Paul Goldschmidt started the 2011 baseball season wearing the uniform of the Mobile Bay Bears, the Double-A affiliate of the Arizona Diamondbacks. With a glut of players in front of him on the big league roster to start the year (Xavier Nady, Russell Branyan, Juan Miranda), it didn’t look like the D-backs would get any […]
Diamondbacks starter Daniel Hudson finished 2011 with a 16- 12 record and 3.49 ERA, making for a solid first full Major League season. Acquired from the White Sox the previous season, Hudson provided the second half of a strong 1-2 punch for the NL West champions. “I definitely had a good first full year in […]
The Arizona Diamondbacks and left-handed reliever Craig Breslow avoided arbitration and agreed on a one-year contract worth just under $1.8 million. Breslow, 31, was acquired in December by the Diamondbacks from the Oakland Athletics in the trade that also brought Trevor Cahill to Arizona. Last season Breslow posted a record of 0-2 and a 3.79 […]
The Phoenix Suns are one of the NBA’s most successful franchises, posting a 1,965-1,554 record across nearly 44 seasons and only missing the playoffs 14 times. However, they’ve never won an NBA Championship, and they don’t appear to be anywhere close to that elusive first title this season. Still, it should come as no surprise […]
The Arizona Cardinals hired Frank Reich as their new wide receivers coach Wednesday. Reich had spent the last four seasons as an assistant coach with the Indianapolis Colts, where a certain future Hall of Fame quarterback who’s been linked to the Cardinals has spent his entire career. Great opportunity to pump a guy for information, […]
GLENDALE – The beginning of this blog is about practice. Not a game. Practice. How silly is that? With apologies to Allen Iverson, it’s not silly at all. The Coyotes had three practices in a row at Jobing.com Arena last week in between games. Since those workouts, the team has posted a 3-0-0 record and […]
Steve Nash is presenting the Suns with an interesting problem. Nash, at 38, is averaging 15.1 points and 10 assists per game on .559 shooting. He hit the game-winning shot Tuesday in Milwaukee, and is playing about as well as he ever has. However, the Suns are still on the outside of the playoff race […]
Arizona State head football coach Todd Graham announced the addition of six new members to his football staff. Former ASU standout Rudy Burgess will join the staff as the Management Intern for Football, Bo Graham will be the On-Campus Recruiting Coordinator, former Scottsdale Saguaro High School coach John Sanders will be the Coordinator of Football […]
Suns rookie Markieff Morris has been a pleasant surprise this season, averaging 7.2 points and five rebounds per game. The 13th pick in the draft out of Kansas, Morris was selected as one of nine rookies to play in the NBA’s Rising Stars Game on All-Star weekend. Morris becomes the seventh player in franchise history […]
The Arizona Cardinals shuffled a couple of positions on their coaching staff Wednesday, bumping up John McNulty to coach quarterbacks while hiring Frank Reich to oversee wide receivers. McNulty has coached Arizona’s wide receivers three seasons with the Cardinals, and had been mentioned as a target of new Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach Greg Schiano. […]
Reports out of Albuquerque indicate that Ron West, who was recently hired to Bob Davie’s staff at New Mexico, will leave the Lobos to become Todd Graham’s co-defensive coordinator at Arizona State. West was the outside linebackers coach at Illinois under Ron Zook from 2010 to 2011, but became available when Zook was fired following […]
It’s been about a week since schools around the country signed their 2012 recruiting classes, and rankings have been pouring in. And, while nobody can be sure of how good any of these players will be at the collegiate level, it’s still fun to speculate — especially if you’re an ASU fan. According to Ben […]
When you’re a child, it seems like the whole world caters to your every whim on your birthday. Presents, parties, special meals prepared, phone calls from relatives — you get the idea. When you get into your late 30s, the special nature of a birthday wears off. It sadly becomes just another day at the […]
The only way that Michael Redd’s Milwaukee homecoming could have been better would have been if the Bucks actually rolled out a red carpet. The 11-year vet sparked Phoenix’s second unit, scoring 10 points in the first three and a half minutes of the second quarter, helping the Suns down the Bucks 107-105. Redd admitted […]
It’s no secret how much the Arizona State Sun Devil basketball program has struggled the past two seasons under the watchful eye of head coach Herb Sendek. Sendek has numerous accolades on his coaching resume — stemming from a successful stint at NC State, where he led the Wolfpack to five straight NCAA tournament appearances, […]
Money tends to play an important role with deals, trades and contract offers. But if money isn’t the driving force for Peyton Manning if he is released from the Colts, it could make it easier for the Cardinals to go after him. ESPN NFL insider John Clayton told Arizona Sports 620’s Doug and Wolf that […]
In a season full of negatives, there may be one huge positive coming for the ASU basketball team: leading scorer and top rebounder Trent Lockett appears ready to return. He took a significant step Monday when he practiced— albeit without contact, for the first time since spraining his ankle three weeks ago against Oregon State. […]
Kurt Warner’s last game as an NFL quarterback saw him get knocked out of the game due to an injury suffered during the return of an interception, with many thinking that hit was one of the reasons he walked away from the game a couple weeks later. Not true. Warner, who was a guest on […]
Only a handful of players have left as indelible an impression on the Milwaukee Bucks franchise as Michael Redd has. Redd wore the green and red (and at times, purple) of the Bucks for 11 seasons and trails only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Glenn Robinson and Sidney Moncrief on Milwaukee’s all-time scoring list. So it’ll be a […]
Sorry Cardinals fans, your last great QB doesn’t think your team is a good fit for Peyton Manning. A guest on Arizona Sports 620’s Burns and Gambo Tuesday, Warner said he thinks Miami is a likely destination for Manning. “Although I still make the contention that I think the perfect spot for him would be […]
Happy birthday, Steve Nash. The Suns’ star turned 38 Tuesday, and to celebrate he will lead his team in Milwaukee against the Bucks. Phoenix is looking for its third consecutive win, a feat the team has not accomplished this season. However, as rare as a Suns winning streak is, what’s even more difficult to find […]
Arizona Cardinals fans think Peyton Manning would be a great fit for their team. However, does the QB feel the same way about the Cardinals? That could be the determining factor for where the future Hall of Famer plays next season, according to former Cardinal Kurt Warner, and as of now he’s unsure of where […]
Another day, and there’s more talk about the possibility of Peyton Manning wearing Arizona Cardinals’ red in 2012. However, Tuesday ESPN NFL insider John Clayton appeared on ESPN Radio’s Mike and Mike (mornings 5 to 9 a.m. on Arizona Sports 620) and went “against the grain” and doubted whether the Manning-Arizona marriage will ever happen. […]
The defending NL West division champions took large strides improving upon an already stellar lineup and solid starting rotation this offseason. ESPN’s Buster Olney ranked the best under-the-radar moves this winter and a combo of D-backs’ signings landed the fourth spot on the list. Jason Kubel and Joe Saunders: Two years/$15 million and one year/$6 […]
When the Phoenix Coyotes take the ice Monday night against the Detroit Red Wings at Jobing.com Arena, left winger Ray Whitney will reach a milestone. Whitney will play in his 1,200th career game, becoming only the 8th active NHL player to reach that mark. The 39-year old Whitney broke into the league April 15, 1992 […]
All along the Suns have maintained that they have no interest in trading star point guard Steve Nash, and would only part with him if he asked to be dealt. That hasn’t happened — at least not yet. According to a report by CBSSports.com’s Ken Berger, the Suns would accommodate Nash’s wish to be traded, […]
The Arizona Wildcats got a much-needed sweep in the Bay Area last weekend, knocking off Pac-12 leading California on Thursday before taking down Stanford Saturday. The wins kept Arizona’s tournament hopes alive, as well as helped Kyle Fogg win the Pac-12 Player of the Week award. Fogg, a senior who is leading the Wildcats in […]
On October 2, 2011, the Arizona Cardinals lost a game they should have won. Leading 27-17 with just more than five minutes left, they had the New York Giants on the ropes, staring a 2-2 record – as well as legitimacy – in the face. Of course, we all know what happened from there. The […]
They may not be racking up wins at the desired pace, but the Phoenix Suns are definitely about to rack up some serious frequent flier miles. Alvin Gentry’s team will take to the court seven times in six different cities in 10 days, a brutal stretch that begins Monday night in Atlanta against the Hawks. […]
The Arizona Cardinals are one of many teams expected to pursue Colts QB Peyton Manning once he’s released by the team. Manning would be an instant upgrade over their current QBs, and if healthy would make the Cardinals immediate Super Bowl contenders. Still, they’ll have to compete with everyone else for future Hall of Famer’s […]
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