All-Tribune First Team Offense

There's no place Ramon Abreu would rather be than on the football field. The last two seasons, particularly this past season, he spent more time on the field arguably than anyone. And Abreu's time was more than just quantity. It was quality.

All-Tribune First Team

All-Tribune First Team

The complete list of all-region volleyball selections from the 5A Central, Desert Valley, East Valley and Fiesta regions; the 4A-I Desert Sky Region, the 4A-II East Sky Region and the 2A Metro #2 Region.

All-Tribune First Team

Dennis Erickson has hit the trifecta in coaching honors in the Pac-10. The first-year leader of the Arizona State program on Monday was named the conference’s coach of the year, an honor he received at Washington State (1988) and Oregon State (2000).

The details and play-by-play were sketchy, until Samantha Cummings watched the tape again.

There wasn’t much question about the best boys basketball team in Division I last year, as Corona del Sol finished the season on a 30-game winning streak and cruised past Laveen Cesar Chavez for the state championship.

Will a more experienced team this season translate to a bigger and better year for Mesa Mountain View?

When Peoria Centennial routed Chandler Hamilton early in the 2008 prep football season, the Coyotes staked their claim to the title of best team in Arizona.

It’s getting closer to crossing that coveted line between good and elite, and though it’s only been a varsity program for five years, Chandler Basha wants take one more step.

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.

Maybe the best way to measure Teddy Ruben’s value isn’t what he meant to Saguaro on the field, but what it would have been like without him.

From the beginning of her high school career, Cat Highmark exhibited exceptional talent. And she exhibited an exceptional attitude for a player with exceptional talent.

The stakes just became much greater.

 It’s the quick glance at Amy Patton’s downtime that shows why she’s so good when the lights go on.

Division I football state championship

Tempe Marcos de Niza yearns to sidestep the stumbling block that has plagued its ascent to the top of 5A Division II as the prep football season opens for many schools on Friday.

The last four years, pundits had a good idea who the 5A (or 5A-Division I) girls basketball champion would be before the season began. No such insight exists this year.

While 11 regular season wins and a trip to the Rose Bowl is an outlandish forecast for Arizona State football, some longtime watchers of the team will tell you they feel the 2005 Sun Devils are capable of something big.