Arizona Wildcats

Racial Slurs At NCAA Game Yesterday Reminiscent Of ASU Students' Taunting Of Steve Kerr

Like millions of other hard-working Americans, we took pause yesterday (just occasionally, boss!) to sneak some peaks at the first-round games of the men's NCAA basketball tourney.​The annual March Madness first-round Thursdays and Fridays are among our favorite days of the year. Thirty-two flippi ... More >>

Tough Washington Weekend Looms For Arizona Basketball Teams In Pac-12 Play

The struggling Arizona State's men's basketball team will be in the Great Northwest this weekend, and a win tonight over Washington or against Washington State on Saturday would qualify as a huge surprise.​ Tonight's game in Seattle, which starts at 9 p.m. our time and will be aired on Channe ... More >>

Phoenix Suns Dog It in Nine-Point Road Loss to Dallas Mavericks

suns.com Steve Nash had a double/double against the Mavs. ​Alvin Gentry and Steve Nash complained about it in their post-game remarks. As usual, the coach and the veteran point guard were on the same page. The Suns didn't hustle as a team. Too many Suns played like old ladies.  ... More >>

Mike Bibby, One of Arizona's All-Time Great Hoopsters, Gives Up Millions for Chance at NBA Title With Miami Heat

We first met Mike Bibby when he was a high-school junior at Phoenix Shadow Mountain High, one of the most highly recruited players in the nation. He was the son of onetime NBA player (and coach) Henry Bibby, with whom he was not close at the time. Mike Bibby, one of Arizona's greatest basketb ... More >>

Tucson: How Will the Southern Arizona Community Be Remembered After a Shooting Rampage that Riveted the Nation?

The City of Tucson​A mention of Columbine evokes images of two teenage gunman shooting up a school full of terrified classmates. Waco? The public mind recalls the infamous standoff and siege, the flames that ripped through a compound and the more than 80 people who died. Will ... More >>

David Hasselhoff Spotted in Tucson Discussing Women's Rights

www.agodamongmen.com Don't hassle "the hoff"​As New Times predicted back in January, when we first learned of David Hasselhoff's new reality show, the former Baywatch star was spotted at the University of Arizona Wednesday, where he gave a speech to his daughter's psychology class."The Hoff ... More >>

Steve Nash Agrees to Rich Contract Extension, but Why Do the Phoenix Suns Want to Keep the Aging Superstar at All Costs?

Beats us why Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver would bend over frontwards to keep a point guard who's too old and slow to keep up defensively with practically any other starter at his position in the nba.com No way the two-time league MVP should be the Suns' top priority. National Baske ... More >>

D-Backs Relievers Blow Five-Run Eighth-Inning Lead in 6-5 Loss to Dodgers

Mr. Bungle: Tony Peña helped screw the D-Backs in the eighth last night. One single out. Just three little strikes. That's all the Arizona Diamondbacks bullpen -- or more specifically, Tony Peña -- needed to protect a five-run lead with two away in the bottom of the eighth versus the Los Angeles ... More >>

ASU's James Harden Named Pac-10 Player of the Year

Although the ASU men's basketball team didn't win the Pac-10 Conference championship this year, Sun Devils guard James Harden was named Pac-10 Player of the Year today by conference coaches.The 6-foot-5 sophomore led the Pac-10 in scoring with 20.8 points per game. He also averaged 1.7 steals, 4.1 a ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 ... More >>

Suns Redeem Themselves vs. Atlanta After Stinking Against Charlotte

The Phoenix Suns longest road trip of the year was a disaster -- until the Big Three (no, not those Big Three) found a way to win against the Atlanta Hawks on Sunday. We're talking about Steve Nash, Amar'e Stoudemire, and Shaquille O'Neal. Nash played so brilliantly against the Hawks ... More >>

ASU Women's Basketball vs. Arizona

Shaq Dominates Again: Suns Beat Fading Atlanta Hawks 103-98

  It was Shaquille O'Neal's night again -- and thank God for it! Without him, the Suns would've lost to the Atlanta Hawks, who led the game at US Airways Center late in the fourth quarter before a Suns spurt. O'Neal had 26 points and 10 rebounds in 40 minutes against the 22 ... More >>

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 he ... More >>

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

Valley sportswriters take another body shot with death of Bob Eger

Letters from the issue of Thursday, May 8, 2008

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

Colangelo's Not the Real Local Hero

Jerry's gotten rich on our backs. Here's how the $400 million Phoenix Suns deal went down.

Winning Season

Devils go dancing for the first time in years

Old Glory

Veteran Phoenix lawyer Gary Peter Klahr fought The Bar and The Bar won

Speared

Jamie Warren claims his football coach at Scottsdale Community College ran a drill in which he was speared in the back during practice. The ugly incident has unleashed a flood of allegations in Artichoke land.

Flashes

Flashes

Flashes

Timely Tim

Despite an unremarkable demeanor, public-interest lawyer Tim Hogan has a nose for trouble and a knack with judges

Mr. Microphone

America's top theatrical sound designer has heard it all

Calendar for the week

Pic Hits for the week

Pic Hits for the week

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

STAR GATE

LONESOME LOVEALTHOUGH HIS FAMOUS FATHER OPENED THE DOOR, JAMES MCMURTRY USED HIS TALENT AS THE KEY