Hamilton’s joy of earning the No. 1 seed in the state boys volleyball tournament was quickly muted when coach Jeff Bader saw who his team would line up with in the second round.

Don’t be fooled by the score. Even if it is cliché, the match was much closer than it appeared.

The Hamilton boys volleyball team made the Class 5A state tournament last season as a No. 14 seed and was promptly swept in three games by eventual champion Glendale Deer Valley.

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ASU wrestlers advance

Ray Liotta and Virginia Madsen aren’t TV stars, but Tawny Cypress and America Ferrera are. Ordinary people with extraordinary powers are interesting. Hostage dramas? Boring! Stephen McPherson’s big gamble paid off, Aaron Sorkin’s hasn’t and we’re still looking for laughs.

Recent ads for the rip-curling penguin movie “Surf’s Up” call it “one of the most original animated films ever,” which is kind of laughable, right? Didn’t we just go through this with the singing and dancing penguins of “Happy Feet,” and before that with the Special Ops commando penguins of “Madagascar”?

March 12, 2005

For the first 10 years of this century, the boys volleyball landscape was startlingly consistent.

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Hamilton destroyed Casa Grande, 16-2, in five innings of a non-divisional matchup to end the Huslies' regular season.

Willie Ethington and Tyler Traasdahl combined to throw a two-hitter as visiting Mountain View beat Mesa, 4-0, in a Division I Section III game on Thursday.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court suggested Tuesday it could find a way out of the case over California's ban on same-sex marriage without issuing a major national ruling on whether America's gays have a right to marry.

Many of the top players from last year's boys volleyball season are moving on. But the top teams aren't going anywhere. Although it's a new group individually among the cream of the crop, the top programs aren't going to rebuild this year - they'll just reload.

TORONTO — You know you’ve got a good party on your hands when Madonna shows up.

Cody Martin’s spring went so well that it really messed with his plans.

Cody Martin’s spring went so well that it really messed with his plans.

High school coaching can be a thankless job at times, with long hours and low pay. However, a good coach can make a world of difference during the season. With the school year behind us, let’s take a look at the candidates for the Tribune’s 2010-11 Coach of the Year. To vote, click here. Our selection will be announced on Wednesday, June 22:

Here’s one of the safest bets you’ll find this fall: One month into the new television season the media will be filled with stories about how poorly the networks are doing. What’s a little less certain is whether those stories will be true.

The stakes just became much greater.