A red-hot Suns team that’s rolled over most every team in its path played one of the NBA’s biggest go-nowhere squads . . . and lost. At 14-3 heading into Tuesday night’s game against the New York Knicks, it sure seemed like a gimme. But a sloppy first quarter full of…
With the average ticket to see Kiss costing more than $50, there’s definitely a chance your broke ass can’t afford to witness the long-in-the-tooth cartoon rockers breathe fire and spit blood all over the stage when their 35th anniversary tour stops at Jobing.com Arena in Glendale. And who wants to…
You’re kidding, right? The Phoenix Suns’ game Thursday night against the Hornets in New Orleans was supposed to be a gimme. Before the game, fans and local sports talk radio hosts had already chalked up win number 11 for the Suns. “The Suns’ second team alone could beat the Hornets,”…
Against the Lakers, Amar’e Stoudemire looked like crap, scoring a measly eight points. On Sunday night against Toronto, the star atoned for his worthlessness in L.A. by playing one of his all-around best games of the season. Stoudemire scored 30 points and had eight rebounds as the Phoenix Suns beat…
Even the most fanatical of Suns worshippers couldn’t have imagined such an outcome. A weeklong five-game road trip to the East Coast, including bouts against powerhouses Boston and Orlando, wrapping up with four wins for the Suns? Believe it. The Phoenix Suns are for real, and have to be considered…
One of the big questions about the Phoenix Suns heading into this season was: Did 35-year-old Steve Nash have enough left in the tank to carry the Suns like the Nash of old? On Tuesday night, the former league MVP certainly had plenty in the tank as he sparked a…
We can’t describe nerdcore genius MC Chris any better than he did himself in “Ten Year Old,” the first song off his second record, Knowing His Half the Hassle: “I sound like a 10-year-old / Or so I’ve been told / But you don’t need a voice that’s low to…
Remember when fans used to set up camp outside the box office, waiting through the night to buy tickets for rock concerts — potentially once-in-a-lifetime rock concerts? For the new concert film Michael Jackson’s This Is It, some fans have waited in line three days for tickets to opening night,…
No other team as second-rate as the Phoenix Suns can possibly have a fan base so eager to see its team take the floor after a longer-than-usual off-season. On Friday, October 16, the Valley’s rabid hoops fans will get their chance when the Phoenix Suns make their home preseason debut…
The San Francisco Giants kept their slim playoff hopes alive for at least one more day after beating the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-2 on Wednesday night at Chase Field. The poor D-Backs have lost four of their past five and, ugh, 14 of their last 19. Yeah, the season pretty much…
The Arizona Diamondbacks did very little this weekend to stop the Colorado Rockies from steamrolling their way toward their third postseason berth in franchise history. The hometown zeroes won only one of the weekend’s three games (Friday night’s 7-5 thriller) and all but assured that the Rockies will go to…
By playing a solid nine innings of baseball Wednesday night, the Arizona Diamondbacks helped keep the race to win the National League West an interesting one. In their 4-3 win against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Chase Field, Dan Haren was excellent, the defense was airtight, and strikeout king Mark…
Max Scherzer had what may have been the best outing of his young career Wednesday night as he beat the Los Angeles Dodgers and one of the better pitchers in the National League, Chad Billingsley, 4-1. Mad Max, a pitcher with incredible stuff but frequent bouts of inconsistency, was rock…
With their lineup back at full-strength, the Arizona Diamondbacks looked — for a weekend, at least — like a team that could be dangerous in September. Against the reeling Houston Astros, the hitters hit well and the pitchers pitched well and everyone went home happy (except for closer Chad Qualls,…
Mark Reynolds returned to the Arizona Diamondbacks’ lineup on Thursday night after a weeklong bout with the flu and provided instant offense for a team that had been struggling big-time recently. The same could be said for Justin Upton, who was only in his second game back from a strained…
The Arizona Diamondbacks have taken a real beating on their current road trip; they lost seven in a row before snapping that streak on Sunday with a 7-5 win over the Houston Astros. During the streak, the offensive achieved levels of futility — an average of two runs scored a…
The Arizona Diamondbacks barely made it out of Philadelphia alive Thursday after enduring a three-day whipping by the defending world champion Phillies. The D-Backs, who had been playing relatively solid baseball since the All-Star break, were simply overmatched in every facet of the game — pitching, hitting, defense — in…
The Arizona Diamondbacks are a talented team that has underachieved all season. Now, with less than a third of the season left to play, they are starting to play like a team with something to prove. Sure, it’s a case of “too little, too late,” but it’s . . …
Friday’s trading deadline came and went with neither Doug Davis nor Jon Garland being shipped by the Arizona Diamondbacks to teams in contention for a playoff spot. So the two veteran pitchers turned in solid performances this weekend as the D-Backs took the first two out of three in a…
Turns out all the Arizona Diamondbacks needed Wednesday night to top the slugging Philadelphia Phillies was Justin Upton’s two-run home run in the bottom of the first inning. The D-Backs, who had dropped the first two games of their three-game series with the defending world champs, proceeded to shut ’em…
The origins of the one-man band supposedly date back to the 13th century, when performers, armed with a panpipe in one hand and the drum-like tabor in the other, entertained the masses. Hundreds of years later, a handful of enterprising mad-genius musicians – no doubt feeling liberated from having bandmates…
The Arizona Diamondbacks’ come-from-behind win Tuesday against the Colorado Rockies was great and all, but it don’t mean squat unless a team can build some momentum from it. Consider the momentum unbuilt Wednesday, because the D-Backs dropped a tough one, 4-3, to the surging Rockies and lost yet another series…
