Arizona girls win WCWS

Yup, they won their 8th title, out of the loser's bracket nonetheless. Well, congrats, can't knock em, they are a great softball powerhouse.

Arizona claims 8th National title......(espn.com)

Tempe Regional Champs!!!

The ASU train keeps on rolling. Tonight the Sun Devils beat the Nebraska Cornhuskers 19-7. Yes, you heard me right 19-7. Let's all tip our hats to the Nebraska pitching staff. Thanks guys.

Anyway onto the pictures. First off my press pass.


The two teams take the field.
Already Nebraska manager Mike Anderson has a problem with the umps.


After CJ Rutherford poked a GRAND SLAM over the left field wall.


Your 2007 Tempe Regional Champions!!!!



Final Score. Look at that line...

ASU Softball falls, ASU baseball up today

ASU Softball suffered a season-ending loss in the WCWS at the hands of DePaul in the losers bracket. They had a great season but a rought post-season. Best of luck to the graduating girls and lets get em next year ladies!

Today the men will play Nebraska at 7pm. I will be there with a post game report afterwords. Pictures and video too.

Kerr to be GM

This coming from Paul Coro over at the Republic.

The Phoenix Suns plan to name Steve Kerr as the team's President of Basketball Operations and General Manager in the coming days, replacing Mike D'Antoni as the team GM to keep his focus on coaching.

Kerr, an original partner in Suns Managing Partner Robert Sarver's 2004 purchase of the franchise, will complete his duties as a TNT analyst for the Eastern Conference finals before the team makes the announcement next week. Kerr, who helped facilitate Sarver's opportunity to buy the Suns, has been one of Sarver's trusted advisors in basketball decisions over the past three years.

D'Antoni will maintain the title of Executive Vice President of Basketball Operations but will report to Kerr, a former University of Arizona star and Suns player who won has five NBA championship rings from playing with Chicago and San Antonio. Kerr has worked as a TNT analyst since 2003.

Into the losers bracket we go....

ASU softball was downed 2-0 by Northwestern. Now we play Depaul tomorrow at 7 in the losers bracket.

UGH.

The northwestern pitcher threw a 1 hit shutout. She was on fire.

Scherzer finally signs with Dbacks

Another round of last-minute negotiations with agent Scott Boras ended positively for the Diamondbacks on Wednesday night as they came to terms with first-round pick Max Scherzer.-azcentral.com

Scherzer strikes deal.....(azcentral.com)


I'm glad this deal finally worked out. Scott Boras can be a horrible agent to try and work with and if the Dbacks couldnt hammer out a deal Scherzer would go back to the draft. Now the Dbacks have a great young arm in their system.

100 things....

As the temperatures go into the 100’s I have complied a list of 100 things that make Arizona a great sports state. This list includes, people, places, memorabilia, history, food, events, clothes, all sorts of things. IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER. This list will include University of Arizona things too, just a heads up. If any of these need clearing up, post in the comments section and I’ll try to clear them up for you. So as you’re complaining about the heat just think about all these things that make Arizona great. And remember, it’s a dry heat.


1. 2001 World Series

2. Luis Gonzalez

3. Brandon Webb

4. Randy Johnson

5. Curt Schilling

6. Bob Brenly

7. Thom Brennaman

8. Bank One Ballpark

9. Teal and purple

10. Sedona red, sand, and black

11. Diana Taurasi

12. Phoenix Mercury

13. US Airways Center

14. The Vet

15. The Gorilla

16. Triple overtime finals

17. Jerry Colangelo

18. Sir Charles

19. Al McCoy

20. SHAZZAM!

21. Steve Nash

22. Coach D’Antoni

23. Bryan Colangelo

24. Thunder Dan

25. Cooperstown

26. Amare

27. Purple and Orange

28. Hairy and Hairyson

29. Tucson Sidewinders

30. Arizona Sting

31. Super Bowl XXX and Super Bowl XLII

32. Glendale Arena

33. Phoenix Flames

34. Phoenix Phantoms

35. Arizona Diamonbacks

36. Phoenix Coyotes

37. Jeremy Roenick

38. Bulin Wall

39. Wayne Gretzky

40. Brett Hull

41. CuJo

42. Shane Doan

43. Connie Hawkins

44. KJ

45. Paul Westphal

46. Arizona Rattlers

47. Two Time AFL Champs

48. Danny White

49. Phoenix RoadRunners

50. Arizona Cardinals

51. Phoenix Cardinals

52. Jerry Maguire

53. I’m a Sun Devil Jerry!

54. Glendale Stadium

55. Jake Plummer

56. Cardiac Cards

57. Cardinal Red

58. “They are who we thought they were!”

59. 1998 Playoffs

60. Pat Tillman

61. Emmit Smith

62. KTAR

62. Hohokam Park

63. Cactus League

64. Spring Training games

65. Surprise Stadium Complex

66. Phoenix Roadrunners

67. University of Arizona

68. Lute Olson

69. Mike Bibby

70. 1997 National Champs

71. 4 Final 4 appearances

72. Agent Zero

73. Steve Kerr

74. Jason Terry

75. Teddy Bruschi

76. Insight Bowl

77. Fiesta Bowl

78. 2007 BCS National Championship

79. Desert Swarm

80. 3-time national baseball champs- U of A

81. Territorial Cup

82. Dennis Erickson

83. Whizzer White

84. Sal Bando

85. Dustin Pedroia

86. Barry Bonds

87. 1987 Rose Bowl

88. Reggie Jackson

89. Paul LoDuca

90. Pat Murphy

91. T-Sizzle

92. Fat Lever

93. Ike Diogu

94. Phil Mickelson

95. Frank Kush

96. 19-0 Shutout of Nebraska

97. Todd Heap

98. Herb Sendek

99. 5-time national baseball champions- ASU

100. Arizona State University

Missing From List: Bill Bidwell

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5 Things you need to know about....Monmouth

One of our readers, Mark, has broken down the 4 teams in the ASU Regional for the College World Series. First up is Monmouth College....


Monmouth (36-22-1, Northeastern Conference Champions)

Monmouth University, a private 4-year University, is located in West Long Branch, New Jersey.

1st baseman Andy Meyers is the clear offensive leader of this team, putting up a .395 batting average, 9 homeruns, 64 RBI's, and a .605 slugging percentage in 58 games.

UConn transfer Kyle Messineo was successful 41 times on 45 attempts stealing bases this year. He led the team in On Base Percentage (.484) as well, so limiting Messineo's impact will be a key to putting away the Hawks.

Pitchers Ryan Buch (9-2, 2.17 ERA) and Brad Brach (9-2, 2.72 ERA, 6 complete games, 4 SHO) will be the featured starters for the Hawks during this regional. Lefty Matt Coulson (4-3, 5.52) is also dangerous, pitching 7.2 innings and only giving up one run in the NEC championship game. Look for Brad Brach to be the starter against the #1 seed Devils.

Monmouth relies way too much on their starting pitching to be effective playing from behind. Matt Frazier (3-1, 4.87 ERA) is their only effective long relief pitcher, and their closer Justin Esposito (3-1, 2.14 ERA, 10 saves, 9 K/9) is solid, but this is the only production Monmouth has had from their bullpen all season. If the Sun Devils jump out to an early lead, you can put the Hawks to bed.

CWS Preview

Projected CWS field: Vanderbilt, Texas, Arizona State, South Carolina, Cal State Fullerton, Clemson, Rice, Arkansas

Who will win it all: Arizona State

Thats according to Kyle Peterson of ESPN.

The rest of the article is linked but that is the most important part.

CWS Outlook......(ESPN.com)

Happy Memorial Day

Have a good memorial day guys, go have some beers, cook up a bbq and enjoy this past weeks 4 game sweep against the Astros by the Diamondbacks. Ps. its my Aunt's new puppy, already a little Dbacks fan.