East Valley Tribune - ASU Sun Devils

Devils make no progress this season

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:08:39 -0700

PASADENA, Calif. - As the last couple of minutes slipped away in Arizona State’s 23-13 loss to UCLA Saturday, freshman middle linebacker Vontaze Burfict stood on the sideline, laughing. He must think this is funny:The Sun Devils are 4-7 and have lost five straight games.

ASU's QB swap doesn't help against UCLA

ASU notes: Williams' big day goes to waste

ASU's QB swap doesn't help against UCLA

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:37:52 -0700

PASADENA, Calif. — Redshirt freshman Kevin Prince passed for 161 yards, UCLA's defense accounted for two touchdowns and set up a field goal, and the Bruins beat Arizona State 23-13 Saturday to become bowl eligible with their sixth win.

Bordow: Devils make no progress this season

ASU notes: Williams' big day goes to waste

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:54:47 -0700

PASADENA, Calif. – Kyle Williams couldn’t take much satisfaction in his six catches, 128 yards and two touchdowns Saturday.

ASU volleyball swept by No. 6 Stanford

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:24:15 -0700

Sofie Schlagintweit led the Arizona State women’s volleyball team with 12 kills Saturday night, but the Devils closed out their home schedule with a 25-21, 25-15, 25-20 loss to No. 6 Stanford in Tempe to fall to 13-15 overall and 3-13 in Pac-10 competition.

ASU women fall to freshman-led Xavier

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:12:25 -0700

CINCINNATI — Katie Rutan walked into the interview room, glanced around and hesitantly asked for directions. “Where do I go?” she said. It was the only time all day she sounded like a freshman.

ASU, UCLA both need win to boost bowl hopes

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:04:44 -0700

LOS ANGELES — Arizona State and UCLA both will find it tough to reach a bowl game after the final two weeks of their up-and-down seasons. And both teams' coaches realize it'll be all but impossible for the loser of their meeting Saturday at the Rose Bowl.

ASU torches San Francisco with 3-pointers

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:33:43 -0700

Rihards Kuksiks had career highs with 27 points, seven 3-point baskets and eight assists and Arizona State set a school record with 18 3-pointers in a 104-65 victory over San Francisco on Friday.

Murphy - all sides of him - will be missed

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:17:01 -0700

How best to summarize the surprising and abrupt resignation of Pat Murphy? Perhaps this way: The Arizona State baseball program just got a lot less interesting.

Murphy resigns as ASU baseball coach

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:44:48 -0700

Arizona State baseball coach Pat Murphy resigned during a meeting with athletic director Lisa Love on Friday.

Devils must beat UCLA, UA for shot at bowl

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:45:42 -0700

Arizona State at UCLA

Arizona State women rout Yale

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:52:40 -0700

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Even after a 36-point win, Arizona State coach Charli Turner Thorne knows her team will have to play a lot better Saturday when it faces No. 9 Xavier.

ASU needs new job description for next QB

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:23:05 -0700

Scott Bordow: ASU ranks 107th nationally in passing efficiency - in the Pac-10 only sad-sack Washington State is worse - and 106th in completion percentage (53.2). For all you Rudy Carpenter bashers out there, the Sun Devils were 67th in passing efficiency last year and 62nd in completion percentage.

Erickson: Szakacsy will practice with first string

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:36:35 -0700

Arizona State coach Dennis Erickson says quarterback Samson Szakacsy will take most of the snaps with the first team this week.

Arizona State's defense leads way in 84-62 win

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:08:23 -0700

Arizona State added two more contributors in its second blowout victory of the season. Derek Glasser led the Sun Devils with 20 points in an 84-62 victory over Texas State in the first round of the preseason NIT on Monday night, but he was hardly alone.

Devils heavy underdogs against Ducks

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:44:54 -0700

In many ways, Arizona State deserved to beat USC in last week’s 14-9 loss, but a few big mistakes sent the Sun Devils under .500 on the season and on life support for a bowl game. Oregon is a big-time favorite in this game, and with good reason. Although the Ducks lost to Stanford last week in a shootout, they are still atop the Pac-10, and are returning home to Autzen Stadium for this contest, one of the best home-field advantages in the country.

Too many 'knuckleheaded' Sun Devils?

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:56:08 -0700

Scott Bordow: My late Tribune colleague, Bob Moran, always would use the same word to describe college athletes who got into trouble: knuckleheads.

ASU begins life without Harden, Pendergraph

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:12:09 -0700

November is football season, but with Dennis Erickson’s team a source of frustration and armchair angst, perhaps Herb Sendek’s squad can provide a reprieve at Arizona State.

ASU notes: Osweiler likely to start Saturday

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:10:22 -0700

Danny Sullivan’s biceps injury has made this week’s quarterback competition anticlimactic.

ASU signs elite prospect King

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:30:22 -0700

Arizona State basketball coach Herb Sendek secured a key piece of the Sun Devils' future Wednesday when 6-foot-5 guard Keala King signed his letter of commitment.

ASU notes: Biceps injury limits Sullivan

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:39:40 -0700

A right biceps injury limited Danny Sullivan in practice on Tuesday, but a decision on which Arizona State quarterback starts at Oregon on Saturday still has not been made.