5+ hour, 20+ min ago  (927+ words) PHOENIX " Dean Toigo was the 2025 Mountain West co-player of the year after hitting 18 home runs and driving in 74 RBIs at UNLV last year to go along with a 1. 127 OPS. At times, it felt like nobody noticed. Maybe that's why Toigo…...

3+ hour, 1+ min ago  (1065+ words) PHOENIX " On the back fields of spring training sites across Arizona, the sound was unmistakable. The crack of the bat echoed a little louder. The ball jumped a little farther. And behind it all was" a growing emphasis across baseball…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago  (1355+ words) PHOENIX " Dave Rasley never forgot his roots. He grew up in poverty in Alaska and spent long summers toiling on the oil pipelines there to pay for his education at Arizona State. So years later, after Rasley graduated and went…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago  (638+ words) PHOENIX " For many players on Arizona State's softball team, long road trips were common in high school. It's often where some of the best bonding occurs." And thanks to their recent schedule, the Sun Devils have put that bonding theory…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago  (896+ words) PHOENIX " On the field of the Los Angeles Angels" complex in Tempe, towering right-hander Chase Shores was hard to miss during spring training, where he was a non-roster invitee. At 6-feet-8, Shores has long stood out on a baseball field,…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago  (1286+ words) PHOENIX " Athletes can be dialed in. They can be on a hot streak. A tear. Then there's whatever Arizona State sophomore outfielder Landon Hairston is on." During a 13-game stretch following an 0-for-4 showing in ASU's loss to No. 17 TCU…...

1+ week, 7+ hour ago  (832+ words) TEMPE " Seven years under the same coaching staff without a playoff appearance led the Arizona State club baseball team to take a risk that could have submarined its season. Instead, it changed the direction of the program. The change came…...

1+ week, 6+ hour ago  (1291+ words) PHOENIX " The images of the World Trade Center towers collapsing on Sept. 11, 2001, still loomed heavily over the country when the 2001 World Series began a few weeks later. The New York Yankees, three-time defending champions, looked to continue their dynasty against…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (1437+ words) BRISTOL, Conn. " In Arizona, sports are woven into the weather, the weekends and the way people gather. Suns playoff fever, Cardinals tailgates, Diamondbacks memories, ASU and Arizona rivalries. Nonstop sports coverage feels as natural as desert heat." That reality did…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (962+ words) TUCSON " When Bill Veeck was planning to sign Larry Doby, the American League's first Black player, to integrate his Cleveland baseball team in 1947, the club was still training in Florida." To escape the harsh racism of the South, Veeck moved…...