The differences between Kobe Bryant and Dwight Howard are vast and varied; they are also well-documented. Kobe is a fighter, Dwight doesn’t like confrontation. Kobe plays with passion, Dwight plays with puppy dogs. Kobe loves to compete, Dwight avoids conflict. If anyone needs further convincing of this dichotomous divide, note Exhibit Z: Serge Ibaka hit […]
So much of coaching great players involves managing their personalities. Coaches need to determine what kind of animal they’re dealing with before they know how to domesticate them. Some guys need a kick in the pants, some a pat on the butt, and some merely need to be left alone. I think Miami’s Eric Spoelstra […]
Mike Allen (@Mjallen728) made a suggestion via Twitter that hit me in the face like Harry Carson’s (Google it, My Young Crunks) bucket head on an iso: The Cardinals should move Sam Acho from OLB to Mike backer. I like the idea knowing Mike backer is an area Big Red needs to address. Paris Lenon […]
Wes Johnson is an unknown commodity for the Phoenix Suns but he’s making a case that he is in the process of filling his considerable potential. The three he hit against San Antonio to tie the game up in regulation and send it into OT could become the shot heard ‘round Planet Purple. Jermaine O’Neal’s […]
Martin Prado is making an impact on the Arizona Diamondbacks, and they’ve just started Spring Training. Kevin Towers, the D-backs’ GM, is raving about Prado’s weight-room antics, work ethic and his competitive fire. Towers told us D-backs players are having a hard time beating Prado into work in the morning, an easy time leaving before […]
This time of year always fills me with anticipation, fascination and speculation, but I put my trust in no man. The NFL Scouting Combine in still underway in Indianapolis and reports are starting to trickle into the matrix and hysteria is mounting. I love the combine but I hate the fact that it kicks off […]
The NFL Scouting Combine is getting ready to start this weekend in Indianapolis, but the most important part of it has already begun. The interview process — where prospects sit down and speak with front office luminaries, has become more important than the 40-yard dash. Most scouts can look at a prospective player on film […]
When LeBron James transformed himself last season and became the competitor he needed to be and won a championship because of how well he played, he became King James and the sky was the limit. The demons were excised and LeBron’s house was clean, figuratively speaking. And it was clean because he found The Button, […]
It’s the 5th annual Newsmakers Week on Arizona Sports 620’s Doug and Wolf Show — the guys bring in an array of general managers, owners and coaches from the local sports teams into the studio. Doug and Wolf will discuss all of the past, future and controversial news surrounding Arizona sports and its players. The […]
Although I will never understand getting together with tens of people under one roof to watch the Super Bowl, staggering through the hallways and rooms of another’s house as though you were a peasant roaming the streets of 17th century London, I do understand that tens of millions of Americans engage in the revelry, pageantry […]
Mucus is one of the most disgusting products the human body manufactures but it plays a pivotal role in our existence. To make a long story short, without mucus we’d be dead (Ron Wolfley, reporting). One of the major functions of mucus is to protect against infectious agents such as fungi, bacteria and viruses. The […]
The past two weeks have been sports radio nirvana, a veritable cornucopia of drama, mayhem and change. Coaches getting hired after coaches were fired; general managers making moves, personnel men getting promoted, local legends getting snubbed, VPs and presidents boldly putting their stamp on billion dollar franchises. It doesn’t get any better than that in […]
Bruce Arians was named the Arizona Cardinals head coach. The more research I did on Arians, the more I like the hire. This guy’s résumé looks like the greater metro Phoenix phone book. His reputation precedes him, indeed. I talked to many coaches, players, analysts and personnel men in the National Football League and their […]
Players win games in the National Football League, coaches lose them. That’s an axiom that’s been around for a long, long time but one that I generally agree with. Even if Albert Einstein coached the game of football and crafted the most effective, diabolical, genetically superior scheme the world has ever known that made the […]
Whatever happens between Ken Whisenhunt and the Arizona Cardinals in the future, don’t tell me he lost the locker room or that players quit on him. I hate these words and they invoke bad memories of playing 10 years in the league on losing teams. I have observed many professional football players, none that were […]
Throwing the football without regard for the consequences it may bring has become the rage in the National Football League. Quarterbacks are posting numbers that belie the difficulty of playing the position and records are going up in flames. Although many people continue to accurately call the NFL a passing league, I see a league […]
I believe the Phoenix Suns have one way to be a productive basketball team this season and get into the post-season: a maxim. No One Here Gets Out Alive. Although abstract and not for public consumption, the Suns players should play like the title Jerry Hopkins used for his biography of Doors’ front man, Jim […]
Arizona Sports’ Ron Wolfley also serves as the color commentator for Arizona Cardinals radio broadcasts. He’s been kind enough to share his notes for this game against the St. Louis Rams. Here’s a look at what Wolf will be paying attention to Sunday at University of Phoenix Stadium. Here comes the blitz! 1) The CARDINALS […]
I’m in a myopic mood so let’s get specific: beating the Arizona Cardinals means beating their defense. And the plan to beating Ray Horton’s X-Men has been to run the football, run it well and run it often. Running the football takes a toll on quick, athletic fronts like you find in Big Red’s box […]
Many people are assuming the Arizona Cardinals are going to get their collective backs waxed in Green Bay this weekend. The Packers started slowly but have won three consecutive games, including an impressive beatdown of the Houston Texans in front of a grateful nation on Sunday Night Football. Aaron Rodgers has torched coverage from Houston, […]
There will be blood. The San Francisco 49ers and the Arizona Cardinals do not like each other and haven’t for quite some time. Although this is not a rivalry that most analysts think is on par with Steelers/Ravens, Patriots/Jets, Packers/Bears or Cowboys/Giants, to the human beings that wear the color-scheme of their respective team this […]
There is much wailing and gnashing of teeth over the offensive line and the impact it has had on the Arizona Cardinals’ fortunes in 2012 — and rightfully so. But I’m more concerned about how well the defense plays. The Cards offensive line is…what it is. At this point of the season there is little […]
Our own Ron Wolfley, co-host of the Doug & Wolf Show on Arizona Sports 620, is also the color commentator for the Arizona Cardinals Radio Network. Each week, Wolf pores over game film for the Cardinals’ next opponent, and makes notes for the broadcast. This season, Wolf has been kind enough to let ArizonaSports.com readers […]
The 3-0 Arizona Cardinals are preparing to play the 1-2 Miami Dolphins Sunday in front of the Red Sea at University of Phoenix Stadium. Big Red’s coaching staff, these products of perseverance and productivity, has been sitting around a big rectangle all week, planning and plotting their success. What can they do to put their […]