College Baseball

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 Catches Huge Early Break, Beats Oregon In College World Series Opener

Back in the day, we had several occasions to bat against Mike White, a native New Zealander who happened to be one of the greatest fastpitch softball pitchers of all-time. Whitey wasn't a big guy, but had great command of all of his pitches, and was an absolutely fierce competitor.So last night we t ... More >>

Yavapai Baseball Player Austin O'Such Joins in Scuffle With Scottsdale Community College, Does Not Do it Tactfully

The video above is probably the only community-college baseball highlight that's going to be news outside the state of Arizona this year.That's Yavapai College left fielder Austin O'Such that's heading full-speed over to a scuffle between his team and Scottsdale Community College's squad, and makes ... More >>

Where to Eat and Drink Near Goodyear Ballpark

​ Cleveland Indians and the Cincinnati Reds: Goodyear Ballpark All week long we're sharing suggestions of where to find breakfast, lunch, dinner and drinks near each spring training stadium. Have a favorite spot baseball fans should hit? Leave it in the comments. Ohio is one of those Midwestern ... More >>

The Formulas Work in Moneyball

ASU Sun Devils Pull Off Controversial Last Inning Win In Softball Super Regionals

Top-ranked ASU found itself down to its final strike in its NCAA softball Super Regionals opener last night against Texas A&M, down 2-1 with the bases loaded.Dallas Escobedo and the Devils squeak one out​The Aggies had managed all of two hits against the Sun Devils freshman ace pitcher Dallas ... More >>

Devil's Due

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 >>

Hell to Pay

Does the season matter for the probation-slapped Devils?

The Dream Is Over: Arizona State Baseball Eliminated In Omaha

thesundevils.com​In a flash, the dream is over. A mere 36 hours after the first pitch was thrown, the Sun Devils are done after getting embarrassed 11-4 by South Carolina. Two games and out. Elimination from the 2010 College World Series. Poof. Good luck next season.

ASU Baseball Sloppy on 6-3 Loss to Clemson to Open College World Series

georgeblowfish.com​The Arizona State baseball team hasn't lost two games in a row all season. Now wouldn't be a good time to start. After falling to Clemson 6-3 in their opening game of the College World Series on Monday morning, the Sun Devils are now one loss away from elimination. After ... More >>

Arizona State Baseball Looking For Title Number Six In Omaha This Weekend

thesundevils.cstv.com​The Arizona State baseball team is on a mission for title number six as they play in their opening College World Series game on Sunday. The program's last NCAA title was in 1981 and has won five overall (1965, 1967, 1969, 1977, 1981). In Tempe, however, it feels a lot ... More >>

Arizona State Baseball Headed Back to Omaha; But Not Before A Thrilling Series

http://thesundevils.cstv.com/index-main.html​ There would be no meltdown for the Arizona State University baseball team this year, as there was in 2008. Drew Maggi made sure of that, even if the sophomore wasn't around two years ago when the Sun Devils were upset in the Super Regional at home ag ... More >>

Top-Ranked Arizona State Baseball Set to Face #15 Arkansas; Winner Goes to Omaha

http://thesundevils.cstv.com/sports/m-basebl/asu-m-basebl-body.html​Looking to actually watch some decent baseball this weekend? The D-Backs suck but you're in luck -- the Arizona State baseball team, the number one overall seed in the NCAA Tournament, play a best-of-three series again ... More >>

2010 NCAA Baseball Super Regional: Arizona State vs. Arkansas

2010 NCAA Baseball Super Regional: Arizona State vs. Arkansas (Game Two)

ASU Baseball Sees 10 Players Picked in First Two Days of MLB Draft

thesundevils.cstv.com/.../recaps/040209aaa.html​As the Arizona State baseball team keeps rolling along with all eyes on the prize in Omaha, 10 Sun Devils now have a future in the sport after college. As expected, junior Seth Blair, the 2010 Pac-10 Pitcher of the Year, was the firs ... More >>

Arizona Diamondbacks Select Right-Hander Barret Loux in Draft. Word is... It's a Reach

aggiesports.com​ With the 2010 season seemingly over for the last-place D-Backs, fans got a possible glimpse of the future Monday afternoon. With the sixth overall pick in the 2010 Major League Baseball Draft, the Snakes selected Barret Loux, a right-handed pitcher from Texas A&M. While ... More >>

ASU Baseball Sweeps Tempe Regional; Awaits Next Opponent

​As expected, the Arizona State baseball team is moving on. After taking three straight games as a Regional host, the Sun Devils will now play in their sixth Super Regional since 2003, the second-most in the NCAA over that time span. Ho hum, just another day at the ball field for the perennial pow ... More >>

Tim Esmay About to Lose 'Interim' Label as ASU Head Baseball Coach

Though we really do miss fired ASU head baseball coach Pat Murphy, we think it's about time that the iffy-powers-that-be at the Tempe school finally are about to drop the title 'interim' from coach Tim Esmay's title. ​ Esmay (smiling man in photo) has led the Sun Devils to the number-one nat ... More >>

D-Backs Get Big-Time Blasted by the Chicago Cubs. Up Next: Houston Astros

Alfonso Soriano owned Arizona pitching, which really isn't that hard to do.​ This is getting silly. The Arizona Diamondbacks screwed the pooch over the weekend to the tune of three losses to the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field. After taking the first of four games on Thursday, AZ couldn't hang wi ... More >>

Deposed ASU Baseball Coach Pat Murphy Lands on Feet With MLB Gig

We appreciated former Arizona State University baseball coach Pat Murphy before the school controversially dismissed him a few months ago, after the 51-year-old had been chosen as the Pac-10's Coach of the Year for the third straight season. ​ ​ Murph (the burly fellow in the photo) alway ... More >>

School of Hard Knocks: Three-Sport Gamer Mike Nixon’s Tried It All, But Can the Whip-Smart ASU Defensive Star Make It to the NFL?

Upside Story

D-Backs’ Dan Haren, Cardinals’ DRC meet the fans

ASU Sun Devils Live to See Another Day at College World Series

Things looked mighty bleak midway through Arizona State's baseball game against North Carolina yesterday afternoon. Then, down 4-0 in an elimination game at Omaha's Rosenblatt Stadium, the Sun Devils loaded the bases for previously unsung outfielder Kole Calhoun. Calhoun deposited a pitch i ... 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 >>

Three's a Charm?

Devils try to make history against UCLA

Speak of the Devils

Pat Murphy: Amazing coach. Relationship counselor? Not so much.

Loss Angeles: Phoenix Suns vs. Star-Crossed Clippers on Sunday Afternoon

It's the best of times and the worst of times for the Angeleno sports fan. There's still no NFL, and none on the near horizon, which seems to bother the NFL more than it does L.A. Jack Nicholson's once again grinning like a pre-lobotomy Randle Patrick McMurphy since his pet franchise, the Lakers ... More >>

ASU Baseball Hosts Super Regional

Pat Murphy's Law

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

No. 1 With a Yawn

Hey, Cactus League nuts, here’s the best baseball in the Valley

No. 1 With a Yawn

Hey, Cactus League nuts, here’s the best baseball in the Valley

No. 1 With a Yawn

Hey, Cactus League nuts, here’s the best baseball in the Valley

Sun Angels

The gospel according to Herb

Tough Coach

Another winning season ends for Pat Murphy and his baseball team. Now, it's ASU management's turn at bat

Hardball

Dads' egos can run amok in super-competitive Valley youth baseball, and that's dangerous

Night Moves

Run or walk for the sake of art

Root for the Home Team

ASU's "Superfan" gets called out at the old ball game

Vanishing Act

Little-known revision of state law would allow Cardinals to play in BOB

Angles in the Outfield

Fame is not the name of the game in controversy over ASU baseball field

BOB's a Bust

Bank One Ballpark was touted as a powerful economic engine for downtown. Data show, however, that BOB has fueled sales mostly for BOB. The meager spillover doesn't bode well for the Arizona Cardinals' stadium aspirations.

Flashes

Night & Day

June 18 - 24, 1998

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

A PROFILE IN COURAGE

BROCK SOLID

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