It used to be that winning 10 pro football games in two seasons was a milestone around here. This year, the Cardinals have won that many in just one season, making Arizona history. But the success hasn’t come without problems. The Cards beat up on the St. Louis Rams yesterday in Glendale 31-10…
Jolly Old Saint Nick must’ve been in an especially giving mood, as that mythical gift-giving elf dropped off a couple primo presents for the Phoenix Suns on Christmas morning: Not only did they get Leandro Barbosa into the starting lineup, but also a heartily lopsided home court victory over the…
The Arizona Cardinals clinched the division last week with a sloppy win over the dismal Detroit Lions — winning a second, consecutive post-season appearance. Woo-hoo. However, if the Cards head into the playoffs acting like they have the last two weeks, it will probably be a pretty short post-season ride…
oenix Suns fans apparently weren’t too keen on Shaquille O’Neal’s return to the Valley last night, as the one-time Big Shaqtus received plenty of boos when the Cleveland Cavaliers’ starting lineup was announced on Monday evening at U.S. Airways Center But while the 7-foot-1 center rightfully earned such derision after…
The Arizona Cardinals will be heading to the playoffs again this season thanks to a 31-24 win over the Detroit Lions yesterday in the dreary Motor City. Unfortunately, that’s about the only good news coming out of Sunday’s narrow victory. For the second week in a row — and despite…
If you’re a Cardinals fan, you’re probably still trying to figure out what the hell happened on Monday night, when the Cards got lit up against the San Francisco 49ers. Here’s what happened: The Cardinals beat themselves. When a team turns the ball over seven times, the opposing team doesn’t need much help…
Jerryd Bayless: The Phoenix native scored 29 against the Suns. Ouch. This one stings: The Portland Trail Blazers totally dominated the fourth quarter and overcame a 15-point deficit to beat the Phoenix Suns 105-102 Thursday night in Portland. Steve Nash had an opportunity to bring the Suns back to life and…
Officials from the city of Mesa will be in Chicago tomorrow to continue trying to woo Chicago Cubs owners into keeping the team’s spring training facility in Mesa. Mesa officials will be asking the Cubbies to pick out one or two potential sites for a new stadium so they can start talking to landowners…
Going into Tuesday night’s game against the San Antonio Spurs, the Phoenix Suns were in a situation unlike most other NBA teams. Whereas squads like the defending champion Los Angeles Lakers have had only six road contests thus far this season, the Suns have had to survive 16 games away from US…
For anyone who watched the Arizona Cardinals beat down Brett Favre and the Minnesota Vikings last week and then saw the Redbirds get crushed by the San Francisco 49ers last night, you may have the same reaction we did: What the fuck happened? The Cardinals made history last night in…
A group of business fat-cats in Naples, Florida, are hosting a private reception this afternoon in what is the state of Florida’s latest push to rob Mesa of Chicago Cubs spring training. The reception is hosted by big-wigs from Fifth Avenue Advisors and Esmark Inc. — two companies leading the charge to bring…
When the Arizona Cardinals take the field tonight, the team has a chance to do something it hasn’t done in 34 years — win two consecutive division titles. Standing in their way — the lackluster but troublesome San Francisco 49ers. The two teams have met 36 times, with the Niners winning…
21 turnovers were the culprits in the Phoenix Suns’ 105-99 road loss to the Denver Nuggets, a night after they’d stunned the second-best team in the Eastern Conference, the Orlando Magic,106-103 at US Airways Center. Aside from the outcomes, the games were almost identical. The Suns ran up big leads (19 points in…
The Arizona Republic has compiled a list of what it feels are the top 10 Phoenix Coyotes stories of the decade and as, um, shocking as it may seem, only two of them actually pertain to something the team did on the ice.Frankly, they’re the only two stories on the…
Scottsdale’s premiere PGA golf tournament has a new name, and it won’t do much to help the tournament’s unsavory image among golf’s elite.The Phoenix Open — or the FBR Open, as it’s been known since 2004 — is often criticized by the PGA’s most pompous linisters. Many, including the philandering Tiger…
It seems as if the Phoenix Suns are playing only road games this year. Of course, they’ve suited up at US Airways Center a few times, but, indeed, they’ve been away from home a lot thus far: a league-high 15 games out of the first 22 they’ve played, to be…
It may have poured in the Valley yesterday but coming off of a 30-17 win against Brett Favre and the then 11-1 Vikings, it was nothing but sunshine for Arizona Cardinals fans.The big win put the Cards back on the NFC radar and it was announced today that Cards quarterback…
The Phoenix Coyotes officially have the worst attendance record in the NHL, and Hockey News, or the “Canadian Bible,” as it is referred to in certain circles, is blaming the team for driving down the entire league’s attendance average.The average per-game attendance for the NHL at this time last season was…
When Tim Hightower fumbled on the opening drive of the Cardinals 30-17 win over the Minnesota Vikings last night in Glendale, and the Vikings marched down the field to score with ease, you couldn’t help but to think, “Okay, here comes a classic Brett Favre beat-down.” Fortunately, that was about…
[jump] Phoenix was already considered to be a major underdog going into the match-up with El Lay at the Staples Center, and surviving a battle with a competent Pacific Division foe a couple of nights prior didn’t help their cause. The Lakers made it look easy in the 20-point rout,…
Are the Suns who we thought they were before the season got going? Certainly hope not, but after two blowout losses in as many nights, we’re beginning to wonder. Sure, the 107-90 road loss last night to one of the top teams in the NBA, the Cleveland Cavaliers, wasn’t as embarrassing as…
Florida Governor Charlie Crist met with Chicago Cubs president Crane Kenney, chairman Tom Ricketts, and other team officials to try to lure the team away from their spring training home in Mesa and have them set up shop in Naples, Florida. “We like palm trees better than cactus, and hope that…
