Every spring, players break out. Here are a few that stood out in the Pac-12. Ka'Deem Carey, RB, Arizona: Carey was a hyped recruit from Tucson -- Canyon del Oro High -- and the local boy seems likely to make good this year after rushing for 425 ...
Every game counts. But some games count more. Or tell us more. We're going through the Pac-12 and picking out one game that seems most important -- or potentially most revealing -- for each team from our vantage point today. We're going in ...
No. 14 UA won 10-2 in the final non-conference meeting, breaking ASU's 10-game home win streak.
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The 16th-ranked Arizona State baseball team lost to eighth-ranked Arizona 10-2 on Wednesday night in front of 3,098 fans at Packard Stadium in Tempe, Ariz.
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The Arizona State Sun Devils have a ton of players making the transition from the college game to the NFL, but how many of them will have immediate success?
Only two players were actually drafted, as both Brock Osweiler and Omar Bolden are heading to the Denver Broncos.
The rest will be fighting for their futures, as they have joined teams as undrafted free agents.
There is still a lot of time to see where players will end up when it is all said and done, but here is what to expect from these former Sun Devil stars during their rookie season.
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The game is so legendary, this Midweek Memory needs little, if any, introduction. From the ASU photo archives comes this great shot of Derrick Rodgers cleaning Scott Frost's clock during ASU's 19-0 win over No. 1 Nebraska on September 21, 1996. We all remember what happened after that, right?
So here you go, Sun Devil Nation. Update your iPhone wallpaper accordingly.
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CBS Sports Bruce Feldman made a top-10 list of his "most pleasant surprise guys of the spring," and it included three from the Pac-12: Washington DT Danny Shelton, UCLA RB/WR Steven Manfro and Oregon QB Marcus Mariota. Three good choices. Here's what he said about Shelton: Danny Shelton, Washington, DT: The U-Dub defense was brutal in 2011, ranking 108th in scoring D and 106th in total D. They also were No. 87 in TFLs and No. 76 in run defense.Source: Pac-12 Football Blog
Washington State's season-opening game at BYU has been moved to Thursday, Aug. 30, and will be televised nationally on ESPN. Kickoff will be at 7:15 p.m. ET. The game had previously been scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 1. This is the second game on the Cougars' 2012 schedule that will be televised by ESPN. It was previously announced that WSU’s game at UNLV will be played Friday, Sept. 14, in Las Vegas on ESPN.Source: Pac-12 Football Blog
California is the lifeblood of Pac-12 recruiting. Sure, coaches talk about putting up fences in their backyards and keeping their state's elite talent within. But the majority of the top-notch players from the conference hail from the Golden State -- Northern, Southern and everywhere in between. So it was an interesting read in SI to see that the bulk of top-rated players in the state are holding out before making a commitment. Bravo. It would be nice to see players make their commitment after some careful consideration and then stick with it.Source: Pac-12 Football Blog
The four new Pac-12 coaches -- Todd Graham, Mike Leach, Jim Mora and Rich Rodriguez -- discuss what they think about a playoff in college football.Source: Pac-12 Football Blog
"They're such beautiful shirts," she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. "It makes me sad because I've never seen such-such beautiful shirts before." A lot of good guys got snubbed by the College Football Hall of Fame, including this Arizona great. Former Arizona State QBs offer advice to whoever wins the job in August. So where does new CF Hall of Famer Steve Bartkowski rate among former California QBs? Colorado and Oregon have something in common: Staff stability heading into 2012.
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Arizona State coach Todd Graham says senior Cameron Marshall has a chance to be one of the top running backs in the Pac-12 this season, maybe even in the country.Source: AZCentral.com
In many ways shooting guard Egor Koulechov is a little off the radar, but his high school coach expects that to change.Source: ASU Official Site
LIU AT ASU LIVE STATS | The No. 2 Arizona State softball team starts off the first round of postseason play this weekend, seeded third, beginning with a matchup against LIU Brooklyn.Source: Pac-12 Football Blog
The four new Pac-12 coaches -- Todd Graham, Mike Leach, Jim Mora and Rich Rodriguez -- discuss the impact that 7-on-7 camps have had on college football.Source: House Of Sparky by Brad Denny
On Tuesday, the National Football Foundation announced the 2012 Football Bowl Subdivision College Football Hall of Fame class. While the 14-player, three-coach group is undoubtedly a list of some of the greatest to ever play the game, the announcement was most notable for the omission of Nebraska quarterback Tommie Frazier, due to an inane rule that prevents players from the same school being inducted in consecutive years.
Ultimately, there is no doubt that Frazier will be enshrined in the Hall of Fame, where he will join six former Sun Devil players and three coaches.
Those players--Ron Pritchard, John Jefferson, Mike Haynes, Danny White, Randall McDaniel and Pat Tillman--and coaches Frank Kush, John Cooper and Dan Devine
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Garry Paskwietz and Erik McKinney discuss : Tuesday's commitment of Ty Isaac and its possible impact on USC's 2013 recruiting class. Erik McKinney writes : After seeing the top California running backs head to Oregon the past two years, the Trojans will find out the fate of the state's top running back, Justin Davis, on Thursday. Erik McKinney writes : Petaluma, Calif., defensive lineman Elijah Qualls was offered by the Trojans on Tuesday, vaulting USC into his top group of schools.Source: Pac-12 Football Blog
USA Today has published its annual study of expenses, revenues and subsidies for athletic departments at every Division I public program, and only 22 schools operate in the black. The only Pac-12 school among that 22 is Oregon, though figures aren't available for USC and Stanford because they are private institutions. Oregon led the Pac-12 in total revenue with $85,819,699. That ranked 17th in the nation. Washington was second with $70,231,336, which ranked 30th.Source: House Of Sparky by Cory Williams
The field for the 2012 Las Vegas Invitational has been officially announced, according to Andy Katz of ESPN: Creighton, Arkansas, Wisconsin and Arizona State will take the court at Orleans Arena just off the strip in Vegas.
The Las Vegas Invitational is a two-round event, where the winners of the first round play each other in the championship game, while the losers battle it out for third place in a consolation game.
These four teams have been rumored for a long time, but the official announcement solidifies the plans for all involved. This year, the Las Vegas Invitational will take place on November 23 and 24, just before
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Every game counts. But some games count more. Or tell us more. We're going through the Pac-12 and picking out one game that seems most important -- or potentially most revealing -- for each team from our vantage point today. We're going in alphabetical order. Arizona State Most important game: Northern Arizona, Aug. 30/Sept. 1 Why it's important: Ted did a bit of thunder stealing by pointing out that Arizona's most important game was Arizona State on Nov.Source: ASU Official Site
Click here for a look at Sun Devil men's golfers who have earned their degrees in the past two decades...Source: AZCentral.com
Guard Katie Hempen, 2011-12 Ohio Valley Conference Freshman of the Year, is transferring to Arizona State from Southern Illinois Edwardsville.Source: ASU Official Site
Arizona State University head women's basketball coach Charli Turner Thorne today announced that Katie Hempen will be transferring to ASU to study and play basketball.Source: Pac-12 Football Blog
We missed the mailbag Friday because we were bogged down in Pac-12 spring reviews, which you can see here. But here's a quick come-backer until Friday. By the way, you can follow the Pac-12 blog on Twitter here. Go Wazzu from Pullman, Wash., writes: I'm almost as excited for WSU to switch to the 3-4 defense as I am to see the Air Raid offense. When I think of 3-4 defense I immediately think of some of the best defenses in the NFL, Pittsburgh and Baltimore.Source: Pac-12 Football Blog
USC might be No. 1 in the College Football Live spring Top 25 rankings. But it's No. 4 Oregon that has the best chance to knock the SEC off its six-ringed mountain. So says ESPN college football analyst Brock Huard, who laid out three reasons (all extremely sound and logical) why Oregon is actually the team to beat in the Pac-12 this season. Here's a minor re-hash of his three points. Regarding the quarterback situation: Cam Newton and AJ McCarron won BCS titles the past two seasons as first-year starters under center.Source: Pac-12 Football Blog
Erik McKinney writes : USC got itself a necessary running back commit and a Marcus Allen clone on Tuesday, as Joliet, Ill., running back Ty Isaac committed to USC over Michigan. Garry Paskwietz writes: Hal Bedsole, a standout on USC's 1962 national championship team, was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame on Thursday. Greg Katz writes : USC's policy on retiring numbers only applies to Heisman Trophy winners, a policy that doesn't allow the school to honor many of its greatest players.Source: Pac-12 Football Blog
The Big Ten is holding its spring meetings in Chicago this week, and it appears the thinking among administrators is in-line with what the Pac-12 athletic directors and commissioner Larry Scott said two weeks ago: Any potential college football playoff needs to prioritize teams that win their conference. Adam Rittenberg over at the Big Ten blog chatted with Ohio State AD Gene Smith, who was unequivocal about his top priority: "The conference champion piece," Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith said.Source: AZCentral.com
In a little more than three months, quarterback Mike Bercovici, Michael Eubank or Taylor Kelly will make his first career start at Arizona State. What can he expect?Source: Pac-12 Football Blog
Tequila in his heartbeat; his veins burned gasoline It kept his motor runnin'; but he never kept it clean Teddy Bruschi deserves to be in the Hall of Fame. Instilling discipline at ASU is spelled out in Todd Graham's contract. Cal fans are predicting seven wins for the Bears in 2012. Tyler Hansen living the dream as a Bengals QB. A video breakdown of Oregon's spring game from the guys at FishDuck. Per usual, good analysis. Cliff Kirkpatrick continues his Oregon State spring tour with a look at the Civil War.Source: ASU Official Site
The Arizona State University baseball team, in conjunction with the Cory Hahn Foundation, is hosting its second "Pass The Bucket Night" on Wednesday, May 16 at Packard Stadium to help raise money and awareness for Cory and his family. First pitch for the game against the University of Arizona is set for 6:30 p.m.Source: Bleacher Report NCAAF
This fall, Arizona State has a critical decision to make: the starting quarterback position. The quarterback position is the most pivotal on the football field. Without an elite starting quarterback, it's hard for teams to be successful.Â
The new starting quarterback will replace record-setting quarterback Brock Osweiler, who was drafted in the second round of the 2012 NFL Draft. Sophomores Michael Eubank, Taylor Kelly, and Michael Bercovicci are competing for the ASU starting quarterback job.
I'll tell you why Eubank is the team's best option in the years to come.Â
Athleticism
Of the three competitors for the ASU starting quarterback job, Eubank has the best athleticism of the three. Eubank is elusive in the open field and can make defenders miss easily.Â
Dual-threat quarterbacks are highly successful in the college game; just look at Vince Young, Tim Tebow, Cam Newton, and many others.Â
While it is not fair to compare Eubank to those national title winning quarterbacks, he still presents those players' elite speed and massive frame.Â
Eubank is 6-foot-5 and 242 pounds. That frame will be impossible to take down in the pocket and in the open field.Â
Playbook wide-open
Eubank's athleticism allows ASU to run a whole different assortment of plays that neither Kelly nor Bercovicci could successfully run.Â
The Sun Devils can run option plays, the types of plays Oregon runs—not the wishbone or the triple-option.
Head coach Todd Graham has said repeatedly that he wants to run upwards of 80 plays in a single game, including around 10 "gadget" plays per game. Eubank allows Graham to run these types of plays with his versatility.Â
Three-year commitment
When ASU makes its decision on a starting quarterback, it needs to be a three-year commitment.
Continuity at the quarterback decision is a must for ASU, as it will bring in its fifth different starting quarterback in five seasons. Not since the heydays of Rudy Carpenter have the Sun Devils had a starter for more than one season.Â
Eubank, Bercovicci, and Kelly will all be sophomores in the fall, so the victor of the starting quarterback battle should be able to throw for three seasons.Â
Eubank's biggest weakness is probably his consistent accuracy, but given time in Graham's spread-option system, he should improve tremendously.Â
It is much harder to improve speed, which is something someone is either born with or isn't, than to improve throwing mechanics, which just takes practice.Â
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Massive, athletic and smart, Jonathan Ogden is simply one of the all-time great offensive tackles, both in college and the NFL. On Tuesday, his dominance in college was recognized with his selection to the College Football Hall of Fame. Ogden, a fearsome sight at 6-foot-9, 345 pounds, was a four-year starter at left tackle for UCLA. In 1995, he received the Outland Trophy, was the UPI lineman of the year and was a unanimous first-team All-American.Source: Pac-12 Football Blog
Hal Bedsole had 82 catches for 1,717 yards and 20 touchdowns -- for his career. Not exactly gaudy numbers by today's standards, but in the early '60s, those kind of stats were special. Also unusual was his size -- 6-foot-5, 221-pounds -- rare dimensions for a split end at the time. By today's standards, he'd be considered near prototypical. In 1962, he set the school records for a single season in receptions (33), touchdowns (11) and yards (827).Source: Pac-12 Football Blog
One of the first two African-American football players at Colorado (with Frank Clarke), Wooten lettered three years as a left guard in Dal Ward's Wing-T/Single-Wing offense, earning All-America honors in 1958 and All Big-Seven in 1956 and 1957. Most known as a 6-foot-2, 230-pound guard who was agile and powerful, he also played tackle on defense. His impact was immediate. In 1956, he helped the Buffs to an 8-2-1 record and the school's first ever bowl victory -- a 27-21 win in the Orange Bowl.Source: Pac-12 Football Blog
Steve Bartkowski, owner of one of the great arms in college football history, spent much of his early career at California struggling in the shadows. First, he shared the starting job with Vince Ferragamo for two years. Then, in 1973, he suffered through a miserable season as the starter. But in 1974 he put it all together. Bartkowski earned consensus All-American honors and finished 10th in the Heisman Trophy vote after leading the nation in passing with 2,580 yards with 12 touchdowns and seven interceptions.Source: House Of Sparky by Brad Denny
Eight receptions. 76 yards. One touchdown. Hey, good game dude.
Those numbers would make for a pretty good single-game performance for a player. However, that is the combined production from ASU's tight end position--in fact, all by Trevor Kohl--over the last two years. In former offensive coordinator Noel Mazzone's spread offense, the tight end was rarely a thought beyond bringing extra muscle in the blocking game.
The tight ends of the UCLA Bruins will now have to deal with such limited production, as Mazzone has moved to Westwood, with Mike Norvell taking over the offense
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Running back Ty Isaac (Joliet, Ill./Joliet Catholic) has committed to USC, picking the Trojans over numerous offers from across the country, including Georgia, Michigan, Ohio State, Oklahoma and Notre Dame. Isaac is ranked 68th on the ESPN Recruiting top 150. Rivals rates Issac as the No. 18 player in the nation and Scout has him ranked 12th. Isaac, who could also play linebacker, is a power back at 6-foot-2, 215 pounds, but he also has good speed and elusiveness, according to his ESPN evaluation.Source: Pac-12 Football Blog
Every game counts. But some games count more. Or tell us more. We're going through the Pac-12 and picking out one game that seems most important -- or potentially most revealing -- for each team from our vantage point today. We're going in alphabetical order. Arizona Most important game: Arizona State, Nov. 23 Why it's important: Arizona-Arizona State, the Territorial Cup, is always important. This is a bitter rivalry, one that -- at least in my opinion -- has more tangible bitterness than most state rivalry games.Source: Yahoo! NCAAF
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On Monday, USA Today released their annual report detailing collegiate finance figures for 227 colleges and universities that are public institutions, therefore making their numbers available for examination.
Below are the revenue figures for ASU for 2006-2011 (click image for larger view):
Source: House Of Sparky by Brad Denny
"It's not Sun Devil football without Camp T!"
"We've not had a winning record since we left Tontozona."
Those were some of the primary sentiments shared by a large and vocal segment of Sun Devil fans over the last several years since ASU moved their fall camp to the Verde Dickey Dome on campus.
However, keeping true to his word of embracing tradition, head coach Todd Graham and new AD Steve Patterson launched the "Return to Camp T" fundraising campaign on April 19th, with the goal of raising $150,000 so the team could hold a portion of their fall camp--August 14th-18th--at Tontozona. With
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From Golfweek Magazine: Undefeated. It's a word that's rarely uttered in college golf circles. Even as Arizona State won one tournament after another from 1994 to '95, no one even mentioned the possibility.Source: AZCentral.com
Anyone who has followed Arizona State football the past few years recognized the obvious: Arizona State wasn't disciplined on the field, finishing among the nation's leaders in penalty yards per game.Source: AZCentral.com
An electric point guard, Jahii Carson will start next season with high expectations. We recently discussed them, and more.Source: Pac-12 Football Blog
New Pac-12 coaches discuss the pressure to win right away.Source: ASU Official Site
Arizona State women's tennis player Michelle Brycki has been named the Cissie Leary Sportsmanship Award winner for the Southwest Region, the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) announced. The national award winner will be announced May 22.Source: Pac-12 Football Blog
New Pac-12 coaches discuss the new perspective of coaching a different team in a different conference.Source: House Of Sparky by Brad Denny
Over the weekend, many NFL teams held their first minicamps of the offseason with their incoming drafted and signed free agent rookies. They also augmented those camps with several other players on a tryout basis.
Four Sun Devils were among those that had such an opportunity. Safety Eddie Elder with the Arizona Cardinals, cornerback LeQuan Lewis with the Oakland Raiders, linebacker
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