Arizona State football coach Todd Graham will preview the upcoming game each week this season during the “Coors Light High Octane Hour” on Arizona Sports 620 with Arizona Sports’ Doug Franz. The weekly radio show will be on Thursdays at Majerle’s Sports Grill in Old Town Scottsdale from 7 to 8 p.m. Fans are welcome […]
Many a critic raised an eyebrow after Arizona State guard Jahii Carson made himself eligible for the 2014 NBA Draft. The 5-foot-10 point guard had just led ASU to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2009, but there was doubt as to whether Carson would hear his name called at all on draft […]
One of the things I’ve always loved about sports was the uniform. I remember getting a talking-to by my first grade teacher Mrs. Hoover for curling the end of my nines. When she corrected me, I told her that’s the way the ‘9’ was on the back of Graig Nettles’ jersey. When I played soccer […]
TEMPE, Ariz. — Ask Marcus Washington why he enjoys playing football, and his face lights up. “I just love hitting people, so if I have that chance, I’m going to do everything I can to just blow them up,” he said, his smile growing bigger with every syllable he uttered. Washington is a redshirt senior, […]
The Arizona State Sun Devils have added another look to their repertoire. The school unveiled an alternate copper look Monday, adding it to an already vast collection of options. The look features a white helmet with a copper stripe down the middle along with a copper-colored pitchfork. “As players, we love to look like one […]
The first Associated Press preseason poll emerged Sunday for college football’s top 25 teams, and Arizona State finds itself in the field. The Sun Devils placed No. 19 in the new poll, just ahead of Kansas State and immediately behind Ole Miss. The 19th spot is the same position ASU found itself in Sports Illustrated’s […]
Every year about 25 FBS teams are looking for a new head coach. Sometimes those looking for a new coach will pluck an established one from another program. Sometimes they’ll hire a retread who has bounced around the country. And of course, there’s always the hot coordinators who get their chance to sit in the […]
PAYSON, Ariz. — They’ve got a veteran quarterback, a dual-threat running back plus one of the top receivers in the game. Sure, the Arizona State Sun Devils are loaded offensively, but those skilled weapons will be rendered useless if the five men up front don’t do their job. Consider, how much time will be given […]
Arizona State announced Friday that fans who wish to attend the football team’s Camp Tontozona Maroon & Gold practice on Saturday at 10 a.m. should allow for extra travel time. With expectations for a large turnout, construction along State Route 260, and the local Payson Rodeo Parade beginning at 9 a.m., ASU advised fans to […]
Arizona State Sun Devils head coach Todd Graham has heaped plenty of praise on his team in the last several weeks. But a pair of national college football experts think the defending Pac-12 South champions are destined to take a significant step back this season. CBS Sports analysts Dennis Dodd and Chip Patterson have labeled […]
When Arizona State offensive lineman Chip Sarafin publicly announced that he was gay, he never anticipated the aftermath. “At first, I didn’t think it was going to blow up as much as it did,” he told media gathered at Camp Tontozona on Thursday. Sarafin, a Gilbert, Ariz. native, didn’t want to hoard the attention the […]
PAYSON, Ariz. — Two weeks from the season opener, the Arizona State Sun Devils defense received a big boost — the return of junior defensive tackle Jaxon Hood, the team’s most experienced lineman. Hood had missed all of fall camp because of personal reasons, but he was on the field and back with his teammates […]
PAYSON, Ariz. — As good as a coach Todd Graham is, not even he — the reigning Pac-12 Coach of the Year — can come up with a game plan to defeat Mother Nature. So, after a thunderstorm blew through the night before and several more inches of rain fell in the morning, Graham told […]
Arizona State reserve offensive lineman Chip Sarafin announced to a local magazine that he is gay. In an article published in the August 2014 issue of Compete Magazine, Sarafin admits he started sharing the issue of his lifestyle with teammates. Of his own coming out, Sarafin began telling his teammates last spring. “It was really […]
The college football season needs to get here. Like, now please. We’re still a few weeks away from games being played, and until the season starts there will continue to be a flood of rankings and predictions. And while they don’t really mean much, it’s certainly better to have people thinking highly of you than […]
We’ve all heard the old proverb “there is no substitute for experience.” Unfortunately for the 2014 Arizona State Sun Devils, they don’t have much of it. In fact, college football expert Phil Steele, in an ESPN Insider piece, ranks Todd Graham’s team dead last in the Pac-12 and 108th in the country in terms of […]
The Arizona State Sun Devils used a diverse offense in winning the Pac-12 South in 2013. ASU ranked fifth in the Pac-12 in passing (265.9 yards per game) and sixth in the conference in rushing (191.4 ypg). While leading rusher Marion Grice is gone — he’s now trying to make the roster of the San […]
Arizona State football had a closed scrimmage Saturday morning. Coach Todd Graham doesn’t mind if I watch the scrimmage as long as I don’t say anything about what I see or hear. Those restrictions do not extend to filling you in on whom I get to talk to while I’m there. I had met Ray […]
TEMPE — In case you were wondering what the Arizona State Sun Devils’ goals were for their upcoming season, you don’t have to look hard. Plastered throughout the third floor of the Carson Student-Athlete Center — the building connected to Sun Devil Stadium — are signs on every door that say the following: 1. Win […]
If you don’t mind, would you help me if the question comes up again? If Todd Graham asks me, “What will it take for us to get the fans to support the program,” what should I say? I know of three people, and there might be more, at Arizona State who left seven-figure salaries to […]
Arizona State is moving forward with its renovations of Sun Devil Stadium. The university announced Thursday it has hired both a construction and design team to oversee and execute the planned enhancements. Hunt Construction and Sundt Construction, Inc. and the the HNTB Corporation have been hired as the construction and design teams respectively. “We have […]
The ASU men’s basketball team will face Maryland on Nov. 24 to open the CBE Hall of Fame Classic in Kansas City, Mo. The Sun Devils will square off against either Alabama or Iowa State the following day. If they win the first game, the second one will be the championship game of the tournament, […]
One of ASU coach Todd Graham’s goals is to win the Pac-12. His Sun Devils were close to doing so last year. They appeared in the Pac-12 championship game, but were routed by Stanford. The team has a visual reminder of Graham’s aspirations after he thought of the idea to display the conference’s championship trophy […]
TEMPE, Ariz. — For a first day, head coach Todd Graham could not have been more pleased, calling day one of fall practice “the best” start to camp since he arrived on campus. Players were energetic, focused and running to the football “better than they ever have” both on offense and defense. “I like the […]
Northern Arizona announced Friday they hired former ASU men’s basketball player Kevin Kruger to be on Jack Murphy’s coaching staff for the 2014-15 season. Kruger played for ASU from 2003-06 and in three seasons, he averaged 10.5 points, making 2 three-pointers made. He received his degree from ASU in that time and later continued his […]
College football’s preseason Amway Coaches Poll was released Thursday, and the Arizona State Sun Devils are ranked 18th. ASU returns six offensive starters from last year’s squad, which won the Pac-12 South championship for the first time and finished the season 10-4 under head coach Todd Graham. Defending national champion Florida State, led by Heisman […]
The Arizona State Sun Devils’ offense was prolific in 2013. The Pac-12 South champs averaged 39.7 points per contest — good for 10th in the nation and tied for fifth-most in ASU history. The Sun Devils topped the 50-point mark in six of their 14 games. Their head coach thinks the offense will be even […]
Taylor Kelly and Jaelen Strong played large roles in an Arizona State offense that scored at least 50 points a school record six times last season. They both return in 2014 to lead ASU for what will surely be Kelly’s last season in Tempe and potentially Strong’s as well. They will be counted on heavily, […]
For as many question marks as there are on the defensive side of the ball at Arizona State, things are a lot calmer on offense. One position that won’t be of concern for the Sun Devils in 2014 is quarterback with Taylor Kelly under center. “We’ve got a quarterback and that’s the first thing you’ve […]
Todd Graham has heard it over and over and over again. His defense is going to struggle in 2014. Arizona State lost nine defensive starters from the 2013 squad that finished fourth in the Pac-12 in total defense and first in intereceptions. Stars Will Sutton, Carl Bradford, Chris Young and Alden Darby, Davon Coleman and […]
