It was 23 years ago that Xavier Prep, the dominant high school girls team in Arizona, went two consecutive years without winning a state title. Scottsdale’s Horizon High School took … Read More
It’s time again for the Red River Showdown, the annual rivalry game between the Oklahoma Sooners and the Texas Longhorns, one of the biggest games on the college football schedule. … Read More
High school sports programs throughout Arizona are still in a holding pattern, waiting for the AIA-mandated dates for practices to begin for the fall season. But that doesn’t mean there … Read More
It took an eagle and a bogey to keep Ashley Menne from becoming the first girl’s high school golfer in Arizona to win four consecutive state titles. The Eagle … Read More
It’s usually somewhere around the middle of the high school football season that the ‘pretenders’ begin to separate themselves from the ‘contenders.’ But this season the process might be … Read More
Will this be the year someone else gets to play for the 6A state softball championship? Maybe. But don’t count on it. Hamilton High School and Pinnacle High have … Read More
High school basketball players from 15 different states have received the National Senior Boys Basketball Athlete of the Year award. Georgia athletes have been honored three different times. Indiana … Read More
The high school basketball season in Arizona is officially over, and the most celebrated player in the state used his final game to put an exclamation point on a … Read More
As the No. 1 high school quarterback prospect in the Class of 2019, Spencer Rattler has been in the media spotlight more than just about any prep football player … Read More
History is in the making tonight. Not only will fans at tonight’s football game at Pinnacle High School likely be treated to a display of high-scoring offense, but they … Read More
Even a call from John Calipari wasn’t enough to entice the hottest prospect in college basketball recruiting to leave his home state of Arizona. Nico Mannion said he enjoyed … Read More
There likely won’t be another high school football game in this state the rest of the season that will have more significant story lines than the one that will … Read More
The 2018 high school softball season started with a couple of Arizona teams leading the national preseason rankings. And, while that lofty status didn’t hold through the season, both … Read More
Marissa Schuld pitched her Pinnacle High School softball team to a state title this season, finally getting over the hump after two years in the circle when the Pioneers … Read More
That wasn’t a monkey on the backs of the Pinnacle High School softball team. It was a 700-pound gorilla. And today, for the first time in years, that heavy … Read More
It seems only fair that Xavier Prep let some other school win a state title. The small Catholic girls’ school in central Phoenix has won three state championships so … Read More
A rare opportunity for softball fans is just days away. And requires just a short drive to northeast Phoenix. That’s where Pinnacle High School will be hosting Hamilton High … Read More
If college recruiters haven’t put Arizona on their travel schedules, then they just haven’t been paying attention to what we’ve been growing out here in the middle of the … Read More
It doesn’t look much like it used to, but the Sollenberger Classic is still with us. Gone are the glitz and glamour of years gone by, when the top … Read More
The math doesn’t add up for this year’s high school baseball state tournament – at least not the way it should. One way to know whether the tournament selection … Read More
