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ASU out to avenge basketball loss to NAU five years ago
For Arizona State’s Herb Sendek, this afternoon’s basketball game with Northern Arizona must seem like deja vu. But not the good kind. The Lumberjacks were the first opponent for the ASU head coach when he took over the Sun Devil program for the 2006-07 season. NAU won that game, 75-71. (*Update: As we suspected, this [...] -
ASU football needs to beat UA to keep bowl hopes alive
On the surface, it looks like tomorrow’s Arizona State vs. Arizona football match-up is little more than a game between two teams just trying to get through the remainder of a season gone wrong. Both teams have lost three of their last four games. The head coach for one of the teams (Arizona) has already [...] -
AZ prep stars help ASU build top-5 recruiting class in 2013
The Arizona State baseball team is dealing with a pot full of NCAA sanctions and will not have a chance to play in the post-season this year. But that apparently hasn’t scared away some of the nation’s top recruits that have been considering taking up residence in Tempe. Baseball America puts out a Top 100 [...] -
NCAA rejects appeals; no post-season for ASU baseball
The Arizona State baseball team took its appeal to the NCAA into extra innings, but ran out of at-bats this week. Most of the penalties originally imposed against the program have been upheld. ASU appealed the post-season ban that had been imposed by the college sports governing body in December of 2010, one of several [...] -
Scrimmages give fans final look at ASU, UA football hopes
In Tempe, the crowd of fans on hand last weekend for Arizona State‘s final football scrimmage and meet-the-players opportunity was estimated at between 2,000 and 3,000 of the faithful. But down the I-10 freeway in Tucson, three times that many of the Wildcat Nation were on hand to meet their team and take in a [...] -
ASU downs Florida in 2 straight to win NCAA softball title
ASU fans had one of those ‘uh-oh’ moments last night when left fielder Talor Haro went all the way to the fence to pull in the second out of the first inning – but too far away from home plate to keep Florida second baseman Michelle Moultrie from tagging up and scoring. Moultrie had doubled [...] -
ASU drops Sooners, 3-1, on march to nat’l softball title
If Oklahoma hadn’t made a couple of defensive miscues in the fourth inning, Katelyn Boyd‘s solo home run in the fifth would have made her the hero of Arizona State’s opening game of the Women’s College World Series. Instead, her 18th round trip of the season, over the left field fence at ASA Hall of [...] -
ASU going to softball World Series; UA must win 2 today
What a difference a year can make in college sports. Last year, the No. 1 Arizona State softball team lost two straight games to Florida in the Super Regionals to end their chance to get to the Women’s College World Series. Yesterday, they finished a two-game sweep of No. 16 Texas A&M to punch their [...] -
ASU, UA women capture top 4 spots at Pac-10 Multi Event
The championship portion of the 2011 track & field outdoor season in the Pac-10 is here already. And ASU has jumped out to a nice lead on the women’s side. Senior Samantha Henderson, who finished in fourth place in the women’s heptathlon at last year’s combined events portion of the Pac-10 Championships, climbed the ranks [...] -
Charli Turner Thorne to take time off from ASU hoops
Charli Turner Thorne has decided she doesn’t want to be on the sidelines of the ASU women’s basketball program next season. She has asked for, and received, a leave of absence that will begin on July 1 and run for nine months. Maybe she decided she doesn’t like the ‘new look’ uniforms that are part [...]
