Subject: Arizona State Sun Devils

• ASU pitcher beats New Times jinx, wins title

  June 12, 2008

• Is It August 30th Yet?: 2008 ASU Football Preview

  July 29, 2008

• Pic Hits for the week

  November 23, 1995

• The Stopgap Coach

  Don Newman lifted ASU's basketball program out of the trash heap by making his players believe in themselves. Despite 18 wins and an NIT berth, ASU boosters remain unconvinced.

  March 12, 1998

• The Selling of ASU Football

  No matter what happens on the field, ASU athletics hits pay dirt every game--with a nonstop stream of advertisements

  September 17, 1998

• Flashes

  September 24, 1998

• Pillow Fight Fight Fight!: The Struggling Sun Devils Host Quite-Possibly the Worst College Football Team in History. It’s Party Time.

  By Steve Jansen It's been like this all season for Washington State In 1981, the so-shitty Northwestern Wildcats' football team set a new NCAA record for consecutive losses with a 61-14 home shellacking at the hands of Michigan State. But instead of booing and dotting players in the back of the helmets with 9-volt batteries, what did the Wildcat fans do? They went into celebratory ape shit mode by storming the field, ripping down the goalposts, and parading down the center of Evanston yelling,

  November 14, 2008

• Friday Night Lights Frenzy Starts This Afternoon

    It's one of our favorite times of the year, and not just because of all the great food and the blessed relief that temps under 100 degrees can bring. No, we're talking about the Arizona high school football championships, and all the goofy color and pagentry that the homestretch games can provide. This afternoon at 3 p.m., for example, Scottsdale Chapparal will take on Tucson Canyon del Oro at North Canyon High, which is up at 17th Street and Union HIlls. The two once-beaten teams are vyi

  November 28, 2008

• Big Games Coming Up Tonight and Saturday in Tempe for ASU

  The ASU men's basketball team hasn't played in eight long days. It was back on January 21 that they squeaked by the Arizona Wsildcats in Tucson in a game that, safe to say, won't be placed into a time capsule for future generations to marvel at. Even the best of all the Sun Devils, the fabulous James Harden (slam-dunking in the photo below), had to battle his way through a tough shooting night. With that win, ASU now finds itself in a tie for second-place in the Pac-10 Confer

  January 29, 2009

• ASU Sun Devils Victimized By Mad Bomber In Pac-10 Upset

  It was an unlikely coming-out party for Washington State freshman Klay Thompson at Wells Fargo Arena last night, as the rail-thin guard led the Cougars to a 65-55 upset over the Arizona State Sun Devils.  The son of former NBA player Mychal Thompson hit shots from all over the court, stealing the show from ASU star James Harden en route to a career high of 28 points. It got so that the crowd of about 10,000 grumbled and groaned every time the sweet-shooting dude (tha

  January 30, 2009

• Weekend Sweep by Devils and 'Cats of LA Schools Sets Up Monster Matchup

  What was most (maybe the only thing) memorable about last night's Pac-10 slugfest between ASU and Southern Cal happened with about a minute left. USC head coach Tim Floyd (the oddly gesticulating gent in the photo) took such umbrage with a pivotal call against his squad that he felt compelled to whirl like a dervish from his bench completely across the court and halfway down the sideline. There, Floyd confronted the offending referee for what seemed like a minute or so

  February 16, 2009

• ASU Nips Arizona Wildcats in Classic Battle at Super-Loud Home Gym

  A few sights, sounds and other memories from last night's thrilling ASU win over Arizona at the Wells Fargo Arena in Tempe: It was the loudest crowd we've heard at the campus arena since the mid- to late-1970s, when both state schools usually had excellent, evenly matched squads. The din was constant and not -- as had been the case for most of the Lute Olson era -- split about 50-50 between Sun Devils and Wildcat fans. Oh, and the place actually was sold out, a rarity even as ASU men

  February 23, 2009

• Sun Devils In Latest "Game Of The Year" Tonight in Seattle

  After all is said and done in the regular college basketball season (that would be next weekend) and the Pac-10 conference tournament, the ASU Sun Devils and the Washington Huskies will find themselves playing somewhere in the Big Dance.  But all that seems so far away at the moment. At hand, in just a few hours (9 p.m. on KSAZ, Channel 34), the Devils and the Huskies will do battle up in Seattle for first place in the hotly contested league. The teams are tied for the lead w

  February 26, 2009

• ASU Sun Devils Try to Finish Regular Season on a High Note

  Coming off two spirit-crushing overtime losses last weekend in Washington, the Arizona State Sun Devils try to regroup tonight against Stanford in a 6:30 game in Tempe. ASU's Pac-10 championship hopes went out the window with the back-to-back defeats, and now the team is playing for a decent seed at the upcoming NCAA tourney. Two wins over the No-Cal schools (Stanford and Cal), and maybe a win or two at the Pac-10 tourney next week will go a long way toward solidifying the Devils'

  March 5, 2009

• ASU Men's B-Ball in Freefall as Season Winds Down

  The less said about the ASU men's basketball team's effort against an average Stanford team in last night's loss at Wells Fargo Arena, the better. Hard to believe it's been just a month since the Sun Devils humilated the Cardinal by 30 points up in Palo Alto, California. This time, Stanford took it to the home boys from the opening tip, showing more athleticism and, more important, far more heart than the 21st-ranked (and rapidly fading) locals. It was new head coach J

  March 6, 2009

• ASU Sun Devils About to Dance With the Owls

  We were in Oklahoma City the last time the ASU men's basketball team took the floor in the wonderful event known to all as March Madness. Led by Ike Diogu, the Sun Devils got stomped by a championship-level Kansas team in the second round after upsetting Memphis a few days earlier. That would have been 2003, or six long years and a ton of missed jump shots ago (though the kid in the photo, point guard Derek Glasser, has gone a long way toward correcting that perennial problem for

  March 20, 2009

• UPDATE: Sun Devils Win! Sun Devils Win! Syracuse Orange Next

  Who would have thought that the Arizona State Sun Devils could win an NCAA game with star James Harden held to just nine points? Well, they just did, beating the Temple Owls in Miami by a score of 66-57 (we predicted a 62-57 ASU win in a blog post just before game time). Point guard Derek Glasser continued his late-season surge by scoring 22 points and doing a fine job of controlling the game's flow throughout Center Jeff Pendergraph also scored 22 and dominated the glass inside for AS

  March 20, 2009

• ASU Men's Basketball vs. Stanford

  March 5, 2009

• Let's Make A Duel

  ASU/OSU? You should give a poop.

  February 26, 2009

• ASU Men's Basketball vs. UCLA @ Wells Fargo Arena

  February 12, 2009

• ASU Men's Basketball vs. USC

  February 12, 2009

• A Touch of Madness

  Hoops double-dip has a Big Dance feel

  December 18, 2008

• Giving the Devils Their Due

  December 11, 2008

• ASU Men's Basketball vs. Nebraska

  December 4, 2008

• Suck Up

  Devils try to salvage the season against the pretty boys in baby blue

  November 27, 2008

• Mickey Mouse vs. Donald Duck

  ASU’s the bumbling rodent, if you hadn’t guessed

  October 23, 2008

• Dawg Day Afternoon

  The moment (gulp) Sun Devils fans have wished for is here

  September 18, 2008

• Icing on the Cupcake?

  August 28, 2008

• Camp Terminated

  The Devils aren’t out of the woods yet, but they’re close

  August 14, 2008

• Pat Murphy's Law

  Everything that can go right will go right for high-riding Devils

  May 15, 2008

• Bittersweet 16

  Devils get the NIT. Wildcats get the Dance. Insanity reigns.

  March 27, 2008

• The War for the Roses

  Devils and Trojans face off with BCS berth on the line

  November 22, 2007

• Sun Angels

  The gospel according to Herb

  November 1, 2007

• Damn

  October 25, 2007

• Aztec Burial

  September 13, 2007

• Rodent Kill

  Devils wanna kick some Beaver tail in Pac-10 opener

  September 20, 2007

• Rocky Mountain Hi

  Buffs want to reacquaint themselves with the Devils -- in the worst way

  September 6, 2007

• Dennis, Anyone?

  ASU football coach Erickson = love at first sight

  August 30, 2007

• Fire HIM!

  A mediocre record and coddling thugs on his team didn't keep ASU football coach Dirk Koetter from getting a big raise

  Commentary

  May 4, 2006

• Hot Dogs

  Dachshunds relish dash for charity cash

  September 1, 2005

• Destiny's Child

  Ike Diogu's the Pac-10's player of the year. Will he stay at ASU or go to the NBA for millions?

  March 10, 2005

• Metal and Might

  Copperstate Football likes its grass stains the old-fashioned way

  January 20, 2005

• The Puck Drops Here

  Coyotes' new arena goes public

  November 27, 2003

• Devils and Mormonism

  Letters from the week of March 27, 2003

  March 27, 2003

• Winning Season

  Devils go dancing for the first time in years

  March 20, 2003

• Flashes

  September 23, 1999

• JIM BROCK LIVED FOR BASEBALLIN HIS FINAL DAYS, HE GOT ASU TO THE COLLEGE WORLD SERIES

  June 29, 1994

• BROCK SOLID

  ASU'S BASEBALL WIZARD LOVES TO PLAY HARDBALL. THIS YEAR, HE'S HAD TO.

  May 25, 1994

• Three's a Charm?

  May 21, 2009

• ASU Women's Basketball vs. South Dakota State

  November 12, 2009