Then: Three-time All-Star goalie, who played with Coyotes and seven other organizations during a 19-year career. Burke, a rangy goalie at 6 feet 4, was a fan favorite during his stint with the Coyotes, beginning in 1999 when he was traded to Phoenix from Florida. He concluded his playing career with the Los Angeles [...]
Are we in?
Are we out?
Where are we playing?
What are we seeded?
By this time, of course, Arizona State and its bubble brethren had nothing to contribute to the discussion. It was all up to the selection committee, which ultimately decided that, no, the Sun Devils weren’t tournament worthy.
The most suspenseful day in sports? Just look at [...]
Geoff Ogilvy was at 14-under par through 11 holes and kept his one-shot lead, only now it was Adam Scott on his heels, not the world’s No. 1 player who has won every tournament he has played since September.
Woods was at 11 under, even for the day, [...]
The event, which was founded in 1980, is being played for the fifth year at Superstition Mountain and with Safeway as title sponsor. The company recently announced it is pulling out, however, leaving an air of uncertainty around the tournament that has flourished in the southeast Valley, drawing record crowds and producing [...]
Wie’s agent, Jill Smoller of the William Morris Agency, said the Stanford freshman reinjured her left wrist when she accidentally hit a ball that was embedded in thick rough on the driving range at Stanford on March 13.
Smoller said Wie immediately consulted a doctor at Stanford and also saw a hand specialist in [...]
Ogilvy saved par four times from a bunker to remain bogey-free over the first two rounds at Doral, and he finished with a 5-under 67 on Friday for a one-shot lead over Woods (66) going into the weekend of this World Golf Championship.
It wasn’t too long after he finished that someone mentioned that [...]
As the LPGA prepares to come to the Valley next week for its first 2008 event on the U.S. mainland, Sorenstam and Ochoa - both of whom honed their skills at the University of Arizona - are the more recognized names on the tour but far from its only players with star power [...]
SOUTH REGIONAL
At Little Rock, Ark.
No. 1 Memphis (34-1) vs. No. 8 Mississippi State (23-10), 1:45 p.m.: Mississippi State is athletic and also physical, but the Bulldogs’ lack of depth makes it tough to think they can win this. The Bulldogs absolutely need a huge game from 6-4, 230-pound PG Jamont Gordon, who can be a [...]
It represents quite a quick comeback for Huggins, who was out of work two years ago.
He got fired at Cincinnati - a school he led to the 1992 Final Four - after a drunken driving arrest, then sat out a season before surfacing at Kansas State in [...]
The Cardinal advanced to Houston, where they will face Miami or Texas.
Lopez scored eight of Stanford’s 11 points in overtime as the Cardinal took advantage of a big size difference.
Lopez was an effective counter to Marquette sharpshooter Jerel McNeal, who scored a career-high 30 points, and hit three 3-pointers in overtime.
But [...]
