Hockey just got exciting again in the Valley.The Phoenix Coyotes are now one game out of first place in the Pacific Conference after winning their sixth straight game last night — a 3-2 victory over the Vancouver Canucks.Coyotes winger Taylor Pyatt was let go by the Canucks two summers ago…
[jump] Chief among them is defense. Phoenix’s D was laughable on Saturday at the Time Warner Cable Arena as they allowed Charlotte, a team that was averaging around 90 points a game, to rack up a total of 12 points. Guarding seemed to be an alien concept to Alvin Gentry’s…
The Arizona Cardinals lost their fifth straight game on Sunday, this time in a 31-13 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs. What caused yesterday’s loss? Same shit, different day.The Cards were bad on defense, the Cards were bad on offense — they dropped passes, got too many penalties, and quarterback…
As much as Arizona Cardinals fans probably want this football season to be over, sadly, it’s not. The next stop on the Cards’ shame-train is in Kansas City, where they will play the Chiefs on Sunday.The Chiefs are going through a bit of a rough patch. They’ve suffered back-to-back losses…
Well, that Florida trip didn’t go so well for the Phoenix Suns, did it? Less than a week after knocking off the league’s best team, the Los Angeles Lakers, on the road, the Suns were roughed up pretty bad by the Sunshine State’s two franchises. On Wednesday, the Miami Heat…
So…Ilya Bryzgalov’s nasty.The Phoenix Coyotes goaltender had 39 saves in the team’s 3-1 win over the Calgary Flames last night. We realize Phoenicians don’t know much about hockey, but we assure you 39 saves is a lot.The Howlers are now on a four-game win streak — two of which came…
Miami only had a three-point lead at the end of the first quarter last night against the surging Phoenix Suns, winners of three straight games, but the Heat didn’t look back after that. Arguably, the entire second half was garbage time for LeBron James, Dwayne Wade, Chris Bosch, and the rest of…
The Phoenix Coyotes took a pair of home wins over the weekend, beating the Calgary Flames 5-4 on Friday, and the St. Louis Blues 5-3 on Saturday. A pair of hat tricks from Vernon Fiddler and Ray Whitney certainly helped things.Scoring isn’t exactly Fiddler’s strong suit — he’s more a…
The Phoenix Suns put up 40 three-point attempts, and sank 22 of them, Sunday night in Los Angeles as the Suns upset the first-place Lakers 121-116. Turns out the 22 treys is one off an NBA record set by the Orlando Magic last year. No matter — beating the Lakers…
As the saying goes, the best defense is a good offense. The Arizona Cardinals have neither a good offense or a good defense, which was apparent in their 36-18 loss to the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday. The loss was the Cards’ fourth in a row and leaves Seattle alone in…
Though the Beasts of the East (Miami Heat and Boston Celtics) have been stealing most of the headlines in this early part of the NBA season, the Atlanta Hawks went into yesterday’s game against the Phoenix Suns without a loss. That streak ended, as the Suns held on down the…
The Phoenix Coyotes are off to a rough start this season and this past weekend didn’t help. The Coyotes dropped two games over the weekend — one to the Dallas Stars, and one to the Pittsburgh Penguins — and penalties were a big factor.On Friday, the Coyotes were in Dallas…
There is a silver lining to the Arizona Cardinals 27-24 overtime loss to Brett Favre and the Minnesota Vikings — sure, for the second week in a row they blew a lead in the fourth quarter, but, for the first time all season, the man coach Ken Whisenhunt chose to…
The Arizona Cardinals will be in Minnesota this weekend to take on Brett Favre and the Vikings, and, as has been the case all season for the Cards, the quarterback situation remains dire.Too bad for the Cards, quarterback is a pretty important position and they don’t have one — that…
This week’s New Times feature about the imminent retirement of Phoenix Suns point guard Steve Nash has received a lot of attention from local — and national — news outlets. A lot of people are saying the story is a hoax. But for many Suns fans, the news that their…
This week’s New Times feature, Setting Sun, about Phoenix Suns point guard Steve Nash’s imminent departure from the team to try his hand at Canadian politics, has skeptics doubting whether the story is true.Well, we got video of Nash admitting he wants to be the Canadian prime minister, which should…
Big ups to Phoenix Coyotes defenseman Ed Jovanovski, who became the first defenseman in Howlers history to get a hat trick, which he did during the team’s 4-3 win over the Nashville Predators last night.Defenseman aren’t the primary scorers in hockey, so the fact that one put the biscuit in…
It’s so early in the season for us to call the Phoenix Suns 112-110 loss last night to their arch-rival San Antonio Spurs last night a game with “playoff-like intensity,” but it was. Both teams fought as if the game really meant something, not just one of 82 regular season…
In the aftermath of the New Times story, which revealed that Steve Nash was leaving the Suns this month to run for mayor of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada (Provide Link), the Phoenix Suns blanketed both their official Web site and the Internet with denials that their star point guard was…
Arizona Cardinals coach Ken Whisenhunt is smack-dab in the middle of a game of musical quarterbacks — and he loses almost every time the music stops.Whisenhunt announced this morning that Derek Anderson will make the start at quarterback for the Cards when they head to Minnesota to take on the…
Attendance at Phoenix Coyotes games is once again an issue. Like much of last season, the Howlers have the worst attendance in the league — partly because desert-dwellers tend to not like hockey (until the Canadian snowbirds arrive, that is), and party because of games like Saturday’s 3-0 loss to…
Arizona Cardinals rookie quarterback Max Hall threw his first NFL touchdown in the Cards’ 38-35 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday. It was a short, three-yard pass to Larry Fitzgerald to give the team an early, 7-point lead. It was a nice moment — following the touchdown, Fitzgerald’s…
