After every Arizona Diamondbacks game we’ll examine the box score and provide you with instant analysis. So it’s time to go Inside the Box for April 12, 2011: Diamondbacks 13, Cardinals 8 The Good: The Diamondbacks’ bats came alive battering Cardinals ace Chris Carpenter in the process. Carpenter, who historically has owned Arizona, was tagged […]
PHOENIX – Larry Fitzgerald took batting practice at Chase Field on Tuesday before the Diamondbacks game. The Cardinals’ wide receiver is anxious to get on a playing field he is more accustomed to and eradicating the bitter taste of last season. “I’m looking forward to getting back on the field so we can figure it […]
GLENDALE – I’ve listened to many hockey experts talk about the upcoming Coyotes and Red Wings series over the past few days and I’ve heard how important players such as Shane Doan, Ilya Bryzgalov and Ray Whitney will be to Phoenix’s bid to upset Detroit and move forward. They are correct. There is no denying […]
For the past two weeks Arizona State University has been running with the slogan “it’s time.” The time came on Tuesday afternoon with the unveiling a new logo, a new brand, a new color and new uniforms. The new logo: The Sun Devil Pitchfork will be the primary representation for identifying Arizona State athletics. It […]
When the Phoenix Coyotes touch down in the Motor City ahead of their first round Stanley Cup playoff clash with the Detroit Red Wings, the eyes of three cities, a league, a prospective owner and a pushy organization will be on them, awaiting with baited breath the rematch of last year’s postseason. But the Coyotes […]
Only one player has been at the top of the NBA for the last nine seasons and it’s not Kobe Bryant, Kevin Garnett or Vince Carter. No, that player is the Phoenix Suns’ Steve Nash. Nash hasn’t been a champion or a scoring leader but he has done something very unique. He has been at […]
Are you looking for a way to support the Phoenix Coyotes and stick it to annoying Detroit Red Wings fans beyond just donning a white shirt for home playoff games? There is an option but it might get a little hairy. It’s a tradition in the NHL, at least since the 1980s, to grow ‘playoff […]
The Arizona Cardinals preseason schedule is set, that is, provided the league and players can come to an agreement before a mid-August date with the Raiders. In all the Cardinals will travel to Oakland and Green Bay before coming home to face San Diego and Denver. The trip to Green Bay will be the team’s […]
Willie Bloomquist got the opening day start because Stephen Drew was injured and unable to go. Drew has since returned, but manager Kirk Gibson has not been able to keep the former ASU Sun Devil out of the lineup. The 33-year-old utility player has a hit in each of the eight games he has played […]
Matt Leinart would like you to know that his NFL career has been a roller coaster. Arizona Cardinals fans would like Leinart to know watching him left them feeling like they had just gotten off one. The Daily Trojan, USC’s student newspaper, caught up with the former Heisman quarterback and Cards draft bust this week […]
Saying the Cardinals need a new quarterback, while somewhat of an understatement, is still factually correct. So, it should not be a surprise when every quarterback with a pulse is linked to Arizona, even if one of the options has been one of the team’s biggest rivals over the last few years. According to ESPN’s […]
The Phoenix Suns’ playoff hopes may be gone but that doesn’t mean personal scoring records and team three-point records can’t be broken or at least tied. Forward Channing Frye injected a little intriguing — emphasis on little — into an otherwise meaningless game against the lowly Minnesota Timberwolves on Monday by putting up a career […]
Going into their playoff series against the Detroit Red Wings one would expect the Phoenix Coyotes to be the underdogs. After all, they are the No. 6 seed and the Red Wings are the No. 3 seed with home ice advantage. But just how big of underdogs may be the surprise. Of the eight “experts” […]
After every Phoenix Suns game we’ll examine the box score and provide you with instant analysis. So it’s time to go Inside the Box for April 11, 2011: Suns 135, Timberwolves 127 The Suns kept it close against the Minnesota Timberwolves for the entire game and gained a late lead, but a close miss by […]
The 2011 Arizona Diamondbacks are worse than the 2010 Arizona Diamondbacks. At least they are through the first eight games of the season. See, last season’s team started the season 5-3 while the current incarnation of the team is just 4-4. Just because they are a game worse in the record books than this time […]
The Phoenix Coyotes and Detroit Red Wings may have faced off in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs just a mere 12 months ago but that doesn’t matter, at least not to head coach Dave Tippett. He realizes this is a different team with another opportunity to knock off the storied franchise from […]
Shane Doan is not an angry person. In fact, the Phoenix Coyotes’ captain gets teased by his teammates for being so easy-going. Come playoff time, however, Doan is prepared to turn on the anger and emotion. “I’m a better player when I play emotional,” Doan said on Sports 620 KTAR’s Doug and Wolf Monday morning. […]
Phoenix Coyotes captain Shane Doan joined Sports 620 KTAR’s Doug and Wolf Monday morning to share his confidence in his team for the upcoming playoff rematch against the Detroit Red Wings. There was only one man though that Doan singled out as the reason the Coyotes feel so secure heading into the matchup against the […]
Don’t worry, you haven’t accidentally discovered a tear in the space time continuum and been transported back to exactly this point one-year ago. The Phoenix Coyotes are really taking on the Detroit Red Wings again in the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. They just hope that history doesn’t repeat itself. Last year’s series […]
The Phoenix Coyotes will once again meet the Detroit Red Wings in the first round of the NHL playoffs. The series gets underway on Wednesday in Detroit. The Coyotes received the No. 6 seed in the Western Conference with the Red Wings finishing with the No. 3 seed. Game 1: Wednesday, 4 p.m. PT (Versus) […]
After every Arizona Diamondbacks game we’ll examine the box score and provide you with instant analysis. So it’s time to go Inside the Box for April 10, 2011: Diamondbacks 10, Reds 8 The Good: In the bottom of the 8th inning with the Diamondbacks down 7-6 they scored four runs — three of them on […]
Shane Doan just scored, giving the Coyotes a 4-1 lead, leaving just 11 minutes and 38 between the team and its second consecutive playoff berth. Oh, and the San Jose Sharks. The Sharks scored the next two goals, drawing within one with 3:39 left, but the Coyotes were able to hang on and not only […]
After every Arizona Diamondbacks game we’ll examine the box score and provide you with instant analysis. So it’s time to go Inside the Box for April 8, 2011:
Ian Kennedy threw like an ace on Friday night in the Arizona Diamondbacks’ home opener. The right-hander went eight innings giving up six hits and an earned run in the Diamondbacks 13-2 win. He struck out nine Cincinnati Reds. The nine strike outs are tied for the second highest total for Kennedy as a Diamondback. […]
After every Phoenix Suns game we’ll examine the box score and provide you with instant analysis. So it’s time to go Inside the Box for April 8, 2011: Hornets 109, Suns 97 Wednesday, in Minnesota, the Suns did whatever they wanted to offensively against the hapless Timberwolves. Friday, facing the Hornets and without Steve Nash, […]
In the classic movie The Blues Brothers Dan Aykroyd’s character Elwood Blues tells a bar full of people that he and his brother are ‘on a mission from God‘. On Friday Arizona Diamondbacks manager Kirk Gibson told a room full of reporters — admittedly not as much fun as a bunch of inebriated people — […]
The Diamondbacks announced Friday they have signed left-handed pitcher Ron Mahay to a minor league contract. Mahay, 39, had a 1-1 record with a 3.44 ERA, eight walks and 25 strikeouts in 41 relief appearances with the Minnesota Twins in spring training last season. Mahay opened last season with Single-A Fort Myers, posting a 1.93 […]
The knock on the Seven Seconds or Less versions of the Phoenix Suns was always that they lacked an edge. They lacked the defense, rebounding and mental toughness that it took to be successful when it counted. The team may be transitioning into a rebuilding — or is it retooling? — mode but they certainly […]
Editor’s Note: Kristofer Habbas is a writer for NBADraftInsider.com and this is a special piece for ArizonaSports.com Imagine for a second the Suns management personnel had a Suits Convention to decide what direction this team should go in. They debate whether or not to trade key players away, sign others and which way is up. […]
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