We’re a little more than one month away from the kickoff to college football season, which means predictions are being made by just about everyone who even remotely cares about the sport. In an ESPN Insider piece, writer Will Harris examines the conference championship odds in the five power conferences, and has a good feeling […]
Shane Dale’s reason for writing a book is about as good as anyone else’s. “People kept telling me, ‘Shane, you need to write a book,’ and I’d ask them ‘what about,’ and they’d say, ‘I don’t know, just write a book.'” So, the freelance writer, who graduated from the University of Arizona with a journalism […]
Arizona State running backs Marion Grice and D.J. Foster are on the watch list for the 2013 Doak Walker Award, which is presented annually to the nation’s top college running back. The duo combined for 2,130 yards from scrimmage and 25 touchdowns in 2012 for a Sun Devil team that went 8-5 and defeated Navy […]
LAS VEGAS — Jamelle McMillan looks the part. Then again, would you expect anything less from the son of a coach? McMillan, who along with Ty Abbott and Rihards Kuksiks won a school-record 80 games in their four years at ASU (2007-11), is entering his second season in the NBA. Following a year with Drake […]
Arizona State announced on Tuesday they will honor Eddie House’s No. 5 basketball jersey during the 2013-14 season. His jersey will join Joe Caldwell, Byron Scott, Lionel Hollins and Fat Lever in the rafters at Wells Fargo Arena. House is the Sun Devils’ career leading scorer, tallying 2,044 points during his four-year career. He is […]
LAS VEGAS – Walking out of the Cleveland Cavaliers’ locker room, Carrick Felix doesn’t look like someone who just played 27 minutes against the Memphis Grizzlies. Yes, he looks exhausted, but he’s wearing a white, Nike T-Shirt with “SUN DEVIL BASKETBALL” splashed across the chest. “It’s all the gear I have right now,” he said, […]
Three Arizona State Sun Devils have landed on the preseason watch lists for the Rotary Lombardi and Butkus Awards. Senior defensive tackle Will Sutton is on the preliminary watch list for the Rotary Lombardi Award, which is presented to the nation’s most outstanding down lineman. Sutton was the 2012 Pat Tillman Pac-12 Defensive Player of […]
LAS VEGAS – Trent Lockett is back in the desert. It’s just not the Arizona desert. The one-time Sun Devil is playing summer league basketball for the Sacramento Kings. In his first game, he scored eight points on 3-of-5 shooting, including hitting his one and only three-point field goal attempt. “First experience and it was […]
Arizona State safety Alden Darby is one of 48 players on the Jim Thorpe Award Preseason Watch List for 2013, which was released Friday. The Thorpe Award is presented annually to the nation’s top college football defensive back. Darby, a senior from Long Beach, Calif., finished fifth on the team with 80 total tackles in […]
As part of its long-term Globalization Initiative, the Pac-12 will send Arizona State’s men’s basketball team to China next month. The team will compete in games in the Chinese cities of Beijing, Zhaoqing and Nanning, facing both collegiate and professional teams, while also participating in cultural exchange and goodwill activities with other student-athletes. Also representing […]
Arizona State senior tight end Chris Coyle was one of 37 players named to the 2013 Mackey Award Watch List Tuesday. The award is presented annually to the best tight end in college football. With 57 catches in 2012, Coyle not only led the Sun Devils in that category, but he established a new school […]
Jahii Carson might be returning for his sophomore season, but that doesn’t mean Herb Sendek and Co. were content on leaving their backcourt as is heading into the 2013-14 campaign. According to multiple media sources, the Sun Devils received word Monday that former Penn State guard Jermaine Marshall has decided to transfer to ASU. Marshall, […]
Defensive tackle Will Sutton and linebacker Carl Bradford of the Arizona State Sun Devil football team have been named to the Watch List for the 2013 Bednarik Award, given annually to the defensive collegiate football player of the year. Sutton, the reigning Pat Tillman Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year, wreaked havoc on opponents in […]
Three Arizona State Sun Devils have landed on the 2013 Maxwell Award Watch List, which was released Monday. Quarterback Taylor Kelly, running back Marion Grice and defensive tackle Will Sutton are all on the 76-player list for the award, which is given annually to the nation’s top collegiate football player. Kelly is one of 32 […]
The Arizona State football program landed the youngest commitment in the school’s history Tuesday afternoon. According to ASUDevils.com, 14-year-old Loren Mondy committed to come play football in Tempe. Graham developed a history with the Mondy family when the father played for the coach in high school and at NAIA East Central University. “I went to […]
The Arizona State Sun Devils are set to play one of the more difficult out of conference schedules in the nation. Following the home opener against Sacramento State, the Devils will host Wisconsin, travel to play Stanford, come back home to face USC and then head to Texas to take on Notre Dame in a […]
What a difference a year makes. Heading into his senior season at ASU, Carrick Felix’s chances of playing in the NBA were slim to none. But after a stellar final season in Tempe — led the Pac-12 in double-doubles, made the Pac-12 All-Defensive Team and First Team All-Pac-12 Academic Team — the Goodyear native was […]
Jahii Carson could be getting some more help in the Arizona State back court next season. A college basketball insider for CBS Sports tweeted Wednesday that Penn State guard Jermaine Marshall is looking for a new school and Arizona State is in the mix. North Carolina, Creighton, Florida State, + Arizona State are all in […]
Exactly a year ago, there weren’t many NBA people thinking about Arizona State forward Carrick Felix as a prospect to play in the league. The 6-foot-6 forward had just got done with a junior season in which he averaged 10 points and four rebounds per game and shooting 42 percent from the field for a […]
After crisscrossing the country for the last several weeks, Carrick Felix returned home Saturday. The former ASU Sun Devil worked out for the Suns with a group of perimeter players that included Reggie Bullock (North Carolina), Elias Harris (Gonzaga), Solomon Hill (UA), James Southerland (Syracuse) and Brandon Triche (Syracuse). “It’s been long. It’s been tiring. […]
The start of college football season is still months away, but the business of creating predictions and lists never ends. Matt Hayes of Sporting News has put out his list of the Top 25 college football players in the nation for 2013, and dominant Arizona State defensive tackle Will Sutton ranks sixth. Writes Hayes: The […]
It’s official: Notre Dame will be visiting Tempe to take on the Arizona State Sun Devils in 2014. ASU athletic director Steve Patterson said in a statement that the schools were able to come to an agreement that will keep the game on the schedule after months of reports saying the Fighting Irish were looking […]
A lot of folks are high on the Arizona State Sun Devils heading into the 2013 season. Guess that’s what happens when you, following an 8-5 campaign, return with your starting quarterback, a stable of excellent running backs and one of the best defenses in the conference. Entering Todd Graham’s second season as head coach, […]
Arizona State University has itself quite a player in Jahii Carson. A freshman last season, Carson averaged 18.5 points and 5.1 assists per game on the way to being Co-Pac-12 Freshman of the Year. He helped the Sun Devils to 22 wins and a spot on the NCAA Tournament bubble, and while the team is […]
In an effort to strengthen it’s non-conference schedule, ASU basketball has finalized a home-and-home series with the UNLV Runnin’ Rebels. The Sun Devils will visit UNLV, an NCAA Tournament team each of the last four years and six of the past seven seasons, on November 19. Head coach Dave Rice will then bring his club […]
Near as anyone can tell, Arizona State would still like to host Notre Dame at Sun Devil Stadium in 2014, yet the Fighting Irish have little interest in taking on the Sun Devils. However, that issue is not yet officially settled, meaning there is still some negotiating to be done and some conversations to be […]
I admit it…I’m a college football junkie. Now granted, I’d make some gigantic changes to it if I had the chance — like a uniform number of conference games for all, outlawing Boise State’s blue turf and yes, playoffs — but it’s become my favorite sport. So when I see college football preview magazines on […]
The Pac-12 Network began broadcasting on August 15, 2012, but not one thing they’ve produced has been seen by anyone who is a subscriber of DirecTV. A deal was not — and has not been — reached between the two parties, meaning millions of fans are unable to watch the games and partake in the […]
With college football season just three months away, ESPN announced its eight-game Pac-12 television schedule Wednesday. Arizona State, coming off of an eight-win season and a bowl victory, will appear on ESPN or ESPN2 at least twice in the 2013 season. Saturday, September 24, the Sun Devils’ home game against the Wisconsin Badgers will hit […]
