Arizona Wildcats

Did Anyone Find the Humor in the Daily Wildcat Comic About Shooting a Gay Kid?

Everyone at the University of Arizona's student newspaper, the Daily Wildcat, is in apology mode after a comic about shooting a gay kid if he ever came out to his father garnered some national attention.The apparent "joke" was about a father shooting his gay son with a shotgun, rolling him up in som ... More >>

UA Student Paper Sorry About That Cartoon Joking About Blasting a Gay Kid With a Shotgun

After seeing an apology about a cartoon on the website of the University of Arizona's student newspaper last night, the Daily Wildcat, we were ready to channel our inner Michael Scott -- "There is no such thing as an appropriate joke. That's why it's a joke."However, the apparent "joke" is about a f ... More >>

Arizona Wildcats Baseball Continues To Surprise By Reaching College World Series Finals

No one, probably including the University of Arizona's head baseball coach Andy Lopez would have predicted when the season started in February that the Wildcats would make it to the College World Series in Omaha. But they did. And on Sunday night, Arizona will oppose either Arkansas or South Caroli ... More >>

Arizona Wildcats One Win From College (Baseball) World Series Finals

In a pretty improbable turn of events, the Arizona Wildcats baseball team is but one win away from a berth in the best-of-three NCAA College World Series championship round this weekend.The Wildcats await the winner of tonight's elimination game in Omaha between the powerful Florida State Seminoles ... More >>

Arizona Wildcats Baseball Team Back In Omaha For College World Series

Back in the day, the University of Arizona pennially had one of the nation's best baseball teams, and trips to the College World Series in Omaha were both expected and commonplace.But times got tougher and tougher after the Wildcats' 1986 championship win, with only one appearance in the Big Dance s ... More >>

ASU Softball Season Ends With Hard-Fought Loss To Oklahoma Sooners

Women's college softball is terrific these days--they can really play ball, and they all look so damned coachable.So, natch, it's very hard to win a national championship, no matter the level, no matter the sport--and Division I fast-pitch definitely is no exception.The Arizona State Sun Devils were ... More >>

ASU and Arizona Dream Big As Pac-12 Basketball Tourney Starts Today In LA

For Arizona State, it's a chance at redemption after a lost season with just ten wins (but one of those was last Sunday's stunner over Arizona). For the Wildcats, it's desperation time, as they have to win at least two games and probably three at the Pac-12 basketball tournament ... More >>

ASU Sports in Full Force as Women Begin Defense of National Title, Men Try to Win a Basketball Game

Lots of sports action in Tempe this weekend, which for our purposes starts tonight at the Wells Fargo Arena, where the ASU Sun Devils should be in a close, if not so artistic, battle against the equally lowly Utah Utes. the game, which will not be televised (it's on KTAR620), marks the return o ... More >>

ASU Overmatched In 69-54 Road Loss To University of Colorado

Pierre Newton may have had a "career" game last night up in Boulder, hitting a late three-pointer for the ASU men's basketball team near the end of a Pac-12 contest against Colorado.The problem for the Sun Devils was that Newton was in the game at all. He is a 6-4 walk-on freshman from Laveen, where ... More >>

ASU Pulls Out Best Win of Season With Shorthanded Thumping of USC: Arizona Loses

There's a very sound reason we don't engage in sports gambling but on the rare occasion: We learned the hard way a long time ago that we come too close too often to striking gold--but almost inevitably lose.Sun Devils surprise Trojans in LA last night​We wrote yesterday that, in our imaginary ... More >>

ASU Men's Basketball Team Heading Into Pac-12 Season On Real Low

The ASU Sun Devils men's basketball team has but one pre-conference remaining to right the ship, and things are looking mighty bleak. We looked on last night as the Devils lost their second straight game on a three-point buzzer-beater, this one 64-61 to a pretty good Southern Mississippi team.​Sun ... More >>

ASU Women's Softball Team Begins Quest For NCAA Crown Today

The top-ranked Arizona State women's softball team takes the field this afternoon against the Oklahoma Sooners in a first-round game at the NCAA World Series in Oklahoma City.NCAA College World Series starts this afternoon​The 4 p.m. game will be nationally televised on ESPN2 (Channel 32). It shou ... More >>

Arizona and ASU Softball Teams Earn Spot in Super-Regionals This Weekend

Both Arizona major-college softball programs rolled through their respective NCAA Regionals over the weekend in Tempe and Tucson, the first of two steps necessary to earn a coveted spot in the College World Series.Freshman ace Dallas Escobedo leads Devils to Super Regionals​ Neither squad rea ... More >>

ASU Softball Team Ranked Nation's Best Going Into NCAA Playoffs

Time was, Arizona State's fast-pitch softball team was a decided lesser-light, an afterthought of a program whose "rivalry" with the Arizona Wildcats was anything but. ASU ace pitcher Dallas Escobedo is one of nation's best.​ But the arrival of a new head coach, Clint Myers, a few years ag ... More >>

Morning Poll: Do Arizona Wildcats Stand a Chance Against Duke?

​If you're like us, your NCAA bracket is already worthless leading into the Sweet 16. But the University of Arizona's still giving some Arizonans a reason to pay attention to college basketball -- if only for one month out of the year.The Wildcats won a stunner over the Texas Longhorns yesterday, ... More >>

March 18 In Blogs: St. Patrick's Day, Saving Japan, Trader Vic's, Russell Pearce, and the Arizona Wildcats

​In the 24-hour news cycle, it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries:

ASU Men's Basketball Desperate For Win--But Unlikely To Get It Tonight Vs Washington

First, we note that the lowly Cleveland Cavs somehow beat the two-time defending NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers last night in what has to rank as the sports upset of this new year. A real stunner. ASU coach Herb Sendek needs help from the basketball gods ​For the ASU Sun Devils to beat a ... More >>

Arizona's Pac-10 Men's Basketball Teams Go In Different Directions Over Weekend

Terrible and strange weekend that it was, life (by which we mean sports) didn't stop because of the Tucson massacre, what with the National Football League wild-card and Pacific-10 basketball games carrying on as scheduled.​We're here to talk about the Arizona schools and how they fared at home ag ... More >>

ASU, UA Men's Basketball Teams Struggle During Oregon Trip To Start Pac-10 Season

We got a chance to watch a lot of basketball on TV over the holiday, between, of course, doing chores and "catching up" with stuff around the house.​We especially were interested in the start of the Pacific-10 basketball race, and what we expect will be a topsy-turvy season with no one team (with ... More >>

Rodney Glassman and Other Arizona Dems Not Exactly Motivating Youth Vote

Rodney Glassman​U.S. Senate hopeful Rodney Glassman, as well as several other Democrats running for office this year, were at the University of Arizona yesterday for a rally. It didn't go well.It went so bad, in fact, that the university's newspaper, The Daily Wildcat, wrote a scathing editorial w ... More >>

Thrown for a Curve

UA delivered a slider when we were expecting fastball

Arizona State Men's Basketball Has Nice Weekend As Wildcats Falter Down In Tucson

If it wasn't a sure thing that the University of Arizona men's basketball team will have to win the Pac-10 conference championship next month to keep its streak of 25 consecutive years in the NCAA tournament intact -- it is now.   ​That's because the Wildcats stunningly lost at home ... More >>

Great Start To Weekend As ASU, Arizona Men's BB Teams Win

At the moment, most pundits are predicting that the once-powerful Pac-10 men's basketball conference will only win only one bid to next month's NCAA tournament--the automatic spot that goes to the winner of the postseason tourney in Los Angeles.​That's because the league happens to be in one of th ... More >>

Arrests, Thefts, Firings, and a Romantic Scandal; U of A's College Newspaper Resembles an Episode of Melrose Place

​You would probably think the newsroom at a college newspaper would be a fairly non-confrontational environment -- a few stories about how much the latest tuition increase sucks, a professor winning some award, and how much the basketball team needs a new coach. This is apparently not the cas ... More >>

Arpaio Brings His MCSO Circus to ASU's Cronkite School, and Deputies Admit Destroying Public Records

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​Sheriff Joe Arpaio's "Meet-the-Press" style interview at Arizona State University was cut short last night when protestors inside the Cronkite School's First Amendment Forum began singing while the Sheriff was answering a question...Three people were found dead inside a Tucson home yesterday ... More >>

Fraternity Steals 10,000 Free Newspapers to Keep People From Reading Date-Rape Drug Story, UA Student Newspaper Alleges

www.imdb.com​Last month, about 10,000 copies of the University of Arizona's student newspaper were stolen from various newsstands across the university. They were found the next day, dumped in various locations on the outskirts of the campus.You may be wondering "why the hell would anyone st ... More >>

Hot Links: Pat Murphy, Ballers Out, and a Sweat Lodge Rescue

​Maricopa County Sheriff's deputies say they are investigating after someone painted "Kill Obama" in purple spray paint across a pair of political signs in Cave Creek. Sheriff Joe Arpaio says the Secret Service has been contacted, and asks anyone with information to contact his office...Arizon ... More >>

Three's a Charm?

Devils try to make history against UCLA

Playboy Labels UofA a Top Party School; ASU Falls to Number 15

Arizona State University is fine for a weekend romp, but if students who want more female scenery and action ought to spend their college years at the University of Arizona, says Playboy magazine. The latest Playboy listing of top party schools puts UofA squarely in the Number Five, behind the ... More >>

Arizona Wildcats in Do-or-Die Sweet 16 Matinee Match-up

We never thought we'd be writing the following words: The Arizona Wildcats men's basketball team will take the floor against the top-ranked Louisville Wildcats in Sweet 16 action late this afternoon. Channel 5 will air the game in the Valley at 4 p.m.The 12th-seeded Wildcats--by far the lowest-ranke ... More >>

Here, Kitties

Those furballs from Tucson are back for more

ASU Sun Devils Seek to Break Washington Huskies Jinx in L.A. Tonight

The ASU men's basketball team has one last chance at 6 p.m. tonight to beat one of the Washington schools this season, when they meet the Washington Huskies in semi-final action at the Pac-10 basketball tournament here in L.A. The Sun Devils are fresh from completing a trifecta of victories over on ... More >>

ASU's James Harden Excels and U of A's Chase Budinger Doesn't in the Devils' Victory Over the 'Cats

www.pac-10.orgJames Harden scored 27 against U of A.Arizona State's 68-56 win over the boys from Tucson in a Pac-10 tourney game that ended a few minutes ago can be attributed to one player's piss-poor performance: Arizona's Chase Budinger. The highly touted Wildcats' forward played as soft as a c ... More >>

Arizona May Need Win Over ASU Tomorrow to Get to Big Dance

Time was that the Arizona Wildcats hated the Pac-10 postseason basketball tournament with a passion. That was when the `Cats routinely dominated league play, finishing first or second seemingly every year after now-retired Lute Olson revved up the program in the mid-1980s. Olson and his minions cons ... More >>

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 w ... More >>

Basketbrawl

ASU, UofA get smashmouth at Wells Fargo Arena

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 ... More >>

Arizona Wildcats Kick Butt in Entertaining Vegas Bowl Game

No question, University of Arizona football has been lousy at best for about a decade now. Alums like ourselves who pay attention to such weighty things quietly were suffering through yet another mediocre season until -- Hallelujah! -- the Wildcats throttled ASU down in Tucson a few weeks ago and th ... More >>

Giving the Devils Their Due

Are we really mentioning ASU and UofA in the same breath? At last?

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Here Kitty, Kitty, Kitty

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Pac Men

Here comes the real test for Herb and company

Buck Amok

Glendale's got your hook-up

Happy Trails

Hike! For the love of dogs

Metal and Might

Copperstate Football likes its grass stains the old-fashioned way

Turf War

Fiesta Bowl touches down in Tempe

The Puck Drops Here

Coyotes' new arena goes public

Tortilla Flap

UFOs? No, frisbees in either corn or flour