Gortat the Great made another appearance Wednesday as the Phoenix Suns knocked off the Milwaukee Bucks at US Airways Arena 92-77. Marcin Gortat, the Polish import who came to the Suns in a December trade, continued his weeklong string of stellar play for the Suns, scoring 19 points and pulling…
The Green Bay Packers are headed to the Super Bowl this Sunday, which means one thing for those of us in civilized society (a.k.a. anywhere but Wisconsin): we’re gonna have sit back and listen to the Midwestern drivel coming from the mouths of Packer fans for roughly the next week.Packer…
The Arizona Wildcats and ASU Sun Devils men’s basketball teams have at least a few things in common this season–they both are well-coached (by Sean Miller and Herb Sendek, respectively) and play hard from the opening tip until the final horn. Unfortunately, at least for the Devils, the resemblance…
nba.com/suns Steve Nash leads the league in double-doubles with 26. After an agonizing three-game stretch against the bottom-dwelling Detroit Pistons, Philadelphia 76ers and Charlotte Bobcats, the Phoenix Suns needed a big performance this weekend — and they got it, in one game, anyway. The Suns played their best defensive game…
The Phoenix Suns have a tough couple of games ahead of them this weekend as they’re scheduled to face a Boston Celtics team tonight that’s considered by some to be the best in the league and a very good New Orleans squad on Sunday. This weekend’s contests will be a…
Two men’s college basketball teams going in opposite directions at the moment, those being the Arizona Wildcats and the Arizona State Sun Devils. We watched the Cats break open a tight game against the formidable UCLA Bruins last night on ESPN-2, coming away with an 85-74 win in what seemed…
The Phoenix Suns lost their third game in a row yesterday to the Charlotte Bobcats, getting outscored 114-107 by a team that’s lost 25 of 44 games this season. Steve Nash played his heart out against the Bobcats, going 11-15 from the field with 27 points, 5 rebounds and 15…
www.mlb.fanhouse.com Micah Owings: Is he a hitter or a pitcher — or neither? The Arizona Diamondbacks announced yesterday that they’ve re-signed former pitcher Micah Owings to a minor league contract and hope to play him at first base next season. Here’s the backstory on Owings: In 2007, his rookie…
Last weekend’s Pac-10 Washington trip for the ASU Sun Devils and Arizona Wildcats proved oddly upbeat for the local schools, considering that they returned to the desert with but one win in the four games played. Yes, a loss is a loss is a loss, but ASU acquitted itself pretty well…
When the Phoenix Suns departed the Valley last Monday for their most recent road trip, they were riding a two-game winning streak and were probably fueled by a great deal of hope and optimism. After all, the squad was headed on a five-game swing through the Eastern Conference to take…
Despite a less-than-impressive season (thanks to three even less-impressive quarterbacks), and being a member of one of the worst teams in all of football, Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald’s heading to Hawaii for the Pro Bowl.Fitzgerald originally was selected as an alternate for the NFL’s all-star game, but because the Green…
The Phoenix Suns committed 14 turnovers Saturday in Detroit as they let the Pistons outscore them 28-15 in the fourth quarter and eke out a 75-74 win. All that after notching their fifth win in a row Friday night against the Washington Wizards. With just over nine minutes left in…
You might not know it, but the Arizona Diamondbacks will soon have their first Hall of Famer. No, not Randy Johnson. He isn’t eligible for election yet. It’s not Curt Schilling, either — although both guys are going to make it into the Hall someday. Roberto Alomar, who played 38…
The Suns needed a win last night to keep their momentum and playoff hopes alive. But on a day when they announced next season’s ticket prices and incentives for ticket-holders to renew in the next month, they needed a more convincing victory than a 106-98 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers…
For most of this season, the Phoenix Suns have been in need of some serious heart. Fans have lost count of the number of games lost because Planet Orange let winnable games fall out of their reach. During their past two games, however, Phoenix seems to have recovered that fighting spirit. Last Thursday, the…
The Phoenix Suns have let a lot of games slip away from them recently, but they refused to let that happen in Wednesday night’s home 118-109 win over the New Jersey Nets. Sure, it took an extra five minutes to nail this one down — only the Suns’ second win…
Terrible and strange weekend that it was, life (by which we mean sports) didn’t stop because of the Tucson massacre, what with the National Football League wild-card and Pacific-10 basketball games carrying on as scheduled. We’re here to talk about the Arizona schools and how they fared at home against…
The final minutes of last night’s game between the Phoenix Suns and the Los Angeles Lakers at US Airways Center were pulse-pounding, but Planet Orange ultimately lost to their Pacific Division rivals by a score of 99-95. Although Jared Dudley was definitely the star of the night, leading the Suns…
The Arizona Cardinals got clobbered 38-7 by the San Francisco 49ers yesterday, but there’s a silver lining: what’s been an atrocious season for the Cards is now over — with the team finishing in last place in the worst division in the NFL.As has been the narrative all season, the…
We got a chance to watch a lot of basketball on TV over the holiday, between, of course, doing chores and “catching up” with stuff around the house. We especially were interested in the start of the Pacific-10 basketball race, and what we expect will be a topsy-turvy season with…
A rookie on the NBA’s worst team had the best game of his young career on Sunday night as the Sacramento Kings dumped the Phoenix Suns 94-89 in Sacramento. DaMarcus Cousins, who was the fifth overall draft pick in 2010 NBA Draft, finally showed the league what he is capable…
It wasn’t a very happy holidays for the Phoenix Suns, who suffered abundantly during Christmas week because of their always shoddy defense and sleigh-loads of missed opportunities. Indeed, Santa must’ve had the Suns marked on his “naughty” list, as Jolly Ol’ Saint Nick delivered three straight losses to Planet Orange, including yesterday’s defeat by fantastic…
