Arizona State University

For the 19th time in program history and the fourth consecutive year, the Arizona State softball team was selected to participate in the NCAA tournament Sunday afternoon.

The No. 2 Arizona State softball team earned the first Pac-10 championship in school history with a 5-2 victory Saturday over No. 23 California at Farrington Stadium in Tempe.

Third-ranked Arizona State defeated Loyola Marymount 9-5 in the opener of a three-game baseball series Saturday night in front of a crowd of 3,008 at Packard Stadium.The Sun Devils improved to 39-9 on the season.

It took just six words from the public-address announcer to sum up the dominance of Jacquelyn Johnson at the Pac-10 track and field championship at Sun Angel Stadium on Saturday: “This is going to take awhile.”

The Arizona State women’s tennis team turned in a nearly flawless outing Friday, taking a 4-0 victory over Sacramento State in the first round of the NCAA tournament.

Kaitlin Cochran’s two-run home run proved to be the difference in a historical night for the Arizona State softball team as the Sun Devils topped the Cal Bears 4-2 Friday night in Tempe.

The first day of events in the women’s heptathlon and men’s decathlon at the 2008 Pac-10 Conference Track & Field Championships came to a close Friday night on Joe Selleh Track at Sun Angel Stadium in Tempe with Arizona State senior Jacquelyn Johnson leading the heptathlon and sophomore Kyle Hitchcock ninth in the decathlon.

With three weekends remaining in college baseball’s regular season, Arizona State is in prime position to win a conference title and have the right to play at home for the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament.

Perhaps the greatest pure athlete to ever attend Arizona State University relaxes on a rail near the track at Sun Angel Stadium, as Jacquelyn Johnson has a rare moment of inactivity.

Arizona State and Notre Dame will play a football game in Texas in 2013, Sun Devils’ athletic director Lisa Love said Thursday.

Third-ranked Arizona State waited out an hour rain delay on Wednesday night in Wichita, Kan., then beat No. 10 Wichita State 6-1 at Eck Stadium. Matt Newman, making his first career start and only his third career pitching appearance, threw 6 2/3 innings, helping the Devils improve to 38-9 on the year.

Although he spent his summer 2,300 miles away from Arizona State University, Ryan Sontag was able to continue pursuing a kinesiology degree through the close confines of cyberspace.

Arizona State’s Jessica Pressley and Matt Turner were selected Pac-10 women’s and men’s field athletes of the week, the conference announced Tuesday.

Perhaps the biggest indicator of Arizona State’s performance in the NCAA’s academic progress rate was not in the most recent numbers, which were released on Tuesday.

A road-weary Arizona State squad, playing its fourth road game in five days, lost 7-6 to Kansas State on Tuesday night at Manhattan, Kan.

 A rib muscle strain will likely keep Arizona State first baseman/pitcher Ike Davis sidelined at least through this weekend’s series against Loyola Marymount, coach Pat Murphy said on Monday.

Every college baseball team has had to deal with the effects of the NCAA shortening the season a month, and Arizona State is feeling the pinch more than ever right now.

The Arizona State softball team made history again Sunday as the No. 1 Sun Devils beat No. 4 UCLA 5-2 at Easton Stadium in Los Angeles.

John Bebbling has long been one of the most generous givers to the Arizona State University athletic department.