As the ball floated off the right arm of quarterback Kyle Allen for what seemed like eternity, Desert Mountain’s Mark Andrews wasn’t thinking about his three dropped passes during the second half, or the clock winding down. Instead, he thought back to the words coach Tony Tabor had been harping on since the 2012 season began.

Desert Mountain didn’t look the No. 9 team in Division I on Thursday night.

Andrew Walter is keeping heady company these days.

NEW YORK - John Lennon fans tried to imagine what might have been.

The Arizona State women broke two school records Thursday at the Pac-10 Swimming Championships at Long Beach, Calif.

 Recent national events suggest playing high school golf in Arizona can greatly enhance your future.

Scottsdale Chaparral won its third girls volleyball title in four years by sweeping Cave Creek Cactus Shadows 25-19, 25-19, 25-18 Saturday night at Chandler Perry High School.

The state’s high school football schedules were released Friday, so it’s time to take a look at some of the most intriguing matchups of the fall.

February is designated as “Black History Month” and celebrates a population of individuals that share a unique and important heritage. History has not always been kind to African Americans and, as with other minority groups, has left out important contributions by its members.

Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Australian pro athletes Ben Graham, Penny Taylor and Trent Oeltjen are making a mark in Arizona.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- It was not spectacular, extravagant or bizarre. There were songs and tears but little dancing. Instead, Michael Jackson's memorial was a somber, spiritual ceremony that reached back for the essence of the man.

LONDON - Princess Diana's family solemnly marked the 10th anniversary of her death Friday at a service organized by her sons, while admirers tied scores of bouquets, poems and portraits to the gates of her former home.

ABERDEEN, Wash. -Kurt Cobain and his band, Nirvana, spent only three years in the public eye, and they released only three studio albums. But what he accomplished before committing suicide 10 years ago Monday at age 27 - deciding it was "better to burn out than fade away," as he quoted Neil Young in his suicide note - was remarkable.

The Arizona State women's swimming and diving team wrapped up the first day of the NCAA championships at Columbus, Ohio, with a school record Thursday.

Corona del Sol senior Andrew Howard and Chandler sophomore Laura Mozden on Saturday electrified Arrowhead Pool in Chandler during the Thunder-Wolf Classic.

Arizona is not doing enough to improve the quality of teachers in the states’ public schools, according to a national report.

Before an adoring crowd of activists at a breakfast Feb. 21 in the South Bronx, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., took on one of her favorite targets — proposals for school vouchers intended to broaden the range of educational choices available to parents.

After throwing for 291 yards in last week’s 34-30 loss to Desert Vista, Mountain Pointe quarterback Chad Whittle needs just 22 yards through the air tonight against Corona del Sol to become Mountain Pointe’s all-time leading passer.