National Collegiate Athletic Association

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 >>

Downtown Phoenix Teeming With B-Ball Fans As Big NCAA Games Loom

Tipoff is less than two hours away at the US Airways Center in downtown Phoenix, and the streets are teeming with folks from "back East." It actually feels like a "real" city, a real downtown.   ​We're speaking of the NCAA West Regionals, which include four Sweet 16 teams, one which wi ... More >>

Racist Chants By Southern Mississippi Band Costs Five Of `EmTheir Scholarships,

We wrote last week about our weird experience watching (on TV) an NCAA first-round tournament game between Southern Mississippi and Kansas State. ​For us, it was memorable only for the chants that came from the Southern Miss pep band as KSU player Angel Rodriguez stepped to the line to attem ... More >>

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 >>

ASU Basketball Season Ends With Rout At Hands Of Tree

Stick a pitchfork in the Arizona State men's basketball team, which got thumped last night by Stanford in a first-round Pac-12 Conference tournament game.​ The 85-65 loss at LA's Staples Center in front of about as many folks as watched the Sun Devils this year in Tempe at the Wells Fargo Are ... More >>

ASU Sun Devils Lose 20th Game Of Season as Arizona Wins Its 20th

We didn't go by the Wells Fargo Arena last night for Arizona State's 66-57 loss to UCLA, but we know a few diehards who tells us that the announced attendance of 5,477 was exaggerated by a whole lot.Head Coach Herb Sendek​The game itself was a microcosm of ASU's lost season--a nice effort by a sad ... 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 >>

Devil’s Advocate

ASU Softball Team One Win From National Championship After Routing Florida

Strange game, fast-pitch softball.Dallas Escobedo on cusp on taking Sun Devils to national crown​Just last Friday night, the Florida Gators were poised to post a come-from-behind victory over the top-ranked ASU Sun Devils.Alas, the Devils pulled their own comeback and stole a 6-5 victory on their ... More >>

Devil's Due

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 >>

Arizona Wildcats Miss Final Four Berth By A Damned Inch

Most of Arizona and Wildcats fans around the globe held their collective breath early Saturday evening as, remarkably, their team had a chance in the last seconds to win the NCAA West Regionals and head to the Final Four.One of the all-time Arizona Wildcats, Mr. Derrick Williams​Down by two points ... More >>

Arizona Wildcats In Dramatic Win Over Memphis: Texas Longhorns Next

Arizona has just beaten Memphis 77-75 in the first round of the NCAA championships.Derrick Williams saves the day--again--for the Arizona Wildcats​A last-second block by Derrick Williams--eerily similar to what he did in a 87-86 win over Washington a few weeks ago--preserved the big win. To c ... More >>

ASU Finally Wins A Game and Arizona Continues Unlikely Run In Weekend Thrillers

When the Washington State Cougars rushed down the court down by two points with seconds to go on Saturday afternoon, just about everyone in the Wells Fargo Arena probably shared a similar thought: Oh, shit!A win! A win! ASU coach Herb Sendek gets off the snide.​The Arizona State Sun Devils ha ... 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 >>

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 >>

Hidden House: Happy Hour Report Card

The Spot: Hidden House 607 West Osborn Road, Phoenix 602.266.1763 http://www.myspace.com/thehiddenhouse Catherine Slye​

Judge Mike Kemp Watching Closely As Alma Mater And NCAA Cinderella Northern Iowa Tries For Elite Eight

We enjoyed our many hours in 2008 at Maricopa County Juvenile Court in south Phoenix, after which we published some stories about how things play out down there.​We spent days on end in the courtroom of Judge Mike Kemp, who then was new to the bench and learning the ropes in juvie court.Kemp prove ... More >>

Vasectomies Soar Couple of Days Before NCAA Big Dance Starts -- Great Excuse For Couch Potatoes

The Big Dance finally started an hour or so ago, with Florida and BYU going at it in Oklahoma City.   ​We're here at work, occasionally (really) checking the scores on the Internet, just like millions of other March Madness junkies. We already are rethinking our Final Four picks of Ka ... More >>

ASU Basketball Goes Down In Bizarre End To Game--And Season

ASU's men's basketball team went down in flames last night at the Wells Fargo Arena in Tempe, losing to Jacksonville Dolphins 67-66 after a bizarre finish that confirms a time-tested Yogi Berra adage--it ain't over `til it's over.​A Devils' season that once had been a pleasant surprise ended abrup ... More >>

Sun Devils Move Into First-Place Tie With Cal After Nipping Hated Wildcats In Tucson Yesterday

Picked by the pre-season pundits to finish in seventh place, the Arizona State Sun Devils improbably moved into a virtual first-place tie with Cal on Sunday afternoon as the Pac-10 men's basketball into the homestretch.​ASU beat the fading Arizona Wildcats 73-69 in an especially intense game yeste ... 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 >>

Such A Deal in Rotten Economic Times: ASU Men's Basketball Coach Gets Pay "Bump"

We like Herb Sendek (pictured) and how he's taken a beaten-down ASU men's basketball program up a notch in the past few years, thanks in large part to his now-departed superstar James Harden. ​Sendek's guys always play hard and, at times last year, well enough to compete with all b ... 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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Jason Richardson Profile: Newest Sun Expected to Make Debut Against Magic Tonight

Phoenix Suns fans: Here's a quick-and-dirty introduction to the team's newest member, Jason Richardson, who was acquired in Wednesday's five-player trade that sent Raja Bell and Boris Diaw to the Charlotte Bobcats.

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 >>

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For Those About to Rock . . .

. . . they'd better stretch first

How to Be a Player

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Winning Season

Devils go dancing for the first time in years

BROCK SOLID

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

A FRIGHTENING DIAGNOSIS

THE MEDICAL DIRECTOR SAID ASU ADMINISTRATORS WERE ENDANGERING THE HEALTH OF STUDENT ATHLETES. THE DIRECTOR GOT FIRED. THE DANGER'S STILL THERE.