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No. 1 ASU softball wins Pac-10 title for just second time
The No. 1-ranked Arizona State softball team took care of business this weekend, winning just its second Pac-10 championship in program history. The Devils clinched the title outright Thursday when they beat No. 11 Stanford in the opener to a three-game home series and boosted their conference mark to 16-3. They went on to take [...] -
No. 1 ASU softball struggling in early Pac-10 play
It looks like this weekend’s series with UCLA may determine just how far the ASU softball team falls from its No. 1 national ranking. The Sun Devils are ranked No. 1 in the ESPN/USA Softball and USA Today/NFCA Coaches polls, and No. 9 on the NCAA RPI chart. But that likely will change with next [...] -
Miller can thank Derrick Williams for Coach of Year award
University of Arizona basketball coach, Sean Miller, is this year’s Pac-10 Coach of the Year. And that’s an honor well-deserved. Just as it was last year when Arizona State’s head coach, Herb Sendek, won the award. But the Player of the Year award that went to Miller’s 6’8″ super forward has to carry even greater [...] -
Arizona, ASU open Pac-10 play, as Sun Devils take a fall
Arizona and Arizona State were both on a roll going into last night’s Pac-10 basketball openers against the Oregon Schools. The Sun Devils had won four straight and the Wildcats had won six of the last seven. The Cats are still rolling after knocking off Oregon, 76-57. But the wheels came off the Devils’ ride [...] -
ASU, UA women’s basketball off to a strong start
The Arizona and Arizona State women’s basketball teams are riding high as they look ahead to the start of the Pac-10 schedule next week. Both are sporting glossy 8-2 records after wins yesterday and each have one last non-conference game to play before their Dec. 31 conference openers with the Oregon schools. But the Sun [...] -
ASU, UA hit major bumps in road to football bowl invites
This year’s Duel in the Desert just turned very interesting. Based on the results of this weekend’s Pac-10 football games, that annual meeting between Arizona State and the University of Arizona at season’s end might be a much closer game than originally anticipated earlier this season. Arizona has put together a solid season, rising to [...] -
Larry Scott is getting it done. Pac-12 begins to take shape
After Larry Scott gets done transforming the Pac-10 into the Pac-12, maybe we should send him to Washington to show our legislators how to work together to get something done. Scott, the relatively new Pac-10 commissioner who took over in March of 2009, just pulled off a maneuver that many questioned could be accomplished. He [...] -
Ducks, Bears here for Pac-10 openers; can we win both?
Pac-10 football in Arizona is being played for high stakes this weekend as conference games get underway. The University of Arizona needs to prove to its fans that last week’s win over a ranked opponent wasn’t a fluke, and Arizona State will try to prove to its skeptics that it can win against a quality [...] -
Stoops gets signature win to move UA football to No. 14
This was it. The win over Iowa was the signature game that Mike Stoops has been yearning for since taking over the University of Arizona football program seven years ago, when it was coming off a 2-10 season. The Wildcats’ 34-27 victory over the Hawkeyes, ranked No. 9 in the nation going into the game [...] -
…and Utah makes it a dozen. Pac-10 invite to be accepted
The University of Utah is coming to the Pac-10. Ho-hum. The Deseret News in Salt Lake City is reporting that the Pac-10 has extended an invitation to Utah and the school will formally accept it tomorrow in a meeting of the UT Board of Trustees. After salivating for weeks over the thought of the Pac-10 [...]
