There are many perks involved with being a DJ: Complimentary booze, free schwag, the adoration of hundreds at gigs, and (depending on the particular selector or promoter) possibly a nice payday. Then there are the more unusual bonuses, like the one that DJ Intel got the other night at The Monarch ... More >>
Scottie Pippen, former Chicago Bulls player, is suing the ASU Foundation for an online article he claims defamed him. Basketball superstar Scottie Pippen wants $1 million each from the ASU Foundation and various media outlets around the country for calling him broke.Sounds like a great way to ... More >>
nba.com/sunsMen against boys.The Phoenix Suns kept their fading playoff hopes alive against the Los Angeles Clippers Friday night before having them snuffed out for good by the San Antonio Spurs Sunday morning. Friday's 111-98 win against the Clippers was almost a cruel April Fool's Day pran ... More >>
Steve Nash has been working through the pain, but just can't carry the Phoenix Suns all by himself.Steve Nash is hurting right now, badly. Back and heel issues are ailing the aging Phoenix Suns superstar, who's already plagued by lingering groin problems. And it's affecting his play. Nash battl ... More >>
www.nba.com/sunsGrant Hill: 21 points in a losing effort.Well, that Florida trip didn't go so well for the Phoenix Suns, did it? Less than a week after knocking off the league's best team, the Los Angeles Lakers, on the road, the Suns were roughed up pretty bad by the Sunshine State's two franchi ... More >>
Bulls look to finally wake up at US Airways Center
I was grumblings of the Suns' porous, lackadaisical defense during a recent game when a different debate started between my girlfriend and I.Which Green Day album is "Brain Stew" is on again? The answer, of course, is 1995's Insomniac. But a better question is why such an odd query came ... More >>
Suns open regular season against (grrr) Kobe and crew
fannation.com Jobing.com ArenaThe Phoenix Coyotes are a mess, plain and simple. Despite a successful year on the ice in 2009-10, things off of it still look bleak. See: the ownership fiasco. The Yotes have been involved in negotiations with Ice Edge Holdings about a long-term lease of Job ... More >>
www.bettorsedge.comBig ups to NBA super-duper star LeBron James for exploiting his stardom for a good cause. As you probably know, King James will announce tonight where he'll hang his size 16 sneakers and he's making the announcement during an hour-long special on ESPN -- the proceeds fro ... More >>
The Glendale City Council last night approved a deal to give Ice Edge Holdings, a group of Canadian and American investors, exclusive negotiating rights in the group's attempt to buy the Phoenix Coyotes. Under the agreement, Ice Edge -- the only known, remaining, potential buyer that would k ... More >>
www.chicagonow.comJerry Reinsdorf has withdrawn his bid to buy the Phoenix Coyotes.And then there was one...One of two potential buyers for the Phoenix Coyotes who vowed to keep the team in Arizona has withdrawn his bid to buy the bankrupt franchise.Jerry Reinsdorf, the owner of the Chicago Bulls ... More >>
www.nba.com/suns Jason Richardson: Led the Suns with 27 points. With just eight games left in the regular season, and a trip to the playoffs secured, the Phoenix Suns look nearly unstoppable. The Suns nipped the Chicago Bulls 111-105 Tuesday night in Chicago, a city where they have struggl ... More >>
suns.com The Suns were without Robin Lopez's might in the middle in last night's narrow win over the Timberwolves.Friday's home game against Coach Mike D'Antoni's New York Knicks and yesterday's road contest against Coach Kurt Rambis' Minnesota Timberwolves both looked lik ... More >>
www.nba.com/sunsGrant Hill: 13 first-half points on Saturday night.Somehow, some way the Phoenix Suns avoided a total disaster this weekend at US Airways Center. Instead, their two-game series was just a partial disaster. Sure, the team beat the Golden State Warriors, barely, on Saturday night, b ... More >>
Almost coach visits US Airways Center
Goran Dragic's third-quarter performance helped the Suns dispatch the New Jersey Nets last night.As woeful as the Phoenix Suns' fortunes have been over the past few weeks -- losing four straight games, staging repeated scoring collapses, etc. -- the subpar squad has at least one saving grace. At ... More >>
Suns take on talented but struggling Bucks
www.nba.com/heat Miami's Dwyane Wade is the newest member of the NBA's 10,000-point club. A record of 3-0 to start the season? Even against poor-to-middling competition (L.A. Clippers, Golden State Warriors, Minnesota Timberwolves), we'll take it, though we're not deluding ourselves. The o ... More >>
Tour de Fat at Tempe Beach Par New Belgium Brewing maintains that Tour de Fat is a bike festival first and a beer festival second. To prove it, they got a Tempe citizen to donate his car and agree to utilize only a bike he received at Tour de Fat as his means of transportation. Talk about putting ... More >>
An analysis released Monday by the Office of Management and Budget shows that legal disputes between Maricopa county officials cost taxpayers about $1.1. million in fees. In the past year, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas, County Treasurer Charles Hoskins, and the Board ... More >>
www.nba.com Many will go. Grant Hill will return. We hope. A mere week into the new season, the Arizona Diamondbacks' top pitcher is on the disabled list with a sore wing and the D-Backs couldn't hit a slow-pitch grapefruit with a two-by-four. You think they've got problems? This year's star ... More >>
www.nba.com Mo Williams: Finally, a worthy sidekick for LeBron. Following the Phoenix Suns' figurative demise in their do-or-die game versus the Dallas Mavericks on Tuesday night, the dudes in orange have about as much chance of making the playoffs as did Don Quixote of slaying a windmill. B ... More >>
You know what it means that the Suns blew out the Sacramento Kings 129-81 at US Airways Center Monday night? Nothing. The Kings are 11-39, officially the third-worst team in the NBA at 11-39 (the L.A. Clippers and the Washington Wizards are tied for worst at 10-38). Running them out of the gym ... More >>
NBA No. 1 Derrick Rose makes his US Airways debut. From the January 26, 2009, morning paper: "Leading by as many as 16 in the first quarter and shooting 57.6 percent through three quarters, the team collapsed down the stretch by shooting 8-for-29." Sound familiar? The quote isn't about one of t ... More >>
In 2004-05, the Washington Wizards boasted the NBA's most fearsome backcourt. Led by ex-UA Wildcat standout Gilbert Arenas, Antwan Jamison, and Larry Hughes, Washington earned a modest forty-five victories in the regular season, but turned heads during the NBA Playoffs with its first-round conquest ... More >>
Never underestimate the heart of a champion. We forget who said that, but it was Steve Nash who willed an overpowered Phoenix Suns team to a 99-98 victory Tuesday night over the Thunder in Oklahoma City. Yeah, you heard that right, the now 1-14 Okie Thunder bitch-slapped ... More >>
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