There are seven people in the Valley sports scene, who I am aware of, that in recent weeks have gone head to head with COVID-19. One of them sent me…
Frida Mata After more than a decade of increasing rates of concussions, a new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that the rate of emergency room…
On Monday, California is expected to announce the upcoming high school football and girls volleyball seasons are being pushed back to start in January. Should Arizona do the same? If…
All is well when I hear the high school band on a Friday night at football field. So when Arizona band and orchestra was canceled for the fall, http://www.aboda.org/site/2020/07/15/2020-aboda-marching-band-schedule/ earlier this past…
Devin Booker is the biggest piece to get the Suns out of their 10-year postseason drought. I watched the first five minutes from his Zoom out of the NBA bubble…
The last week has done nothing to change my mind that we LIKELY WON’T have a high school football season. In speaking with several power program football coaches, none of whom wanted…
Best news of the week was the NFLPA voting to play no preseason games in 2020. Nothing, and I mean nothing, is worse on the sporting calendar than fake football…
Sometimes you have to take stalk in what you have. Count your blessings. It’s easy when that person, place, or thing is suddenly taken away. Now with the sports calendar…
Watching the sports world try to contortion itself into a space where it can get back to “business as usual” has been somewhat amusing. It’s as though the world may…
I’m sitting in the car in the parking lot of a warehouse district in Tempe, watching my 15 year old son going through offensive line training. The “gurus” rolled up…