Area football players were snubbed on the All-Arizona team voted on by the football coaches association.

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A couple of lasting impressions from Ridge Nielsen’s football career at Mesa Mountain View took place the final two weeks of 2006.

Arizona State, coming off its first losing season since 2003, did not place anyone on the All-Pac-10 first team in balloting by the league’s coaches.

All six Gilbert Highland seniors on this year's girls soccer team have played four years of varsity soccer.

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 The numbers were heavily stacked against Chandler Seton Catholic last season.

The difference between Chandler Hamilton coach Steve Belles’ first year and second year guiding the Huskies was one fewer win. A 13-1 campaign followed by a 12-1. That single discrepancy in record was not playing in the title game and hence not winning the championship.

Mesa High coach Kelley Moore had reason to be ecstatic last season in his first year patrolling the sidelines for the Jackrabbits.

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A whole lot went right for Tempe Corona del Sol last season.

The upward climb necessary to get Phoenix Mountain Pointe into the playoffs has been treacherous the past few years, and it’s not going to get easier.

Andy Jay sat in the stands at Glendale Arena, fresh off a pin of Mesa Mountain View’s Joe Farnsworth that gave him third place in the 189-pound class in 5A Division I.

Jerryd Bayless stood at the end of the Phoenix St. Mary’s bench as the seconds ticked away in the 5A Division I state championship game.

A semblance of order has returned to Arizona high school wrestling. Last year, coaches had to deal with new conference alignments (with 5A and 4A split into two) and the team finals being separated from the individual meet.

Whitney Lopus’ most enduring memory of her senior year is a regular-season dual meet. Sure, the Utah-bound star won two more state titles, giving her seven in her prep career.

4A-1A East Valley stat leaders through Week 8:

The Arizona State women’s basketball team has won 24 games this season primarily because of its defense, but it hasn’t had a matchup quite like this one.

March 26, 2005

The once-shoddy Arizona Cardinals defense looked like a different unit in the playoffs.

An Ethiopian man and Kenyan woman may have won Monday's Boston Marathon, but it was the best day in Beantown for American runners since 1985. Ryan Hall and Kara Goucher - who did some of her Boston training in Flagstaff - each turned in third-place finishes.

The boys basketball regular season is under way. West Valley Preps asked local coaches questions about their 2010-11 teams. Here are their answers:

The following is a list of how East Valley participants fared in the P.F. Chang's Rock 'n' Roll Arizona Marathon held Sunday: