her get the Sun Devils back to the NCAA Tournament next year. Levens knows exactly what she’s getting into because she played [...] -
Sollenberger Classic football game in controversy…again
The high school football season is four months away and already we’re dealing with controversy over its opening game. It feels like 2011 all over again. For the past four years, the annual Sollenberger Classic that kicks off the Arizona season, has featured a match-up between Arizona and Nevada big-school champions. Last year a second [...] -
Laurie Kelly departs NAU women’s basketball program
Laurie Kelly must have seen the writing on the wall. The head coach of women’s basketball at Northern Arizona University has moved on. Kelly had a couple of 20-win seasons early on in her nine-year tenure, but in recent years it has been a struggle to even get past the .500 mark. The 11 wins [...] -
ASU’s football game plan…get back to Camp Tontozona
OK, it wasn’t rocket science, and probably didn’t really warrant a press conference, but it was a smart move by Arizona State‘s new football boss, Todd Graham, to announce the program’s return to the hallowed ground of Camp Tontozona. Or was it the Magic Kingdom he was talking about? If you listened to Payson Mayor [...] -
There’s parity in boys’ HS volleyball – but big schools rule
If the right teams are involved, a high school tournament is a good way to get a snapshot look at how the competition stacks up among the better teams. The Brophy Prep Tournament over the weekend did just that in boys’ volleyball. Six of the eight teams that played in the Broncos’ tournament were ranked [...] -
Did ASU’s Sendek pull fast one in hoops recruiting wars?
Indiana’s head basketball coach, Tom Crean, has been in the news the last couple of days after he reportedly offered a basketball scholarship to an eighth grader. And now it turns out that other major college programs such as Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Xavier, and Wisconsin have also started to recruit the wonder kid. [...]
