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Sun Devil Volleyball is hitting the road for the first time this season, traveling to Lincoln, Nebraska, to participate in the Ameritas Players Challenge on Friday

It was a tight one

TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Herm Edwards is off to a successful start in his first stint as a college coach, turning Arizona State into a Pac-12 contender. With it, he has raised the bar in the desert.

The preseason AP Top 25 is all about hope and optimism. Reality Check is all about, well, being realistic. Sometimes the truth can be painful.

Last year, around this time, the conventional wisdom was that a financial crunch brought on by the pandemic would discourage schools from laying out a multimillion-dollar buyout to fire a football coach.

Skyview graduate Caden Vire signs with the Milwaukee Brewers Pitcher passes up scholarship with Arizona State to sign pro contract By Tim Martinez, Columbian Assistant Sports Editor Published: August 2, 2021, 1:26pm Share: Skyview High School pitcher Caden Vire was picked by the Milwaukee Brewers in the 12th round of the Major League Baseball Draft on Tuesday, July 13, 2021. (Jeff Klein/The Columbian.) Skyview High School graduat...

By Griffin Fabits, Sun Devil Athletics Graduate Assistant About this time last summer, Bob Bowman and his staff were grappling with the prospect of running a collegiate swim and dive program in the midst of a pandemic, knowing the team was going to take a year off from competing. Their athletes were away and in-person meetings were prohibited, so they settled on virtual workouts and Zoom meetings to guide the way, like nearly every other athletics program in the country. Not ideal, no, but its ...

The Tokyo 2020 Olympics are underway. The opening ceremonies kicked off at 4 a.m. (MST) Friday, signifying the official start of the much delayed, much anticipated event. The United States is sending over 600 athletes to Tokyo to compete across 41 different sports. Of that group, 19 are Arizona natives, either born or raised in the state. Here are the athletes to watch and when they will be taking the stage in Tokyo. All times are Mountain Standard Time. Allen is a 110-meter hurdler competing i...

NCAA champions dont hit the transfer portal every day, so when New Jersey standout and Rutgers grad Nick Surianos name surfaced as a portal entrant earlier this week, it sent reverberations across the sport. The two-time national finalist and 2019 NCAA Champion is one of the most talented lightweights of his generation, and will be a huge injection of star power for whatever school lands him. Sources close to Ohio States wrestling program told Eleven Warriors there is mutual interest in bring...

Deseret News BYU has some significant holes to fill on the defensive line. Can the Cougars do it? Defensive coordinator Ilaisa Tuiaki says a rugged early schedule will test BYU’s defensive front, which is thin and inexperienced Share this story Kelsey Brunner, Deseret News Major 2020 contributors and starters Khyiris Tonga, Zac Dawe and Bracken El Bakri are in the NFL, at least for the time being, and rising star Seleti Fevaleaki is in the transfer portal. In other words, BYU’s defensive li...