Tag: Arizona Sun Devils

Arizona State extends head coach Bobby Hurley through the 2025-26 season

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Arizona State has signed men’s basketball coach Bobby Hurley to a two-year contract extension, the school announced Tuesday. Here’s what you need to know: Hurley’s new deal will keep him in the program through the 2025-26 season. He spent eight seasons leading the Sun Devils, compiling a 141-113 record and making three appearances in the NCAA Tournament. Arizona went 23-13 this season, entering the NCAA Tournament as the No. 11 seed after a First Four victory over Nevada. The Sun Devils were eliminated with a 72-70 loss in the first…

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Send a question to Stuart Mandel Football Mailbag

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Are you more concerned about competing quarterbacks in Texas than NCAA Tournament seed Texas? More excited about the new SEC football schedule than the SEC basketball tournament? …can’t get enough of conference reorganization? This is the right place for you! Leave your questions here. Please include your city. .

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Big 12 looking west, Pac-12 looking for TV deal: What we’re hearing about the realignment

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This past July, weeks after the stunning Big Ten announcement of USC and UCLA, Pac-12 Commissioner George Klyafkov made a bold realignment prediction: “No Pac-12 school is going to the Big 12.” After eight months, we may finally learn whether his confidence was warranted or a feigned bravado. Kliavkoff is under pressure to offer its members a new media rights deal by the end of the month. If the dollar numbers or the details disappoint, March could be the moment when the Big 12 finally hits. Sources familiar with the…

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No. 5 Arizona is playing through adversity, riding off a late charge to hold off rival ASU

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Tempe, Arizona. – Shortly after fifth-ranked Arizona State held an angry rally, Tommy Lloyd ended his post-game radio show following the Wildcats’ 69-60 win at Desert Financial Arena. “Congratulations, Tommy!” a fan shouted as the second-year Arizona coach walked back into the visitors locker room. This is Lloyd’s 20th month at a leading Pac-12 program. The former Gonzaga assistant inherited the talent upon his arrival, but also entered uncertainty over an NCAA investigation that had only recently ended. It doesn’t matter. Lloyd went 45-5 over his first 50 games, tied…

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College basketball rankings: Illinois out, Miami in. And hey, New Mexico!

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Merry Christmas after Christmas! I trust that the holiday treated everyone well, though there were a few precious college basketball games that caught our eye. As a result, there wasn’t much movement on top of the polls. The good news is that there are plenty of great matches to be shown this week, which top the list for Saturday’s packed New Year’s Eve. In the meantime, allow me to spread my usual holiday cheer by presenting the correct ranking of the top 25 college basketball teams, as presented to the…

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All-America’s new mid-season college football team: Drake Maye, Quinshon Judkins on first list

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As we’re halfway through the season, it’s time once again to highlight some of the college’s most exciting young talents. This is the All-America Freshman mid-season squad at The Athletic, and an early look at the real freshmen and freshmen of the 2022 season. We try to prioritize production when we put this team together, and we judge players based on what they’ve achieved so far rather than what they might do in the future. But there is always a long list of candidates for every position and tough choices…

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Mandel’s Final Thoughts: Could Tide Be Weak vs. Volumes? In addition to the urgent madness, the greatness of Los Angeles

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And now, 23 final thoughts from Saturday that started at 11 a.m. Dallas time in front of 90,000 at Cotton Bowl and ended at 11:30 p.m. Palo Alto time in front of a few thousand unsuspecting fans at Stanford Stadium who inadvertently (and unfortunately For them) they witnessed the most beautiful end to the whole darn day. 1. It appears that CBS has hired a psychic medium to run the programming department. For two years in a row, they used their only prime-time pick of the season to broadcast the…

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Arizona State’s New Coach, Same Problems: Inside Temporary Shawn Aguano’s Tough Start

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TEMPE, Ariz. Welcome to Sun Devil Stadium, Shaun Aguano. This is your new life. More than an hour before Saturday night’s home game against the 13th seed from Utah, the Arizona State interim head coach stood at Frank Cush Field. Most of his team and his staff were still in the locker room. Aguano took in his surroundings. Go through situations. “If fourth and first place is here, would I choose it?” Look at the crowd. He felt blessed. A week ago, Aguano was the linebacker coach on the Herm…

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Antonio Pearce joins Raiders as coach of midfielders

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Antonio Pierce is back in the NFL. The former Giant joins the Raiders’ side, Josh McDaniels, as coach of the midfielders, According to the NFL Network. McDaniels was recently named the new head coach of Las Vegas following the team’s resignation of the season to Jon Gruden and his decision not to retain interim head coach Rich Bisachia. Pierce, who spent five of his nine seasons with the Giants, led the Big Blue’s Super Bowl defense in 2007, starting all 16 regular season games and scoring 102 tackles before all…

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