At the moment, most pundits predict that the once-powerful Pac-10 men’s basketball conference will win only one bid to next month’s NCAA tournament — the automatic spot that goes to the winner of the postseason tourney in Los Angeles. That’s because the league happens to be in one of those down cycles…
After getting chewed up and spit out as coach of the Phoenix Coyotes, “The Great One” could be getting a little love from the Vancouver Olympic Committee. Wayne Gretzky, the Coyotes former coach, is under consideration to be the final torchbearer at the 2010 winter Olympics in Vancouver.Gretzky, canned by the Coyotes…
Only one thing’s certain in this topsy-turvy Pacific-10 men’s basketball season: From first place to last, any of the 10 teams are eminently capable of winning on any given night. That definitely includes the Arizona State Sun Devils and the Arizona Wildcats, both of whom play tonight in Tempe and Tucson,…
The Phoenix Coyotes, a team that has struggled to put butts in the seats and was nearly relocated to Canada last year, got some encouraging news from Nielsen Media Research: More people are watching games on television.What a difference a winning season makes…
The beaten-up Portland Trail Blazers played and lost the night before, and were in eighth place in the NBA’s Western Conference. The rested Phoenix Suns were on a five-game winning streak, with four of those victories coming on a four-game road trip, to make them fifth in the West. And on that trip, the Suns had…
The Waste Management Open is just around the corner, and promoters of the trashy tourney are offering free tickets to members of the military, firemen, and cops.The tournament’s festivities begin on February 22, and Waste Management and the Thunderbirds charities are inviting the folks in uniform (and one guest each) to attend…
Reports last week that Tiger Woods would be making his (ahem) triumphant return to golf at a tournament next week in Tucson are false, according to his caddy.Steve Williams, Tiger’s caddy since 1999, tells the Melbourne Herald-Sun that the reports of Tiger’s prompt return to golf after checking out of…
So here’s where we stand: Four — count ’em — teams are tied for first place after last night’s goings-on in the Pacific-10 men’s baskeball league, including the Arizona Wildcats and the Arizona State Sun Devils. Mind you, none of the quartet (the other two are UCLA and the Cal…
The upside of men’s Pacific-10 basketball being in kind of a down cycle this year is that every team–and we mean every team–is in every game. Even Oregon State, in last place with a 3-6 league record, beat league-leading Arizona last month, and the Beavers are only three games…
After only a few short weeks of “recovery” at a sex-addiction rehabilitation center in Mississippi, it appears Tiger Woods may be cured of his desire to nail everything that moves and is ready to return to the links in about two weeks.That, like everything else Tiger-related, is the rumor, anyway.According the Melbourne…
We appreciated former Arizona State University baseball coach Pat Murphy before the school controversially dismissed him a few months ago, after the 51-year-old had been chosen as the Pac-10’s Coach of the Year for the third straight season. Murph (the burly fellow in the photo) always was a great…
In a season dominated by headlines regarding attendance issues and bankruptcy hearings, what the Phoenix Coyotes are doing on the ice has often gone unnoticed. All of that aside, the team itself is pretty damn good.We’ve been critical of the support the Coyotes have received from the team’s shallow fan-base…
For now, at least, Amar’e Stoudemire doesn’t look like a defensive liability, and the Phoenix Suns played like they give a damn as they endured the second game of a four-game road swing in New Orleans, posting a 109-100 win Monday night. Sure, the Hornets were without the services of their…
A 25-year-old Tempe man got trounced by 47-year-old former NFL star and Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker on Saturday night in a mixed-martial-arts fight in Sunrise, Florida (a shot from the fight is at left).We’re not huge fans of these sort of fights — there’s just something a little unsettling…
It was a game that stunk of Houston Rockets flops — including one in which Rockets forward Carl Landry fell to the floor grabbing his face as though an eye had been poked out, even though instant-replay showed he wasn’t touched — but Phoenix held on to win 115-111 last night. There were so many…
What we feared has finally happened: Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner today announced his retirement from football.There’s some good news and some bad news following Warner’s press conference to announce his departure. The bad (obviously) is that the Cardinals must say goodbye to a great quarterback, a future Hall-of-Famer. The good…
One thought rolled through our minds watching the Suns battle the Dallas Mavericks last night: Just who the hell are these guys, and what did they do with the purple-and-orange losers who’ve been occupying US Airways Center of late? Such surprise is only natural, given the fact that Phoenix Suns pulled…
Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner is keeping true to his word: he’s not gonna pull a Brett Favre and let his retirement decision obnoxiously linger until training camp starts. Warner has scheduled a press conference Friday at the Cardinals practice facility, where he plans to announce his decision.As much as we’d…
Finally, it’s official: The Suns suck. With that strong start, we wanted to believe. Oh, how we wanted to believe! But after heartbreaking back-to-back losses to Utah Monday night and Charlotte last night, we’re giving up on the Suns’ season. Barring a miracle. Because it will take that for Coach Alvin Gentry’s…
Despite scads of losses lately, Phoenix Suns point guard Goran Dragic has been on fire. After scoring a career-topping 20 points vs. the Golden State Warriors over the weekend, the “Slovenian Supernova” (as Suns announcer Al McCoy has dubbed him) one-upped himself last night against the Utah Jazz. Netting a…
Somehow, some way the Phoenix Suns avoided a total disaster this weekend at US Airways Center. Instead, their two-game series was just a partial one. Sure, the team beat the Golden State Warriors, barely, on Saturday night, but losing to the inferior Chicago Bulls was pretty lousy. The Suns have…
The Chicago Cubs organization seems to be playing government officials in Florida and Mesa like a playa trying not to upset his two girlfriends.Yesterday, team officials suggested that a deal to bring the Cubbies’ spring training back to Mesa was a few dotted i’s short of official.However, what Cubs brass may not…
