Photo: AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin (PA) Doug Ducey is the Republican governor of Arizona, a state that currently has two Democratic senators and President Joe Biden narrowly won in 2020. Arizona is what political analysts would call a “purple” state. And on On Wednesday, Ducey signed into law two anti-transRead More →
Arizona State’s football team is scheduled to kick off the 2022 season on September 1 against Northern Arizona. One site predicts the Sun Devils will beat the Lumberjacks, but only win two more games all season. Yes, Herm Edwards’ side are only expected to win three games in 2022 accordingRead More →
Long before Chad Johnson Jr. set foot on campus at Arizona State, he was jokingly called the Sun Devils’ top scout. Johnson committed to ASU in October 2018 as a high school student — nearly two years before he enrolled. Few were more active on social media platforms, frequently pluggingRead More →
PHOENIX – The Arizona Coyotes want a new state law legalizing sports betting changed to allow them to continue running their mobile sports gaming operation when they move from Glendale to the hockey arena at Arizona State University next season. But the Arizona Indian Gaming Association and several Native AmericanRead More →
Tevin White was one of the chosen few. A handful of high school prospects who decided to sign with Arizona State’s football program despite the NCAA’s ongoing investigation into recruiting violations. The outcome of that investigation and subsequent penalties have yet to be revealed, but White had no reservations aboutRead More →
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TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) — The Arizona House paused election laws to pass education bills, those that directly target teachers. The first was SB1211, which requires teachers to post their curriculum, including books, textbooks, videos and the like, at least seven days before the start of the school year,Read More →
Arizona State’s women’s golf team earned a resounding victory Sunday at the 2022 Ping/ASU Invitational. ASU, ranked ninth in the Golfweek/Sagarin team standings, beat the field by 15 strokes to win its 21st title in the event, a three-day, 54-hole tournament at Papago Golf Course in Phoenix. The field wasRead More →
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Arizona State has hired Natasha Adair as its next women’s basketball coach. The school announced Sunday that the former Delaware coach will replace Charli Turner Thorne, who retired earlier this month after 25 years at the helm of the Sun Devils. “For nearly three decades, IRead More →
After leading Delaware to its first NCAA tournament appearance in nearly a decade this season, Natasha Adair was named the head coach of Arizona State women’s basketball on Sunday. Adair will be the first black woman to lead the Sun Devils women’s basketball program. Adair is also the program’s firstRead More →
Arizona state lawmakers approve 15-week abortion ban The bill now falls to Republican Gov. Doug Ducey, an abortion opponent who has signed every anti-abortion bill that has come to his desk since he took office in 2015, FOX 10’s Stephanie Bennett reports. PHOENIX – the Arizona Legislative Assembly Thursday joinedRead More →
Arizona State Senator Wendy Rogers is no stranger to ranting about securing the border, but a recent Phoenix New Times a review of his personal communications revealed that the word “border” has not once appeared in any of his emails, text messages or direct social media messages since taking office.Read More →
As midterm election season approaches, ASU’s Young Democrats and ASU’s College Republicans are not endorsing primary candidates in an effort to maintain cohesion in their ranks. Throughout the semester, both organizations invited candidates vying for different positions to speak to students. Yet the clubs choose to maintain their longstanding policyRead More →
Here are the updated Arizona Republic high school baseball rankings for each of the six conferences through March 21, 2022 from the Arizona Interscholastic Association. Conference 6A 1. Hamilton, 10-1 2. Mountain Ridge, 8-3 3. Bacha, 10-1 4. Red Mountain Mesa, 4-6 5. Perry, 8-2 6. Queen Creek, 8-2 7.Read More →
Don’t be surprised to see ads on the way from Trader Joe’s to Tempe for a company trying to pay people to poop for the love of science. GoodNature, a subsidiary of biotech company Seres Therapeutics, hails from Massachusetts and opened a clinical research retail branch in Tempe. GoodNature hasRead More →
By Ian Garcia Ice Cube’s BIG3 basketball league held its third open tryout date on Saturday as players competed for an all-expenses-paid trip to the BIG3 Combine in Las Vegas. After stops in Dallas and Washington, the BIG3 traveled to Victorium in Scottsdale to assess some of the best playersRead More →
Today we’re announcing that the Arizona Republic’s Season for Sharing campaign raised an incredible $1.8 million this year. And we remind readers that 100% of that money goes back to the community through 164 charities that help struggling children and families, seniors struggling with housing and food, seniors struggling toRead More →
The coronavirus pandemic has had a far greater effect on the Tempe Police Department than the 2020 murder of George Floyd, according to an Arizona State University study released this week. Critics may suggest it’s a bold claim to make for a single research study and expose the injustice ofRead More →
The bats got hot for Arizona State’s No. 22 softball (19-5) at just the right time as the Sun Devils enter conference play this weekend. ASU will host No. 23 Oregon State Friday through Sunday at Farrington Stadium. ASU exits the non-conference schedule on an eight-game winning streak. ASU’s defenseRead More →
Daylight Saving Time and Arizona Arizona Republic reporter Scott Craven explains daylight saving time, which begins on the second Sunday in March — at least for most of the United States, but not here in Arizona. Thomas Hawthorne/azcentral.com A bill passed by the Senate that would make DST permanent wouldRead More →
Arizona State head football coach Herm Edwards admits there may have been a sense of complacency last year on his veteran team. It had a lot of athletes who had played a lot of football, so at the end of the season there wasn’t quite the energy that comes withRead More →
Published on March 15, 2022 at 06:13 Michael McDaniel Courthouse News Service The Arizona Senate on Monday blocked a sweeping list of GOP-sponsored electoral reform bills that many Republicans in the state say would have addressed concerns about election integrity, following the state audit of the 2020 presidential election. TwelveRead More →
Arizona’s high school softball season lasts three weeks, and already last year’s state champions stand out from the pack. They’re not the only teams that have impressed so far, though. Here’s a look at the top 10 teams in the state so far: 1. Surprise Willow Canyon (13-2) After goingRead More →
A freshman at Arizona State University plummeted 20 feet to his death during spring break in Mexico when he scaled a short wall that had a dramatic drop on the other side. Aiden Nevarez, 18, died in the early morning hours of March 7 at the Riu Santa Fe hotelRead More →
A look at the Arizona Republic Super 10, the top high school baseball teams, regardless of conference, through March 13, 2022. Super 10 Baseball 1. Chandler Hamilton Huskies, 6-0 The nation’s seventh-ranked team now face a gauntlet of top competition this week in the Boras Classic, where the best teamsRead More →
Two Republican state senators, who are skeptical of allegations of voter fraud in 2020, blocked the passage of seven bills this week in the first major test of controversial election-related measures at the Arizona Capitol. The failure of the bills suggests that few of the dozens of conspiracy-driven campaign proposalsRead More →
The question was a variation of the question “Where do you see yourself-in-five-years?” the one that almost every potential employer asked for at the time. “Where do you think you can go on a five-year term here?” Arizona state officials asked Jay and Jess Santos in 2016 when the pairRead More →
LAS VEGAS (AP) — James Keefe capped a double-double by cashing in a short jumper at the buzzer as ninth-seeded Stanford closed the game on a 16-1 run to shock eighth-seeded Arizona State 71-70 in the Pac-12 Conference tournament opener Thursday. Stanford will face second-seeded Arizona on Thursday in theRead More →
OP-ED: Matt Salmon in the Arizona Republic Arizona teachers are better than their unionArizona RepublicMatte SalmonMarch 9, 2022 Arizona teachers deserve better than the status quo The teachers’ union is “a scourge on our society”. That’s what I said at a recent Sun City Republican Club meeting – and IRead More →
PHOENIX — Arizona State Senator Kelly Townsend, after dropping her candidacy for Congress, filed an expression of interest Monday seeking re-election in the same district as fellow Republican Senator Wendy Rogers. Townsend and Rogers became entangled over the past week after the Senate censured Rogers for his violent rhetoric, andRead More →
No. 12 Arizona State won its fifth Pac-12 title in the past six years to claim its first Pac-12 title on home soil since 1997. The win came in the final two games as ASU narrowly edged runners-up Oregon State with a 0.5 Advantage (115-114.5) Sunday at Desert Financial Arena.Read More →
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Former Arizona State quarterback Jayden Daniels is moving to LSU, where he will compete in very open competition to be coach Brian Kelly’s first-season starter with the Tigers. “Jayden is an exceptional player who will make our quarterback room even stronger,” Kelly said in aRead More →
Jayden Daniels has started 29 of 30 games at Arizona State over the past three years, but that tenure is officially over as the former Sun Devil starter plans to end his college career at Louisiana State. Daniels should be in Baton Rouge in time to start spring football withRead More →
Jayden Daniels has started 29 of 30 games at Arizona State over the past three years, but that tenure is officially over as the former Sun Devils starter plans to end his college career at LSU. Daniels should be in Baton Rouge in time to start spring football with hisRead More →
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The Arizona State Sun Devils did a good job of taking on the best teams in the Pac-12 and were competitive even if they didn’t necessarily win them. The challenge for Sun Devils coach Bobby Hurley this week is to prepare his team for less competition. ASU was game ThursdayRead More →
For the past six months, Arizona State Senator Kelly Townsend has embodied the paradox of the modern Republican Party’s stance on Jewish issues – that somehow it is fashionable to #StandWithIsrael, but also fashionable to compare pandemic restrictions to the Holocaust. It’s a battle she’s losing if a tweet deletedRead More →
Arizona State (12-16 overall, 8-10 Pac-12) hosts California (12-17, 5-13) Thursday night in a Pac-12 men’s basketball game in Tempe, Arizona. The game is scheduled for 6:00 PM MST and can be seen on Pac-12 Networks. Who will win the game? Check out these picks and predictions for the contest.Read More →
Arizona State’s men’s basketball team had every reason to fall into the Pac-12 abyss. The Sun Devils were coming off one of their best games of the season, but suffered a 79-76 road loss to Stanford to drop to 6-10 overall and 2-4 in conference. And the next step forRead More →
Arizona State’s basketball team is only 12-16 this season. But the Sun Devils become the team opponents don’t want to face in the 2022 Pac-12 Men’s Basketball Tournament. Bobby Hurley’s side have won five of their last six games heading into the regular season finals against California and Stanford atRead More →
Arizona State Senator Wendy Rogers was censured Tuesday by her colleagues in a bipartisan vote. Congressional Quarterly/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Congressional Quarterly/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images Arizona State Senator Wendy Rogers was censured Tuesday by her colleagues in a bipartisan vote. Congressional Quarterly/CQ-RollRead More →