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

NEW ORLEANS — Peja Stojakovic hit seven 3-pointers during a 25-point, 13-rebound performance, and the New Orleans Hornets defeated the Phoenix Suns 110-103 on Thursday night.

ST. LOUIS — Friendship goes out the window Sunday when the St. Louis Rams' Leonard Little tries to sack his friend, Arizona quarterback Kurt Warner.

The Diamondbacks traded two minor leaguers to the Chicago Cubs on Thursday in exchange for reliever Aaron Heilman.

The Diamondbacks will begin their final Cactus League season in Tucson when they host the Colorado Rockies on March 4 at Tucson Electric Park.

ST. LOUIS — Erik Johnson showed why the St. Louis Blues took him with the first pick in the 2006 NHL entry draft.

The Phoenix Mercury say All-Star guard Cappie Pondexter underwent successful surgery on her right eye, which she injured in last week's WNBA championship game against the Indiana Fever.

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.

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.

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.

TUCSON — Oregon linebacker Casey Matthews has a vivid memory from the Ducks' last trip to Arizona Stadium — a 34-24 loss to Arizona in 2007.

TUCSON — Nic Wise had 15 points, seven assists and five steals and Jamelle Horne scored eight of his 13 in the final 5½ minutes to help Arizona pull away from Rice 66-49 on Thursday night.

Varsity Xtra:  I was so sure the Chandler-Mesa Mountain View rematch from three weeks prior would play out nearly identical to the 45-42 shootout on Halloween weekend.

Yeah. Not so much.  But that doesn’t mean there isn’t plenty of extraneous fodder of randomness:

Those scrappy little Mesa High underdogs are all grown up.

 Recovering from a late collapse, Troy Matteson birdied the second playoff hole to beat Jamie Lovemark and Rickie Fowler in the Frys.com Open on Sunday at Grayhawk Golf Club.

Weir equals course record at Grayhawk

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HOMESTEAD, Fla.  — NASCAR chairman Brian France wants Jimmie Johnson to be commended for his four-year run atop NASCAR, and not used as an example of why the championship format might be flawed.