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Finally, We Can Talk About the Ice

At last, the surreal scenes of the offseason and preseason can fade into memory as the Phoenix Coyotes take to the ice in a game that counts tonight at Staples Center in Los Angeles. In tossing both bids to purchase the team (and simultaneously telling the league to make a better bid), Judge Redfield Baum essentially put everything taking place off the ice back at [...] Read the story »

Caretaker Season or a Bowl Season … Dennis, the Choice is Yours

10 of 33, 116 yards. There are positives to be taken from Arizona State's 20-17 loss to Georgia, at least as much as can be taken from a game that was there for the taking. In holding the Bulldogs, who were hanging a half hundred on folks, to just 20 points the defense proved they are a force to be reckoned with in the [...] Read the story »

What Apathy Looks Like …

This is what Jobing.Com Arena looked like just a few minutes before the Coyotes played the Kings Tuesday night in Glendale. As you can see on this video (and my apologies on the sound) it didn't get any better when the game started. (Before the sarcastic comments begin ... no, this isn't a typical crowd.) The Coyotes announced an attendance of 4,643 [...] Read the story »

Cardinals Face Must Win Opener

Not only are the Arizona Cardinals opening the season today against the San Francisco 49ers, they also are facing a must win scenario. It might not be a must win game from the football standpoint, even though it's a division game that should end with a "W". But from the perspective of the Cardinals' tenuous bandwagon, where the slightest bump in the road will likely [...] Read the story »

Gretzky Absent as Coyotes Open Camp

Freshly painted inspirational slogans greeted the Phoenix Coyotes players when they filed into their locker room Saturday for the opening of training camp. All that was missing as players completed their physicals and extra-curricular sessions for the scoreboard videas and such was certainty about the team's future location and the presence of coach and minority owner Wayne Gretzky. With the team's ownership status in limbo pending Judge Redfield [...] Read the story »

You There … Here’s $1 Million … Go Park My Car

I think I've finally put my finger on what troubles me most about Jim Balsille's effort to purchase and relocate the Phoenix Coyotes - the money-fueled arrogance that has been increasingly evident. Whoever has the gold makes the rules, indeed ... Glendale objects to having the lease with Jobing.Com Arena broken? Here is $50 million, petulant child. Now go away and let the adults talk. Oh, [...] Read the story »

Pac-10 Football Week That Was: Week 1

Quick thoughts following the first week of play in the Pac-10: Just for kicks: Which kicking record would you want least - Thomas Weber's record-tying five field goals against Idaho State in Arizona State's 50-3 win (he missed a sixth attempt) or Alex Zendejas Jr.'s record-tying four field goals that nearly was the sum total of Arizona's output against Central Michigan? Yeah, me [...] Read the story »

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