Don’t want to jinx it, but the Phoenix Suns have turned themselves into a pretty good little team. Last night’s thrilling 107-105 win over the Utah Jazz in Salt Lake City proved that this squad is hellbent on making the NBA playoffs, a thought seemingly absurd not so long ago…
The Phoenix Suns kept their slim playoff hopes alive by outlasting the Sacramento Kings 109-100 on Tuesday night in California. As they have for weeks now, the Suns still hold 10th place in the NBA’s Western Conference race. At 27-26 and 13 games left to play, the Suns are a…
The 92-75 victory brought Planet Orange back up to a .500 record for the season and puts them within two wins of the eighth seed in the Western Conference postseason picture. Individually, Jared Dudley was the hero of the night for the Suns scoring 21 points and seven rebounds, followed…
The sacking of Arizona State University athletic director (with a fancier title) Lisa Love came as no big surprise, especially after the fiasco following the firing of head football Coach Dennis Erickson. Sun Devils’ fans (and there still are some) watched with some horror as the rookie-league attempts to find a…
Two Phoenix Suns players made ESPN’s highlight reel of the “Top 10” plays after last night’s game against the Los Angeles Clippers.Unfortunately, they were on the receiving end of Blake Griffin flying through the air.The Suns lost 103-86 last night at the Staples Center, in what appeared to by a…
Good ballgame to watch last night down at the US Airways Center, but San Antonio’s veteran stars proved too much in the end, as the Spurs pulled away late from the Phoenix Suns to win 107-100…
The Phoenix Suns stayed alive in the hunt for a Western Conference playoff bid after two big weekend wins. On Friday night, the Suns edged out a good Indiana Pacers team 113-111, and on Sunday afternoon in Cleveland, they demolished the Cavaliers 108-83. The two wins give the Suns a…
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…
Then they headed to the Sunshine State and its all falling apart. After losing to the Miami Heat on Tuesday night after blowing a 10-point lead, Phoenix got the smackdown from the Orlando Magic in a 103-93 defeat. The Suns maintained a small lead against the Magic for the first…
We most admired departing ASU swingman Trent Lockett this past season after he badly twisted his ankle in a mid-January game against the Oregon State Beavers. …
We wrote last week about our weird experience watching (on TV) an NCAA first-round tournament game between Southern Mississippi and Kansas State. t was memorable only for the chants that came from the Southern Miss pep band as KSU player Angel Rodriguez stepped to the line to attempt two foul…
The Phoenix Suns, looking for their fifth-straight win, had a 10-point fourth-quarter lead on one of the NBA’s best teams but lost 99-95 to the Miami Heat in Florida on Tuesday night. Over the last 7:28 of the game, the Suns missed 15 of 17 shots, allowing the Heat to…
By turning a two-game win streak into a four-game win streak with a pair of wins over the weekend, the Phoenix Suns are currently half a game back of the last playoff spot in the Western Conference, and one game over .500.The Suns’ win on Friday night wasn’t too unexpected…
UPDATE: Denver!The Arizona Cardinals and Ken Whisenhunt delivered the news on Friday, saying free-agent quarterback Peyton Manning is “no longer an option for us.”Cardinals quarterback Kevin Kolb got his $7 million roster bonus, and Manning’s still shopping around for a team to play for.According to the sports rumor mill, the…
UPDATE: The Arizona Cardinals released a statement from coach Ken Whisenhunt saying Manning “is no longer an option for us.”You can throw that Arizona Cardinals Peyton Manning jersey you prematurely ordered straight in the garbage — the Cardinals won’t be landing Manning, and Cards quarterback Kevin Kolb got his $7…
That the Arizona Wildcats won 23 games this season with what they had is a testament to head coach Sean Miller’s ability to get the most of his players. That they came one missed shot against Colorado and a devastating loss in Tempe to ASU from a berth in NCAA March…
Phoenix’s R&S Mattress company just wanted to show it was excited about the prospect of free-agent quarterback Peyton Manning coming to play for the Arizona Cardinals.As you can see in the video above, Manning’s marketing company didn’t think it was cute…
One step forward and one step back. That’s how one might describe the last two Phoenix Suns games, as Planet Orange got an upset 98-91 win over the Memphis Grizzlies over the weekend and then suffered a 127-124 loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves last night. After experiencing the thrill of…
Suddenly, the Suns are surging. But even with their fifth straight home win — a 98-91 victory over the Memphis Grizzlies — the Suns are still two games under .500 and several games back from 2.5 games out of the eighth seed in the NBA’s Western Conference playoff picture…
We often attend the Pac-12 men’s basketball tournament in Los Angeles. It’s a few days in downtown LA, where we always visit the old city library (beautiful), walk everywhere (safer than you think), stay on the cheap (always good as long as the bedbugs don’t bite), and watch a whole…
When Grant Hill stepped to the foul line with seconds left in the game and the Phoenix Suns up by two points, we thought he’d be money. Hill shoots about 80 percent from the stripe, and the game on the line, Clunk and clunk. The usually reliable Duke grad probably…
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…
