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Recent Articles
- New Open Division crowns Chandler ‘true’ football champ
- Liberty HS rises from opener ashes to win 6A football title
- Eno’s rushing stats vs. UA best in more than 40 years
- For ASU football…the season that could have been
- A disappointing end to Jack Miller’s prep football career
- Highland ends Desert Vista’s reign of 5 straight XC titles
- AZ’s new leader in prep football career wins: Mike Morgan
- Is Chaparral HS replacing Xavier as girls swim dynasty?
- Hamilton sweeps boys’ golf titles; Xavier’s 8-yr reign ends
- Same old faces back again in 6A state volleyball tourney
- UA football makes bold move to shore up its defense
- Open Division rankings could change with final game
- JCAA names Xavier’s Menne Player of Year for 4th time
- ASU football must clean up penalties before UCLA game
- Catholic-school football powers try to recover from Wk 8
- How far can the freshman QB take ASU? Maybe all the way
- NAU QB Cookus, UA’s Tate set high bar for ASU’s Daniels
- AZ volleyball teams fall short; Hamilton is 4th at Nike TOC
- Bijan Robinson breaks state rushing record, but isn’t done
- UA soccer climbing the hill: first #16 UCLA, now #5 USC
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Arizona Sports (AZCentral)
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ASU, UA volleyball teams hold their own vs. No. 1 Stanford
Posted on October 14, 2014 | No CommentsOver the weekend, both of Arizona’s Pac-12 volleyball programs got a chance to test themselves against the No. 1 team in the country. The results weren’t what had been […] -
No longer unbeaten: UA football runs out of late escapes
Posted on October 13, 2014 | 1 CommentThe borrowed time that University of Arizona football has been operating on so far this season finally ran out. Once again, it ground down to the final seconds of […] -
Seton upsets No. 1 in D-IV football; Brophy wins big in D-I
Posted on October 11, 2014 | No CommentsBrophy Prep‘s upset football win over No.2 Mountain Pointe High School last night is the latest in the Bronco’s determined climb back up the Division I rankings ladder after […] -
3 road meets will begin NAU’s defense of WAC swim title
Posted on October 9, 2014 | No CommentsThe Northern Arizona University women swimmers and divers will have their second, and last, intrasquad meet tomorrow afternoon when they present this year’s edition to their fans in the […] -
Miller’s ‘poster boys’ could bring UA basketball a nat’l title
Posted on October 8, 2014 | No CommentsThe men’s basketball program at University of Arizona might best be described as a sort of tsunami in the desert. When one huge wave of talent hits the shoreline […] -
ASU 38, USC 34: Oh Berc, we hardly knew ye – but thanks!
Posted on October 5, 2014 | No CommentsMike Bercovici. There’s a chance that Arizona State football fans may not hear that named called again for the rest of the season, but it has become firmly enshrined […] -
Upset of No. 2 Oregon validates struggling UA football
Posted on October 3, 2014 | No CommentsSeven days. That’s all it took to completely turn the tables on the Pac-12 football landscape in Arizona. Arizona State, which had been humming along winning its first three […] -
Week 6 of prep football may be the biggest of 2014 season
Posted on October 2, 2014 | No CommentsIt could easily be argued that some of the most significant games of the high school football season in Arizona will be played tonight. Not just in Division I, […] -
Will ASU recover from 62-27 collapse against UCLA?
Posted on October 1, 2014 | No CommentsTodd Graham gave his Arizona State football team Friday and Saturday off before resuming a normal practice schedule on Sunday. Maybe it was to give his players time to […] -
How good is ASU soccer? Just ask a stunned No. 1 UCLA
Posted on September 30, 2014 | No CommentsIt was hard to tell just how good this Arizona State women’s soccer team is. Until now. The litmus test came over the weekend when the Sun Devils took […] -
Hamilton football now No. 1; next up is No. 3 Chandler HS
Posted on September 29, 2014 | No CommentsYear after year in Arizona prep football, it seems like it’s just a matter of time before Hamilton High School gets to the top of the heap – if […] -
UA volleyball wins a barn-burner in rivalry match with ASU
Posted on September 25, 2014 | No CommentsEven if you’re not an avid fan of college volleyball, you couldn’t help but get caught up in the intensity and excitement of yesterday’s rivalry match between Arizona State […] -
Brophy swimmers use Wolves Invite to make statement
Posted on September 23, 2014 | No CommentsThe Brophy Prep swimmers put a huge exclamation point on the end of this year’s Chandler Wolves Invitational by wining the final race of the event going away. And […] -
UA football beats clock again to scrape together 4-0 start
Posted on September 22, 2014 | No CommentsThe Arizona Wildcats football team continues to live on borrowed time. But they may have just used up the last of their karma. On the last play of Saturday’s […] -
Whew! Wild Week 4 in football as No. 1 Chandler is upset
Posted on September 20, 2014 | No CommentsThe one best word to describe Week 4 in Arizona high school football might be… “Whew!” And that expression of relief was being applied to the outcome of last-minute […] -
NAU football climbing nat’l rankings…one rung at a time
Posted on September 19, 2014 | No CommentsOne rung at a time. It’s been a slow process, but the Lumberjacks are headed in the right direction. That direction is up… in the polls, that is. The […] -
Sun Devil Stadium renovation expanding – in size & cost
Posted on September 18, 2014 | No CommentsLooks like Ray and Todd are going to have to reach a little deeper into their pockets. The facelift on their football stadium is going to cost more. A […] -
Gilbert HS wins House of Payne; Westwood TOC is next
Posted on September 17, 2014 | No CommentsThe Gilbert High girls’ volleyball team once again was able to use the House of Payne Invitational to get ready for the most challenging early-season tournament in the state, […] -
After 3 wks, still looking for D-I favorite in prep football
Posted on September 16, 2014 | No CommentsAfter Week 3 of the high school football season in Arizona, it’s still not clear just where the seat of power resides in Division I. Top-ranked Chandler High School made […] -
Is it too early to include ASU’s Foster in Heisman talk?
Posted on September 13, 2014 | No CommentsIs it too early to begin speculating about this season’s Heisman winner? Perhaps. But then again, it’s never too early when it’s someone on your hometown college team. And, […] -
High-scoring freshman leads UA soccer to big weekend
Posted on September 9, 2014 | No CommentsThe University of Arizona soccer team scored five goals in two games over the weekend — and Gabi Stoian had her footprint on every one of them. Stoian, a […] -
Pac-12 mystery: ASU football is thriving, UA just surviving
Posted on September 8, 2014 | No CommentsIt was pretty easy to recognize the Arizona State football team last week after the Sun Devils rolled over their first two opponents, beating each by more than 30 […] -
Highland HS sweeps boys, girls titles at Chandler XC Invite
Posted on September 7, 2014 | No CommentsIt was an early start to the weekend for the Corona del Sol High School cross country team as they showed up on their Tempe campus yesterday morning to […] -
Week 2 in prep football…it’s getting a little crazy out there
Posted on September 6, 2014 | No CommentsWe’re just two weeks into a new high school football season and already it’s starting to get a little crazy. The No. 1 team in Division II, Centennial High […] -
At 0-2, prep football power Blue Ridge is hard to recognize
Posted on September 5, 2014 | No CommentsThere’s a real sense of unease rolling across the White Mountains right now, emanating from the small town of Lakeside where high school football is the glue that has […] -
The hot sports ticket in Tucson? Actually, it’s UA basketball
Posted on September 3, 2014 | No CommentsYou snooze, you lose. University of Arizona basketball fans learned that old lesson the hard way over the weekend. Here we are just getting started on a new college […] -
Top-ranked teams go head-to-head in Wk 1 of prep football
Posted on September 2, 2014 | No CommentsUnlike college football where schools can schedule some soft non-conference games to get the season off on the right foot, the high-school teams have to take on whichever team […]