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A few sights, sounds and other memories from last night’s thrilling ASU win over Arizona at the Wells Fargo Arena in Tempe:…

The good, of course, were Rajon Rondo (pictured) and the mighty Boston Celtics, who came into US Airways Center Sunday Afternoon and took care of business, 128-108, against the Phoenix Suns. The bad were the Oklahoma City Thunder, who got dominated by the Suns here Friday night, 140-118, in Phoenix’s third win in…

Just when things were beginning to look up for the Phoenix Suns. The team announced that power forward Amar’e Stoudemire — on the trading block until he stepped up his game after a recent coaching change — underwent surgery today for a “partially detached retina” and will be out for eight weeks “depending upon his healing process.”…

It’s time to show ’em what you’ve got:The Arizona Cardinals are looking for a few good cheerleaders following the team’s stellar season as Super Bowl contenders.If you’ve got the right moves, can squeeze your butt into one of those postage-stamp-size pair of shorts and you’re hot enough to steal attention…

More impressive than the 140 or more points scored in each of the Phoenix Suns’ dominating victories over the Los Angeles Clippers is this quote by Clippers guard Eric Gordon, which followed the second game of the Alvin Gentry era. “They are going to be a really hard team to…

The NBA trade deadline passed at 1 p.m. today with no Phoenix Suns players moved — not even Amar’e Stoudemire (whose departure seemed all but a done deal last week). Suns brass had been admitting for a month that they were entertaining trade offers for every member of the team except Steve Nash…

The once-again run-and-gun Phoenix Suns looked great again Wednesday night, scoring 140 points or more for the second game in a row against the dog-ass Los Angeles Clippers. This time, the score was 142-119, and supposedly on-the-trading-block Amar’e Stoudemire scored 42 points of that and pulled down 11 rebounds. We think…

It seems any publicity isn’t always good publicity. Kid Cudi’s bad behavior at Canal restaurant in Scottsdale on Saturday spoiled an otherwise great All-Star game event with NBA star Allen Iverson, says a spokeswoman for Reebok who didn’t want her name used. “It’s unfortunate that the action of one person …..

It was a game in which Goran Dragic slam-dunked. Goran who? You know, the highly touted backup point guard whom fired Suns Coach Terry Porter used to ream a new one from the sidelines everytime he made a blunder. The Slovenian rookie (pictured) played with reckless abandon in the Suns’ 140-100 rout of the…

Forget the expensive business conferences: The greatest example of government bailout excess may just be Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver, whose banks have taken $140 million in Troubled Asset Relief Program funds.Yeah, it must be nice to be the CEO of a couple of banks that need massive public assistance…

This just in from Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver and general manager Steve Kerr: Oops. Our bad. Terry Porter, we hardly knew ye. Here’s a sack full of cash to salve your wounds. Amar’e — ha ha. Those trade rumors? We were just kidding. Ya know we love ya, ya…

Well, it’s official. Phoenix Suns head coach Terry Porter was fired today and replaced (on an interim basis) with long-time Phoenix assistant and former Los Angeles Clippers head coach Alvin Gentry (pictured). “I hired Terry because I believed he would be able to provide the balance our team needed in order to…

What was most (maybe the only thing) memorable about last night’s Pac-10 slugfest between ASU and Southern Cal happened with about a minute left. USC head coach Tim Floyd (the oddly gesticulating gent in the photo) took such umbrage with a pivotal call against his squad that he felt compelled to whirl like…

The only thing the sports media love more than a good feud is a half-assed gesture to end it under meaningless circumstances. So it was that Kobe and Shaq were forced to awkwardly hoist a trophy together at the 2009 NBA All-Star game, just as they did back when they…

This is the sort of thing ordinary folks get mad about us Media Elites saying, but covering any event — even a basketball game where the league’s biggest stars take turns not playing defense — is a lot like any other day on the job. There is one exception, and…

  Okay, it’s not the 2:30 or 3 a.m. some of you were hoping for, but the light-rail trains will run overtime out of downtown Phoenix this weekend due to the 2009 NBA All-Star Game. You can catch the trains from downtown as late as 1 a.m. tonight (yes, we know…

Phoenix Suns head coach Terry Porter was “visibly annoyed” today at questions related to a column in the New York Post this morning that speculated Porter was about to be replaced by Suns general manager Steve Kerr.   According to the latest media reports, both Porter and Kerr deny they’ve…

ASU star James Harden was wheeling and dealing in the lane last night with just more than a minute to go against UCLA. The 11th-ranked Bruins were up by one point, and time was running out on the shot clock. This is the kind of game that UCLA usually wins. It…

We’ve been known to pull one over on the public before — our spoof stories on Preserve A Life garnered fax orders for human taxidermy, and the Anna Nicole Smith secret love child story was picked up by major media outlets, including People, US Weekly, and TV’s Inside Edition. But this…

The once-mighty Phoenix Suns went into the All-Star break with a whimper. Granted, they were playing one of the top teams in the league Wednesday evening, the Cleveland Cavaliers, who had only lost one game at home. And the guy who probably has a lock on league MVP this year, LeBron James (the…

Coming to a big screen near you: LeBron James (center in white) and the Cleveland Cavaliers At first, this blog was going to chronicle the sudden resurgence of the Phoenix Suns, who instilled a little hope with a modest two-game winning streak (hey, they gotta start somewhere) that included an…

We knew to expect the worst when Suns broadcasters harped from the beginning of the game that the team got into Philadelphia at past 2 a.m. Monday after their victory over the  Pistons in Detroit Sunday night You know, the old back-to-back road games bugaboo. And when they mentioned that the 76ers were “well rested” after…