New Arizona State head coach Todd Graham continued filling out his coaching staff on Wednesday, hiring DelVaughn Alexander. Alexander has spent the past five seasons at the University of Wisconsin as the wide receivers coach under Bret Bielema. While Alexander was on the staff, the Badgers grabbed part of two Big Ten championships and played […]
We know what team will provide the opposition for Arizona State in new head coach Todd Graham’s debut. We just don’t know when it will be. The Pac-12 released their 2012 football schedule, and Graham’s Sun Devils will open things up against the Northern Arizona Lumberjacks, but no date has been announced just yet. Smart […]
Todd Graham came to Arizona State with a reputation as a strict disciplinarian in his time as head coach at Rice, Tulsa and Pittsburgh. It didn’t take long for him to live up to that reputation, as Wednesday the Sun Devils’ new coach suspended defensive end Junior Onyeali indefinitely for “not meeting high standards of […]
It has been a tumultuous past few months for the Arizona State Sun Devils football program. After another underwhelming year, which failed to live up to the hype, the Devils have been toiling in a period of transition. They fired head coach Dennis Erickson and became embroiled in a national firestorm after reportedly hiring than […]
When the 2011 season began, many felt it would be Vontaze Burfict’s last in an ASU uniform. Regarded as one of the best defensive players in the country, he was viewed as a sure-fire first round pick, maybe even a top-10 selection. However, the junior had well-documented struggles, with some thinking it may lead to […]
The staff of ArizonaSports.com has compiled their list of the top 25 Arizona sports stories of the year 2011. We’ll be unveiling them over the next couple of weeks all leading up to the top story of 2011. When Dennis Erickson’s Arizona State Sun Devils took the field at the Rose Bowl to take on […]
The staff of ArizonaSports.com has compiled their list of the top 25 Arizona sports stories of the year 2011. We’ll be unveiling them over the next couple of weeks all leading up to the top story of 2011. The 2011 football season got off to a great start for ASU junior linebacker Vontaze Burfict. Following […]
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA — We all know that Arizona State’s ugly 56-24 loss to the Boise State Broncos in the Maaco Bowl Las Vegas on Thursday night was Dennis Erickson’s last game as the head coach of the program. It was also the last game for several members of the Sun Devil staff, including offensive […]
LAS VEGAS, NV — The point spread said it wouldn’t be close, and it wasn’t. Boise State’s Doug Martin returned the opening kickoff of the game 100 yards for a touchdown, and the 6th-ranked Broncos never looked back, pounding the Arizona State Sun Devils 56-24 in the 20th edition of the Maaco Bowl Las Vegas […]
4th Quarter 12:30 or so remaining…these updates will now slow down as I make my way down to the field to cover the post game press conferences. More coverage coming from Vegas on ArizonaSports.com. 13:05 left – Osweiler hits Robinson on a 21-yard td pass to make things look a little better, for now. Alex […]
After missing out on college football’s bowl bonanza in each of the past three seasons, ASU is excited about being invited to the postseason party this year. Of course, they were hoping for a January bowl invite, not the Las Vegas Bowl, which is one of the first games scheduled here in December. “We had […]
TEMPE, ARIZ — At least there wasn’t a heart-wrenching buzzer beater this time out. Kevin Olekaibe had 21 of his career-high 30 points in the 2nd half lifting the Fresno State Bulldogs to a 68-65 win over Arizona State at Wells Fargo Arena. Olekaibe had six three-pointers, including two in the last 1:09 of the […]
An on-court confrontation in which ASU center Ruslan Pateev punched Southern Mississippi’s Torye Pelham in the back of the head cost the Sun Devil one game. The Pac-12 handed down the suspension late Tuesday, and the junior will not play in the team’s game against Fresno State Wednesday at Wells Fargo Arena. “All of our […]
The roster continues to get shorter for the Arizona State Sun Devils as they prepare for the Maaco Bowl Las Vegas against 6th-ranked Boise State on Thursday. Junior Jamal Miles didn’t make the trip to Las Vegas with the team because of personal problems, according to Doug Haller of The Arizona Republic. Miles joins sophomore […]
Todd Graham was not going to leave Pittsburgh for just any job. Sure, other schools called, but the only one he was interested in was Arizona State. “My connection to this city is really…a lot of our supporters there at Tulsa also had homes at Desert Mountain, so we’ve been coming to Desert Mountain for […]
Recently hired Arizona State football coach Todd Graham will have his contract up for approval by the Arizona Board of Regents on Thursday. The deal is for five years, and runs through December 31, 2016. Graham’s annual salary will be a total of $2 million, consisting of a base salary of $600,000 and $1.4 million […]
The 2011-12 season hasn’t gone so well for Arizona State basketball, and that’s an understatement. The Sun Devils are 4-7, their worst start in 26 years. Their prized freshman recruit, point guard Jahii Carson, has been ruled academically ineligible for the entire season by the NCAA. They’ve lost two straight games on last-second three- pointers. […]
TEMPE, AZ — If you’re a basketball fan, and you like buzzer beaters, you should probably get down to Wells Fargo Arena in Tempe. Southern Mississippi senior Darnell Dodson canned a three- pointer as the buzzer sounded lifting the Golden Eagles to a 64-61 win over the Arizona State Sun Devils on Monday night. It […]
The Arizona State Sun Devils will be without the services of sophomore defensive end Junior Onyeali for the MAACO Bowl Las Vegas against 6th-ranked Boise State on Thursday night. Onyeali has been suspended for the game by head coach Dennis Erickson after a shouting match between the two at Monday’s practice before the Sun Devils […]
The Arizona State Sun Devils are just days away from taking part in their first bowl game since 2007, but there’s a possibility that they won’t have their full complement of players against Boise State on Thursday night. ASUDevils.com has reported that junior do-everything player Jamal Miles could miss the bowl game for disciplinary reasons. […]
The meeting wasn’t very long. New head coach Todd Graham didn’t want to be a distraction. His just-introduced-to players remain focused on preparing for Boise State and the Las Vegas Bowl, in what will be the final game under the previous coaching regime. Graham, though, did want to at least let his new team know […]
It isn’t the easiest of situations, welcoming in one new coaching staff while continuing to work with a soon-to-be departing coaching staff. Brock Osweiler though has tried to make the best of it. “We’ve had a lot of fun,” he said following practice Sunday, a day before the team was to leave for Las Vegas. […]
TEMPE, AZ — In the media notes for the Northern Arizona Lumberjacks, there’s an item that points out when guard Stallon Saldivar was in 6th grade in Salt Lake City, he played on a team coached by NBA legend John Stockton and sharpshooter Jeff Hornacek. Apparently whatever they taught him worked. Saldivar had a career-high […]
The Sun Devils’ coaching staff is coming together, as Bob Connelly was added to the staff late Friday. Connelly, who spent the 2011 season coaching the offensive line for UCLA, will likely fill the same role at ASU. Connelly has had stops at Alabama and UTEP as well, and was named one of the nation’s […]
Todd Graham has wasted little time in filling out his coaching staff, as the new ASU boss added former Division II Abilene Christian coach Chris Thomsen to his staff. Thomsen posted a 51-21 record over seven seasons with the school and won the Lone Star Conference South Division Coach of the Year award four times. […]
Newly hired Arizona State head coach Todd Graham continued to fill out his coaching staff on Friday, naming Chris Ball as his co-defensive coordinator. Ball, 45, has been on the staff at Washington State for the past three seasons, serving as assistant head coach, co- defensive coordinator and safeties coach. In 2011, Ball’s WSU defense […]
First, Arizona State was interested in Houston coach Kevin Sumlin. Then, apparently, they wanted SMU coach June Jones. Tuesday they “settled” for Pittsburgh coach Todd Graham, and some have wondered how he might feel about not being ASU’s “first choice.” Follow @theAdamGreen
Locally, the reaction to Arizona State’s hiring of Todd Graham has been indifferent, with many unsure simply because they don’t know who he is. Nationally, though, the reaction has been far more precise: angry. There has been a lot said and written about the way Graham left Pittsburgh for Tempe after just one year, with […]
A new coach coming to town can summon a vast array of emotions from current players. Will they fit the new schemes? Will they get along with a guy they’ve never met? Will he bring winning football? At least one Sun Devil isn’t concerned. In fact, running back Deantre Lewis tweeted about his new coach […]
Seventeen days after Dennis Erickson was fired by Arizona State, the search for a new coach came to an end on Wednesday. Todd Graham, who spent the 2011 season as the head coach at the University of Pittsburgh, was introduced at a press conference in Tempe presided over by ASU president Michael Crow and to […]
