In a season that began with so much buzz, the Dobson boys basketball team was nine and a half minutes away from quietly bowing out of the state tournament Thursday night.

FLAGSTAFF - Ruben Boykin Jr. had 19 points and 11 rebounds to lead Northern Arizona to a 78-67 win over San Jose State in a ESPN BracketBuster game on Saturday.

Despite delivering her weakest performance of the season on “American Idol” Tuesday, the Valley’s Jordin Sparks made it into the final four during the results show Wednesday.

In Friday night’s 42-24 win for Arcadia against Paradise Valley, the Titans showed that they can score from anywhere, at any time.

Ryan Richardson scored 17 points to lead Perry past Hamilton, 56-54, on Thursday night.

One of four teenagers arrested on suspicion of mowing down a flock of ducks and geese in Ahwatukee Foothills pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of animal cruelty in Maricopa County Juvenile Court in Mesa.

LOS ANGELES - An annoyed look from "American Idol" judge Simon Cowell as a contestant expressed sadness over the Virginia Tech shootings was drastically misinterpreted, Cowell and the show said Wednesday.

Dobson used a strong first quarter to cruise past visiting Cibola for 89-66 win in a Division I boys basketball game Friday.

January 18, 2005

When a team loses its top two running backs, the result usually isn't good. When those two players combined for over half of the team’s total offense the previous season, the prospect of replacing them is downright frightening.

NEW YORK - She's got legs - and she knew how to use them. But Wednesday night, the magic finally ran out for Haley Scarnato on "American Idol." (Yes, that means the Sanjaya phenomenon continues.)

Divided into groups of three, from the lowest number of votes to the highest, the final nine “American Idol” hopefuls sweated out another fan vote Wednesday night knowing that one of them would be headed home.

Four teenagers were arrested Wednesday on suspicion of plowing into a flock of ducks and geese in Ahwatukee Foothills, leaving a gruesome 50-yard aftermath of blood and feathers.

Arizona State tight end Zach Miller earned first-team All-Pac-10 honors on Monday, leading a group of 12 Sun Devil players who were recognized by the conference.

Amaré Stoudemire’s knee surgery has the legion of Phoenix Suns fans waiting to exhale as they wonder what will become of the team that dominated the NBA’s Western Conference last season. Stoudemire’s injury, added to guard Joe Johnson’s diva turn to Atlanta and the trade of forehead-bumping shooter Quentin Richardson for bruiser Kurt Thomas, turns a lot of last year’s exclamation points into question marks.

Jaron Hopkins remembers the end of his junior season all too well.

Dobson boys basketball coach Rick McConnell remembers losing a pair of games on 3-pointers last season.

Kevin Collinge threw a complete-game, four-hitter as Corona del Sol improved to 4-0 on the season with a 9-2 drubbing of host Boulder Creek.

In the old days, a No. 21 draft pick would draw yawns from Suns fans. But as the club goes into today's NBA draft — the last one in which high school players will be eligible and with all the foreign prospects to choose from — this draft will have plenty of players.