Phoenix Suns fans: Here’s a quick-and-dirty introduction to the team’s newest member, Jason Richardson, who was acquired in Wednesday’s five-player trade that sent Raja Bell and Boris Diaw to the Charlotte Bobcats…
Down three players, the Phoenix Suns played toe to toe with the Los Angeles Lakers for four quarters before losing 115-110 at Staples Center. With the usual assortment of show-biz types in attendance Wednesday night, the Suns, with just eight players available, looked much better against the powerful Lakers than they had in…
Finally, the Suns got rid of tentative Boris Diaw — then they threw in defensive-minded Raja Bell for good mearure. At least, these were the name players the team jettisoned to acquire talented two-guard Jason Richardson (pictured after a dunk) from the Charlotte Bobcats. The 6-foot-6 Richardson is a far better offensive player than either Bell…
98-119. 115-122. 106-98. 124-130. 92-105. Alas, these are not Steve Kerr’s winning lottery numbers. They’re actually grim statistics reflecting an alarming trend: the full-on revival of the Los Angeles Lakers as a major pain in the Phoenix Suns’ butt. And they may be an even bigger pain in the posterior…
It was his first 30-point game since March 9, 2007 when he was with the Miami Heat. In fact, 36-year-old Shaquille O’Neal scored 35 points against the Milwaukee Bucks Tuesday night to lead the Suns to a 125-110 victory, the team’s largest point total of the year. We’d say this was a return to the…
Greg Maddux, one of our favorite pitchers ever, retired yesterday after winning 355 games, more than all but seven other men in the history of the game. We especially loved the guy, seen throwing with the Cubs above, because he threw about as hard as, say, a middling high-school pitcher. But, man, he…
Andrew Bogut and the Milwaukee Bucks come to town We’re always trying to find trends with our hometown sports teams. For example, our genius minds figured out that the ASU Sun Devils football team sucked all season long. Same with the Phoenix Mercury and the Coyotes, thus far. So imagine…
The defense was stellar in the Arizona Cadinals’ division-clinching 34-10 win over the St. Louis Rams, forcing two fumbles and intercepting a pass in the end zone and returning it 100 yards for a score. But before we get too giddy and start ordering Super Bowl tickets, let’s remember that the Rams aren’t the worst…
Sober up. Carlos Boozer didn’t play in the Phoenix Suns’ two-point win over the Utah Jazz at US Airways Center. The Utah power forward, who’s logged 20 points and almost 12 rebounds a game this season, has missed 11 starts with a quadriceps injury. But there’s good news about Saturday night’s game:…
Cards QB Kurt Warner will meet his old team in Glendale. You can’t win in the NFC West. Even if you win. That’s the moral of the story for the Arizona Cardinals, who’ve been crucified for years as the doormat of the weak-sister NFC Worst. Now that they’re on the…
Utah Jazz star Deron Williams with inestimable Coach Jerry Sloan Every now and then, out of the blue and against our will (we’re a Suns’ diehard), we find ourselves rooting for the Utah Jazz. It’s always a surprise, ’cause we have no real ties to the place and don’t even follow ’em on…
Diesel, where the hell were you? Where’s that team you bragged you’d hoist to an NBA championship in Phoenix? Nowhere to be found in the Suns 112-97 road loss to mighty Dirk Nowitzki (pictured) and his Dallas Mavericks, that’s where. Ain’t gonna happen with the way you (and for that matter, most of the team) played Thursday…
Take it from a Dallas native and lifelong Cowboys nut: Beneath its bluster, Big D is an insecure little kid of a town. It compensates with a need for domination that, in sports terms, produces cartoon megalomaniacs like Jerry Jones and Mark Cuban (pictured). Cowboys owner Jones is the World’s…
As bizzare as it may seem, we were thrilled by the Phoenix Suns’ road loss to the New Orleans Hornets 104-91. Playing without Shaquille O’Neal (resting, as usual, on the first of back-to-back games) and Steve Nash (flu-like symptons), the Suns looked much better Wednesday night against a good team than they have –…
After the surprising New Orleans Hornets elbowed their way into the conversation last season, it’s like every NBA analyst starting taking lessons from Jan Brady of The Brady Bunch. Paul, Paul, Paul! That’s pretty much all you ever hear about the Hornets — praise for their jet-fueled point guard, Chris…
Two loses to two terrible-to-mediocre teams in the past two games. In fact, the Phoenix Suns are 2-2 against such opponents in the past four games. Did we mention that Amare Stoudemire got two technical fouls, the latter of which put him in the locker room and pretty much assured a Suns 117-109…
There’s this thing called The Zone. (No, Phoenicians, not that super scary area in the avenues near the Arizona State Capitol.) It’s that Zen-like state where you’re being and not doing, whether its creating art or dominating an opponent in sports. On November 4, 2008 in East Rutherford, New Jersey,…
Rewind, for a moment, to the 2005-06 NBA season. The Miami Heat visit the Phoenix Suns in a marquee matchup. Talk of a future NBA Finals series between the two powerhouses flood the sports talk airwaves. But despite Shaquille O’Neal’s (playing for Miami at the time) team-leading 13 rebounds, the…
It’s one of our favorite times of the year, and not just because of all the great food and the blessed relief that temps under 100 degrees can bring. No, we’re talking about the Arizona high school football championships, and all the goofy color and pagentry that the homestretch…
The tryptophan and the Tom Collinses put us under during the second half of the Arizona Cardinals’ game with the Philadelphia Eagles. Sleep was a tender mercy, because replay of the last two quarters demonstrates that the Eagles continued to dine on Red Bird for the whole game. The 48-20 loss,…
Suns Coach Terry Porter (pictured) is always stressing defense. But, while he’s gotten the team to respond some, he hasn’t gotten it to respond much. Look at Thanksgiving Eve’s 110-102 road win over the Minnesota Timberwolves.First of all the Timberwolves are a 3-10 team. Their only big threat is forward Al Jefferson,…
Fallen Eagle: Despite Recent Benching, Donovan McNabb Gets the Start Thursday Against the Cardinals Oh, City of Brotherly Hate, are things jacked up in your neck of the woods. In case you haven’t heard, do-everything Philadelphia Eagles’ (5-5-1) signal-caller Donovan McNabb – a five-time Pro Bowl QB who once led…
