There are only three teams in the National Football League with worse records than the Arizona Cardinals. The Carolina Panthers — the worst of those three teams — beat the Cards 19-12 yesterday in game 14 of the Cardinals’ series of practices for next year (a.k.a.: the 2010 football season) in…
What a weekend for the Phoenix Suns! Steve Nash lost all feeling in his limbs — momentarily — after a collision in the opening minutes of Friday night’s game with the Mavericks in Dallas. Then, the next day, a monster trade with Orlando was announced, which sent the Suns most prolific scorer,…
We were as frustrated at times as almost everyone else with Amar’e Stoudemire, whose mercurial career with the Phoenix Suns ended after seven seasons last June when he signed a mammoth deal with the New York Knicks. His lack of defensive prowess, inability to crash the boards consistently, and other…
What happened to the good old days, when Arizona’s large-school football championship games were held on Saturday, starting in the afternoon and moving into the evening? Something about the National Football League and its contractual arrangement with its teams (the Arizona Cardinals in this instance) to ensure that the…
Steve Nash and the rest of the Phoenix Suns lacked both heart and hustle this past weekend as they allowed a fired-up Portland Trailblazers team to completely dominate Friday night’s game at US Airways Center. As a result, the road team left the arena with a 101-9 win and dealt…
The Arizona Cardinals won a football game!That’s the good news. The bad news: who cares?The Cards bested the Denver Broncos in a 43-13 blowout in Glendale on Sunday, and C-squad quarterback John Skelton was spectacularly average.Skelton, who replaced Derek Anderson, who replaced Max Hall, who replaced Anderson, who replaced Matt…
The Phoenix Suns lost their second game in a row and fell back to the .500 mark after losing in overtime at home to the 9-14 Memphis Grizzlies. The Suns held a 92-89 lead with 2.8 seconds left in regulation but let Rudy Gay sink a three-pointer from the corner…
It was a great game between the Suns and the Trail Blazers last night, but the Suns lacked the sizzle to overcome Portland in the fourth quarter. Steve Nash played brilliantly, with 24 points and 15 assists, but it was backup Blazers point guard Wesley Matthews’ team that won the…
It’s not quite official, but it seems we can finally say buh-bye to Arizona Cardinals quarterback Derek Anderson — this week, anyway.Anderson’s still on the team, but chances of him making the start against the Broncos on Sunday seem slim-to-none — the team announced today that Max Hall has been…
The Arizona Diamondbacks are getting some help where they desperately need it — and it’s costing third baseman Mark Reynolds his job.According to Arizona Republic sports reporter Nick Piecoro, the D-Backs have agreed to trade Reynolds to the Baltimore Orioles for two young relief pitchers, David Hernandez and Kam Mickolio…
Tired of watching the Arizona Cardinals embarrass themselves, Valley sports fans? There’s an alternative: the Phoenix Coyotes.After a sluggish start, yesterday’s 3-0 win over the Anaheim Ducks helped the Coyotes remain in fourth place in the Western Conference. You can thank Coyotes goaltender Ilya Bryzgalov.Bryzgalov was flawless. His 39 saves…
Following yesterday’s 19-6 loss to the St. Louis Rams, every game for the remainder of the Arizona Cardinals’ dismal season should be seen as nothing more than practice for next year.In other words, bye-bye Derek Anderson…
Don’t look now, but the Phoenix Suns are on a roll. Okay, it’s might only be a two-game win streak (which includes last night’s 107-101 victory over the Golden State Warriors at Oracle Arena), but it’s still something to get enthused about.Thursday’s evening’s win brought the team back up to…
Arizona Cardinals quarterback Derek Anderson made a public apology yesterday for the highly publicized tirade he went on following his atrocious performance on Monday Night Football this week.In case you missed it, Anderson flipped out on Arizona Republic sports writer Kent Somers following his latest awful showing on the gridiron…
The Phoenix Coyotes hot streak is over. After winning seven in a row, the Howlers have now lost two straight, including a 3-0 loss to the Predators last night in Nashville.This is the first time the Coyotes have lost two straight all season. Rackin’ up penalties certainly didn’t help.The Coyotes…
Arizona Cardinals quarterback Derek Anderson achieved one thing in last night’s Monday Night Football game: he managed to outdo Governor Jan Brewer in embarrassing Arizona in front of a national audience.OK, so that might be a stretch — even a 27-6 loss to the fucking San Francisco 49ers, and the…
Steve Nash is hurting right now, badly. Back and heel issues are ailing the aging Phoenix Suns superstar, who’s already plagued by lingering groin problems. And it’s affecting his play. Nash battled through these injuries, particularly during the three games that took place over the long Thanksgiving Day weekend, but…
The Phoenix Coyotes’ impressive seven-game win streak came to an end, and so did the Anaheim Ducks’ six-game losing streak, when the Ducks rolled past the Howlers 6-4 Saturday night.The Coyotes didn’t play too horrible — at first (as usual, power plays aside). But when a team gives up five…
This year’s edition of the ASU Sun Devils men’s basketball team snuck past a decent University of Alabama-Birmingham squad 69-66 on Saturday at Wells Fargo Arena in Tempe. Nice win that just may help the Devils when March Madness comes around, sooner than later. But the highlight of the…
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…
