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What’s stood out in Suns’ 1st 2 preseason games
Photo: Steve C. Wilson/AP From a fan standpoint, preseason sports suck. There’s just no other way to put it. Your blood is pumping, and you can’t wait until the games actually count. Bu...
Don’t be surprised if Boldin pulls a Willis Reed
It would be questionable at best for most players to resume their career after a hit like Anquan Boldin sustained against the Jets let alone return two weeks later. As we’ve seen though Anquan B...
Orlando Hudson has a lot of options
(Photo by Harry How/Getty Images) Although Orlando Hudson “yearns” to play with the Mets, there are plenty of suitors for the 31 year old second baseman that don’t call New York home...
Hypocritical Cowboys will let Pacman play vs. Cards
Pacman Jones was on the very definition of thin ice when he was fully reinstated by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell back in August. After last night’s incident in Dallas, where police were called...
ESPN’s Hollinger ranks Amare 3rd best in NBA
ESPN.com’s John Hollinger may not think much of the Suns chances this season but he does think highly of Amare Stoudemire. Hollinger ranks Amare as his third best player in the NBA based on his...
Eric Byrnes fights scorpion with a plunger
Eric Byrnes was fighting something other than the injury bug on Wednesday morning. He was fighting a scorpion. During an interview with ESPN Radio’s Colin Cowherd Byrnes revealed that he was st...
Hudson yearns for Mets
Diamondback free agent-to-be Orlando Hudson has his eyes set on his new team. According to MLB.com’s Marty Noble, From what I’m told, Hudson, a free agent, yearns to play for the Mets. I ...
Uncertainty around Suns is actually exciting
I don’t know what to expect in 2008-09 from the Phoenix Suns. Call me crazy, but that’s kind of exciting. Especially after the last three seasons, when I wished that I had a universal rem...
You’re just damned if you do
In a piece entitled “Damned if you do, Damned if you don’t” our very own Vince Marotta wrote this about Cardinals’ fans selling their tickets to this Sunday’s game, Does ...
In The Zona - Kurt Warner Talking Retirement? Edition 10/7/08
Welcome to this week’s edition of In The Zona. It was a busy weekend, so we have a lot on the docket. We talk about the Cardinals huge blowout of the Bills, Suns preason excitement, Arizona̵...
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t
Photo: Eliot J. Schechter/Getty ImagesOk, here’s the situation…you’re Cardinal season ticket holder, and have two primo seats for Sunday’s game vs. America’s Team, the Da...
Nash gets a shoe of his own
Two-time MVP, 3 time all NBA first team, 6 time all-star and leader of the most prolific offense in basketball over the last 4 seasons. Steve Nash has everything, everything but his own shoe. While gu...
Breaking down Sun Devils’ broken-down offense
I’ll preface everything in this piece by informing you I’ve never played or coached organized football. Since that’s the first thing out of the mouths of players or coaches who are ...
Pac-10 Poll: USC flexes muscles
Even though the non-conference games are few and far between at this point in the season, the Pac-10 still isn’t missing any opportunities to fall all over themselves. Oregon State and Stanford...
Cardinals take apart Buffalo
Photo: James P. McCoy/Buffalo News After a complete meltdown last week in a 56-35 loss to the New York Jets, the Arizona Cardinals were the ones inflicting the pain this week. Kurt Warner threw 2 tou...
ASU’s descent continues
Photo: Ben Margot/AP To call Arizona State’s offense vanilla, would be an insult to vanilla. ASU’s offense has all the flavor of a communion wafer, and that lack of flair was never more e...
Amare’s new eye wear to emulate greats
Amare Stoudemire will look different when he takes the court this seasons. Thanks to a torn iris caused by an arrant Boris Diaw finger poke, Amare will be donning protective eye wear for the near futu...
In the Zona: do or die weekend, edition
This time on In the Zona we discuss the Sun Devils must win against Cal, UofA’s trap game against Washington and the Cardinals “do or die” game against Buffalo. All this and much mor...
Lingerie and football? Where do we get season tickets?
I don’t know how we missed this, but another professional football team is coming to the Valley of the Sun. Welcome the Phoenix Scorch of the, gulp, Lingerie Football League. The Lingerie Bowl ...
More fuel for Boldin contract feud
For the past five days, seemingly everyone has forgotten about Anquan Boldin’s off-season and training camp squawking about wanting a new contract. Unfortunately, it took one of the most violen...
Left Fielder: Olson takes leave to plan wedding
University of Arizona basketball coach Lute Olson announced today that he will be taking another leave of absence this season, in order to help with the planning of his 3rd wedding. Earlier this wee...
Amare’s number 8
No, Amare isn’t changing his number again. He is number 8 on the AOL’s FanHouse list of the top 50 NBA players. Tom Ziller provides some interesting analysis including the fact that Amare ...
Crucial matchup for Devils, Bears
In a conference that was completely turned upside down by Oregon State’s shocking upset win over USC one week ago, this Saturday’s matchup between Arizona State and California holds a lot ...
Suns rotation may not change
(Matt York/Associated Press) New head coach Terry Porter was brought in to change things up for the Phoenix Suns. That was the mantra of Steve Kerr, Robert Sarver and fans during the off season. So fa...
Lute Olson engaged
(Bill Haber / AP) Who says that Lute Olson has trouble recruiting? According to the AzStarNet.com, Lute Olson is engaged to be married…again. Olson, who finalized his divorce from Christine Tore...
Arizona well represented in MLB postseason
Photo: Jae C. Hong/AP So the Arizona Diamondbacks are just like us, and are watching the Major League Playoffs from the comfort of our own homes. But that doesn’t mean that the state of Arizona...
Mets’ fans want Byrnes
Fresh off of their second straight late season collapse and mourning the passing of Shea Stadium, Mets’ fans are getting desperate. They are in search of the “big name” leader to rig...
ASU loses Munns for the season
Bad news for the Arizona State Sun Devils. Linebacker Gerald Munns, who was named the Pac-10 Defensive Player of the Week following the Devils’ win over Stanford, will miss the rest of the seas...
Robin Lopez’s impact already being felt by Suns
(Photos Courtesy of Suns.com) The Suns have a new look this season and we aren’t talking about the style of basketball they will implement. When the Suns drafted Robin Lopez with the 15th pick, ...
5 things the Suns need to stay relevant in the West
(Barry Gossage/Suns Photos) On a day when the stock market and the Cardinals are trying to recover from a complete and utter collapse there is some light at the end of the tunnel. That light is the s...