Two main things can be taken away from the first three games of a four-game series for the Arizona Diamondbacks against the Miami Marlins: The Marlins’ new park in Little Havana is hideous, and being a relief pitcher is the worst job in Major League Baseball.The color scheme around the…
With the 13th overall pick in the 2012 NFL draft, the Arizona Cardinals selected Notre Dame wide receiver Michael Floyd.Now that we presume everyone’s done bitching about Peyton Manning, the Valley can scrutinize its new wide receiver for the annual way-before-the-season football banter.Floyd was the second receiver taken in the…
Three Philadelphia homers and a controversial call against the Diamondbacks led to a 8-5 Arizona loss last night at Chase Field in downtown Phoenix. One of the homers, by the Phillies’ Shane Victorino, went 421 feet, which officially is a bomb. It came off lefty reliever Mike Zagurski, who was…
The Arizona Diamondbacks put nine runs on the board last night against the Philadelphia Phillies, and hung on to win despite the Phillies tacking on five runs in the ninth inning at Chase Field.Justin Upton hit his first home run of the season — a 436-foot bomb to left field…
We watched the first period of last night’s playoff hockey game in Chicago between the Phoenix Coyotes and the Blackhawks, and things didn’t look good for our local team. Chicago, which was fighting for its hockey life down 3-2 in the best-of-seven series, came out smoking after its stunning overtime…
Saturday was a coulda woulda shoulda day of major proportions in the cities of Phoenix and Glendale. It could have been a very cool day. Instead, it was a disaster.Three of our Valley’s four major sports franchises were in action, with two of the teams–the Phoenix Suns and the Phoenix…
Thank heavens for Gerardo Parra. The left fielder for the Arizona Diamondbacks single-handedly saved his squad from utter humiliation yesterday by unleashing a grand slam during the final game of their four-game series against the Atlanta Braves at Chase Field.His 419-foot homer during the second inning of Sunday’s game cleared…
The Phoenix Coyotes beat the Chicago Blackhawks in overtime last night, marking the team’s third win in the opening round, all of them coming in overtime.For the second time this series, Mikkel Boedker scored the game-winner for the Coyotes.Now, the Coyotes are one win away from winning the first playoff…
After starting the season with seven wins and just three losses, the Arizona Diamondbacks just lost a home series against the Pittsburgh Pirates.You know, the same Pittsburgh Pirates that lost 90 games last year while the D’Backs won a division title.The D’Backs couldn’t put runs together in yesterday’s matinee game…
James Harden, who was one of the best things to happen to the ASU men’s basketball program in, say, a generation, is an NBA All-Star in the making.He would be a star, or the star, on many teams in the league. But on the Oklahoma City Thunder–a small-city franchise that…
Before the Phoenix Coyotes’ Mikkel Boedker scored an overtime goal last night to give the team a 2-1 series lead over the Chicago Blackhawks in the opening round of the NHL playoffs, the Coyotes gave Chicago something else to complain about.The Coyotes’ Raffi Torres delivered a hit to the Blackhawks’…
If the season had ended last night, the Phoenix Suns would be headed to the playoffs as the eighth seed in the West after an easy 125-107 win over the Portland Trail Blazers.The performance from the Suns starters made the victory very unsurprising: 20 points and 10 rebounds from center…
Following a weekend series fraught with losses and angst, the Arizona Diamondbacks returned home to Chase Field on Monday night for a good ol’ fashioned stomping of a Pittsburgh Pirates.Fueled by a hailstorm of hits and homers, the D-Backs overcame some early stumbling by starting pitcher Joe Saunders and thumped…
After dominating their first two series of the year, the Arizona Diamondbacks were humbled slightly in a chilly weekend series that saw the Colorado Rockies take two of three games in Denver. It was the D-Backs’ vaunted bullpen that coughed up Friday and Saturday’s one-run losses, 7-6 and 8-7, respectively…
Two sweet moments last night for Phoenix professional sports fans, both within a few minutes of each other: First, the Phoenix Coyotes nipped the Chicago Blackhawks 3-2 in overtime out at the Jobing.com Arena, taking a 1-0 lead in the first round of the interminable Stanley Cup playoffs.It was an…
Any of the following facts may be surprising to people around the Valley: Phoenix still has a hockey team, that hockey team made the playoffs by winning its division, and that team won its first playoff game of the year last night.The team, for those unaware, is called the Phoenix…
Southpaws Joe Saunders and Cory Luebke went toe-to-toe yesterday afternoon at San Diego’s sprawling Petco Park, giving up but one run between them in 12 combined innings of work. Saunders, who was starting his first game of the new season for the Arizona Diamondbacks’, turned things over to set-up man…
The Arizona Diamondbacks have now won all four of the team’s first games, with the latest victory coming after 11 innings last night against the San Diego Padres in southern California.The game winning play — a Chris Young two-run home run in the top of the 11th off former D’Backs…
Yesterday, we brought you the video of Yavapai College left fielder Austin O’Such heading full-speed over to a scuffle between his team and Scottsdale Community College’s squad, and making a pit stop to blindside SCC’s Jake Bamrick, who’s hanging out on second base watching the action. The video from the…
The Phoenix Suns won one and lost one this weekend, with a six-point loss to the Denver Nuggets in Colorado on Friday, and a 20-point whooping of the Kobe Bryant-less Los Angeles Lakers in the desert Saturday night.Friday’s game was a gradual loss for the Suns after finishing the first…
The Arizona Diamondbacks got a roaring start to the new baseball season this past weekend as they swept the San Francisco Giants right out of Chase Field in their opening series. The D-Backs beat their Bay Area rivals 5-4 on Friday night, followed by another 5-4 win on Saturday afternoon,…
It’s officially baseball season for the Arizona Diamondbacks starting at 4 p.m. today, as the Snakes start a three-game series against the San Francisco Giants at Chase Field.The D’Backs won the National League West division title last year, but lost in five games against the Milwaukee Brewers in the National…
