The temperature in Tempe on Saturday flirted with triple digits for the first time since Todd Graham was brought aboard to be the head coach of the Arizona State football team. And it just so happened to be the same day of the spring game.
It’s hard to believe it’s been eight years since Pat Tillman was killed in Afghanistan defending this great country.
Before Wednesday night’s game with the Oklahoma City Thunder, Phoenix Suns head coach Alvin Gentry posed the question to the media, after Kobe and Wade, name a shooting guard you would take over James Harden?
Arizona State football is looking to turn-back-the-clock, but they need some help.
A year ago Arizona State cornerback Omar Bolden didn’t know what where his football career was headed. Today there is still uncertainty, but his future looks brighter than it did last spring when the All-Pac-10 selection was diagnosed with a tore ACL in his left knee ending his senior season before it ever started.
Back in December after Rich Rodriguez was assessing his roster for the first time, he called his quarterback situation “scary.” With only one quarterback on the roster that has any game experience in senior Matt Scott, Rodriguez did not shy away from the fact that progress at the position was going to be a steep uphill climb.
When Rich Rodriguez was hired by the University of Arizona back in November, he had really no idea what his 2012 team would look like.
These days when you think about players leaving a program, Arizona State is the first to come to mind. While Arizona has a long way to go to catch up to the number of players who have left Tempe, they too have quietly lost three players now since the beginning of the 2011-12 season.
If you were out at the first day of spring practice outside the Dickey Dome in Tempe, you would have noticed that the offense appeared to have a long way to go to get where they ultimately would like to be by fall.
For eleven years, former Arizona Cardinals and NFL safety Corey Chavous watched hundreds of hours of film preparing for upcoming opponents and players.