Super Bowl 49 will be played at University of Phoenix Stadium here in 2015, the National Football League decided today. It will be the third time the Valley of the Sun has hosted the big game. U of P Stadium hosted the Super Bowl in 2008, when the New York Giants…
The Arizona Cardinals got crushed 34-10 by the winless (until yesterday) Minnesota Vikings yesterday, which tends to happen when a team gives up 28 points in the first 13 minutes of the game.The first quarter for the Cards couldn’t have gone any worse.After having to punt on the first two…
The Cinderella season of the Arizona Diamondbacks has sadly come to an end. The clock has finally struck midnight as the Milwaukee Brewers won 3-2 in 10 innings during the deciding Game Five of the NLDS this afternoon.The D-Backs didn’t go quietly as it was a wild roller coaster of…
So it’s come down to this–a fifth and deciding game tomorrow afternoon for the upstart Arizona Diamondbacks in what has become a humdinger of a a first-round playoff series against the Milwaukee Brewers. Last night’s 10-6 win seemed closer than the final score indicates, with neither team able to stop…
The Arizona Diamondbacks overcame a do-or-die situation last night and kept their postseason dreams alive by scorching the Milwaukee Brewers 8-1 during Game Three of the National Leagues Division Series. And it was largely ’cause of the hitting heroics of Paul Goldschmidt. The rookie slugger provided two hits and five…
The Arizona Diamondbacks are down, but they’re not out.Trailing the Milwaukee Brewers two games to none in the National League Division Series, the Snakes thumped the Brewers 8-1 last night, with an exclamation point in the form of a Paul Goldschmidt grand slam in the fifth inning (the rookie first baseman…
Oddly, this one seems like a long time ago, what with the Diamondbacks about to take the field in a few hours to stave off playoff elimination at the hands of the suddenly mighty Milwaukee Brewers. But when we have an opportunity to reflect on the 2011 season, Ryan Roberts’…
We were there for this one, the Arizona Diamondbacks’ NL West division-clinching 3-1 win over the defending World Champion San Francisco Giants. It happened to be one of the more exciting games of the year, and not just because of the momentous occasion of the icing on the home team’s…
The Diamondbacks went into a road series with the Los Angeles Dodgers with an eight-game cushion over the fading San Francisco Giants. Ace pitcher Ian Kennedy got the start for Arizona, and scuffled at the start, giving up four runs in the first inning before settling down. LA still led 4-3…
Arizona was playing poorly on this homestand, and against the team with the worst record in baseball, the lowly Houston Astros. Just like that, the home boys fell behind 7-1, and the relatively small crowd at Chase Field (announced attendance was 17,814, but it seemed about half that to those…
A few weeks earlier, Milwaukee’s power-hitting first-baseman Prince Fielder chose not to pick the D-Backs’ Justin Upton for the All-Star Home Run Derby in Phoenix, which pissed off a lot of Arizona fans. Though Upton publicly took the high road, it surely had to bother him, and he took it…
The St. Louis Cardinals long have been an upper-echelon franchise with perhaps the greatest fan base in all of Major League Baseball. For sure, they are a passionate bunch, as we found out one night some time ago when we almost found ourselves in a bar fight with Cards fan…
It was a sellout at Miller Park in Milwaukee (same as it was in the first two games of the ongoing National League playoffs) on a beautiful Fourth of July. The Brewers were cruising, up 6-1 after the fourth inning. But this was becoming a special D-Backs team. Over the…
Yeah, we know that the 2011 Arizona Diamondbacks are but one game from extinction at the hands of the formidable Milwaukee Brewers. But it ain’t over yet–and, besides, it was a blast getting here. Back on June 24, in a seesaw battle up in Detroit, the D-Backs somehow snuck past…
By this point in the season, it was beginning to become ever more clear to Arizona fans that this team might just be a little bit special. The exciting come-from-behind 6-5 win over the Florida Marlins at Chase Field was a case in point, the D-Backs’ 17th such win from…
With the Arizona Cardinals ahead by four points with about four minutes remaining in their 31-27 loss to the New York Giants yesterday, we said to a friend “and now Eli Manning’s gonna march the G-men down the field and win this game.Then Eli Manning marched his team down the…
When the Arizona Diamondbacks return to Chase Field on Tuesday for Game Three of the National League Division Series, it will be a do-or-die situation after a disappointing weekend in Milwaukee. While every other team in the 2011 playoffs split over the weekend, the D-Backs were swept and now find…
Good teams win more than their share of close games, but the Arizona Diamondbacks weren’t doing much of that in April and into May of the regular season.As the D-Backs entered a three-game series against the Minnesota Twins at Chase Field, they had lost six straight one-run games in a…
Going into this game at San Diego’s Petco Park, the Diamondbacks were six games below .500 and a half-game out of last place in the not-so-great NL West division. Another one-run loss on the previous evening had hurt. Big relief pitcher Chad Qualls, whom had been a disaster zone when…
We’ll take a break now from our paean to the Arizona Diamondbacks successes in the 2011 season to get back to our regular gig digging up dirt and what-have-you. Will add five more tomorrow as the D-Backs open their best-of-five series against the Milwaukee Brewers in Wisconsin…
One of the greatest moments of the 2011 season came at Chase Field in early May against the Colorado Rockies. We were about to leave after the 7th inning with the D-Backs down 2-0 and stinking up the joint offensively, but decided to stick it out until the end–sure glad…
The Diamondbacks opened a ten-game home stand on a Monday night against arguably baseball’s best team, the Philadelphia Phillies. On paper, it was something of a mismatch, little right-hander Ian Kennedy against southpaw Cliff Lee, one of the game’s most dominating pitchers.But Kennedy was the star on this night, throwing…
