The Arizona Cardinals officially released starting safety Antrel Rolle to avoid paying him a boat-load of cash.The move comes as no big surprise. To keep Rolle, the Cards would have had to pony up a $4 million roster bonus he was due and the additional $8.1 million salary he’s owed in the…
Justin Upton told the Arizona Diamondbacks to show him the money, and that’s exactly what they did — lots of it.Yesterday, Upton signed a six-year, $51.25 million contract extension with the D-backs, making him the second-priciest player in the franchise’s history.Randy Johnson was the only Diamondback to sign a larger contract,…
This week, we profiled off-road racer “Pistol” Pete Sohren and his quest for victory in the highly competitive, dangerous sport of Baja and desert racing. For those who wish to see Sohren in action, we’ve posted some videos below…
Arizona State’s men’s basketball team will take the floor at 6:30 tonight against Southern Cal in a game with more at stake than immediately meets the eye. The Sun Devils probably need to beat the Trojans (and do the same to the UCLA Bruins in the regular season finale on…
You probably wouldn’t have guessed it by looking at the final score of 127-101, but the Phoenix Suns’ blowout against the Los Angeles Clippers last night was actually a fairly tight contest at one point. In fact, Chris Kaman and his crew were clinging to a one-point lead at halftime,…
One thing was clear during halftime of the tightly contested Arizona State-California men’s basketball game up in Berkeley on Saturday afternoon: The Sun Devils were up by one point, but it was about the shakiest lead you could imagine. ASU’s three-point shooters, Derek Glasser, Ty Abbott and Rihards Kuksiks, were…
Look at the list of players who didn’t score a single point in the second quarter of Monday night’s Phoenix Suns-Denver Nuggets game: Steve Nash, Amar’e Stoudemire, Carmelo Anthony, Chauncey Billups. Each a superstar; not one point among them. Of course, it’s difficult to score from the bench, where Nash…
It was a hell of a weekend for the Phoenix Suns, even though they got nipped 113-110 by the San Antonio Spurs at AT&T Center yesterday in the early game on ESPN. And the national audience wasn’t disappointed by this one. It was a seesaw battle all the way against the two…
Arizona State’s surprising men’s basketball team finds itself in the biggest game of the Pac-10 men’s basketball season at 1 p.m. tomorrow when it plays the California Golden Bears for first-place in the conference. The road game will be televised on Channel 34 (FSAZ), and may even make it into…
It’s a pivotal weekend in Pac-10 men’s basketball, as the Arizona schools are up in the Bay Area to do battle with league-leading (by half a game) Cal and a competitive Stanford Cardinal team. Arizona State (9-5, 19-8) somehow finds themselves in a virtual tie for first with…
Don’t look now, but the Phoenix Suns are on a major roll. Planet Orange has been victorious in 10 of their last 12 games — including a blockbuster blowout last night against an undermanned Philadelphia 76ers at home — which matches their winning streak from the beginning of the season…
It has to be one of the biggest wins of the season for the Phoenix Suns, because so many things pointed to a loss as they headed into Oklahoma City on Tuesday night for their game against the Thunder: The Suns were only 14-16 on the road, the Thunder was…
Picked by pre-season pundits to finish seventh, the Arizona State Sun Devils improbably moved into a virtual first-place tie with Cal on Sunday afternoon, as the Pac-10 men’s basketball into the homestretch. ASU beat the fading Arizona Wildcats 73-69 in an especially intense game yesterday afternoon down in Tucson that wasn’t decided…
The NBA trade deadline passed mere moments ago, and Amar’e Stoudemire is still a member of the Phoenix Suns. Yeah, we know you’ve heard rumor after endless rumor this week about how the Phoenix Suns superstar was getting a one-way ticket to either Cleveland or Miami. But such speculation ultimately…
If the Phoenix Suns’ game Wednesday night against the Dallas Mavericks was the last game with Amar’e Stoudemire in a Suns uniform, at least the All-Star went out with a bang. Stoudemire scored 30 points and grabbed 14 rebounds in the Suns’ 107-97 loss, which snapped the Suns’ five-game winning…
Amar’e Stoudemire won’t be wearing a Phoenix Suns uniform for very much longer, if the current maelstrom of trade rumors proves to be true. With a little more than 24 hours to go until the NBA trading deadline, Big STAT could become a member of the Miami Heat by this time…
If it wasn’t a sure thing that the University of Arizona men’s basketball team will have to win the Pac-10 conference championship next month to keep its streak of 25 consecutive years in the NCAA tournament intact — it is now. That’s because the Wildcats stunningly lost at home to…
At the moment, most pundits predict that the once-powerful Pac-10 men’s basketball conference will win only one bid to next month’s NCAA tournament — the automatic spot that goes to the winner of the postseason tourney in Los Angeles. That’s because the league happens to be in one of those down cycles…
After getting chewed up and spit out as coach of the Phoenix Coyotes, “The Great One” could be getting a little love from the Vancouver Olympic Committee. Wayne Gretzky, the Coyotes former coach, is under consideration to be the final torchbearer at the 2010 winter Olympics in Vancouver.Gretzky, canned by the Coyotes…
Only one thing’s certain in this topsy-turvy Pacific-10 men’s basketball season: From first place to last, any of the 10 teams are eminently capable of winning on any given night. That definitely includes the Arizona State Sun Devils and the Arizona Wildcats, both of whom play tonight in Tempe and Tucson,…
The Phoenix Coyotes, a team that has struggled to put butts in the seats and was nearly relocated to Canada last year, got some encouraging news from Nielsen Media Research: More people are watching games on television.What a difference a winning season makes…
The beaten-up Portland Trail Blazers played and lost the night before, and were in eighth place in the NBA’s Western Conference. The rested Phoenix Suns were on a five-game winning streak, with four of those victories coming on a four-game road trip, to make them fifth in the West. And on that trip, the Suns had…
