We know the Los Angeles Lakers won’t officially be the Phoenix Suns opponent in the next round of the NBA playoffs until they beat the Utah Jazz one more time — which will likely happen tonight — but, if history tells us anything, the Suns playing against Kobe Bryant and friends…
The Arizona Diamondbacks come home tonight to face the Milwaukee Brewers feeling pretty good about themselves. Why? They just wrapped up the season’s longest road trip, an 11-gamer, with an acceptable 6-5 record. The D-Backs punctuated it Thursday night in Houston with a complete-game 6-3 win from ace Dan Haren…
“We can’t be satisfied in just winning game 1…U know the Spurs will be ready but so will we,” he tweeted. Although it took most of the first half for the Suns to get up to speed and fulfill Dudley’s prediction, Phoenix managed to bounce back from an early deficit…
Arizona Diamondbacks starting pitcher Rodrigo Lopez had a solid outing at Minute Maid Park in Houston, but it all came to naught. The Houston Astros got just three hits and two runs over seven innings, but it didn’t matter when Astros outfielder Carlos Lee blasted a walk-off home run to left field off…
Great old-school game last night between the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Houston Astros at what used to be called Enron Field (before the mighty financial fall). D-Backs eked out a 1-0 win in a stellar pitcher’s duel between the excellent Roy Oswalt and the Snakes’ Ian Kennedy, who won his…
Steve Nash has a sore hip? Could’ve fooled us and just about anyone else who watched last night’s Phoenix Suns playoff victory against the San Antonio Spurs. The Suns ended their Spurs game-one curse (until last night, the Suns had lost the last three playoffs game-ones to the hated Men in Black), beating San Antonio…
Phil Mickelson, the pride and joy of the Arizona State University golf program, has a chance to blow an opportunity he’s never blown before: “Lefty” could become the number-one player in golf.By sinking a 15-foot putt to finish the Quail Hollow Championship in second place on Sunday, Mickelson earned enough…
As the Phoenix Suns steel themselves for what promises to be a killer best-of-seven series against longtime nemesis San Antonio, The Matrix, a.k.a. Shawn Marion, pops into our sports-addled head. Once an almost-superstar with the Suns, and now relegated to a glorified journeyman role with the recently eliminated Dallas…
This is getting silly. The Arizona Diamondbacks screwed the pooch over the weekend to the tune of three losses to the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field. After taking the first of four games on Thursday, AZ couldn’t hang with the very average Cubbies. And, aside from Saturday’s 7-5 loss, the…
Steve Nash played his worst game of the season and was still the hero of the Phoenix Suns’ 99-90 victory over the tenacious Portland Trail Blazers last night. Nash seemed out of synch for much of the first-round series against the Blazers, and game six was no exception. The previously mighty…
Just maybe, the furor over Arizona’s over-the-top illegal immigration bill, SB 1070, has had an unintended positive effect on our local major-league baseball team. The D-Backs scored in double digits for the second straight game today, crunching the Chicago Cubs 13-5 in an afternoon tilt at venerable Wrigley Field, disappointing…
The Diamondbacks blew a six-run first inning — and won? Strange but true. Well, not really so strange considering that the back end of the D-Backs’ rotation is pretty weak and the bullpen isn’t much better. Thank goodness, this year’s team knows how to hit, as the offense carried the…
The clock finally struck midnight in the Cinderella story that was the Phoenix Coyotes 2009/ 2010 season. The Coyotes got blown out by the Detroit Red Wings in game seven of the Western Conference playoffs last night, losing 6-1, but kept fans on their feet until the bitter end. The Coyotes…
There’s no nice way of saying it; Arizona Diamondbacks starting pitcher Edwin Jackson sucked ass last night at Coors Field in Denver. And with the exception of the great Dan Haren, the Snakes better get some consistent, professional pitching out of their hapless hurlers, or it’s going to be a very long season. Jackson…
As we reported this morning, Phoenix Coyotes captain Shane Doan’s participation in tonight’s decisive seventh game of the Western Conference playoffs against the Detroit Red Wings would be a game-time decision.While it’s not quite game time, it’s reported that Doan will not be in the lineup when the Coyotes try to win their…
It’s win-or-go-home time for the Phoenix Coyotes — and whether Coyotes captain Shane Doan plays in game seven of the Western Conference playoffs against the Detroit Red Wings tonight in Glendale is once again a game-time decision. The team announced yesterday that an upper-body injury that sidelined Doan in game three might still be a problem that could keep…
It certainly didn’t look pretty for the Suns early in the game, when the Blazers run-and-gunned their way to a 23-9 lead. But the Suns adjusted and gave the Blazers a taste of their own medicine, and by the time the first quarter had ended, the Suns were down only…
Dan Haren proved once again why he’s the anchor for the Arizona Diamondbacks squad last night as the ace pitcher struck out 10 batters during the team’s 5-3 victory over the Colorado. The right-hander got into some serious trouble early on, however, when Rockies leadoff man Carlos Gonzalez walloped a…
The Arizona Diamondbacks are off to a miserable start. Before Sunday, the D-backs lost seven of their last nine games — four of them by two runs or less. But this weekend offered a glimmer of hope for D-backs fans as the Rattlers took two of three games against the 2009…
Brandon Roy was the difference. That and uninspired play by the hottest team in the NBA at the end of the regular season. But this is the playoffs, and Roy, who had knee surgery just eight days before, was miraculously back in a Portland uniform, and it was the superstar swingman…
The Phoenix Coyotes will live to skate another day. They went down 3-2 in the first round of the Western Conference playoffs against the Detroit Red Wings on Friday, but they pulled off a huge win on Sunday to force a game seven. Th Howlers lost 4-1 on Friday — thanks…
The Phoenix Suns looked a lot like team that is in complete control of their first-round playoff series against the Portland Trail Blazers, even though they’re up just 2-1 in the series. The Suns led by as much 31 points, on the road, Wednesday night as they rolled to a 108-89…
