Do you have a friend who either doesn’t give two poops about baseball or doesn’t know jack squat about the game? Or perhaps you’re entertaining some English blokes who would rather sip a spot of tea while watching the cricket than checking out a game of “rounders,” as those British…
Rookie relief pitcher Clay Zavada got a shaving-cream pie in the face, courtesy of catcher Chris Snyder, after the Diamondbacks beat the Florida Marlins 4-3 at Land Shark Stadium Thursday night.Zavada — who sports a big, dark moustache reminiscent of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata’s — had pitched brilliantly in his Major League debut, popping up…
Blackberry CEO Jim Balsillie’s bid to buy the Phoenix Coyotes now has some competition: Las Vegas-based businessman John Breslow, who owns 3 percent of the franchise, says he has built a syndicate to purchase the Coyotes and keep them in Glendale.Breslow made a fortune in his family’s welding business, and…
No one’s going to confuse the Arizona Diamondbacks with a contender just yet, but at least the retooled lineup of new manager A.J. Hinch is starting to make some noise. In a marathon day of baseball on Wednesday in Miami, the Snakes scored 17 runs and collected 23 hits, and,…
Guess time off did the Arizona Diamondbacks some good. After spending the last few days watching torrential rain postpone a couple games, the D-Backs came out swinging in a 5-3 win over the Florida Marlins on Tuesday night, following a whiz-bang seventh inning that featured the heroics of Gerardo Parra, the…
U.S. bankruptcy judge Redfield Baum did not make a ruling today in the case that will determine the future of the Phoenix Coyotes. Baum says he needs more time to examine hundreds of documents filed late last night, and he also says both sides in the case have made contradictory statements in…
For a slide show from Saturday’s rally, click here.Chants of “Let’s go Coy-otes!” and “Stay away Canada!” filled the air as about 200 Valley ice hockey fans in white rallied to show their support for keeping the Phoenix Coyotes in Glendale. The surprise wasn’t so much that the much-vaunted “Destroy your…
For Max Scherzer, it was about time. The second-year pitcher had pitched well enough to win several games this season, but the Arizona Diamondbacks’ anemic offense let him down each time. On Saturday, in a 12-0 laugher against the Atlanta Braves in Hotlanta, Scherzer finally got his first “W,” shutting…
Some years ago, we were enjoying a glass of wine with a buddy outside at the Biltmore Fashion Park when Wayman Tisdale came walking our way…
BlackBerry CEO Jim Balsillie’s bid to purchase the Phoenix Coyotes and move them to Canada is far from a done deal, but that hasn’t stopped Valley hockey fans from organizing a “Save the Coyotes” rally for tomorrow, or requesting that attendees bring their BlackBerry phones to be destroyed in protest…
Yo, Josh Byrnes. How’s that manager switch lookin’ a week in? Now, we’re no fan of Bob Melvin and his watching-paint-dry coaching style, but the biggest crime in the Arizona general manager’s installation of glorified farm hand A.J. Hinch wasn’t Hinch’s four-year, no-questions-asked contract or Byrnes’ transparent power grab in…
Welcome to the big leagues, Gerardo Parra and Bryan Augenstein. After an exciting first inning, in which the two call-ups from Double-A Mobile looked like future superstars, it was all downhill for the Arizona Diamondbacks in a 10-3 loss Wednesday night to the upstart CIncinnati Reds. The loss finished up…
Things seemed to get a little personal during the Arizona Diamondbacks’ 3-1 loss to the Cincinnati Reds on Tuesday night at Chase Field. For proof, look no further than the nice-size bruise that Ryan Roberts is probably sporting on his left arm this morning.The contusion came via an 86-mile-per-hour fastball…
With all of the uncertainty surrounding the bankrupt Phoenix Coyotes ice-hockey team, organizers of a rally in support of keeping the NHL team in Glendale are begging hockey fans to come out en masse Saturday. Just not to the Westgate City Center — anymore. Contrary to previous reports, the “White…
One of baseball’s best traditions is batting practice, because not many things in sports are sweeter than watching a Major League ballplayer cranking moon shots into the outfield and over the fence. If you love BP and the Cincinnati Reds are your fave, then you probably experienced the best time…
Before Sunday afternoon, the Arizona Diamondbacks’ weekend series against the Washington Nationals at Chase Field was looking like a disaster. Following a pair of tough losses on Friday and Saturday, it seemed the Snakes were about to get swept by the basement-dwelling Nats, giving new manager A.J. Hinch the ugliest possible start.Thankfully, the…
There was a lot of talk about “passion” Friday afternoon as the Arizona Diamondbacks new manager was officially announced. Most of it from the fledgling skipper himself, A.J. Hinch. Let’s hope his exuberance rubs off on the lackluster D-Backs lineup. We want to be optimistic that a positive attitude is…
As far as losses go, yesterday’s Arizona Diamondbacks’ 4-3 extra-inning loss to the San Diego Padres didn’t seem to be that big of a deal, all things considered. But to the team’s front office, however, it might have been the last straw, as manager Bob Melvin got his pink slip…
Two years ago, Arizona Diamondbacks skipper Bob Melvin was the National League’s manager of the year. And now he’s (reportedly) toast. KTAR sports jock John Gambadoro (of Gambo & Ash fame) is reporting that Melvin will be axed as soon as he returns from San Diego, where Arizona lost 4-3…
ManRam’s bad news is D-Backs’ good fortune.Thanks to an unlikely boost from Diamondbacks killer Manny Ramirez, the struggling D-Backs may have just gotten a new lease on life. Arizona started 20-8 last April before a deep summer swoon and the L.A. Dodgers’ signing of Ramirez left them for dead. In…
A retired police chief from Montana racked up six perfect games of bowling during his league season in Sun City West. Greg Waldon, who retired last year from the Belgrade Police Department and bowls in a pro senior circuit, accomplished the feat in three different leagues between September and April at…
If you’re an Arizona Diamondbacks fan, you’re looking to the future already, drooling perhaps at the notion of Justin “The Franchise” Upton becoming a perennial All-Star, hitting 40 homers, stealing 30 bases, hitting .315. It can happen. Until that day arrives, you’ll have to reside in Fantasyland, because this year’s…
