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Paint By Numbers: ASU vs. Smart Kids

Not to to say that there’s not intelligent players on ASU’s football roster, but come on, they are lining up against the “Harvard of the West”, right? The game between the Sun Devils (4-2, 2-1) and the Cardinal (4-3, 3-2) is [...]

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‘09/10 Player Preview Series: Channing Frye

Player preview: To call Channing Frye’s career inconsistent would be being polite. After a successful career at the University of Arizona Frye was drafted by the New York Knicks with the eighth pick in the 2005 NBA draft. He showed promise [...]

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[Audio] STBNL Friday – Can ASU win on the road at Stanford?

The more the merrier right? Michael Kossett and Luke Lapinski join me for the Friday edition of the “Show To Be Named Later” on Fanster.com. Of course you can catch Michael right here on STBNL, and weekly going [...]

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Coyotes continue rolling, beat Red Wings in OT

Adrian Aucoin’s wrist shot beat Chris Osgood 1:57 into overtime lifting the Phoenix Coyotes to a 3-2 win over the Detroit Red Wings at Jobing.com Arena in Glendale. The Coyotes forced overtime with just 2:40 left, when in the midst [...]

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5-on-1: Give your Cliff’s Notes version of the Suns season

Each Friday we are going to gather our four Deep Purple bloggers, Mark McLane, Ben York, Steve Fan and Greg Esposito, plus one “outsider” from around the web to give their view point on a single topic. Our “outsider” [...]

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Toby Gerhart Is No Ol’ Blue Eyes

Toby Gerhart, with out a doubt, is a brusing, punishing running back. He’s one of the best in the Pac-10 so far. Unfortunately, the poor kid will not be making any appearances anytime soon on American Idol. I’m not sure who put this [...]

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Nick Holt Finally Decided To Speak Up

Washington Huskies defensive coordinator Nick Holt wasn’t in much of a speaking mood after the Sun Devils victimized his unit for a game-winning 50-yard touchdown pass from Danny Sullivan to Chris McGaha with 5 seconds left. Frankly, I wouldn’t be either, [...]

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Swing Weekend In The Pac-10 Upon Us

I know that as this weekend of Pac-10 football plays out, with a full slate of sweet, sweet West Coast mano-e-mano action, everyone has a small eye on next week’s pivotal match-up between USC and Oregon up in Eugene. However, when [...]

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16 On The Tube With More To Come

Get ready, ASU basketball fans. Daron Sutton is back and he’s still Mark Grace-less. Arizona State announced what right now is a 16-game TV slate for FSN and Fox Sports Arizona a year after the program went to its first NCAA tournament [...]

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A postseason honor for Reynolds

Arizona Diamondbacks’ third baseman Mark Reynolds was named to the Sporting News National League All-Star team, released earlier today. Reynolds enjoyed a great statistical season, hitting 44 home runs, driving in 102 runs, and stealing 24 bases, while hitting .260. [...]

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