What a weekend for Planet Orange, and its largest inhabitant! We’re beginning to think of the Phoenix Suns as a planet again, after back-to-back victories against the Toronto Raptors and the Los Angeles Lakers at US Airways Center Friday night and Sunday afternoon. Shaquille O’Neal’s certainly big enough to be Jupiter, and…
Okay, Kurt Warner’s on the open market. He and the Arizona Cardinals, though talking, didn’t come to terms on a contract before the free-agency deadline today. What does this mean? Well, he could go to another team, that’s what it means. How much does this matter. Maybe a lot (it…
The Phoenix Suns have built a presence on social networking site Twitter, and now some local Twitterers and Suns fans are helping to bring Suns players and fans together via a site called sunstweets.com. Several months ago, the Planet Orange presence on Twitter was started by Amy Jo Martin, Director…
www.nba.com Lamar Odom: “The Goods” played out of his skull in L.A. last night. For a precious few minutes in the first quarter of last night’s Suns/Lakers game in La-La Land, the Suns held their own against the NBA’s best. No, it was better than that. They were rolling, running,…
We’ll say this about the Giants-Dodgers rivalry: It gets normally sedate California fans riled up. Even at a Spring Training game — opening day at the Giants’ Old Town Scottsdale park — they were excited for this match-up between divisional rivals who’ll play each other another 10 times this season…
After all is said and done in the regular college basketball season (that would be next weekend) and the Pac-10 conference tournament, the ASU Sun Devils and the Washington Huskies will find themselves playing somewhere in the Big Dance. But all that seems so far away at the moment. At hand, in…
Like we’ve been saying all along, Cardinals starting quarterback Kurt Warner may be playing elsewhere next season. A blogger on azcardinals.com., the team’s official Web site, reports that Warner and the team are still about $4 million a year apart on a contract. Warner wants to be paid in the range of the top…
We admit we don’t get out to Goodyear much. But, with a new Spring Training stadium opening in the western West Valley city Wednesday, we made the drive (“Just 20 minutes from downtown Phoenix!” Goodyear likes to claim) to check out the new home of the Cleveland Indians, former spring Floridians…
With a 4-1 record in the Alvin Gentry era, the Phoenix Suns are winning the games they’re supposed to win. However, they’re still faltering against the NBA’s elite, evident by Sunday’s ass-whopping against the defending champion Boston Celtics. But that’s ok. The reason Terry Porter was run out of this…
Didn’t we predict it would come to this? Yes we did, over and over. We said Kurt Warner would seek the highest salary possible following his improbable Super Bowl run, and that the Arizona Cardinals would resist. For two reasons: Because the Bidwills who own the franchise are known to…
In this corner, wearing the purple and orange shorts, please welcome a man who’s won four NBA championships, Suns center Shaquille O’Neal! And in the other corner, wearing the pink underwear and panting like a dog with emphysema, give it up for the man who’s had at least nine inmates…
There were hugs all around, before Tuesday night’s game got started and after the final buzzer. Raja Bell and Boris Diaw seemed happy to be back home in Phoenix, even if they are now starters for head coach Larry Brown’s Charlotte Bobcats. So much so that they were the high scorers in…
World Wrestling Entertainment owner Vince McMahon and a cadre of his superstars rubbed elbows and traded jokes with Arizona Cardinals coach Ken Whisenhunt during a press conference this afternoon announcing next year’s WrestleMania XXVI at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale. As we reported yesterday, WrestleMania is considered the Super…
The Phoenix Coyotes are seven months behind in rent to Jobing.com Arena, and the city’s been footing the bill, the Glendale City Council found out through 12 News.According to this story on AZCentral.com, Glendale’s been letting the team play rent-free at the stadium. The story estimates the team’s break on rent…
Last Thursday, in one blink of Amar’e Stoudemire’s bum eye, the Phoenix Suns’ playoff chances took a sucker punch to the gut. Most people’s first thought: “Oh. Crap.” Most people’s second thought: “Oh. Crap. We traded away Boris Diaw.” Our second thought: “Oh. Crap. Most people are gonna say we…
We received an e-mail stating that World Wrestling Entertainment will be holding a press conference tomorrow afternoon at the stadium to announce a “major international event” occuring there in spring 2010 that will “draw visitors from around the world for five days of activities.” Although the e-mail doesn’t specifically identify the event (and only names the WWE in the subject line), we’re fairly certain it’s next year’s Wrestlemania 26. After all, the yearly grappling extravaganza and pay-per-view is the only such event that the WWE puts on during the spring. A similar press conference is held every year around this time announcing where WrestleMania is heading next.
As we reported on this blog back in November, Suns star Shaquille O’Neal’s on Twitter, the “micro-blogging” site where users can post short messages on the Internet (through computers or their cell phones) that detail what they’re doing at any given moment. (For example, Shaq Twittered on January 16 at…
A few sights, sounds and other memories from last night’s thrilling ASU win over Arizona at the Wells Fargo Arena in Tempe:…
The good, of course, were Rajon Rondo (pictured) and the mighty Boston Celtics, who came into US Airways Center Sunday Afternoon and took care of business, 128-108, against the Phoenix Suns. The bad were the Oklahoma City Thunder, who got dominated by the Suns here Friday night, 140-118, in Phoenix’s third win in…
Just when things were beginning to look up for the Phoenix Suns. The team announced that power forward Amar’e Stoudemire — on the trading block until he stepped up his game after a recent coaching change — underwent surgery today for a “partially detached retina” and will be out for eight weeks “depending upon his healing process.”…
It’s time to show ’em what you’ve got:The Arizona Cardinals are looking for a few good cheerleaders following the team’s stellar season as Super Bowl contenders.If you’ve got the right moves, can squeeze your butt into one of those postage-stamp-size pair of shorts and you’re hot enough to steal attention…
More impressive than the 140 or more points scored in each of the Phoenix Suns’ dominating victories over the Los Angeles Clippers is this quote by Clippers guard Eric Gordon, which followed the second game of the Alvin Gentry era. “They are going to be a really hard team to…
